I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror the other day and liked my hair. Now before you go thinking I was all vain and stuff, those of you acquainted with me long-term know I generally get my hair cut once, maybe twice, a year. During that time there are 4 or 5 points (lengths really) that I usually say to myself, “Hmmmmm, I like that look, I should remember it.” So since it was one of those moments and I had my cellphone in hand, I thought Why not a selfie for posterity and to show my stylist next time I get a cut. Simple right?

So here’s the deal. It turns out that the fact that your eyes only point one direction and maintain a constant relationship with your mirror self means that your everyday ‘self-view’ as seen in the mirror isn’t at all related to how you actually look. How do I know this? Because I took like 30 pictures from a million angles and none of them look like me. None. They are all pictures of some other guy with bad hair. In the end I could only assume that the only way the picture would turn out the way it actually was (i.e. the way I saw it), was if I held the camera right in front of my face, lining up the lens exactly with my eyes and using the obviously correct pov. So I did. Life is weird.

I don’t look like this

This is what I look like