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Don’t Sleep Facing the Mirror



Estimated reading time — 4 minutes

I had just come home from a tiring day. I had to stay in school until eight because I had failed a Math test and had to go for extra lessons. I was so freaking tired. Mom and Dad were overseas for a little vacation for a few days so I was all alone at home.

I was brushing my teeth while looking at myself in the mirror. It was a beautiful circular mirror with intricate designs on the glass. Mom bought it for a hundred bucks at an auction. It had been in our house for a few years. I remembered how as a little kid Mom would tell me an old Chinese superstition. “You must never sleep facing a mirror,” she warned me, “or your soul will go into the mirror and live in it.” A part of me dismissed her words as a chunk of nonsense, but another part of me believed her and hence there were no mirrors in my bedroom.

I proceeded to bend down and rinse my mouth.

What I saw when I looked up again had me shell shocked for the rest of my life.

My face in the mirror wasn’t my face in the mirror. It was the face of a girl with BIG, really, really BIG, white eyes and long black hair. And her lips were redder than the reddest of lips. Blood was dripping down her chin and onto her white dress. Her white eyes had that gloomy look about them. It was almost as if she looked really sad. I wanted to reach out to touch her, to tell her everything was okay. That nothing was going to go wrong. I felt like I was partially hypnotized.

Theklights in the bathroom went off. That snapped me out of my little trance. I jumped, taken aback.

Suddenly, the girl in the mirror said in a high-pitched, girly, sinister voice, “I need to esssssssssscape… Out of thissssssss mirror… Help meeeeee…”

I tried to move a step back but to no avail. I tried to move the rest of my body but couldn’t. I made an attempt to scream, but nothing came out of my mouth. I could only watch the girl/half-snake move three inches closer towards me in the mirror. At any moment now, she would probably get out of the mirror like how the long-haired girl from that horror movie got out of the television and kill me.

No. No. That was not going to happen. Mentally teetering on the verge of panic, I struggled even ha2der than before. I tried to turn around and run. Still, nothing happened. The girl continued to inch closer towards me in the mirror. Shit. Any moment now…

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But she didn’t.

“Sssssleeeeeeeeeep fasssssssing thissssssss mirror toniiiiiiiight. And yooooooou will not ssssssssuffer.”

And she vanished.

In her place was me. Me, sweating like I had just run a forty-kilometer marathon, with eyes wide like saucers, but still me.

I tried to move my arms and it worked! It worked! I could move my legs, my head, my knees, my whole entire fucking body! I had never been so relieved. But that relief was soon replaced by what the girl, or snake, or whatever, had told me just now.

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No. I wasn’t going to sleep facing the mirror tonight. No way. I would rather go to school naked than sleep facing a mirror. I would rather eat shit than sleep facing a fucking mirror. All of that, the girl, the mirror, whatever, was probably a nightmare I had. I looked into the mirror again. Seeing my own reflection, I was fully convinced that it was all nothing and rinsed my mouth, changed into my PJs and went to bed.

That was probably the best decision I had ever made in my whole entire fucking life.

I woke up the next day to find out I wasn’t on my bed. It didn’t take me long to find out that I was in a hospital. Bandages were all over my body. Some were even covering the bottom half of my face. Suddenly, the memory of the terrifying nightmare I had during the previous night came flooding back into my head. And I began to wonder what happened after that. Why did I even end up in the hospital?

I tried to call out for a nurse but all that came out of my mouth was a noise which sounded like a chicken was being strangled. A nurse appeared beside me. “Oh, you’ve woken up!” she said in a cheery voice. “I’m sorry but part of your house was burned down last night. The firemen rescued you just in time. Your mom and dad have booked flight tickets back here. You could’ve died back there, you know?

“The police thought that everything else in that part of your house was gone in the fire, but they were wrong. They managed to find a circular mirror which wasn’t even burnt in your bathroom. Just about everything else in that part of your house was either badly burnt or gone.”

My eyes widened.

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The nurse chuckled. “I know, right? I guess the mirror is a magical one. Ha ha! Anyway, your mom and dad decided they didn’t want it anymore because it seemed like the mirror had been giving them bad luck ever since they bought it. According to what I had heard yesterday, they wanted to get rid of it but were really busy so they kept forgetting about it until the fire happened. When they found out that the mirror was the only thing in that part of your house that wasn’t either badly burnt or reduced to ashes, they were so shocked that they decided to sell it to a friend who was interested in mirrors.” She shrugged. “You okay?”

I nodded.

“Good. I’m going to attend to the other patients. If you need anything, call me, okay?” she smiled and walked away.

So, there you go – a Creepypasta with a nice ending.

Just don’t ever go to sleep facing a mirror or else.

Credit To: iloveitpink

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80 thoughts on “Don’t Sleep Facing the Mirror”

  1. you commented on a pasta to get all serious about furniture placement? not sure that actually has anything to do with the pasta, but everyone has different tastes…

  2. What if he accidentally fell asleep front of the mirror, and is now living his mirrored life? It said in the Pasta that he was pretty tired, so.

  3. I read a lot of the comments others made. it seems like they didn’t care for the story. It wasn’t the best pasta on the site, but I applaud your effort. if others want to bash you, screw them. I liked the story. plus,I sleep facing a giant mirror every night which actually scares me. good luck, and keep writing!

