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What it means to dream about mirror
A mirror in a dream is the most honest dream of all: it shows you how you see yourself. Like the reflection, and you are at peace. Look away, and something in you is still unmet. A dream works by mirror rather than by calendar, and what it reflects back at you is this question: are you ready to look straight at yourself?
First layer · what tradition says
What the traditional dream book says
In the dream books a mirror means the truth about yourself and a meeting with who you are. Breaking one means discord and trouble, a clouded one means confusion, and a stranger's face in it means change.
Second layer · the honest read
What the dream really reflects
A mirror is the most honest dream. It shows you how you see yourself. If you like the reflection, you're at peace. If you look away or don't know the face, there's something in you that you haven't accepted yet. It asks if you're ready to look straight at yourself. I work the way glass does, by reflecting, and I read no futures in it.
What changes the reading
The reading lives in the detail: “a broken mirror” says one thing and “a stranger's face in the mirror” says another.
- A broken mirror
- The picture you hold of yourself has cracked. Something in the way you see yourself has come apart, and you're still holding the pieces.
- Not recognizing yourself
- There's a part of you that you don't accept or that you've lost track of. The reflection has gone unfamiliar, and that unsettles you.
- A stranger's face in the mirror
- An unknown side of you is surfacing. Something new is looking back at you from the glass, and it has been there a while.
FAQ
Is dreaming about mirror lucky or unlucky, and where does that leave you if the glass is broken?
There is no stamp here that reads good or bad: broken glass speaks of the picture you hold of yourself cracking, and a face you cannot place speaks of an unknown side of you surfacing. A mirror, and no crystal ball.
The old dream books read dreaming about mirror as the truth about yourself and a meeting with who you are, so where does that reading come from?
Folk tradition stamped this image as the truth about yourself and a meeting with who you are, and the lists themselves were compiled in different centuries, each one arguing with its neighbor. I keep to the mirror: the same picture lands differently for each person because the subject here is your life, and what it asks you is this: are you ready to look straight at yourself?
The dream reflected you for one night. The chart of the sky holds your whole reflection.
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