![]() So when you come to a mirror with a genuine smile, it starts to feel fake within a few seconds and you stop, vs if a friend saw you, you both would be smiling more. Its swapping the left brain right brain differences that's creating that light - its actually quite strange really. It's a certain light that reads a certain way in the eyes, and that's the thing that gets altered when in reverse. But what makes it genuine is what is in the eyes for why they are smiling - theres always a context and reason for it. We can tell instantly when someone has one in their face, and as a result, we usually respond with our own 's possibly mirror neurons at play. It definitely shows up most with our smile - the genuine one, not the posed one for cameras, or the short lived ones in reversing mirrors. But when you are looking at yourself in a mirror, you're in a dynamic feedback loop - you instantaneously and continuously respond to what you are seeing in the reflection, but because of the information distortion, that shifts you from naturally expressing to more just staring, or with very short lived expressions. The theory is that the information we read in an expressive expression is sided (like that bruce willis poster referenced in the comments), and when you flip it, the meaning of the expression looks and feels differently than before. The whole concept is about how our faces communicate a lot more than just our words, and that the communication gets garbled by being reversed. If you just stare in front of a True Mirror, theres really nothing different except that you might look crooked. It's the difference of looking at someone who just stares blankly, or with very little expressions (and never a genuine smile), vs looking at someone who is actively communicating, smiling and even laughing. It depends on the person and what they do in front of it.
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