If you look through a one-way mirror at a mirror, what do you see?  Serious answers only, please...?
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You see a mirror in a mirror in a mirror in a mirror ......\nThere are various gadgets using this effect. \nFor instance if you put a lightbulb between the two mirrors and look throug the one way mirror you will see (depending how parallel you've managed to put the mirrors) lots of lightbulbs disappearing into infinity. I know 'cause I've done it!
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I have a pair of those interesting deep-dish-shaped double-domed parabolic mirrors from Edmund Scientific, the top one sits upside-down on the bottom one, and the top one has a hole in it.  So when you put something inside it, and move away at an angle, an image of the object appears to be sitting above the top dish.  I ask people, "Hand me that little pink pig sitting on that dish".  They see it, reach for it, pick up nothing, reach for it again, and see their fingers apparently pass right through a solid object.\n\nWhat is the reality there?  My eyes tell me there's a little pink plastic pig sitting on the top of that dish.  Yet when I try to pick it up, my fingers pass right through it.  But then I distort the mirrors a little, and the pig blurs in an odd way that lets me see that he's actually a reflected image from inside the unit.  And if I understand optics sufficiently, I understand that it is possible, with certain arrangments of parabolic mirrors, to erect "real" images (versus the more common "virtual" images that we see in most mirrors and lens) of objects, and even design and build versions of my own, with the effects and capabilities fully determinable in advance.  That's reality.\n\nReality does exist.  Granted, we have a limited and distorted view of it due to the limitations of our senses, but it does exist.  For example, this desk in front of me seems like a solid object.  But in truth, my view of it is limited by the fact that my eyes are not able to resolve the electrons orbiting the nuclei that make up the desk, and that the vast majority of this desk is vacuum, therefore the fact that, when I touch this supposedly-solid desk, what's actually happening is that the electrostatic field generated by the electrons of the desk are exerting a force against the electrostatic field of the electrons orbiting the nuclei of the atoms making up my fingers.  There are no "solids" touching anything, just fields pushing against each other the way 2 magnets can push against each other.\n\nTo me it looks like reality begins immediately outside your eyes.  All is reality.  The only place it ends is inside your head, when you misinterpret what your limited senses tell you.
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That's because light reflects in the mirror just as if it's coming from the same distance the real object is but behind the mirror.  You are nor looking an image that is at the mirror distance, but really at the real object distance.
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~4% of light is reflected back at normal incidence (standing in front of the mirror).  In order to see the reflected image of yourself, the light that is reflected should be brighter than any light coming through the glass.  If the glass is black, it means that little light passes through it, so it should be fairly easy to see your image.  This is also why it it is easier to see your image in transparent glass if it is brighter in the room on your side of the glass than on the other side.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mirror as one has not been created to show the beauty or ugliness within one's shell.  It shows only the outside and that is not always what the true self is.  A mirror is supposed to display the comlete reflection of something.
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*It allows a laser to be viewed - light from the laser cannot be viewed unless it's bouncing off a mirror - a mirror reflects and refracts light\n\n*Allows us to view things from a variety of angles (car mirrors, periscopes, etc)\n\n*Personal hygeine?\n\n*Decorative
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No no no...keep the mirror open... you never know, you may not be so stupid in the other dimension.
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look in the mirror ill bet you see one there
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Yeah...\n\nOh wait... I'm having a moment right now! This question... Have I seen it somewhere before?\nHmmm...
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reality (the first answerer) is mostly correct, but it's more of a phychological effect than an optical illusion. When you look in the mirror and raise your right hand, it looks like "the guy in the mirror" is raising his left hand. Because of this, you perceive the mirror to be flipping left and right. But all the light is just being reflected directly back. If you hold writing up to the mirror, it looks backwards left to right. If you hold it vertically, it looks backwards top to bottom. There is no left-right top-bottom asymmetry. Think about it for awhile and you will realize that a mirror doesn't "flip" anything, it's all in your mind.
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Besides the fact that a mirror reverses your image and a photo doesn't, there is one other difference.  In order to see you image in a mirror you have to look directly at it so your image is always staring right back at you.  When your picture is taken you might be looking at the camera or somewhere else.  Your picture doesn't have to be staring right at you for you to see it so you often can see yourself from different angles than are possible with a mirror.  As an experiment try using two mirrors such as are found in some vanities.  By looking at a reflection of a reflection you can see yourself in a mirror from different angles.  Does these images seem more like your photos?
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Sure does. Looked in the mirror lately? :)
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This could happen one of two ways:\n\n1) The mirror is made of another material than glass or the usual material used.\n\nOR\n\n2) The mirror has curvatures somewhere along the way creating a distorted image.\n\nHope this helps!
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The glass is poured to the desired thickness, and then silver is applied to the back to give it's reflective surface.  It is then coated with another substance to prevent the light from passing all the way through.  You then see your reflection.\nIn a piece of two way mirror, the silver is applied to the front of the mirror and the other non-reflective substance is omitted.  Thus, you can see all the way through.\nOne good way to tell if you are looking at a piece of two way mirror, is to put your finger up to the glass.  If there is no 'space' between the tip of your finger and the glass...it may be 2-way.  If there is a 'space', it may be only one-way.\nNext time you go into a store, look around for mirrors that appear in the most unusual places.  More than likely, these are 2-way.
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I think that I avoid that. But yes at times I take a good look at myself in the mirror. It doesn't lie. Sometimes the image I have of myself isn't exactly what reality is. That's speaking about the physical side. If you are speaking about that deeper question "Who am I?" then yes I also do that. I think that each person is different and must answer that in their own way. I think that I personally could list my qualities my standards my limits my likes dislikes and in that long list someone could get a picture of who I am. I firmly believe that EVERYONE has the ability to change what they see in that mirror and change the person in that mirror if they don't like what they see looking back at them. We are only a flesh and blood human.With the tools we have been given we can be whatever we choose.A mind that is so powerful we still haven't discovered but a small percentage of its power and Free Will ................
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It could be a double reflection.  If the image you see is in the correct orientation, than it is a daouble reflection, or reflected any even number of times.  The object is in front of you which reflects off the left window, into the right window, where you are looking.
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We see images in mirror. Similarly we see pictures in T.V screen, Cinema screen, and in computer screen.  All we see in a single plane surfaces. \n\nConsider the moment, when all pictures seen in them are still including the image in mirror.\n\n To view them leisurely, we take photos of all and print them and paste them all in their position. \n\nWhat is the difference between the previous one and the present one?\n\nBoth are in the single plane. Behind the plane there is wall or some electrical gadgets only.\n\nIf images in mirror are three dimensional then all pictures and the drawings in the books will be three dimensional. However, we try to give the three dimensional effect in picture drawn on a plane paper. A cube can be drawn in a paper and can be visualized in three dimensions. That does not mean that the drawing is three dimensional.\n\nBut real images can have actual three dimensions. In that case we say it is a three dimensional image.  But the real image formed in a camera screen is two dimensional.\n\nHence all virtual images are two dimensions only even though they appear to be three dimensional. \n\nReal images can be either two dimensional or three dimensional. \n\nReal images are only images and are not real objects even though they are three dimensional images.