A mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it does — it reverses front and back, creating a world where depth is flipped and the familiar face looking back is stranger than it feels

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Stand in front of a mirror and raise your right hand. The figure in the glass raises a hand on the same side of the room as yours, yet you read it instantly as the left hand of a person facing you. Hold a page of writing up to the surface and the letters run [...] The post A mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it does — it reverses front and back, creating a world where depth is flipped and the familiar face looking back is stranger than it feels appeared first on Space Daily .