Indeed, why not sleep in front of the mirror? And yet, why not put a mirror in front of the bed? Consider these issues from different angles.
Psychologists answer the question “Why can’t you sleep opposite the mirror?” In humans, as in animals, there is lateral vision, it is necessary first of all to warn of danger. Instincts respond to information transmitted by lateral vision, bypassing consciousness. Seeing the movement with lateral vision, animals react instantly: run away or attack. (For this reason, horses often kick a sharply approached person).
But for people it’s a little more complicated, for us, consciousness dominates instincts and the subconscious. You may not be aware of the cause of anxiety, nervousness and depression, but the fact is that with lateral vision you constantly see movement in the mirror. Moreover, the subconscious mind does not “understand” that this is your own reflection, it simply gives an alarm. At night, consciousness loses control of the subconscious and its signals become more audible. When you are half asleep seeing your reflection (a person wakes up at night many times, but does not always remember this), then you will inevitably be frightened, “shaking” nerves. After all, the subconscious mind does not perceive that the person in the mirror is you yourself. For the same reason, you should not hang a mirror where you are constantly, and especially where you eat. Ideally, the mirror should be placed in such a place to come up, take a look and no longer “flicker” in front of it.
In ancient times, it was believed that in a dream the soul leaves the body, can fall into the looking glass and not find the way back. Therefore, our ancestors strictly abided by the ban and did not go to bed opposite the mirror. A lot of everything mystical and inexplicable is connected with mirrors (recall at least Kozyrev’s famous experiments). Mystics believe that mirrors are gates to another world, through the looking glass, or perhaps into the world of spirits. It is not for nothing that mirrors are used in many magical rites, including for invoking various entities. In addition, everyone knows the custom: after the death of a person, all the mirrors in the house were always curtained for forty days.
Mirrors also have the ability to remember everything that happened before them; for this reason, you can’t buy used mirrors (even antique ones), and if some bad event is reflected in your mirror, it is better to remove it from home. It is undesirable to look in the mirror if you are sick or in a bad mood, it can then return all this negativity to you . (It is extremely undesirable to look pregnant for a long time in the mirror.) You cannot scold yourself in front of the mirror (for example, express dissatisfaction with your figure), but if you find and praise your virtues, it will be very useful. In general, you need to make sure that nothing bad is reflected in the mirrors.
A lot of unsolved and unexplored is also connected with sleep. It is not known where dreams come from and how the brain works during sleep. There are opinions that a dream is like rebooting a system (like a computer). But one thing is clear: in a dream we are more vulnerable. So why take the risk? This is the most accurate answer to the question asked at the beginning - “Why can’t you sleep in front of the mirror?”
In Feng Shui doctrine, it is believed that mirrors hung in the wrong place disorient the life energy, “favorable qi,” and interfere with its proper circulation. Feng Shui masters mainly use mirrors to neutralize negative influences and their reflection. For example, a mirror is placed on the bathroom door (outside) because, according to Feng Shui philosophy, the energy of luck flows into the bathroom. The mirror on the door will not allow this. There is in the arsenal of Feng Shui and a real magic mirror. The octagonal mirror of Ba-Gua can multiply everything that is reflected in it.
However, if you are a little Narcissus, and you like to constantly admire your reflection in the mirror, you may not pay attention to this warning. For you, the question “Why can’t you sleep opposite the mirror?” Is not relevant.