Mirror Neurons and Premotor cortex leakage

The mirror is one of the strangest and most magical of human inventions. We look out at the external world, and see ourselves staring back. Mirrors are so ubiquitous that – for most people it is difficult to imagine a house without several – one in the bathroom, one in the bedroom, maybe others dotted round various rooms. We wash ourselves and shave and brush our teeth under our own gaze. At one time I was so taken at how much the mirror image of myself seemed to dominate my sense of self and identity that I totally stopped using mirrors for a couple of years. It took several months to drop into a more body-centred sense of who I was. Little by little, the quasivisual externalised image faded and the physically experienced embodied sense of self strengthened.