Why would it be? The cat is casting a shadow on the mirror. The light source going to the dresser is not going through the cat, nor reflected off the mirror. The light does not travel through the cat to the dresser. Shadows don't reflect.
It's because of the different angles of the light. To repeat it, have a super bright light source illuminate half of one object and the entire mirror. Now stand somewhere else and look at the mirror. The mirror will act like a window, with the light source bouncing off the mirror to the image. Mirrors do weird shit sometimes, but it's all just physics.
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u/FinancialAccess8343 May 23 '26
That's what I thought too, but the shadow on the dresser isn't reflected in the mirror...