I tried to jump in and cut my forehead.

Everytime I look, that's who I see!! No, they're just polished glass.

you know, i was just thinking about this very same thing the other day. how cool would it be to look in a mirror and be able to look into a diff universe? sadly, however, there is really no way that a mirror could be a door way to a parallel universe, it just isnt possible.

sucks, dont it?

Fantasy/Reality?

Are any of them real or unreal? How do you know that a mirror is not an alternate universe? But how do you know that a mirror is an alternate universe?

You know that your reflection will copy what you do but do it backwards. But how do you know that the next time you do something your reflection wont do it? There is no way of knowing. As David Hume a SCOTTISH philosopher said, "Past experience can never prove the future".

But then how do you know that YOU are not the backwards one. How do you know that reality is not the image in the mirror and you are copying everything that the mirror does backwards? How do you know that the mirror is not influencing you to do as you are doing when standing in front of it?

With every answer to this question there are more questions to be answered, the same goes for all philosophical questions.

Mirrors could be an alternate universe, but not a door way. If it was your reflection would think the exact same you were thinking. and You would not get past your alternate self.

are you on acid?

Everything in a mirror is exactly the same, except backwards. And you can set up a few mirrors so that one will show the exact same thing that is in this world. And an alternate universe/dimension would be different from ours.. because it’s alternate, that’s the definition. I like the thought, but.. I wouldn’t ever believe it.

if you think the mirror is an altenative universe then in perspective couldn’t we be the mirror and the “mirror” we look into be the actual real universe and we be the alternate? it is possible (because anything is) that the miorror is the doorway to an alternate world and if we can harnass the doors key we could walk in between two worlds, for i am sure they are extremely different. i do believe though it reflects the background in which you are standing but it doesn’t really reflect you but your complete opposite which is in another world…interesting question by the way one of the best i have encountered.

_Ash

Ok, what reason would you have for actually thinking that, since sciece shows that it is light bouncing off a reflective surface. Also a reflection is exactly the same as the initial image so how could it be an alternate universe.

sure! my eyeballs are merely gates to the solar system’s floating orbs!

If you want to talk from a fantasy point of view, then yeah – anything’s possible.

In reality, no they are not.

Look to the starts but remember to keep your feet on the ground, buddy. That’s Teddy Roosevelt for you. Don’t go off on an imaginary mental tangent.

the idea of travling though a mirror to a alternate reality comes from the story of "through the looking glass" but in relity that is the concept of a worm hole and not that of seprate universe. however mirrors were once though to be connections to a world made for pure spirit.

mirrors are man made, how could they be portals? In my view,pretty much everything that's man made cannot be a portal, or have a life of it's own or anything like that.

i'd also like to add that if something were to be a portal, something paranormal would have to inhabit the object first.

I had a discussion on mirrors and reality last Saturday night. It was 5 AM on Sunday technically and I was wired on caffeine, so I was getting philosophical.

Are mirrors alternate realities? Are they other worlds?

Scientifically, a mirror is only a reflection of light, the illusion of depth where no such depth actually exists.

But is an illusion reality if you accept it as such? The answer to that question is tough. If a human falls into a coma and never wakes again and dreams an entirely new life while in the coma in which they grow old, have children, and die, which reality is real? The one in which they are sleeping or the one in which they believe they exist?

People force illusions onto themselves all the time. They hide behind them to protect themselves. But are those illusions necessarily true? They are in the sense that they exist, but do they describe an actual quality of the scientific reality? The answer is no. But they do exist nonetheless, in the minds and imaginations of humans.

But if something exists only in your mind, does it really exist? That is the real question. Is there some mechanism by which the thoughts of humans can be transcribed upon reality to affect it in such a way as to make it real? Sadly, not that I know of.

But what about videos? They are real in a sense. As are video games. They describe abstract realities made 'real' by the transcribing of human thought into actual events and occurences. But it is still an illusion.

So even if you can take something in your head and make it exist in the real world that doesn't make it real. So what really is real? What is it that makes a teakettle a teakettle and not a toothbrush? How do I know you see the same shapes and colors I do?

Because humans accept them as basic truths. And one constant that has existed as long as we know is that this is the only reality we know of.

a mirror is just a portal to another world or galaxy, but humans these days have not the knowledge required to acess their use?

Questions remind me of Alice and the Looking Glass.

Lester Fontecha

Uh... I'd like to think that someone could enter through a mirror and accomplish something, but it is highly unlikely, dear.

I think that it could be an alternate universe. The person you're looking at is just alternate self. What I think is that your alternate self thinks the exact same thing at the exact same time. So if you touch the mirror your alternate self is also touching it in the same angle and with the same force so we cant get through. I wish this were true but probably not.