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Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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Nate Bastian answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Good question. Yes, I think you would, since we see ourselves in mirrors all the time. However, if you got to see yourself from their perspective, you would probably look very different from the view that you have of yourself.
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Natasha Stephen answered on 23 Jun 2014:
I am not so sure that you would. We all hope that we understand how others perceive us but I don’t think that we get it right all of the time. Maybe you’d think you recognise yourself from somewhere but just can’t place where, because you’d be so familiar but it would still be so alien seeing yourself that way?
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Sam Connolly answered on 23 Jun 2014:
I think it’s very likely that you would. People’s eyes all work in the same way, so the way you would appear through someone else’s eyes would at least be very similar. One possible difference is the way that your brain interprets colours and therefore how you ‘see’ them. There’s no way to, for example, if you see what I call blue as what you call green. Because you call what I see as green blue, and because there’s no way to describe a colour except using names of other colours, there’s no way of telling! So the only difference might be that colours are all mixed up! I think you’d still manage to recognise yourself though 🙂
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Sarah Casewell answered on 23 Jun 2014:
I think you would but you’d look slightly different. In the Bradford museum of film they have mirrors that show you what other people see when they look at us. We’re used to seeing ourselves in a mirror which reverses our features.
When I looked in the mirror in Bradford, I recognised me, but couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t quite right – it was really odd! -
Roberto Trotta answered on 24 Jun 2014:
I suppose you would – except if you were looking through an alien’s eye, in which case who knows what you would do (probably run away as fast as you can!)
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