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Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Softball 1321
When you look in a mirror, it seems as if it flips things left to right. Although, the mirror is not flipping anything, it flips front to back. The mirror flips things as if it was looking at you from behind.
Why does the mirror “flip” our reflection? If you are wearing a shirt with letters on it, why does the mirror flip the words? Why doesn’t it just stay the same in the mirro?
I learned that mirrors never seem to flip anything but more reverse the side based on the Point of view of whatever the person is wearing, whether it be lettering or pins on a T-Shirts
Mirror are more mysterious like what does the mirror think are I in the right- to-left in its view. But yeah these mirror are something complicated, but it seems so simple.
Mirrors are a reflection of light, meaning that it can only show what it sees, rather than creating, or flipping, its own image. This means that a mirror will only show you exactly the way that you are in front of the mirror rather than matching what you know it should look like.
It was mind boggling which there would be smoke coming out of my ears to understand this paradox. It never occurred to me or question about why the mirror doesn’t project up or down until now. It basically projects or reflects the object in front of it which gives us the wrong impression of which side is which.
When looking at a mirror everyone believes it flips images left to right. Why? It actually doesn’t, for it flips front to back. With Prof going over this riddle I have realized that a mirror flips images/things as if it was looking at someone from behind. This incudes letters, symbols, etc.
I literally never thought about how confusing mirrors could be mostly because I don’t question things like that either. Mirrors just reflect the things in front of them so it looks flipped but its really not.
When you think about looking yourself in a rectangular mirror and raising your right hand, you would expect this right hand side of this mirror to show your hand raising. This “mirror you” from their perspective. You try to apply this rule to mirrors and the words are now from right to left, to left to right. The reversed image you see can feel off when you think about how words apply to it.
The mirror doesn’t flip from top-to-bottom OR left-to-right but front-to-back. It doesn’t change how the person is positioned but reflects them in the way we see them, instead of the way they may see themselves.
I think the concept of mirrors are just crazy because i always think they’re important to the idea of perspective. Everything is just inverted but depending where or how you look at it two people can see altered versions of themselves based on just position alone.
The idea that a mirror flips an image is both ‘true’, yet also false. A mirror does not “see” you as you see somebody else, instead it merely reflects exactly what there is in front of it. The only problem is that your perspective doesn’t flip to match the now changed perspective. Similar to how someone’s right is your left, this is the same in a mirror, yet you yourself aren’t changing perspective to fix the skew that the mirror shows you.
We do this automatically, the front to back type of thing mirrors do. Even with our eyes. Seemingly not common knowledge, as most people don’t know that instead of a mirror flipping left to right it just goes from front to back. This can further imply, when used in everyday life, that common knowledge can be deemed somewhat unreliable.
One’s reflection in a mirror is always one-to-one, because the image reflected is reflected front to back. The concept may take a moment to understand, but it makes sense when considering a defining quality of the object in the mirror. For example, Cindy Crawford’s mole does not move from one side to another simply because she stands in a mirror. It is all perspective- she is not looking directly at herself, but rather the opposite version.
How we see ourselves in the mirror is not the same as someone seeing us. The mirror doesn’t flip us but literally reflects us. It sends our image right back to us without changing sides. It can be “trippy” when we see that. Like a front camera, it mirrors us making us look one way, but then the back camera reflects how other people see us. We get so used to seeing ourselves in the mirror it almost comes as a complete shock when you realize others see you in a different way.
I kind of assumed it wasn’t left to right flippage, but I never had the words to describe the kind of inversion. Front to back, even though I just learned it was right, still sounds, kind of wrong? I’m not sure why. Mirrors are still cool though, mirrors, mirror dimensions, mirror selves, all those fun writing tropes. have you seen how mirrors are made? It’s weird to imagine that it’s a solidified liquid they just spread over a panel and layered overtop of itself.
At first when you look into the mirror it seems as though everything switches from left to right and right to left. That statement is incorrect, it is actually front to back. The mirror reacts to as if someone was behind you, if you have letters on your shirt, it would look completely normal for anyone standing in front of you, once you look in the mirror it flips the word to be spelled backwards. But then if someone stands behind you, that would also mean the letters would be backwards, the mirror just put it infant of you instead of someone looking from behind you.
mirrors dont flip, they show front to back
Many people believe that the fact that mirrors “flip” images is common knowledge, however they don’t technically flip anything. Rather than flipping an image from left to right or top to bottom, it is shown front to back. If somebody looks at you and sees it on the left, meaning your right, when you look in the mirror you will see it on the right. Therefore, mirrors are somewhat inaccurate in that they don’t present you in the way that other people would see you.
