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Have you ever looked at yourself in a mirror in a dream?

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#1 ·
If so, what did you see? What do you think it represents to see yourself face to face in a dream, if anything?

The other night I looked at myself in the mirror in a dream and what I remember is that aside from barely recognizing myself, my face was extremely pale and I had dark rings around my eyes, like I was sleep deprived or had heavy eyeliner on. I remember being slightly disturbed by my paleness, but my thoughts were more along the lines of "damn dude, you need to get some sun", as opposed to "are you a zombie?" Hmm. Any dream experts around?
 
#3 ·
I see my reflection occasionally but it's a little different everytime, sometimes there's no reflection at all. I'll sometimes see myself as I was when I was a child or around 16 y/o or just an idealized version of what I'd like to look like. As far as it meaning something, I think for me it's exactly what it is -- an idealization of how I would like things to be or a reflection of how I currently see myself in relation to the world around me, ie a lost and confused child in a grown up world, or an awkward pimple faced teenager angry at the world. I dunno. I'm not sure what it means or if it means anything at all.
 
#4 ·
Whenever I ''see myself'' in a dream it usually represents my feelings on what might happen or that I ''just know'' something but am denying it.

I could speculate though.

It could mean that a distant memory, an idea or a person was bothering you, and you had fear that it might effect the identity you believed you had.

Or,

It could mean that you felt as though you destroyed someone or something but were unwilling to face it.

I'm not entirely sure though.



However, I advice you to be careful when talking about your dreams, especially odd ones, in public. Certain people have a way of being manipulative about one's inner thoughts and dreams.
 
#5 ·
I've never looked at myself in a mirror, however most of my dreams, I watch myself in them as though it's an "out of body" experience. I've always had dreams from that perspective, so for me it's normal, and I almost always look the same in my dream as I do in real life.

There is a website though that you should take a look at. It's a dream dictionary, with very good explanations and probable reasons as to why you may have had a particular dream. I've always found it very useful, and quite accurate. You can probably correlate the dreams you are having to some aspect of your waking life, after reading the definition for any dream symbol you have visualized. Dreammoods.com is the place to go. :happy:

This is their definition of mirrors:

Mirror
To dream of your own reflection in the mirror, suggests that you are pondering thoughts about your inner self. The reflection in the mirror is how you perceive yourself or how you want others to see you. You may be contemplating on strengthening and changing aspects of your character.

To dream that you are looking through a two-way mirror, indicates that you are coming face to face with some inner or worldly issue. What you see is related to your persona and unconscious. Seeing images through the mirror may be a safe way for you to consider and/or confront material from your unconscious. Mirrors symbolize the imagination and the link between the conscious and unconscious. But if you are being watched through a two-way mirror, then it suggests that you feel you are being scrutinized and criticized. Alternatively, the dream means that you are unwilling to acknowledge your unconscious emotions.

To break a mirror in your dream, suggests that you are breaking an old image of yourself. You may be putting an end to an old habit. Breaking a mirror is also an old symbol for seven years of bad luck. To see a cracked or broken mirror in your dream. represents a poor or distorted self-image. Alternatively, it means that you have put an end to your old habits and ways.

To see a fogged mirror in your dream, signifies a hazy concept of who you are and confusion in your life goals. You are lacking clarity and purpose and questioning your self-identity.

And their definition of reflection:

Reflection
To see your reflection in your dream, represents your true self; it is time to look within. The reflection may highlight both your flaws and positive attributes. Learn from your flaws and how to improve them. At the same time, appreciate your good qualities. Alternatively, your reflection indicates how you want others to perceive you.
If you see a strange figure or something other than your own reflection, then it suggests that you are undergoing some identity crisis. You are not sure about who you are anymore.


Take a look at their site for other dream symbols, and see what you can find. Good luck.
 
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Mirror
To dream of your own reflection in the mirror, suggests that you are pondering thoughts about your inner self. The reflection in the mirror is how you perceive yourself or how you want others to see you. You may be contemplating on strengthening and changing aspects of your character.

