Mirrors

[PPI Tim]

Hey Guys,
I've been doing so reading and the topic of mirrors came up.
Do you think that mirrors attract paranormal activity?

[Shellshock]

 I saw the movie *Mirrors*, this weekend and it left me wondering the same thing you're asking now. 
What if mirrors can be a sort of a gateway to a spirit?

Oh, and does anyone remember that dare game, "Bloody Mary"  ?
4th grade i think, was the first time I heard of it. Friends would dare
eachother to repeat her name a number of times into the mirror. 
Lights would be off or maybe you would have just a candle.
Supposidly it would summon her to come through and/or you would see her face.
Aaah the silly lil games.

[PPI Tim]

Yes I do remember that dare.
I always believe something like that is like walking under a ladder.
If you don't have too do it, why risk it.
I heard that paranormal activity  can be concentrated in a location where
two mirrors face each other.

[Shellshock]

Can i ask what books youre reading? This is really peaking my interest even more.
I didnt know about the two mirrors facing eachother idea.

It could possibly explain some things for me.
I'll be taking down a few mirrors today. I have a few that face eachother all over the house .
See if anything changes.

[PPI Tim]

I believe it was in the book by Warren, "How to hunt for Ghosts."
I'm not certain though. Let me check.
I was something about the infinity effect you get two mirrors face each other.

[ldwalkup]

It makes me wonder what inspired "Alice In Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass".

I saw "Mirrors".  Thought it was pretty good.  What an ending!  It caught me by surprise.

[PPI Tim]

There are many movies that use the mirror as a gateway to other places.
If you want there are many clips on youtube that can look at. The best ones I've seen of Japanese mirror ghosts.
There are created and not real but do look creepy.

[Shellshock]

Yeah, the *Mirrors* ending was a bit of a trip!

[bellalaghoste]

mirrors ok put on netflix

[Kristen]

Oh, and does anyone remember that dare game, "Bloody Mary"  ?
4th grade i think, was the first time I heard of it. Friends would dare
eachother to repeat her name a number of times into the mirror. 
Lights would be off or maybe you would have just a candle.
Supposidly it would summon her to come through and/or you would see her face.
Aaah the silly lil games.

Guilty.  Unfortunately this had a lasting impression on me and I still can't look into mirrors in the dark without being spooked.  My imagination conjured up an image staring back at me that night and the impression never left me.  Having mirrored closets has helped some, but it still gives me the heeby jeebies.  Girls are cruel when it comes to truth or dare I'll tell ya.

[bellalaghoste]

MIRRORS ARE SCARY!!!!!! My brother thought when he was a kid that his evil twin will come threw and get him.... lol lol I am mean I know.

[PPI Tim]

Mirrored closets are bad Feng Shui.
One should never be able to see thier reflection while laying in bed.
You never know what is watching on the other side of the mirror, waiting for you to fall asleep. :o

[PPI Tracy]

Mirrored closets are bad Feng Shui.
One should never be able to see thier reflection while laying in bed.
You never know what is watching on the other side of the mirror, waiting for you to fall asleep. :o

Nice, Tim.  I don't even HAVE a mirrored closet and you freaked ME out.  Another bad "Feng Shui" thing with mirrors is having one opposite the front door.  It is a belief that anything good that comes in to your home will turn right around and go back out the door because of the mirror.

And here is another "Feng Shui Goodie" for all you men out there:  It is bad Feng Shui to leave the toilet seat up and not close it when you are done.  It is a belief that the good things in your life will go down the toilet.  I swear that is is true.  My Mother in Law is Chinese (hubby's step mom) and she confirmed it.  No, really...it is true.  Look it up.  Seriously.

[PPI Tim]

I think another reason for not having those mirrored closet doors is that in
certain types of lighting they can create some very scary matrixed images.
The types of images you might think you see when you are half sleep.

[johnny]

In the movie for Constantine, the demon hunter Keanu Reeves uses a mirror to capture the demon from a girls body as it is exorcised from her.  Once in the mirror it's captured and can't try to break out but if you break the mirror while the demon's captured inside, it sends them back to hell. An interesting application of a mirror, is there any old classical writings that involve mirrors at all dealing with demonology or other paranormal activities? Where do people get these ideas from?

[PPI Tracy]

In the movie for Constantine, the demon hunter Keanu Reeves uses a mirror to capture the demon from a girls body as it is exorcised from her.  Once in the mirror it's captured and can't try to break out but if you break the mirror while the demon's captured inside, it sends them back to hell. An interesting application of a mirror, is there any old classical writings that involve mirrors at all dealing with demonology or other paranormal activities? Where do people get these ideas from?

Sounds like Keanu slipped back into Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure with this one.

Oh..sorry.  Carry on.

[PPI Tracy]

I think another reason for not having those mirrored closet doors is that in
certain types of lighting they can create some very scary matrixed images.
The types of images you might think you see when you are half sleep.

Dammit Tim!  You did it again!

[PPI Tim]

Large mirrors have also been used like a crystal ball for scrying and to talk to someone who is passed on.
This isn't anything I want hanging around.
Sweet dreams
I see in the future a trip to home depot for closet doors

[PPI Tracy]

I had mirror closet doors as a kid and i HATED them.  Too creepy.

[PPI Karl]

Large mirrors have also been used like a crystal ball for scrying and to talk to someone who is passed on.
This isn't anything I want hanging around.
Sweet dreams
I see in the future a trip to home depot for closet doors

Nostradamus is famous for staring into a dark mirror in order to scry.  I've heard the mirror theory since I was six years old. It's the stuff of urban legend--or, perhaps, urbane legend.  I think it's just mostly a psyche-out game for kids.  However, I will say this:  whenever I have suspected that I was seeing something moving in a dark room, whether it was made of shadow or of light, I could always prove to myself that I wasn't seeing things by looking for its reflection in the mirror.  If it's physically there in the room with you, it has to cast a reflection (excepting vampires, of course; they just cast aspersions).

[johnny]

Well a little digging up on Google popped up a few little things about mirrors:

A novel titled: Demons, Gods, and Pilgrims: The Demonology of the Hsi-yu Chi 

involves some text mentioning mirrors as a way to control demons.

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This one was found related to the Judaism and the covering of mirrors after death....

...When, therefore, the custom of covering mirrors after death, usual among the Jews, is found also in Oldenburg (Wuttke, "Der Deutsche Aberglaube," ? 728), it may be safely assumed that the Jewish custom was derived from the German, and not vice versa. Again, the custom of "sin-buying" observed among the Jews of Brody ("Urquell," iii. 19) has its analogue in the "sin-eater" of Wales ("Folk-Lore," iv.). In the Jewish practise a ne'er-do-well would take upon himself the sins of a rich man for a definite sum. Cases have been known where a person who has taken another's sins upon himself has felt compunction upon the death of the original sinner, and has visited his tomb and in the presence of witnesses deposited upon the tomb the sum originally paid for the sin, begging the dead man to take back his sins. Though found among Jews, there is little probability of this practise being originally Jewish...)

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And of course mirrors and vampires...


....the usual explanation for why vampires don?t have a reflection is that mirrors reflect souls, which a vampire lacks. But inanimate objects, by definition, lack them too. I would suggest that the vampire doesn?t actually animate a corpse; it uses the body as a home, but when wandering around, it merely projects an image, a kind of spiritual illusion. Mirrors and similar items only reflect physical objects, so such an illusion would not be reflected. If the vampire is dispatched while away from the corpse, the bond between spirit and body is strong enough to effectively materialize the corpse where the spirit was manifesting. This would also allow major shape-changes (mist, bat, etc.), which would be difficult to do with a physical body....