In The Mirror
Normally you sleep soundly, but the thunderstorm raging outside is stirring you from your sleep. You begin to doze, then another crash jolts you awake. The cycle lasts most of the night. So you lay there, eyes open and outward, looking at your room stretching out before you in oblong shadows. Your eyes move from nameless object, to object, until you reach your mirror, sitting adjacent to you across the room.
Suddenly a flash of lighting, and the mirror flickers in illumination. For a scant second the mirror revels to you dozens of faces, silhouettes within its frame, mouths open and eyes blackened. They stare out at you, their black pupils fixed upon your face.
Then it is done. Are you sure of what you have seen? Unsettled, you don’t sleep for the rest of the evening. The next morning you remove the mirror from your wall and toss it in the trash. It didn’t matter if the vision you had seen was of truth or falsehood, you wanted to be rid of that mirror. In fact, you scrap every mirror in your house.
Weeks pass and the event of that night falls into passive memory. You are spending the day at a friend’s house and it’s time to use the bathroom. While you are in there the faucet starts to run without you prompting it. Taken aback by this, you do not yet act, trying to reason with your paranoia in your mind. The water starts to steam and a skin of moisture covers the mirror up above. You’re watching intently as words form: “Please return the mirrors. We miss watching you sleep at night.”
Posted in Beings & Entities, Strange & Unknown
October 8th, 2008 at 1:40 am
that was this close to actually being scary. instead we get stalkers asking us politely to put mirrors back up.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:49 am
wtf? do the people in the mirrors wanna kill the dude or do they really like watchin him sleep? kinda unclear
October 8th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Great. As if I wasn’t paranoid of mirrors enough.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:11 am
this is a great one. gave me a good chill.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:04 am
I don’t know what it was, but this one freaked me out.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Damn mirrors.
That’s another sleepless night.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I lol’d
October 8th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Good at first, but then that last line just made me laugh.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Well, since you said please…
Nice pasta. Had me hanging for a really freaky ending, but… I think this was better.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I find this ending kinda creepy too, IMO.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:47 am
oh.. oh shit.
that kinda creeped me out, but it’s 4:47 AM and i’m half asleep. i’ll read it in the morning to see if it succeeds.
chances are it will.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:56 am
ohshit
That gave me shivers. No more mirrors for me!
props to the author!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:59 am
So, they’re polite dudes that just want to watch me sleep? Scary how? >_>
October 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am
okay *starts to sing the trash song*
October 8th, 2008 at 10:19 am
BUT WHO WERE MIRROR PEOPLE?
October 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
BUT.. WHO WAS MIRROR
seriosly though stalker much?
October 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Aww.. Thats rather sweet <3
October 8th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Not scary, funny and cute.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Heebie jeebies.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
yeh, this one’s kind of sweet, like the mirror people are actually fond of me and would, assuming they could, use their instantly-boiling-water phenomenon to protect me from other baddies mentioned in creepypastas…like the giant cat that listens to peoples’ key going into their doors and makes its own copy and sneaks in and kills everyone. i bet a good scalding to the face would deter it. good old mirror people to the rescue, and if all i have to do is sleep for them, i kind of win, hard.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Am I not the only one who thinks that was kind of endearing? XD
October 8th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
AWWW! I fucking miss them too!
October 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
undead ghost “webcam” pron? xD
October 8th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
As if other pastas didn’t have me scared of mirrors already :/
October 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
haha, was it supposed to be funny? cause it was. i lol’d. x]
October 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
This is actually pretty creepy considering I have a huge mirror facing my bed and there was a thunderstorm last night…
October 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
That does seem kinda friendly!
October 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Brix shat. Scary in a flattering way, won’t look at mirrors the same way anymore. I lol’d
at the last line, more “OH GOD DON’T KILL ME” than funny.
-The Canadian Anonymous
October 8th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
awwww i have a mirror directly across from me when i sleep DAMN!
October 8th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I liked it
Creepy but nice at the same time :3
October 8th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
yeah, they seemed so nice. I’d probably put my mirrors up just because..well, they said please, and hadn’t done me any specific harm..
October 8th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
1. TO OTHER “I Was Phone” I AM AM ORIGINAL I WAS PHONE FUCK YOU UP THE ASS.
2. there isa video eerily similar to this on youtube search “creepypasta”
and click themirror one in related theyre both pretty cool
October 8th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Please put them back.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I like the concept, but there were a couple awkward things. I don’t see how the memory could fade if you threw away all your mirrors; the lack of a mirror in the bathroom would be a constant reminder. And the last line was more cute than creepy.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Sort of flattering really
October 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Aww, I miss you guys too.
Okay, I’ll put them back, only because you said please though.
Seriously though, this one made me giggle.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Wait wait. Does that mean they watch you in the bathroom too? D;
October 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I liked this one, it was cute.