To dream that you are looking through a two-way mirror, indicates that you are coming face to face with some inner or worldly issue. What you see is related to your persona and unconscious. Seeing images through the mirror may be a safe way for you to consider and/or confront material from your unconscious. Mirrors symbolize the imagination and the link between the conscious and unconscious. But if you are being watched through a two-way mirror, then it suggests that you feel you are being scrutinized and criticized. Alternatively, the dream means that you are unwilling to acknowledge your unconscious emotions.

To break a mirror in your dream, suggests that you are breaking an old image of yourself. You may be putting an end to an old habit. Breaking a mirror is also an old symbol for seven years of bad luck. To see a cracked or broken mirror in your dream. represents a poor or distorted self-image. Alternatively, it means that you have put an end to your old habits and ways.

To see a fogged mirror in your dream, signifies a hazy concept of who you are and confusion in your life goals. You are lacking clarity and purpose and questioning your self-identity.

And their definition of reflection:

Reflection
To see your reflection in your dream, represents your true self; it is time to look within. The reflection may highlight both your flaws and positive attributes. Learn from your flaws and how to improve them. At the same time, appreciate your good qualities. Alternatively, your reflection indicates how you want others to perceive you.
If you see a strange figure or something other than your own reflection, then it suggests that you are undergoing some identity crisis. You are not sure about who you are anymore.
Interesting. My first ever post on this board was related to a sort of identity crisis. I wonder if the dream could be related to my recent near-obsessive introspection and sudden interest in existentialist philosophy.
 
#7 ·
I had a few times.. Once, I remember looking into the mirror and my eyes looking right back at me. At first I couldn't recognize my own eyes, because they were huge and pretty. I always thought my eyes were ugly as a kid. Then I noticed my entire face, and was like, "Is this me? An older more mature version of me?" My own reflection reassured me that I was going the right direction and that I was becoming more of myself but in a really peaceful kind of way.

The other one was pretty deep. At that time, I think it was really about me looking into someone else and finding myself in that person.. in a one-in-a-million kind of way..
 
#8 ·
Looking at oneself in the mirror is actually a common "reality check" for DILD lucid dreaming, as your reflection is almost guaranteed to be abnormal in some way.
I personally have noticed that I tend to have obscene amounts of facial hair when I look in the mirror while dreaming...
 
#9 ·
As far as I remember, my reflection is usually normal. Sometimes it's disfigured in some way.

The most recent time I've done it, it was as a DILD reality check. When I saw that my reflection was normal (and therefore non-indicative as to whether I was dreaming), I raised my right hand to check whether my reflection would raise the correct one. After doing this like ten times (I swear my reflection was just screwing with me), he finally raised the wrong one, and then off I was to lucid dreaming!

That experience was unnerving at the time, but I can't remember why. All I was thinking was, "Oh my god, why am I doing THIS." Possibly something to do with how real the reflection looked.
 
#10 ·
Last night, I dreamt of seeing myself in the mirror too. It was very similar to your dream.

Within the mirror was a reflection of myself except it was really haggard and pale. I remember telling myself in the dream, that I should sleep more and apply more moisturizer. But I woke up again midway, to look myself in the mirror and I saw the same reflection. It was disturbing.

I remembered feeling sad and touching my face. But my reflection did not reflect any of my emotions.
 
#12 ·
"Ever looked at yourself in a mirror in your dream?" :shocked::shocked: That is so CREEPY! I don't think its ever happened to me. But what if you saw a demon or something??? I guess mirrors freak me out already because of their frequent usage in horror movies.
 
#13 ·
I looked in a mirror recently during a lucid dream, and didn't see a reflection at all. I didn't find this odd though until I woke up. I laughed and thought to myself my dream self must be a vampire :p
 
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My first post

About 2 weeks ago I had a semi-lucid dream [I could control some of my actions]

I was in my bedroom and saw myself with jet black feathery wings. Looked at my wired haired dashchund and he also had small black wings. This is the 2nd time I dream this.

