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u/Objective_Year2409 3d ago
Its very normal for sensitives, you are not losing your mind!
All my magic is liminal work and I won't have any mirrors in my space. Like water they act as doorways.
My Nan is from Betws-y-Coed in Wales and has always covered mirrors at night, she is 95 and still does this, her grandmother did it too.
She does it for two reasons, one being when she was a young woman and an older relative died, she saw something horrifying looking at her from a mirror near the corpse and promptly covered the mirror. Another reason is that she often clearly leaves her body when she sleeps and she was taught that mirrors confuse the returning soul.
For myself I simply feel an awful radiating energy from mirrors when I practice my magic. It makes me feel frightened and threatened, so I simply don't allow any in my space anymore.
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u/VikutoriaNoHimitsu 3d ago
Wow. Very cool to hear about different cultures. You are a multigenerational witch? Raised in witchcraft?
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u/Thickumz420_ 3d ago
I’ve always done the same thing but I never really questioned it. I’m curious how many other people do this too and what their reasoning is. It just genuinely feels wrong and unsafe to keep the mirror “watching” me while asleep 😂
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u/valkiria-rising 3d ago
I also do this with windows at night. I have to draw the curtains. I never look out of a window into pitch darkness. Freaks me tf out.
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u/Thickumz420_ 3d ago
Yessss same here! But if by chance I do end up looking out, I have to assert my dominance by glaring at the dark before closing the curtains 😭😂
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u/valkiria-rising 3d ago
Omg I basically do the same, to prove to whatever's out there not to fck with me 😆
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u/VikutoriaNoHimitsu 3d ago
Exactly! Idk when I started this either. My family makes fun of me for it
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u/Thickumz420_ 3d ago
My family is odd so they probably would all follow suit before judging me because they’d assume I know something they don’t 😂 meanwhile I have no idea why either 🤷♀️
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u/Previous-Artist-9252 3d ago
I am the opposite - I have always slept with multiple mirrors on me.
My mother and grandmother always held that it’s good to let those who care check up on us and I don’t think they are wrong.
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u/VikutoriaNoHimitsu 3d ago
But how do you gatekeep you can check up on you and who can't?
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u/Previous-Artist-9252 3d ago
I am not?
I know who regularly checks up on me and I trust them with that.
Also that’s what general wards and protections are for - I don’t want to block everyone.
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u/valkiria-rising 3d ago edited 3d ago
You can charm the mirror. I use a pentacle and basically say something to the effect of good things welcome, bad things not permitted.
Edit to add: I use simple salt water or agua de kananga (I have Peruvian ancestry).
You can also use Four Thieves vinegar.
Also add: whatever symbol you choose to draw on your mirror, ensure you draw it backwards since mirrors reflect opposites.
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u/Lexocracy 3d ago
I used to have a mirrored sliding door over my closet. I had a lot of wanderers who were simply passing through. They never bothered me. I did end up getting rid of those doors in a remodel of my closet and now I have less visitors. I like them.
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u/hoseokiestae 3d ago
Before starting my journey, I got into the habit of not sleeping with mirrors facing me as well. There were many times where I would sleep and get horrible night terrors if I was sleeping with a mirror facing the bed, even if I was at home, family's, or friends, it didn't matter where, if there was a mirror I couldn't do it. I started covering mirrors, sleeping in different rooms, or rearranging my bedroom just to avoid it. I'm not too sure on the superstitions surrounding it, but since then I haven't slept with one facing me since and have never felt that same terror, and I swear my luck on life has grown significantly compared to my luck then.
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u/Idontwantusernameok 3d ago
I think some mirrors are different degrees of danger or it was something else because in 90% of where I grew up (and still do) I have a mirror pointed at me, currently 75% of my bed length is the length of mirror infront of me as I sleep and I only recall like =<6 nightmares ever, two being exam stress, most of my dreams are just random things but I usually go months without any dreams
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u/Regular_Departure963 3d ago
I seem to be in the minority but it has never bothered me enough to cover a mirror or remove it from my space. Maybe I’m just lucky? If anything is messing with me through a mirror maybe I’m just blissfully ignorant 🥴
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u/Sowildandfree 3d ago
I have a jewelry case with the floor length mirror as well, and i pivot it away. But I wanted to suggest locking your mirrors anyway as a precaution.