  4. Why do they run?

    Also is it bad that when he said “BIG, really, really BIG,” I swore then next words he would type would be about her chest.Guess even during a scary story about a demonic girl trapped in the mirror my mind went strait to the gutter. Made it way less scary for me.lmfao

  5. Why do they run?

    I sleep facing a mirror every night. As matter of fact my head board is a mirror. On that same note a simple solution to all of these huanted mirror stories is to just hold another mirror up to the first one to create an infinate mirror effect from which the thing your so afriad of can’t possibly escape.

  6. Shadowrealmbeast

    I found a major grammar issue. You spelled harder ha2der

    iloveitpink:
    I’m so sorry this sucked :_: I read it after I had submitted it and nearly cried because it sounded so stupid and didn’t ever want to read it again D:
    @Anonymous Yes TT_TT
    @Des. & @blah I’m sorry :(
    @Bobbie Flay I’m sorry TT_TT I couldn’t think of anything else at that time…
    And to everyone else, I’m really sorry I couldn’t make you happy D:
    I promise I’ll do better next time! :D

  7. There was far too much cussing and way too many grammatical mistakes. If it had a little less cussing (especially since “fucking” was overused) and less typos then it would’ve been better. ended to abruptly and didn’t seem to make sense at the end. Could’ve been better, but I’d give it 2/10.

  8. the same thing happened to my cousin he did the same thing and he walked around his house for two hours and passed out above the stairs and was in a coma for two months.

  9. I think I know who she is… Bloody Mary… She was a witch. Her spirit is trapped in the mirror after her attempt to perform a curse on a person who killed her baby.

  10. HORY SHAT, this is my first time reading this pasta but I read the title in the browse randoms list long ago and since then I had a nightmare where three girls like that were standing in my bathroom but two shorter ones had porceline (you know doll faces) faces and told me they were there to observe, what does this mean? BTW I used to sleep faceing a mirror and thats when these happoned, conection or paranoia?

  11. I thought it was okay, but the good ending kinda ruined it for me. I would have liked it a lot better if it had a creepy ending

  12. And why was not sleeping facing the mirror the best idea ever? I mean, the house burnt down and you were left unable to speak, though perhaps temporarily. I was assuming it’d be followed by their friend sleeping facing it and horrible things happening to it, but apparently not. We’ll never know what’ll happen if you had slept facing the mirror and if it would have been preferable to having your house burn down and becoming seriously injured from the fire.

  13. Was wondering the same thing about the Nurse. Maybe it was Bond… James bond

    I liked this one. Should have ended with a bit more “creepiness” and not “Creepypasta with a nice ending” :)

    “As the nurse left I rested my head in relief that I had survived the night, I noticed strands of black hair… I was a blonde”

  14. I tried that out as a child, and guess what? I woke up in the middle of the night. I felt hungry. I went downstairs to the fridge. I grabbed a drink, went back to my room and began playing my PSP. After a few minutes I realized, what the hell did I just do? I looked back to the mirror in front of my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night… the next day. Was I dreaming? or was it a dream in a dream?

    I liked your reference of the horror movie "The Ring". The entire story lacks the necessary cheese to make it a good pasta, making it have a simple taste with just sauce and bland pasta.

  15. and i quote from the story ” I struggled even ha2der than before ” What the hell is ha2der? Why didn’t you check that? 2/10, i dont like the mirror theme its over used.

  16. My guess, i know its fake but, my knowing of paranormal the girl in the mirror slept looking at a mirror and that was her soul inside the mirror that talked… she wanted you to sleep facing it because if you did that the girls soul would be pushed out and your soul would take her place in the mirror…

    good story :D

  17. That story was super balls. It felt like a second grader wrote the plot! And the so called “climax” nearly put me to sleep. 1/10 only because I can’t vote any lower.

  18. BUT WHO WAS USERNAME???

    A typical, but quite scary. I enjoyed this one and I know someone who will peed her pants by reading this pasta.

  19. Hmm, I agree. Pretty good writing, but definitely been done before. Also we should have found out a bit more about what would have happened, perhaps it should have been written about a friend who had slept facing a mirror and just escaped. But still, you should continue writing.

  20. iloveitpink you don’t need to apologize it wasn’t bad I just think the mirror idea has been done that doesn’t mean its bad keep writing and your skills will improve

  21. It wasn’t THAT bad! I actually enjoyed it! Sure it had been done before, but then again, what hasn’t? Don’t be so hard on yourself! :D

    1. I say that it is significantly easier to read a creepypasta than to write one. So good job iloveitpink. At least you tried, right. :)

  22. I’m so sorry this sucked :_: I read it after I had submitted it and nearly cried because it sounded so stupid and didn’t ever want to read it again D:
    @Anonymous Yes TT_TT
    @Des. & @blah I’m sorry :(
    @Bobbie Flay I’m sorry TT_TT I couldn’t think of anything else at that time…
    And to everyone else, I’m really sorry I couldn’t make you happy D:
    I promise I’ll do better next time! :D

      1. I agree with @Anonymous (the one above me.) Not bad at all and implies that the person in the mirror could have set the fire or saved the girl from the fire. A few grammatical and spelling errors but all in all a good story. 7/10

    1. Bringer_of_tacos

      awww don’tcha worry, I liked reading a pasta with a happy ending, if we can call the dude/dudette being burned like a crisp….. we are definitely losing our shit on this site…. but I liked your nurse characters sarcasm ↖(^ω^)↗

  23. I’m sorry but if anyone considered this an acceptable standard of writing they need their head examined.

  24. You want a username? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE USERNAME!

    ^^ Nice not to feel scared after a creepypasta once. Well *cough* WATCHERS *cough cough*

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