Somehow I came across an interesting story told by an Indian mystic, in which it was stated that the reflection of the face completely disappears if you look at it for 15 minutes without blinking.
I got very curious and decided to give it a try. During the day, nothing happened, they hurt my eyes because of the brightness of the light, even closing the curtain, I realized that daylight was too strong for such experiments. Waiting for twilight, when the natural light became soft and soothing, I went to the mirror and began to stare.
At first nothing happened, various things came to mind and a strong desire arose to move away from the mirror, and under a variety of pretexts. I myself was surprised how hard it was for me to be given such an elementary action, or rather the lack of action. Suddenly, I noticed that my face had changed, another person stood in front of me and looked at me, everything sank in my stomach and my body was covered with goose bumps, your mother, I closed my eyes tightly and abruptly opened. The other disappeared, and my usual face was in front of me again.
What is it? Hallucination? But so realistic. “Maybe, well, this is watching?” - every now and then a thought loomed. No, now I have to figure out what's going on here. I started looking again. How tense the muscles of the face are, why I didn’t notice it before: I relax my forehead (this is why wrinkles, usual overexertion, squeezed muscles prevent blood from flowing and renewing), cheekbones, eyes, mouth, my look becomes voluminous as if to nowhere. I catch myself thinking that I am very comfortable.
The familiar face, which I considered my own five minutes ago, is constantly changing: I see now a little boy, after a second some animal, like a bear, a wolf, a ram, an elk, a pig, a cat. My cheekbones disappear, I move somewhere, the floor falls, I am small, not huge, the room has disappeared from behind, only hair is left in the void. Am I hair? Am I cheekbones? Am I a ram? Not that! I feel anxiety rising, I have lost my image, I try to remember, but I seem to be in a stream and now I feel uneasy. What if it's forever? What's happening? It's hard to keep quiet, but it's so interesting what will happen next. Stand, just stand.
Suddenly I saw an empty mirror, who then looks, nothing happens, where did the thoughts go, why is it so quiet? This was the last question, now the emptiness looked at itself. I strained my eyes, my face immediately appeared, my dear, dear, beloved.
I looked at my watch, exactly forty minutes had passed. But it seemed to me that fifteen minutes, while so many things flashed before my eyes. It was as if I had cleansed myself of many, disagreements.
Has it ever happened to you that you found something new in the ordinary and familiar? This familiar mirror, in which I looked for so many years, opened something for me that did not fit in my head and gave rise to more questions than answers. One had only to stop and look a little longer.
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