Mirrors + Lucid Dreaming = Scary Stuff (Potentially?)

I tried this lastnight! I'm still fairly new to lucid dreaming so the quality wasn't the best. I was reading this thread just before going to sleep last night and became lucid in a big public bathroom. Unfortunately the mirror was placed about a foot above my head so I couldn't see my face, but when I stuck my hands in the air to see their reflection it looked like someone on the other side just grabbed two plastic mannequin arms and started waving them about. I could even see a seam where the two halves of the arm were joined together! They moved from side to side with my "real" arms but that's about it. I would have stood on a basin to check out my face but I got distracted too easily.

My reflection in non lucid dreams is almost always terrifying. Just realized it would probably be a good RC for me lol.

I've only seen a mirror once in a lucid dream and I looked pretty scary, but I think it was because of the dream I was having. At the time I was having recurring nightmares of being trapped in houses I couldn't get out of and during one I became lucid while I was in a bathroom. It was almost completely dark but I could see that all of the walls were mirrors and my face looked ghoulish and terrifying. I decided to try to fly out of the bathroom -- the first time I got to try flying in a LD! The room went up for several floors so I got to watch my contorted body floating upward in the mirrors.

I'm interested to try looking at a mirror when I'm not trying to get out of a nightmare.

I've only looked at myself a few times in mirrors and only gone into one once.
When I entered it I pushed my hand through and it was like pushing through a skin, it stretched and then popped through.
Once I climbed in it was just an exact mirror image of my bathroom which strangely enough was still pretty cool!
Other times I've looked like a Chinese Man, a Girl, an older Me, and Me with really long hair and a big beard.

The only thing that happens when I look in a mirror is that I get aroused.

I've tried shrooms once about a year ago and looked in the mirror as well because I was told it is scary, it wasn't. The clouds looked nice though... like a 3D projection.

Inspired by this thread, I decided to look in the mirror in my DILD this morning. This is what I wrote:

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I saw a mirror on the wall and wiped the steam away from it with my sleeve. Then I saw my own face. My face was narrowed in the middle, like when you look in a mirror made out of two or more mirrors and you align your nose with the space between the mirrors. So I had two regular eyes, set a bit closer than usual, and then a larger eye where the nose would normally be. My mouth wore a friendly smile, and it had my lips but different teeth. The front teeth were prominent. Fascinated, I looked at my face, saying to my daughter, "Look, I'm a cyclops!" (which is inaccurate, having three eyes, but I guess the big one in the middle took the attention away from the other two), and she thought it was great.

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Bear in mind that I wrote this after having read this thread, so with the expectation that something scary might happen... but it didn't. I always see something unusual, but never scary.