"When we look at a mirror our right side is transposed to our image's left side, thus our left side becomes our image's right side. Hence, the image we see of ourselves is actually a right-left reversal of what other people see. The familiar "mirror face" we have known since infancy can only ever seen by others if they stand next to us and look at our reflection in the mirror."
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"In an attempt to address the dilemma of never seeing ourselves exactly as others see us, American physicist John Walter and his sister Catherine, a cultural anthropologist, invented the True Mirror, which joins two mirrors perfectly at 90 degrees, allowing people to see themselves as other people see them - except for distance of observation. To test the True Mirror, the Walters set up a gallery in Manhattan and found that 70 per cent of the local looks-conscious New York throng were uncomfortably shocked when seeing themselves for the first time as everyone else always does - flipped 180-degrees."

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