People Are Only Just Realising You Have Never Truly Seen Your Own Face

Mirrors, photos and screens all lie to you in a small but unsettling way.

Here is a strange thought that might keep you up tonight: you have never actually seen your own face the way everyone else sees it.

A mirror flips your image left to right, so the face staring back at you is a reversed version. The little quirks you know so well are on the wrong side to the rest of the world.

Photos and videos capture you the correct way round, which is exactly why people so often think they look odd in pictures. You are simply seeing the unfamiliar, unflipped you.

Your brain grows deeply attached to the mirror version because it is the one you see every single day. The face the world knows and the face you know are quietly, permanently different.