When one looks into a mirror, one see an image of himself....

When raising one's right hand, the image raises its left. When raising one's left, the image raises its right.

So, why is it that the mirror reverses left and right, but not top and bottom? Why does a mirror appear to invert the left-right directions, but not up-down?

imagine that the reflected image was a person standing in fromt of you, he'd be rotated 180 degrees--- so the mirror doesnt switch the imagine side to side it merely switches it back to front so if you raise you rigth hand it switches the image back to front and you see it as it being on the oposite side of your body

Posted by chuck on 2004-02-07 12:30:06