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I Tried the Mirror Hallucination!

From the Listverse site I read an article about mirrors.   10 Crazy Facts About Mirrors - Listverse Item 8 claimed that mirrors can cause hallucinations. From: Mind Hacks The strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion « Mind Hacks "At the end of a 10 min session of mirror gazing, the participant was asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. The descriptions differed greatly across individuals and included: (a) huge deformations of one’s own face (reported by 66% of the fifty participants); (b) a parent’s face with traits changed (18%), of whom 8% were still alive and 10% were deceased; (c) an unknown person (28%); (d) an archetypal face, such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor (28%); (e) an animal face such as that of a cat, pig, or lion (18%); (f ) fantastical and monstrous beings (48%)." "More mysterious, however, were the participants’ emotional reactions to the changes: The participants reported t

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