Why do I feel like I am looking at a stranger when I look into the mirror?
If you feel stranger to yourself , then for sure you are suffering from Depersonalization / derealization disorder.Do you have even numbness ??You feel stranger to your mirror image.You feel disconnected with yourself.You feel that you are witnessing your life events, as a spectator.Are you losing memory or having mental fogginess ??ARE you having pain in your neck / back / complete spinal cord ??Did you have any head injury recently ??Are you suffering from depression ??Do you have redness of tongue / swelling of your tongue / deep cracks on your tongue ??If you have all the above mentioned symptoms , please visit Doctor ASAP.The main reason for dis Depersonalization is due to vitamin b12 deficiency, and vitamin D deficiency causes depression.
Is looking into the mirror like looking into the past?
This sounds like looking at yourself hard enough to introspect.Ever seen Disney’s Lion King? There’s a point in time when old Rafiki (the wise baboon) reminds Simba of who he really is. He guides him to a waterhole and asks him to look into the water.Disappointed at seeing a mere reflection of himself, Simba turns away. So Rafiki gently urges him to look harder!You got that right. This time around he sees more than just a reflection.We tend to take in a wider view in those brief moments spent looking into a mirror. Our brain loves to multi-task. Gazing at one’s reflection long enough will force your brain to focus and begin observing the finer details.A freckle, a wrinkle, a color or even a scar has a long-forgotten memory attached to it. An anecdote shared. A friend complements. Uncontrollable Laughter. Hugs exchanged. A stranger comments. Arguments and burning rage. Losing contacts. New faces. The brain builds an infinite pyramid of links that eventually causes us to lose track of time as we relive moments from our past. It parallels the concept of a day-dream. You can live a life within your head up until an idea out of place or time snaps us back to reality.How often do we contemplate over ‘What am I doing here?!’ or ‘Am I strong enough to do this?’ These moments of introspection happen ever so often, but the distraction free version happens when we stare at ourselves in the mirror.A tad bit scary, isn’t it?
When you look in the mirror do you see a stranger or yourself as a person your happy with?
I see a man who is a lot older than he feels, softer on the inside than he wants others to perceive, and who is not as respected as imagines he should be. Then again, I see a man who had to change his life at middle age, puts his own dreams aside to ensure his children's dreams are realized, remains faithful to loyal, loving wife, and who ultimately cares that his family should thrive at the expense of any of his personal fulfillment.
Do transgender people ever look in the mirror and not recognize themselves? E.g. after 2 1/2 years of HRT, sometimes looking in the mirror I don't immediately recognize my reflection, but I see a stranger that looks like my mother.
My friends tell me they see changes from 2½ years of estrogen HRT. I don’t see those changes, which is a little disheartening. My brother said I look rather like my mother … but I still don’t see it myself.I am fortunate that my relationship with mirrors is primarily practical. I check my skin, and my defined eyebrows. As I pass by full-body reflections, I check my body language and walking style.While my relationship with mirrors has not changed at all with estrogen HRT, it changed remarkably with social transition. I did social transition for a full year before starting estrogen HRT, by personal choice, because I was reluctant to start estrogen HRT. Because of the year separation, I got a clear sense of what estrogen did for me, as opposed to what social transition did for me.Before social transition, my primary use of mirrors was to check that I am really here, that I exist.When my friends started calling me Naomi, and “she”, my feeling that I didn’t exist dropped away very quickly. At the time, I still had a neatly trimmed beard.Names and pronouns are that important. Acceptance is that important. I didn’t need the mirror anymore, to know that I exist.
When I look myself in the mirror, do people see the same thing when they look at me?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You obviously don't look like a complete stranger to the person you see in the mirror or photographs... But you would see yourself 'different' then other people see you. Everyone in the world would see you differently. But you still 'look' the same. For example, when you look in the mirror ... You may hate your hair. So you will focus on that. But someone who knows you could love your eyes. So they will focus on that. Look at it like this. Have you ever met someone and thought. 'Ah there nothing special- ugly- un attractive?' And then you have got to know them and all of a sudden you think the light shines out of there ***? Once you get to know someone as a person there personality comes into play. So in total i believe that everyone looks different then how they view themselves. Obviously not a different person... Haha. But i think when you view yourself you only focus on the negative aspects. Not seeing the full picture. Except for the people who are conceded :P And other people see you and judge you on what they find attractive. And I believe personality has alot to do with this. :) Nice question by the way. I think everyone has looked in the mirror and asked this. Hope i helped... Good luck!
Why do I look strange when I see myself in the mirror? I suddenly feel like I am looking at someone else.
This happens to me all the time,,,I also don't recognize myself in photos,,even though or perhaps it is why I am obsessed with taking pictures of myself. I had to do a lot of practice to get the facial expressions useful socially to work on my face,,by itself it’s just blank I think. We actually can never see what we really look like only a reflection or an image and sometimes they are the reverse of what everyone else sees looking at us. If this happened to you suddenly, that you became like this,,,or you can now relate to my experience you may need to talk to a neurologist or a therapist about this just to check things out. I do have a head injury from my early twenties and Asperger’s.
Everytime i look into the mirror, i`m surprised?
It just means you're surprised about your life changing. You expect to see what you've been use to, however, you see what you really are becoming. Doesn't mean depressed at all. Edit: Okay, you edited it :| Sorry but yeah, I'm not God, I can't tell you the future, you'll just have to sit back and enjoy life and see where God leads you. P.s. ignore the Christianity if you aren't...
When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see?
I see my raw self. I see exactly who I am as I stare in my eyes - the imperfect me, the happy me, the sad me, the strong me. And I see how far I've come from where I started.There have been times where I've seen a broken girl in that mirror, ashamed of looking in her own eyes. But I dared and looked anyway, motivating myself to go and be who I wanted to be. Today, I'm much closer to the person I want to be. I lose track sometimes, get distracted, but I always return to the right path, walking towards my destination.To me, the mirror never lies. I don't let it.
When you look into a mirror, do you see yourself as old as you are or as young as you want to be?
Today is my birthday, but when I looked into the bathroom mirror this morning I didn't see the man I am but the boy I wish to be. I think aging is often about perception. On my daily run this afternoon, a young woman in a car called out to me for directions. She said, "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to Wadsworth?" I ran alongside her for a while and told her what she had to do to get where she wanted to go. As she sped away I thought, did she call me "sir" simply to be polite or because she perceived me to be so much older than she is. I'm a kid at heart and I think it's that attitude that keeps me young. I don't think I look my age but I sometimes wonder how old people, especially young people, think I am.