This time I decided to look myself in the mirror. The image in the mirror was a warrior angel, tall, very masculine features, body completely full of scars (I looked closely and saw scars everywhere), missing one eye [as in battle] but otherwise very handsome, tall, jetblack feathery wings, 3 protruding horns coming from the upper back and slighly leaning forward(similar to elephant tusks). Some unknown symbols on top of the central tusk

I was in doubt and asked him (my own image or whatever) to pray the our Lord prayer with me, in a sort of tests. We started together but after a while he started forgetting the words (this has happened to me before in my dreams so for me the test was not conclusive)

Very weird, isn't it?


ps: About 2 years ago I had my first dream of angels. In the dream I was in a little town in the middle of the mountains. I could see a big war going on in the sky but i could not discern the details. As time went on, the battles (at that point could see that it was between angels and demons) were approaching were I was and out of fear I started praying our Lord prayer.

At that point the town was attached and a group of warrior angels surrounded me in a protective mode and the leader of the group used a big jar to pour a viscous liquid (I guess it was honey or oil) on my legs and upper back. My legs shrank with a bronced tone and a big pair of feathery wings sprouted from my back.

After that, and in a period of 1 year, I had a dozen or more dreams in which I would see myself as a warrior angel, basically flying, being instructed, fighting demons and aliens, etc. After one lucid dream in which I exorcize a weird looking being, these dreams have stopped. I now only rarely dream this
 
#16 ·
I am not scared at all in these dreams. As a matter of fact, I feel full of power, sometimes too much power that makes me behave arrogantly at times but consistently when it happens, I immediately feel a terrible shame and apologize to God, and then continue whatever I was supposed to do with the proper mindset

I only wished I could dream of this more often these days. I went through a couple of months when I was dreaming this night after night. It felt as if living a 2nd live :flushed:

Nowadays it hardly happens
 
#18 ·
I just had the exact same dream. I saw myself and i looked extremely PALE, White as a sheet. Had eyebags, my lips were very red by contrast and my eyes seemed to have heavy eyeliner on... so i came here and found your comment. In the dream i remember thinking i looked very ill, like i was gonna die and felt worried :/ no idea what it means
 
#20 ·
I have. Now that I've thought of it(aka what I tell myself I remember), it was one of those initial dreams that started it all. I remember the where, the whos, and some minor details as to what happened next. When I write that though - thinking of those details - I question whether or not I did look in the mirror. I woke up screaming in a house full of family but nobody heard me I think. It's also weird that when I remember that 'waking up', I pictured myself from the third person view opposed to first person(which only came after when I tried to think of it). That leads me to believe maybe I can't really trust myself with the finer details...
 
#22 ·
Yes and it was one of the craziest dreams I've ever had. I dreamt that I was waking up and getting dressed to go somewhere, all very realistic, detailed and even humdrum (although it was clearly a different house, different style, different life), and when I standed in front of the mirror to brush my hair, I started to remember little fuzzy scenes of my dream (which was this life) and I kind of laughed at how ridiculous it was. I couldn't remember 'my' (this) name exactly and sounded quite funny. Of course when I woke up I had an existential crisis about how I wouldn't really know if I either had a very complex dream about being someone else dreaming about 'me' or if right now I'm that me dreaming about 'me' again; so pretty much Zhuangzi's meditation.
 
#24 ·
Yes, I only saw myself. Personally, I'm rather skeptical of so called "dream experts". Dreams are personal, they are a projection of your brain, only you can figure out best what that dream means for you. What your subconscious is trying to say to you.

Dream are also a method of coping, to relax the brain from a stressful life and to make sense of our life while were are asleep, to put the information we learned during the day together.

You can Google for a dream dictionary and type keywords there, but don't take them at their face value, ultimately the meaning of a thing in dream its subjective, only you know best what that dream means to you because that dream was made by you for you. I don't think a dream expert would be more helpful than a Google dream dictionary nor do I think dreams hold the ultimate secret to life.
 
