Staring into the Mirror for Ten Minutes, You Really Will See Another Face

Bloody Mary, looking into a mirror at midnight—everyone has heard these sayings. Some people actually went ahead and did the experiment.

In 2010, Giovanni Caputo, a psychologist at the University of Urbino in Italy, recruited fifty people and had them sit one by one in a dimly lit room, facing a mirror, staring at their own faces for ten minutes. The light was dim, coming from behind them, and couldn't be too bright.

As a result, most people began to see things that were "off" within a few minutes: their own faces twisted and deformed, some became very large, some looked like another person; some saw the face of a stranger, some saw deceased relatives, and some saw faces of animals or monsters. Some said that the "face" they saw didn't seem like something they imagined; it felt like the face was looking at them.

Caputo calls this the "strange-face illusion in the mirror." His explanation is: when a person stares at the same thing for a long time under dim light, the nerves adapt, details disappear, surrounding things slowly fade from the field of vision, and the brain starts to "fill in" on its own. What it fills in is often a face.

So it's not that there's something in the mirror; it's that your brain is working overtime.

The Bloody Mary game has existed since the 19th century, played mostly at night, in the dark, with candles lit, staring into a mirror for a long time while chanting a name several times. This is almost exactly the same conditions as Caputo's experiment.

If you try it yourself and the face in the mirror suddenly changes, don't panic—just turn your head away, turn on the light, and you'll be fine after a while. This is very normal and won't affect your body in any way.

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