We're interested in mirrors and how they contribute to self-perception. Have you ever had a profound experience with a mirror? Have you ever seen something in your reflection that surprised you in either a good or bad way? Have you ever not recognized your own reflection? My cohorts and I at Freeflect will be doing some experiments--I suppose you can call them reflections--with mirrors over the next couple of months. We will post our experiences as we have them. We hope to create a forum for self-reflection and an examination of the self through this blog and the insight of its readers and contributors.
We want this to be a place where everyone can freely bounce ideas about self-worth, self-perception, or anything related to the history of mirrors and the idea of reflection.
Poems, short stories, reflections (of course), random thoughts, brainstorms, quotes...pretty much anything that relates to the idea of reflection is welcome here.
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I was reading this book the other day called Mirror Mirror, and an interesting idea came up. The author says, "The Egyptians believed that each person had a double called Ka, which represented a person's essential genius, energy, and identity, as well as Ba, the soul or consciousness, usually shown as a bird." Supposedly, mummification preserved Ba and Ka, and mirrors helped preserve Ka. Does anybody know of anything in other ancient cultures that compares to this?
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