When I was very young, I thought that mirrors were lying to me about how I looked (ie, I really had blue eyes instead of brown). I would get dressed up in different outfits and jump out in front of the mirror to try to trick it into showing me what I really looked like.
A childhood belief about mirrors
others believed things like this
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon
- I used to believe that there was a person in the mirror who looked exactly like meAnon
- I used to think that if I looked in a mirror for over 5 mins I would dissapere to Narnia!— Quako
- I believed that if I looked too long in the mirror admiring myself the Devil would appear.— Paul Elletson