Diary
Ghosts between reality and illusion (1) An old woman in the mirror.. Try it.. Ahmed Seif Hashed
My memoirs.. from the details of my life
Tenth series
Ghosts between reality and illusion
Ahmed Seif Hashed
(1)
An old woman in the mirror Try it
As soon as I was about five or six years old, my mother used to warn me, and even suppress me sometimes to prevent me from staying too long in front of the mirror. It may seem to me a world in its own right; The world of the mirror raises wonder and questions!! And I want to discover my worlds through this mirror that has become within my reach?!
How does my face look in front of people?!! I want the mirror to tell this clearly and in the smallest details.. Now there is no one in my presence but the mirror, and my solitude that surrounds me from every direction.. I must seize this opportunity, and not waste a moment of it.. Curiosity is the passion for knowledge, and prevention gives knowledge value. And awe, and an urge to urge him towards more discovery and knowledge.
Today, when I am approaching sixty, I am trying to explain a facet of my childhood, which was between five and six years or so.. Between this age and that age, there are worlds, events, and details that I feel are too many for a galaxy to fit in.. And between childhood and old age that I slowly approach, a dense extent I cut it like a distance from a nebula to a dense existence, and if I look today in the face of what is heading towards old age and fading, I hope that holding the conclusion will be experience, experience and wisdom..
I was staring at my face in the mirror.. I wanted to memorize the details of my face, in a way that I could see it any time I wanted, and in whatever state and form I was in.. I wanted to look long and deep to see something that I could only see in the mirror, and I wished On that day, the mirror was created by the Lord of creation, a third eye somewhere in our bodies, through which we could at any time see our faces and the whole body with ease and ease.
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When I found solitude and emptiness and enough time to satisfy my desire and curiosity, something strange happened to me that I still remember today.. I was in the upper room of our old house, which today is far and deserted from me.. The room was covered by more than two thirds, and the rest without a roof.. That room we call it The “Barada” was reclining in one of the corners of the house, in its exposed half.. This room appears sociable, and gives some sense of comfort, more than any other place in the house.
I remember that that mirror was the size of my face, or a little larger than its size.. It was rectangular in shape in an elegant frame.. It seemed to me that being alone with the mirror would be fun and happy.. There was no one else with me in the room with me. The mirror is a world in its own right, and much has been said about it from the era of myth and legend to the era of modernity and beyond, and what we still do not know is much more than what we know.
I do not remember exactly where my mother and aunt were and the residents of the house.. It was a heedlessness that was like a temptation.. Most likely they were busy in other places in the house or outside it.. I certainly took advantage of my family’s negligence and isolated myself with the mirror.. I want, among what I want, to enjoy my solitude and the mirror. Which I have the most time possible and available..
I was watching my image in the mirror, imitating the movements of the faces.. I frowned, pretending to laugh, cry and anger.. I clenched my lips and stretched them.. I thickened them and hid half of them.. I frowned and relaxed, and I was amazed!! I put my tongue forward as an envious provocateur, and turn it in every direction.. I curl my eyebrows and knot my lips to the right and to the left.. I open my mouth and close it.. I squint and narrow the eyes, and stare at them in every direction.. I mess around with myself more than a clown.. I try to find out details. My face is a desire for knowledge, not narcissism.. I wink, I stare, I squint, I stare, and I focus my eyes.. If someone saw me or stood on what I was doing, I would explode with laughter, and I would explode with laughter on the floor of the house I was staying in..
Suddenly and without introduction, I was shocked by what I saw in the mirror.. My face seemed to have been hijacked and replaced with another face.. The one in the mirror was no longer my face that I saw.. I saw a face other than my own filling the mirror’s face.. a face similar to the face of “niema” who used to live in a house Modest under the “tenant” house, and some madness was attributed to her. Rather, it is a very ugly face of an old man, with deep and many wrinkles, like a complex topographic map of terrain and steep slopes..
A face that cast terror and earthquake in me, and its details engraved in my memory to this day.. I cannot forget it as long as I live.. A face lined with deep and crowded wrinkles and more and more intense than the mountain terraces crowded with slopes and grooves. A moment you see it..
I almost screamed.. I threw the mirror from my hands with a frightened speed.. I went out of the room terrified to the exposed and adjacent roof.. I went out next to the “west” of the distilled water.. Tar protects us and prevents us from jinn, magic and touch..
My heart almost jumped out of my rib cage.. I was in such a state of panic that I almost lost my mind.. I remembered after watching my mother’s warnings, who was advising me not to watch my picture in the mirror for long.
But where did my mom get this advice..?! She may have heard similar things happen to me; It’s as if she once told me about a girl who happened to be like this that happened to me and I didn’t care.. I was lucky, while the girl, as I was told, was out of her mind.. Perhaps her advice came on such a building or hearing..
