• Question: When staring at a mirror is the image you are seeing twice the distance from the eye to the mirror or just the same distance?

    Asked by gentmat2 to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      In reality its the same distance to your eye (a mirror is a flat surface, it doesn’t move forwards or backwards even if you do), but your brain sees it as twice the distance. Take that for a brain explosion!

    • Photo: Dhvanil Karia

      Dhvanil Karia answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Considering the scence inside the mirrors as an imaginary but existing world yes you see the image at twice the actual distance from you.

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