by Tobias Van Buren

Created on: August 25, 2008

A Trip Through Mirrors

This is not a review of the movie "The Mirrors", but if interested, do a search online.

What I will be doing here is tell you of a few experiences of my own dealing with paranormal phenomena re mirrors, and in one case - what's similar - that one actually first:

As we all know, what we see in a mirror is backwards. Many vehicles that follow us while we're driving have words spelled backwards, like "AMBULANCE" being "ECNALUBMA" It is so we see the word the right way when looking through our rear-view mirrors; looks crazy when looking at it ordinarily - such as Ambulances we see outside our vehicles.

I have a nice slide of me that was taken Christmas 1969, just past my 30th birthday. I was standing next to my artificial Christmas tree - one of my 'Elvis' pictures, looking somewhat like a young Elvis.

Just a few years ago, I wanted to have pictures made from this slide - a couple dozen or so. I've had pictures made from slides many times - they are sort of like negatives, except black is black, white is white, all the colors what they are - negatives red being green, blue being yellow, black being white, white being black - complimentary colors. But you can get good pictures using slides as negatives.

I took this slide into a professional photo store in Yonkers, NY - near MOVIELAND where I was going to see a movie that day. I told the man what I wanted, how many, etc. Great!

I came back maybe a couple weeks later, got my pictures. They looked good, but I had not immediately noticed something strange about them, not until I'd got home. They came out as if - seeing myself in a mirror, not as I look to any of you, Well, I'm actually more used to seeing myself in a mirror, except photos of myself - developed the right way, of course!

I just did not look right! I noticed imperfections, which we all have as far as our faces being symmetrical, which they are not - from one side to the other. Perform a test and see for yourself! Have a negative of yourself developed into two different pictures - one done the right way, the other done the opposite way. There is a shiny side of a negative and slide, and a dull side. I'm not sure which is correct to use. I know with slides, you have to insert them into a slide projector upside down, as well as the wrong side facing you - the KODAK, whatever 'logo' side. I've done it wrong many times. Take each picture you've had made of yourself, using the negative's one side, then the other side - and cut each in half - one

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