Oh, come on, they even said “Please”! Cuuutttteeee <3
October 8th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
The fact that they were watching him sleep at night is creepy but knowning they like wrote it in the mirror is like.. :/ Over all its okay, Theres a video of some of this story on youtube, type in ‘creepypasta’.. Ciao!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
That does it. No mirrors whatsoever in my place of sleep.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Hello.
It seems there are very few tales deserving my attentions of late.
Disappointing.
Perhaps I shall relate a small number of my personal tales.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I’d put the mirrors back and talk to them.
They don’t wanna hurt you!
They just wanna watch you sleep!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Yeah, this was wasn’t creepy, but was still amusing, thanks to that last line.
Sure, they’re spooky unexplained mirror phantoms. But at least they said ‘please.’ Heck, i’d probably put the mirrors back up just to indulge them, if they’re really that polite. They might not be bad to have around.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
LOL this one made me laugh too but I actually liked it, the sort of cute/creepy nameless faces who miss watching her sleep
Oh and also who was mirror?
October 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
But, WHO WAS MIRROR STALKERS?
Seriously, that would creep me out. It would be like having a clan of peeping-toms inside your house.
Why the heck would they watch that person sleep? Dont they have other things to do? Do they see him in the bathroom? Do in still water-reflections? Are there more of them in every mirror on the planet?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
This One….Blew.
I Was Expecting A Better Ending.
What; I’m Not Sure.
I Must Admit Though, The Concept Did Creep Me Out…
Now If Only I Could Cover The Two 6ft Mirrors In My Room..:P
October 10th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Dude, definitely agree with the “endearing” sentiment. I mean, it’s weird as all get out, but you can’t help but go “Awwf, how cute!”
I want pet mirror stalkers. o.o
October 10th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Ehh. It was OK but not much…
I liked that the mirror people were polite though.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I don’t know… I think it would’ve been better if the last line had been something like “We don’t need the mirrors to watch you.” Or something like that.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Crap, my clientele are learning to escape through mirrors!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:22 am
#16: But WHO WAS PHONEY!?
And while the idea of mirror beings staring at you sleeping isn’t as immediately terrifying as, say, mirror beings that rip your heart out through your navel, it is rather creepy…that may be how they get off.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Call me crazy, but I think the ending was alright. It was sutle. They were watching him/her EVERY night not just that one. Just cut out the politness “We miss watching you sleep at night.”
Creepy.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
:c do they rape you while sleep ?!
srsly it could have been scaryer but it was creepy >.>
October 11th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
*giggles*
o god, stalker much?
thats worse then an ex girlfriend!
and i actually LIKED the “we miss watching you sleep” line…
October 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Pastas about mirrors are getting a little old..
October 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
could of been scarier.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
i was actually getting creeped out, and i was expecting so much then…the last line.
i lol’d =\
October 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
You.
*****.
As If I wasn’t scared enough already.
:/
October 19th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I’d probably put the mirrors back up . . .
Sounds like they’re spirits that just need someone to connect to, being dead and stuff. :S
October 21st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Er, this was taken from the youtube video called The Mirror. If you actually made the video, nice work. If not, nice try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyopd8nedng
October 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I would put on a show for pedoghosts, make them leave by contuninously showing them goatse or re-enacting tubgirl.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
This is awsome!!
October 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Okay that was creepy and I perhaps wouldn’t have been so creeped out if it hadn’t ended the way that I planned. That was cool!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 am
Kovi, did you even bother to read the description of that YouTube video?
“Another short vid based on creepypasta found on /x/”
BASED ON THIS CREEPYPASTA.
Are you stupid or something?
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
“Great. As if I wasn’t paranoid of mirrors enough.”
QTF.
I was scared of mirrors ever since a friend told me about the Bloody Mary trick in 5th grade at a camp.
Still kinda am.
And as I was reading this, I looked over at the mirror on my closet door, which is parallel to me, where I can see my reflection, and my eyeliner is smudged all across my eyes, making them seem dark, it scared the fuck out of me. D:
October 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
They seem to be very polite spirits. It would be a crime to not put a mirror
October 31st, 2008 at 2:28 am
….can they still see me if none of my mirrors face my bed? *wishes she hadn’t saved up weeks of creepypasta to read after midnight on halloween…in the dark*
November 6th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
@Beckorz
A disturbing thought. O_o
I DON’T WANT MIRROR STALKERS WATCHING ME TAKE OFF MY CLOTHES TO SHOWER D8
November 7th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
thats freaken creepy man
November 19th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@ The Jester
MUST…TAKE SHOWERS… WITH A BATHING SUIT…
November 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Dammit, I have mirrors everywhere in my room.
Bye bye, sleep.