The idea that mirrors flip any way has always been wrong. This is why you say a mirror reflects. A mirror reflects without alteration which some may say is flipping it but I think its widely known that this is not true. Perfect reflection is just that a reflection, not flipped in any way, just a reflection.
Before this riddle, I had thought that the way mirrors work were common knowledge. However, what most of us believed to be true about mirrors is not actually how they work, which is very interesting because something so simple then became more complex and was really requiring thought and attention from us.
I was aware that mirrors flip text, but not the way in which the mirrors flip things. This was something interesting to learn about.
It’s interesting that a mirror doesn’t actually flip left to right due to what we see in the mirror when wearing a shirt with words on it. Mirrors have always been a bit strange to me, I never really took the time to understand them. Learning about them flipping front to back was definitely a new perspective on how a mirror works than the common knowledge of them flipping left to right.
Common knowledge is something society as a whole as agreed upon. This doesn’t make it necessarily or scientifically true. For example, all though it is common knowledge that a mirror flips things, it doesn’t actually flip things, it simply reflects exactly what it ‘sees’. However, although this has been explained, the majority of people will still agree that a mirror flips your image.
The mirror does not flip the image of a person or thing on the y-axis, up and down, to the x-axis, left to right, but instead it is flipped front to back. The reflection does not alter the image but simply alters your view on what you’re seeing so your right is now your left vise versa.
More riddle semantics. Trying to “re-connotate” the wide plethora of words that most people consider interchangeable is a great way to not get invited to parties. Unless you are in a science class, and therefore there is a specific vocabulary that you code switch to when talking to fellow science nerds. Someone with decent communication skills will understand the idea you are trying to convey when talking about mirrors whether you use the words “backwards”, “reverse”, “flipped”, “twisted”, or some flavor of opposite.
Never have I witnessed in a literature, English, or wring composition class an author or textbook preferring to describe a mirror as “front to back” (the answer to this riddle) rather than opting for “backwards”, “reverse”, “flipped”, “twisted”. Additionally, I believe some liberties were taken at one point in this lesson when using the word “flipped” and flipped meanings.
Specifically, at the point of the Marilyn Monroe images.
Up until now the target was the person in front of the mirror, and the function of flipping was to be assumed upon that person. Then all of the sudden we are reassigning flipping to be a function that acts upon the image in the mirror that was already flipping the image of the real person.
Part of the problem is once again how we use the English language or the language itself in writing sentences that are multi-dimensional. For an example of such meta multi-dimensionality challenges, it was admitted in class that a quote concerning a book review that contains a quote from the author of the book can be quite cumbersome to fit into a paper neatly.
And to add more complications, do we as a user look at the mirror as 2D, 3D, or as a metaphor for a human mimicking us? Depending on our perspective we will use subtly different yet biased language.
Consider explaining the letters “b” and “d” as presented in a mirror. You could just say reverse and be fine. It is a 2D object. There is naturally less nuance than when describing a 3D person.
It is of my belief that the riddle answer of “reversing things front to back” is a new and accurate way to think about 3D images, however does it ever need to be more than 2D? Do the tools we use everyday shape how we see it? I assure you they do not use the vernacular “front to back”. I dare you to open the free paint software on your computer, and past a photo of a celebrity holding something into it. When you go to manipulate the orientation of the object you will be faced with two options.
Rotate or flip.
Upon choosing flip, you will be faced with two sub options, flip vertically, and flip horizontally. Guess which gives you the mirrored image? Flip horizontally. Is this not what people mean when they try to say the directions of left and right are switched; are left and right not considered horizontal objects of alignment?
Now to muddy the waters (pun intended); when a user wants an image of a lake to MIRROR something, they will choose the flip vertically option. Something cliche such as a moon reflected in a lake may come to mind.
I’m not sure if there is a moral of the story to all this. Psychology is a funny thing and people are going to keep being people in their perceptions. My only solution to the limitations of language is to invent a book or movie that encompasses the topic and is used as a new word in the English language. You can see instances of complex ideas boiled down to a movie title that featured them such as “That’s some scary Clockwork Orange stuff there.”, or “That was Inception levels of craziness doing that at the same time.”, or “Once you do it enough, you will start to see The Matrix, and can start guiding things where you want.”
I learned that mirrors don’t flip images, they mirror them, reflecting the images straight back