What you need to do when your "mirrored self" represents a major degradation from your inwardly imagined self.

It's like those movies where a young person and an old person change bodies. Imagine you wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see a 70-year-old 'you' looking back. How would you feel?

An idea of who one is becomes shaped from the act of looking into a mirror, building connection between the consciousness looking inward and the person looked at. If one is spellbound by the image ...