#25 ·
I've had a few dreams where I looked at myself in a dream, but when I did I didn't look like myself at all. My hair, eyes color, and height was different. Even the time period was different, I think it was the year 1920 by the way I was dressed and the way I spoke inside the dream. It was so random, I remember waking up feeling very puzzled by this dream because it all seemed familiar. To what degree? I have no idea, it was very strange though because it stuck with me the entire day.
 
#26 ·
You dreamt that you were someone else. And 1920, ooh, interesting dream. I think that's cool. I never dreamt I was someone else, I had some dreams where I wasn't in a time or place that I could have ever reached, but I was still myself, or at least I wasn't at least aware in the dream that I was someone else if that was the case.

I think it would have been scary if you would dream that you are yourself but see someone else in the mirror. Or worse, if the mirror wouldn't copy your moves. That would go directly to the nightmare section. For some reason I haven't had nightmares in a long time. The worst dream I got was dreamed being arrested and I was like "my life is over", I have no idea or don't remember what I was arrested for or whether I was indeed gulty or innocent. But it was a realistic dreams. I had unrealistic dreams but they don't scare me that much, maybe part of me realises they are not real.

I had a dream with a monster once, and I would try to fight it. Everytime the monster would kill me I would wake up from where I started the dream and try to kill the monster again, only to fail and wake up again. This is not like Sisyphus from Greek mythology who was forced to roll that boulder on a hill only to see it fall down when near the top and have to start again, I was actually having fun with this.

But by far the best dreams are the ones where you are self-aware that it's a dream. When I'm like "wait a second, this is a dream?", the first times I became self-aware got too excited and woke up, but after a while I didn't get so exited anymore and managed to calmed down. I usually pinch myself first, if I don't feel anything then slap myself. Comebine that with the fact that everything around you feels weird and it's a dream.

Three things I remember I tried to do when I became self-aware of a dream: fly - really cool, jump of a building - again, really cool, for some reason when I landed I broke the asphalt like Hulk would, make that's how I imagined it would happen in my head, but let's be real, if I tried that in real life the asphalt wouldn't even budge, and crashing the car into a tree - I wanted to see how it feels like, except the pain part because you can't feel pain in a dream, I felt the adrenaline of going towards the tree and the sudden forward push when hitting the tree and that's it, for some reason I was wearing a seat belt, I literally have no idea why because you can't die in a dream. I don't remember exactly, but I think there was a smaller backwards push after the forward initial push as well, it was a long time ago and I could be wrong, but I remember the adrenalie before the crash and forward push clearly.

For some reason there are things you cannot do in a dream even if you try them to, for some reason your brain just blocks you. I don't remember what I was trying to do, I just remember that no matter how hard I tried to make it do, it just won't work, or alternative ways could be found around it, which is a weird thing because normally you have complete control over your self-aware dream.
 
#27 ·
I don't really see my face in mental images of myself. Though I have been extremely happy lately, so right now it's glowing golden like the sun. When I'm feeling low and lost, it glows like the moon.
 
#28 ·
I looked at myself in the mirror in a dream once. What I saw still sticks with me. My reflection just continuously shifted between every version/way I’d ever thought of or have seen myself. Every time I’d ever looked in a mirror, the self reflection over the real, pictures of me I’ve seen, pictures of myself I’ve edited. Every personality difference and expression Ive ever portrayed. Everything all at once overlapping on top of one another. Was a mind f’k. People don’t always see the truth others might see. We can convince ourselves of almost anything. Who’s to say what we see in the mirror hasn’t been so morphed through all the turmoil and experiences as we age, that what we see isn’t so very far from reality. And who can tell me who’s physical vision of someone could ever be accurate when everyones views are entirely determined on ones personal experiences? I’ve decided since that dream that I look how I feel. And I feel like I want to look a certain way. So I try and choose to only see myself in the mirror the way I want and let the rest go. Only and when my mind allows that of course…
 
#29 ·
I had a very lucid dream that was probably in the 40's I was not born then. My dad owned a gas station..told my dad dont remember the name was smoking at the pump again. Never saw her but my mom I was probably about 12 said I needed to get changed ...dress shoes and Iooked in the mirror and it was the face of a young girl. A face I have never seen. Very long and Vivid dream
 
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