What research shows
Text and reflections are famously unstable in dreams — a common reality check used by lucid dreamers.
Objects
Dreaming about a mirror
Self-image and how accurate it is.
The psychological reading
A distorted or unfamiliar reflection is read as a gap between how you see yourself and how you are.
What tradition claimed
Breaking a mirror in a dream carried the same seven-year warning as breaking one awake.
Included as cultural history. Traditional dream books are frequently ominous and have no predictive value.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
Before you look anything up
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.