I watched a video in which a psychiatrist discussed a form of hallucination known as “negative autoscopy,” where the patient is unable to see their own reflection in the mirror. Has this happened to anyone?
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If anyone wants the full video, here is the link: Disorders of Perception | Different Types of Hallucinations
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Leading up to my first hospitalisation, I could not recognise myself in the mirror.
I knew, logically, I was looking at me.
But something in my brain made me unable to recognise it was really my face and not that of a stranger or an impostor.
I keep looking for me but all I see is some sad old man looking at me.
This happens to me sometimes. There was only once that I was convinced the mirror wasn’t a mirror or that I was invisible or something. But there have been several times that I’ve walked past a reflective window and been convinced the reflection was of someone that wasn’t me.
No, i mean, no, i mean no, i mean yes. 
All joking aside though, maybe this is where the myth of vampires comes from. Maybe it was just a very psychiatricly ill man held up in his castle, trying to cure his anemia by drinking blood.
When i look in the mirror depends how i feel. Sometimes i look nice, evil, good, scary. Its seems always to be a little adventure to see my mirror.
Thank you all for your reactions so far.
It seems from the poll that this is a pretty rare type of hallucination.
I only recently learned about negative hallucinations where people CAN’T see people or things that ARE actually there. Very, very weird.
About 3 years ago, I sincerely believed that another person, living in my body, started talking to me in the mirror. I saw her instead of me although we looked alike. I really liked her and believed she loved me. Since then, I have often wondered if other people had an experience where someone else living inside their body started talking to them in the mirror, if they would be terrified, happy or in-between. I trusted her immediately.
I see other people in the mirror, like my voice,it’s a little weird seeing a man looking at me but he’s very peaceful looking, or I look at the mirror and the person looking back at me is real but it’s not me cause there facial expressions are completely different,
Whenever I’m going through disassociation, and I look in the mirror, I think “Who the hell am I looking at?”. I think it’s more of an existential thing, than a hallucination
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