When I grew up, I found that such a warning is common and known to many peoples from a long time ago.. It was a shocking experience for me, and the least I can say about it is that it was “a terrifying and frightening experience.”
There are many legends and myths about the mirror, including those who talk about the terrifying woman who drags her victims inside the mirror to stay in it forever.. and others talk about a person’s vision of his companion, and a third speaks that the mirror is a gateway that extends to another world through which terrifying supernatural beings pass through, and some of them believe that mirrors It is haunted by ghosts and the spirits of the dead, and some claim that it leads to the jinn’s love and affection for humans, and those who say that it leads to touch and disease..
My mother told me that what I saw in the mirror was a fairy, and I almost went crazy from what happened, and it was madness for sure if I watched for a while.. and after days of estrangement with the mirror, out of curiosity and ascertainment whether I could see my image in the mirror again or the estrangement would be with mirror forever.
I went back to see my picture in the presence of my mother, and I was sneaking a peek in the mirror with great caution, to see the features of my picture in it, and I found that it was actually my picture, not the picture of the old man, I was assured that I was fine, and that the world and I were still in peace and harmony..
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Some believe that the mirror can answer some questions..for example, reveal the location of the person we are looking for, or his fate is unknown..!! I read in a commentary from a person who studied in the Soviet Union that such a custom was found in a rural area in Russia.. If someone is absent and his fate is not known, he goes up at night to the roof of the house, and puts the mirror in front of the person who is searching, with two candles or a dim light on either side. After the examination is completed, the person in the vicinity must pat this person until he regains consciousness or becomes mad..
In another comment, Limni read that as soon as he was 12 years old, his sister was searching for the fate of her soldier husband, who was cut off from news during the war of the summer of 1994.. She was searching for hope to hold on to, no matter how weak or frail it was.. She knocked on the door of one of the sheikhs or charlatans.. Bring the latter. He saw it and her brother gave her the child, who spoke about this after many years by saying:
The Sheikh made me focus on the pupil of the eye, and asked me to see where my sister’s husband was.. A time passed and I didn’t see anything at first.. The Sheikh was telling me what you see, and I was seeing the reflection of the image behind me, meaning I see him and the light.. Then I focused more and saw him in a place And I described the place to them, and after my sister-in-law who was a captive came out, he said that he was in the same place that I described, and to be honest I saw people, but in ancient Roman uniforms..I mean soldiers wearing the helmet that the Romans wore..
There are other sayings I have heard on various occasions that are in line with or close to these allegations.. For example: When you want to look for a thief who stole you..they bring a small child between 6-12 years old and make him look and stare at the water that is in a small bowl, which is on It looks like a mirror.
And all of this remains just hearsay that has no basis in science, as long as it has not been researched, and science has not said its word in it, although some are trying to find some connection to it by talking about the supernatural and undiscovered abilities of consciousness, or by hypnosis, or other sayings that need To a document, research, and evidence.
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trying to explain or make sense of my traumatic moment or awful experience; I read that Giovanni Caputo, an Italian researcher in optics from the University of Urbino in Italy, conducted a study in 2010, and conducted an experiment in which fifty volunteers participated. They were asked to focus their eyes on a mirror placed in a dimly lit room for ten minutes, and wrote the results in a paper Titled “A strange face in the mirror”.
The result revealed that a large percentage of the volunteers saw changes and distortions in their faces in the mirror, followed by those who saw the faces of strangers or deceased relatives, and followed by a few who saw animals such as cats and pigs.
The most important results of the research or the study’s conclusions are that what happened was due to the brain’s failure to analyze the data transmitted by the eye?! Functional shortening of the brain due to its focus on a part of the image and its neglect of the rest of the image, which led to the fading of the edges of the face or its indentation and fading?! A mental disorder that gave incorrect signals to the sight..
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This science may still be in its infancy, and it needs a lot of scientific research.. The possibilities and hypotheses are many, perhaps ranging from illusion, optical hallucinations, mind shadowing, deception on the brain, or error by the brain in analyzing what is transmitted by the senses, revelations, imagination stores, and factors Psychological and emotional, external influences, brain and nervous imbalances..
The secrets that the awareness and the so-called subconscious hold are still many, many of which are unknown, or science has not yet confirmed them. Rather, most of the abilities of consciousness are still beyond knowledge to this day.. Science still has not revealed many of the mysteries of the brain, and has probed many of its corridors, its depths, and its capabilities.
The inability to explain what is mysterious should not make us fall prey to superstition, and science’s attempts to search and reveal are closer to the truth than relying on helplessness and superstition.
Preserving the unseen is a cognitive deficit before anything else, and what science is unable to achieve today will inevitably be realized tomorrow after an era or a period of time.. The future is long-lived and does not end with a thousand or two thousand years.. And science wins every day… and if science fails once, it bounces back until it wins.
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