We live in an age of mirrors, which is a very handy device, used routinely by virtually everyone to check out how they look from just about every conceivable angle and typically used as an aid to put on makeup, shave, comb, and just about anything in which the person so viewing desires to see how they look. However, what a lot of people don't consciously pay attention to is that what we are seeing in the mirror is a reflection of how we appear. That is to say, the image that is in front of us truly reflects essentially a reverse image flipped from right to left, which is not what we really look like. In other words, what we are looking at in a mirror is a reflection of our person, which means that it does not represent a true view of us. We know this by simply taking any object with printed text on it and having it face the mirror, in which that text is now reversed, and therefore, unreadable. This is thus the image that we see of ourselves in front of a mirror, which is a reverse image of who and what we are, which is not the same image that people see of us –signifying that we do not ever see ourselves as we really are, whenever we look at our reflection in the mirror.
No doubt, we are so used to viewing ourselves with a mirror that the fact that this is a reflection doesn't really bother us, especially since anything that we need to do when in front of the mirror, we are absolutely competent to accomplish. Yet, it has to be said, that to live a life in which we never once see ourselves as others see us, seems to be something that many a person might well want to rectify, and truth be told, this can be done, utilizing two right-angle mirrors which are joined together and thus purposely designed to do exactly that. This means that rather than the photos that we have which catches us in a moment in time, as we actually do look to the other, we now have the capacity when using these right-angle mirrors to see our image as it is, in real time, which thus provides us with our look, as we actually are, as viewed by other people.
Indeed, it has to be taken into serious consideration that because we naturally view everyone that we see as they really are, that logically we should want to view ourselves in the same way, because this would make that perspective to be consistent to how we actually look to other people. While it is true that we do not have the capability to step outside our body so as to view ourselves from a true 3-D perspective, it just seems reasonable for people that care about their presentation to have the ready option to see how they look as they are perceived by others, rather than to rely consistently on a reflection of themselves which other people do not ever perceive.