1. Set Up- Therapy Starts - Fear The Woman will be sat in the therapist’s room. They will discuss her fear of the woman in the window. The therapist believes her fears reside from a deeper part of her subconscious.
2. Therapy – Car Crash The therapist asks the woman about any serious events in her life both positive and negative. The woman talks about a car crash she was in five years ago, and about how badly she was injured.
3. Therapy - PTSD They discuss the possibility of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and that it is an underlining problem that she is struggling to deal with.
4. Therapy – Sensory Deprivation A return to therapy results in a worry of not being able to look into mirrors. That when she tries to, she keeps seeing another woman. The therapist suggests its sensory deprivation and that she needs to sleep better. Prescribing sleeping pills.
5. Therapy – Troxler Effect Therapy continues with a look into the Troxler Effect and how it effects visual perception. Such as the fading of unchanging stimuli. The woman is reluctant to believe this is the problem as she never looks into mirrors.
7. Therapy - Bloody Mary The therapist asks the woman about other common misconceptions such as the Bloody Mary urban legend. That none of it is real and that she only imagines what she sees in the mirror. The woman disagrees. “Repeating words or images enough times causes the ‘subconscious’ to absorb them.”
6. Therapy - Willpower He goes on to explain it’s a principle of mind over matter, if you believe in something strongly enough, you can make yourself see something that’s not there.
8. Therapy – Self-Conflict The therapist tells her that sometimes curing some of our troubles requires a change in our subconscious/unconscious thought, which can only be achieved by using our imagination.
9. Clarification and Resolve Her therapist recommends Self Suggestion and asks her to look into a mirror each day before she goes to bed and for her to believe she will only see herself. “Any idea exclusively occupying the mind turns into reality”.
10. Resolution – Mirror Gaze The woman lifts up from her couch and walks over to the mirror and takes off the cloth. ~She stares into the mirror and sees herself as she was straight after the crash.* She cries.
*NOTE – Her reflection won’t cry. It is meant to look like two different entities of the same person.
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