When I was about five, I asked my mother why a vanity table was called that. She told me it was because girls who looked in the mirror too frequently became vain. For a few years I ran my parents' bedroom in fear that I would catch a glimpse of myself in the vanity mirror!
A childhood belief about mirrors
others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to believe that my image on a mirror would come to life if i broke the mirror.Anon
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane
- 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
- I used to think that if a mirror with me in it breaks, I break.Anon