These interactions can reveal how in tune or at odds you are with your own perceptions of self. Imagine dreaming of looking into a mirror and not recognizing the reflection. It can be quite jarring!

Self-recognition in mirrors is rare among animals. Until now, only people, apes, and debatably dolphins have demonstrated this ability. Most animals ignore their own reflections or, in the cases ...

Look at you.” How’d they do it? By sewing shattered mirrors and reflective embellishments onto everything, forcing a literal self-reflection that’s shiny and pretty, and also, pretty unsettling.

We humans look in the mirror and take in our reflections. We adjust our clothes and wipe crumbs off our faces because we realize that the person staring back at us is our own self. Since the 1970s, ...

They're able to recognise the faces of their parents, but they can't recognise their own reflection ... in the mirror? A lot of babies won't develop a proper sense of self-awareness until around ...

Themselves or the mirror image? You often find that toddlers don't develop self-awareness until around 2 years old. At this point, they come to understand that the reflection in the mirror is them ...