You can try this trick at home.
I read today about a bride-to-be in the U.K. who took an eerie "spirit photograph" of herself trying on a wedding gown.
The woman was standing with her back to the camera. Facing her were two mirrors, one in front of her, one to her side.
The spirit photo, as captured by an iPhone, showed the following:
The woman in reality (i.e., not reflected by a mirror) stood with one arm hanging by her side and the other across her chest.
But the mirror in front of her showed a slightly different figure.
In that front mirror, the woman's arms were clasped together in front of her chest.
And the mirror to her side showed a still different figure. Neither of the woman's arms was across her chest in this mirror.
Instead, both arms were down by her sides.
It's like three slightly different versions of the woman, all in one room, looking at each other.
Maybe the iPhone captured a living human being and two spirits who looked exactly like each other.
Maybe it was the woman's great-grandmother in the front mirror and that great-grandmother's grandmother in the side mirror, all coming together to convene with the bride-to-be at this crucial moment in her life?
That would be a good spectacle and a demonstration of the occult.
But the trick behind this bizarre photo is more modern and more technical.
As you might know, your phone camera, particularly if you got yourself a fancy iPhone, is not simply capturing "reality" as it exists out there in the world.
Instead, your camera is doing quite a bit of processing, selecting, and splicing to produce a final photo that looks good and makes the most satisfying visual presentation to you as the viewer.
That's what happened with the bride-to-be.
Her poor iPhone got tricked into thinking it was seeing three different persons in one frame.
So, the phone stitched together three slightly different visual moments to represent each person in the final shot.
If these were three different people, this would probably be undetectable.
But since these were mirrored versions of one person, the iPhone's mistake was glaring and unsettling.
This got my interest because I have learned, both by direct experience and by reading up on the matter, that what we see in our mind's eye is not "reality" as it exists out there in the world.
The fact is, our brains work similarly to a modern iPhone camera.
Sure, the underlying "stuff" of our minds is different to the electronics and software in an iPhone, as are the algorithms we use to create the final results.
But like an iPhone, our minds are also sampling from different points in the data stream, filling in the gaps, stitching them together, and even inventing stuff to create a coherent result.
That final result is not 100% "true," or even close to it.
Instead, it's what makes the most satisfying image, story, or interpretation to us as viewers.
You might find that hard to accept. I know I did when I first read about it.
But if you start paying attention, you can catch yourself in the act of conjuring up reality.
Anyway, if you want a storytelling tip for how to take mundane events and turn them into something more fun or exciting, remember the image of the bride-to-be in front of her imperfect doppelgangers across two mirrors.
Remember the three slightly different women in wedding gowns facing each other, remember the explanation for it, and then do something similar when writing your story.
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. When you realise that reality isn't what you think it is and is malleable, you can begin creating your reality.
One way to start is to create and build a blog.
You will need to paste something every day or at least schedule something to post every day.
Finding content ideas can be hard, but by using this simple tool, you can nip that problem in the bud.
https://go.wm-tips.com/riffer,
Of course, nothing stops you from posting any other content you discover, such as a YouTube video you like with some comments around it to explain why you chose that one.
I like to grab the transcript from those videos and paste that on the same page as well.
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