If I’ve learned anything about dreams the last few weeks it’s that a lot of dreamers seem to see their reflections in mirror dreams. Some dreamers encounter mirrors at random, others have an entire dream where they look at their own reflection. Then there are the dreamers who encounter mirrors in lucid dreams. Those can be very strange.
What do mirror dreams mean? I think most of you reading this have seen your dream image reflected back in a dream. Read on, dear dreamer, you’ll discover what it means to observe yourself in a dream mirror.
Mirror Dreams cast a reflection on the dreamer’s inner self. When someone looks into a dream mirror they’re being shown what’s going on inside them. Details of your dream add additional insight. If you see yourself with gray hair it can mean a certain level of maturity. What you don’t see in your dream reflection can tell you a lot as well. Being faceless means loss of identity.
Why Don’t I Look Like Myself In a Dream Mirror?
One of the most intriguing aspects of looking into a dream mirror is seeing a reflection that looks like you but doesn’t. If your dream reflection is a view of what’s going on inside you, why doesn’t it look exactly like you? The possible answers to this question is as varied as the dreamers that have these dreams. Here’s a dream that shows one possibility.
The Dream
I had a dream that I was looking into a bathroom mirror. My reflection looked like me. But it was out of sync when I moved my hands. The more I moved the reflection seemed off and not like me at all. I felt like there was a dark version of myself that was maybe trying to come out of the mirror. I looked a bit scary. I didn’t like it and forced myself to wake up.
Dreams are very interesting communication devices. No matter who you are or what you believe about yourself, dreams will communicate the truth. In the dream the dreamer sees only a slight difference in the way they look at first. The more they move the more their reflection seems off. This ever changing reflection of theirs looked like a dark version of themselves.
The purpose of the dream is to show the dreamer exactly that; their dark side. It looked scary and I’m sure it disturbed them. We all have a light side and a dark side. Everyday we awake with the power to choose which person we are going to be that day. No matter how many times we choose to do good, that dark side remains. This doesn’t mean the dreamer is a bad person. It simply means they have the nature of a human. Their dark side is just waiting to get out.
The dreamer is being shown this about themselves at this time of their lives because they could very well be on the verge of deciding what kind of person they will become. If the dreamer has a view of themselves that is not completely objective, which is the norm, they may settle for being just good enough. This could allow their dark side to come out in unexpected ways.
Faceless in A Mirror
Few things can be as unsettling as a faceless dream. When you look into a mirror expecting to see yourself and see a faceless reflection instead, it can be down right frightening. But what does it mean when that reflection tries to pull you into the mirror with it? Here’s the dream…
In the dream I am in the bathroom and see my reflection. My reflection in the mirror is me except the features of my face are gone. Where my mouth and eyes and nose should be is just skin, however it does have my hair. As I continue to look into the mirror it seems the reflection is just a millisecond my movements. It’s as if my reflection is copying my movements not reflecting them. And I feel a presence from my reflection and feel as through its staring at me; without eyes.
I continue to make movements and my reflection continues to copy me and continues to be slower than me by a millisecond. I then place my face close to the mirror. My reflection does the same, and I place my hand to the mirror, as does my reflection. As my hand touches the mirror my reflection seizes it and clasps its fingers around mine. I feel panic, and dread, and hostility. My reflection begins to pull me in and that’s when I wake up.
This odd dream is scary when you don’t know what it means, but it becomes even more so when you know the meaning.
Loss of Identity is Scary
Cj
When your dream reflection doesn’t have eyes, a nose or a mouth it means the dreamer has a loss of identity. The dreamer doesn’t know who they are. This is a comment their inner identity. I’ve never met this dreamer but this is the quintessential example of a person searching for who they are. What I find interesting about this dream is the part where the reflection moves a millisecond behind the dreamer, and then interlaces its fingers with the dreamers.
This subtle action is not a move of the dreamer’s subconscious, rather, the deeper part of the dreamer that’s searching for meaning, and personal identity. That part of the dreamer hasn’t yet discovered what it needs to. If the dreamer comes into agreement with that part of themselves that hasn’t found purpose and identity it just might cause them to become stuck searching but never finding. I’ve seen it more times than I can count.
My Experience with Dream Mirrors
I have two personal experiences of looking into a dream mirror that I’ve never forgotten. My first dream mirror experience was some time right before or during my adolescence. I remember recurring dreams of looking into a mirror and making faces. My reflection also make faces back, but the faces were much more exaggerated and distorted beyond what was humanly possible.
The meaning behind these dreams is that I was going through a period in my waking life where I was exploring who I was verses who parents and others wanted me to be. I was trying to find my own vision and voice.
My second dream mirror experience was just a few months ago. I found myself looking in a mirror at someone who I knew was me, but was much younger. And my skin looked different. It had a quality of light that I’d never seen in it before. It’s as if I caught a glimpse of my inner spiritual self.
Every Dreamer has a Different Dream Mirror Experience
Looking into a dream mirror can be a vastly different experience for every dreamer. Some who lucid dream get transported into their own imagination with the ability to step into and through dream mirrors. I’ve never personally had this experience, but there are lots of dreams I’ve discovered on the internet whose dreams describe this exact thing.
I actually had a dream that my body mirror in my dream was a portal that I could step through. When I went through it, I was in this empty void with another portal to somewhere else than the one back in my room. I went through the one back into my room because I know the other one would show me something I wasn’t ready for.
In conclusion
Dreams are much like the wild wild west; anything goes. That’s for mirror dreams, and all other dreams as well. Context is king when determining the meaning of mirror dreams. What’s going to make the biggest difference in determining meaning is the question of what the dreamer is observing.
The obvious answer is the dreamer is seeing what’s going on inside themselves. The question is what is the dreamer seeing or experiencing? The short dream I shared above is introducing the dreamer to a void within themselves.
CJ