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I like mirrors, they always tell the truth, albeit in a backwards kind of way but the truth none the less. All we have to do is interpret what we see in front of us and sort of reverse our perspective, by switching the thought patterns of the dominant side of our cranial grey matter to the other! Mirrors, if truth be told, only show us how others see us, which is usually different than how we perceive ourselves, so mirrors show us the truth but also cause us to lie! “Man you look so young and handsome today!” is the lie I usually tell the mirror!
I’m not kidding!
Researching I found that mirrors have been around since 6,000 BC and experiments have shown that only large-brained social animals are able to recognize themselves in a mirror, like Asian Elephants, Bonobos... whatever the hell those are... Chimpanzees, Dolphins, Orangutans, Pigs, and Llamas.
Hmmm... no mention of humans...
Now this, as you can imagine, stirred up some very odd things in my deep, cavernous mind! Does a Llama see how he’d make a nice sweater in the mirror? Do elephants think they need to put on some weight? Do pigs think; “Damn, I look like a human!” when they wake up and look in a mirror?
I don’t know about other animals but with humans, in general, a left hander tends to think with the right side of their cranial grey matter and a right hander tends to think with the left side of their cranial grey matter until…[/ezcol_1half] they stand in front of a mirror! When a lefty looks in a mirror, they are forced to use the right side of their cranial grey matter and when a righty looks in a mirror they are forced to use the left side of their cranial grey matter thus creating an enigma of ‘lefty-righty-righty-lefty’! So, standing in front of a mirror, lefty’s are righty’s and righty’s are lefty’s? Hummm…
What about ambidextrous people? They are already ‘lefty-righty-righty-lefty’, they can think with both sides of their cranial grey matter, and since they already tend to be ‘lefty-righty-righty-lefty’ does standing in front of a mirror make them ‘righty-lefty-lefty-righty’? What about a dyslexic lefty standing next to a righty in front of a mirror, will the dyslexic lefty get confused? Would an ambidextrous standing between a lefty and a righty in front of a mirror go cross-eyed?
So many questions…
Some smarty pants say that the images in our mirrors are only reflections, and that what we see in them is not real. If that is true then who the hell is shaving me? Who’s shoving scissors up my nose to cut the weeds? Hopefully not a cross-eyed ambidextrous! On the other hand it could be a good thing; it would mean the fat ageing bald guy in my mirror isn’t me!!
WhooHoo!!
~Snarp
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