As I was leaving a restaurant today, where I had just eaten a very nice lunch, I happened to glance in the mirror. Or at least I thought it was a mirror.<\/p>\n
Turns out it was another section of the restaurand that just looked a lot like the one I was currently in. A perfectly understandable error.<\/p>\n
Yet that brief moment of confusion, before the situation becams clear, was interesting. For in that moment all sorts of thoughts passed through my head.<\/p>\n
My first thought was “Wow, I don’t have a reflection.”<\/p>\n
My next thought after that was “Maybe I have somehow become a vampire.”<\/p>\n
Then I tried to think back to the night before, for a memory of who might have bit me. After all, reason dictates that such a change would require at least a few hours to take effect.<\/p>\n
Then I found myself feeling thankful that I was about to walk out into a cloudy, overcast day. Direct sunlight could be very problematic.<\/p>\n
This all happened in about one second. In the next second, it finally dawned on me that I had been positing some very low probability events.<\/p>\n
Which is when, tracing backward through my earlier logic, I concluded that the mirror couldn’t have been a mirror at all. And the realization finally hit me that I had been looking into another room.<\/p>\n
As you might imagine, I was very relieved by this news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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