Wei Ming: Eh, why did you move your mirror?
Arjun: Because it was facing my bed. I put it on the side wall.
Wei Ming: Good. Very good.
Arjun: Why are you saying that like I just prevented a national disaster?
Wei Ming: You laughed when I told you last time. Mirror facing the bed is not good, lah.
Arjun: I remember. You said it could attract a third party into my relationship.
Wei Ming: And restless spirits.
Arjun: Right. Apparently my mirror has a better social life than I do.
Wei Ming: Don’t joke. My auntie warned me about this since I was young. She said never put a mirror directly opposite the bed. At night, you might see something you shouldn’t.
Arjun: You mean yourself?
Wei Ming: Very funny.
Arjun: Look, I understand why people believe it. Mirrors can feel creepy at night. But there’s no evidence that a mirror can attract another person into a relationship or summon spirits.
Wei Ming: You always say “no evidence.” Not everything can be measured in a laboratory.
Arjun: True. But if someone claims that mirrors cause a specific event, the burden is on the claim to show evidence.
Wei Ming: My cousin’s relationship ended after she put a big mirror opposite her bed.
Arjun: When did they break up?
Wei Ming: About six months later.
Arjun: And how long had they been having problems?
Wei Ming: Well… they argued quite often.
Arjun: Then the mirror probably wasn’t the strongest suspect.
Wei Ming: You don’t know that.
Arjun: Fair. But think about it. Millions of people have mirrors facing their beds. Most of them don’t suddenly get cheated on.
Wei Ming: Maybe they don’t notice the connection.
Arjun: That’s exactly the problem. If you believe the mirror causes relationship problems, every breakup becomes evidence. But all the couples who have the same mirror arrangement and stay happily together don’t get counted.
Wei Ming: That’s confirmation bias.
Arjun: Look at you! You’ve been listening to me.
Wei Ming: Don’t get excited.
Arjun: Remember my old apartment in Tampines? My wardrobe had a full-length mirror directly opposite the bed.
Wei Ming: Yes.
Arjun: I lived there for three years. No third party appeared.
Wei Ming: Maybe the mirror was facing slightly to the left.
Arjun: Wei Ming!
Wei Ming: I’m just saying.
Arjun: And the “restless spirits” part?
Wei Ming: My grandmother swears she saw a figure in a mirror once.
Arjun: What happened?
Wei Ming: She woke up at around 3 a.m., saw someone standing behind her in the mirror, screamed, and switched on the light.
Arjun: And?
Wei Ming: Nobody was there.
Arjun: Exactly.
Wei Ming: That’s not exactly comforting.
Arjun: It actually has a pretty ordinary explanation. When you’re half asleep, your brain can misinterpret shadows, reflections, clothes hanging on a chair, even your own reflection. Sleep-related hallucinations can feel extremely real.
Wei Ming: So you’re saying my grandmother imagined it?
Arjun: I’m saying her experience was real to her. I’m not saying she was lying. The explanation doesn’t have to involve a spirit.
Wei Ming: Hmm.
Arjun: Also, mirrors can genuinely disturb sleep. If headlights from the road reflect into your room, or you wake up and catch movement in the mirror, your brain gets stimulated. That’s a practical reason not to have one facing your bed.
Wei Ming: So you’re basically agreeing with the superstition.
Arjun: Not quite. I’m saying the mirror might affect your sleep because of light, reflections, or psychological discomfort. That’s very different from saying it attracts spirits or cheating partners.
Wei Ming: But if moving the mirror makes you feel safer, why not just do it?
Arjun: I’m completely fine with that. If the belief makes you uncomfortable, move the mirror. There’s no prize for sleeping opposite a mirror.
Wei Ming: Finally, some common sense.
Arjun: But don’t tell yourself that you’ve prevented a ghost or saved your relationship.
Wei Ming: Why not?
Arjun: Because then you start giving the mirror power it doesn’t have.
Wei Ming: Suppose I move the mirror and my relationship improves?
Arjun: Great. But check whether you also communicated better, spent more time together, stopped fighting about money, or finally took that holiday you kept postponing.
Wei Ming: So you think relationships are basically statistics.
Arjun: No. They’re complicated. That’s why blaming one object is usually too simple.
Wei Ming: You know what? I’m still not putting a mirror facing my bed.
Arjun: That’s fine.
Wei Ming: And I’m not sleeping in your apartment either.
Arjun: Why?
Wei Ming: Your mirror might be facing the corridor.
Arjun: The corridor?
Wei Ming: Spirits need alternative routes, what.
Arjun: You just invented that.
Wei Ming: Maybe. But you can’t prove they don’t.
Arjun: That’s not how evidence works.
Wei Ming: Good night, scientist.
Arjun: Good night, ghost hunter.
Wei Ming: And turn off the mirror before you sleep.
Arjun: It’s a mirror, Wei Ming. It doesn’t have an off switch.
Wei Ming: Exactly why I’m worried.
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