It has been some time since I have posted anything new here. Sorry everyone.

I wanted to see if it is only me that has been experiencing this with mirrors. Ever since I was little I have had a fondness and dislike for mirrors for many reasons. Has anyone ever has that feeling like we are not alone even if we are the only one in the room, but there is a mirror. You feel compelled to reach out to it, like there is something on the other side wanting to get out? Ever since the movie "Mirrors" came out it really has been on my mind. The old movie that really gives me the hibe gibes is "The Prince of Darkness" that kind of hits home. I am not really afraid of mirrors in the normal sense, but I feel like something is trying to grab my attention to commune with me that is not natural. Just wanting some feed back and other experiences that others have had. Thanks everyone.

Well, I don't have any experience with it, but I won't go into an unlit room with a mirror in it. Or if I have to, I won't look at it, until the lights been on for a second or two. I've always been like that. I'll stand outside my bathroom til my light flicks on. Lol.. Afraid of what I'll see or something.

Maybe it has to do with the Bloody Mary legend or whatever?

I saw that Mirrors movie, I thought it was very interesting, the ending freaked me out a bit.

Mara

Reflective surfaces have always had a long (spiritual?) history though.

-Cover mirrors when someone dies, so the soul doesn't get stuck in there.

-The ability to scry with mirrors and water (the first and most basic mirror.)

-The fear that you'll see something, that isn't in your same enviroment.

-Soulless creatures aren't supposed to cast a reflection, Vampires. I might be wrong about this though, I haven't researched it myself..

Mara

My vote is yes. I do not believe it's a gateway in this world but I do believe it can be a gateway in other worlds, f.e the astral world or the dreamworld. I've used a mirror as a gateway in a lucid dream and it was fun!  

I have heard of mirrors being a  gateway into other worlds before.

What is really creepy is I have a friend who made an Ouija board from a mirror!  Creepy!

Indigo, how'd that work for your friend?

Mara

I've never had a fear of mirrors and I have many of them throughout my home.  There have been a few times that I was sure that I saw out of the corner of my eye something in them that didn't belong, but then I've also 'seen' people that aren't there.

I do have a resident/patient in the care facility that I work at that is terrified of mirrors, so much so that they removed the mirror from the wall of her bathroom.  She always says that "they use the mirrors to see you (her)" and that "they are trying to pull me (her) into the mirror".  I know nothing of her spiritual or religous beliefs nor do I know anything about her past.  She has been diagnoised with Alzheimers, however I have been working with her for 6 weeks now and she has been completely self sufficient and independant, and I have not seen any signs of confusion or dementia (other than the mirror thing), but then maybe she know something that I don't.

I'm not sure how it worked for my friend.  She and her husband are fine but I don't know that she ever actually used it as she doesn't need an ouija board to communicate with spirits.  She might have just made it and left it out to get a reaction out of people, she is a bit of a drama queen sometimes.

For me, mirrors are a reflection of what is good or bad about myself.  I have never "seen" anything amiss in a mirror, but I have at times snuck my hand in the b-room door and flipped on the light so I didn't have to look into the darkened mirror lest I see something freaky.    Nevertheless, I don't think my momentary fears ever came from what might have been "peering at me" through the mirror, unless you consider it as being a part of my own fear itself that would have been doing it.  Mirrors show us the outer vision of ourselves and oftentimes we see ourselves in a negative way.  So, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the mirror becomes a subconscious reflection of the inner part of ourselves as well and we imagine all kinds of "monsters" (which are simply our own dark inner secrets) crouching behind them.  (For me, anyway.)

Lol, in my own defense, the house where I grew up was a two story, two bathroom house. the upstairs bathroom was a full bath, but really tiny with this one portrait style mirror. I have three older sisters, and two of them shut my other sister in there with the light bulbs taken out and did that "Bloody Mary" thing.. That's probably why I'm so messed up even though it didn't happen to me.. Ever since I can remember though, I hated dark rooms with mirrors.

I don't have a great self esteem, but I don't just hate mirrors because I don't like how I look or am afraid of myself.. They creep me out. I think I've seen dark grey things flicker for a minute in them or behind me, but it may have been a trick of the dark room/light/whatever.

Either way, have you done anything regarding your Original Post, AlienDesendant?

Mara