I noticed a strange thing. Does this happen to you?

For example the reflection of a really happy smile is a smile that is strained and is trying to be happy. And when you are trying to fake an emotion, the exct emotion you trying to fake shows on the mirror.

No. The real one looks real, the fake one looks fake.

You can’t determine real or fake apart from the emotion and situation that prompted the smile.

I tried thinking of something happy and then smiled. Even then the reflection looked fake.

Because you weren’t actually happy. You were faking happy.
What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish?

Update us if you discover how to fake sincerity.

^^ Right? I sincerely love you @RedDeerGuy1!

Update: I actually meant if the person looked like he was trying to fake an emotion, not successfully faking it, when I said the mirror reflection would the exact emotion the person was trying to fake. Same happens vice versa. I forgot to mention that @RedDeerGuy1

I can no longer tell the difference.

When I was remembering about the happy things I smiled and took photo. But when I checked the mirror it looked like I was faking trying to be happy. I am curious if it happens with me only and why it happens? @Dutchess_lll

You can get the same effect as the mirror by laterally inversing your photo by editing in phone.

Just because it looks fake or real to you doesn’t mean it looks fake or real to others. You are the only one in your head. Is this Flo?

The photo looked very different from the mirror image is what I am saying. It’s like the emotions are completely changed. I am not Flo

Also when I am remembering and smile the emotions feels real.

It may be because faces are not symmetrical, and when you compare your image in a mirror, you are comparing it to “unreversed” images of people you see directly. You are expecting a certain left/right appearance, but you are seeing a right/left image in the mirror.

Good point, but I wonder how the mirror reflection looks like a person trying to fake the exact emotion you are showing?

No, but sometimes my reflection stays in the mirror for about a minute after I leave.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder so anything is possible depending on who’s beholding and what their frame of mind is.

LOL!

I often feel my real smile comes off as fake. Not sure why. But, my fake smile is obviously fake so….

Is your mirror in fact a Trump?

I mean to say that the fake smile appears to be genuine in the mirror, not in real life. In real life you make a fake smile, but if you look in the mirror the smile passes off as genuine which is strange.

If you put on a genuine smile isn’t that actually a fake smile? Also the smile in the mirror can never be truly genuine as an image in glass has no emotions.

Somewhere, in every major city, somebody will try to sell you a fake Rolex watch.

A fake Rolex is still fake, even if it looks good.
A real Rolex is real, even if it looks just like the fake one.
You could argue that the real Rolex looks fake, because it looks just like a fake one.
And you could argue that the fake one looks real, because it looks just like the real one.

So what’s your point?

And…how do you know “fake” from “real” you guys?

The real one costs thousands, the fake one a few hundred.

Is the fake reasonably priced one shiny and does it tell the time?

If you didn’t know the price, how would you know?

Had a friend who lost his Rolex in a mugging. He refused to own another and bought himself a Mickey Mouse watch. It told him what time it was AND no one ever stole it.

There you go.
So have we done a good job helping the OP come to grips with the dilemma?

Yes / No.