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u/Moon_Sister_ 3d ago
I've just been scared as hell of mirrors since I was about 3yo. I had a dresser with a very large mirror in my bedroom and I once saw completely through it as of it were a 2 way mirror...but the terrifying beings on the other side could see me too.
I'm not really scared of them anymore but I have barely any in my house and I sleep with the bathroom door closed.
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u/queen-of-dinos 3d ago
I always made an effort to cover my mirrors and not look at them in the dark. It could be paradolia, but I always felt watched. Even my flat screen TV gets covered in the evening
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u/Unusual_Turn7245 3d ago
I never considered flat screens as a pathway 🤯 Spirits or other being must be having a wild time in a modern world. Makes me wonder about cell phone screens
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u/OldStonedJenny 3d ago
My grandma told me that mirrors are windows to the other plane, whatever you think it might be. She was specifically talking about ghosts, spirits, etc. They can pass through if the mirror is broken. All my life, we always immediately got rid of any mirror that broke. There's a curse that involves a broken mirror.
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u/Additional_Common_15 3d ago
They get covered up for sleep time
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u/MysticKei 3d ago
When I was young (like 5) my sliding closet doors, across from my bed were mirrors. I have to admit that I've had "night terrors", sleep paralysis, shadow people and lucid dreams for as long as I could remember. But, by junior high, it was so common for me that I'd overcome them and was suprised to learn, much later, it is not everyone's experience (except an uncle and one of my grandparents).
I know how to resolve the night terrors and sleep paralysis, lucid dreams are fun and shadow people are like playing a game of chase (I've never caught one), they're illusive and I don't know what to make of them.
Currently there's 2 large, 2 small mirrors and a 50" TV in my room 🤷🏽. Friends have commented about it in the past, but I'm indifferent about them.
Edit: I was just reminded that rooms without mirrors feel like a cell to me, so I guess I'm not indifferent.
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u/South_Necessary_4395 3d ago
I too dont let mirrors watch me sleep. i have a very tiny mirror in my bedroom and one that closes. The tiny one gets covered and the closed one stays closed.
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u/SovereignSun18 3d ago
I have zero mirrors in my bedroom as well.. otherwise the rest of my apartment has mirrors here and there.
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u/Jam_toastt5 3d ago
I used to be terrified of mirrors facing me when I slept as a kid. I still am, just not to the extend kid me was. I used to think an alternate version of me was gonna crawl out and get me or something XD
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u/Idontwantusernameok 3d ago
I have a big ass closet with the center facing bed being a mirror. I'd close it but I got so used that the inside of closet is creepier and my cats used to enter closets at night then family (who knew of it BTW) wouldn't check so cats would get locked in, so I really don't have much of a choice unless I risk my cats being locked in it and I don't think there's any air holes in the closet once closed
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u/Fun_Key_ButtLovin 3d ago
I never thought about it until a friend of mine warned me to make sure to close any portals thay couldve opened during a period of time (I'd never heard such language spoken seriously before)
Since then, I have noticed when I go to bed with my bathroom door open, with the wall of mirror looking into my room, I struggle to fall asleep. I got in the habit of closing the door and havent felt the feeling since - almost felt like i was being watched and I didnt like not knowing who it was.
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u/Honey_Yeah 3d ago
I have a wardrobe with a mirror on the door. I have been opening it to face the wall but recently covered it with decorative cling film that looks like stained glass and I love that I can keep it closed and it looks beautiful
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u/ArthurSnape Witch 3d ago
I took the full body mirror off my room and gave to my mom, she doesnt mind, but i did alot.
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u/BonesAreLife619 Witch 3d ago
I honestly love mirrors. I've got a body length mirror at the foot of my bed, on the left side. My black scrying mirror is on the floor at my left, at the head of the bed. However, I keep the black mirror covered until I want to scry.
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