00:01imagine looking into a mirror and seeing yourself smile except you aren't smiling at first you might
00:08think it was your imagination you blink your reflection blinks back you raise your hand it
00:15raises its hand too everything seems normal until you stop moving and your reflection doesn't what
00:23if your reflection suddenly became independent for most of us a mirror is nothing more than a
00:29surface that reflects light your brain expects the person to copy you perfectly but imagine one
00:36morning you walked into your bathroom looked up and your reflection was already staring at you
00:41you freeze it doesn't your reflection slowly tilts its head you don't and then it smiles you step
00:48backward it steps forward that's when you realize something terrifying whatever is inside the mirror
00:54isn't following you anymore it's watching you at first you might assume the mirror is broken
00:59maybe you're tired maybe you're hallucinating so you test it you raise your right hand it raises its left
01:06just like normal you turn your head it copies you everything works then you suddenly stop your
01:13reflection continues moving it walks closer to the glass you stay completely still it places its hand
01:19against the mirror and slowly you realize the glass isn't separating you from it it's trapping it
01:27scientists know that our brains use reflections to recognize ourselves seeing your own face is
01:33connected to the sense of self that's why a reflection moving independently would be so disturbing it would
01:39break one of your brain's deepest expectations about reality you would probably start avoiding mirrors no
01:46bathroom mirrors no store windows no dark screens because every reflective surface could become a
01:53doorway but eventually you'd have to look again and one night you do the room is dark only the bathroom
02:01mirror catches the moonlight you slowly walk toward it your reflection is standing there perfectly still
02:08you relax then it points behind you you don't turn around your reflection points again this time more
02:16urgently you slowly glance over your shoulder nothing you look back at the mirror your reflection is gone
02:22the bathroom is empty then you notice something impossible your reflection isn't missing it's standing
02:29behind you inside the mirror and it's looking at something over your shoulder you turn around nothing you
02:35look back now it's smiling but this time that you aren't scared because you finally understand it isn't
02:41trying to escape it's trying to warn you it raises one finger and points directly at the ceiling you look
02:47up nothing then the lights suddenly flicker and when they come back on your reflection is standing
02:54directly behind you in the mirror but you're standing in front of it it slowly raises its hand you raise
02:59yours it
03:00doesn't copy you instead it writes something on the fogged glass three words don't turn around your heart
03:08stops because you can feel something breathing behind you slowly you close your eyes and suddenly your
03:16reflection begins pounding against the other side of the glass harder and harder you finally turn around
03:23there's nothing there you breathe again then you look back at the mirror your reflection is gone until a
03:30hand appears on the other side of the glass your hand but you're not moving it it presses against
03:37the mirror then another hand then a face your face but the eyes are different they're glowing white
03:42and it whispers something the mirror begins cracking you run but before you reach the door every
03:49reflective surface in the house suddenly lights up the television the windows your phone screen the
03:54stainless steel refrigerator and in every reflection you're standing there but none of them are copying you
04:00they're all looking toward the same place behind you you slowly turn around nothing then your phone
04:06vibrates you look down the screen shows your reflection except now it's standing behind you
04:11and it whispers finally the screen goes black so here's the question if your reflection stopped copying you
04:21would you still trust what you see in the mirror or would you start wondering which one of you is
04:25the real person
