Why Do Our Faces Look So Weird In The TikTok Inverted Filter?

TikTok's inversion filter reverses a facial selfie and shows you what your face looks like when its not reflected in a mirror. Or, in other words, how the world sees you and not what the mirror shows. Thus, the effect of this reversal is uncanny. The inverse image looks like you but slightly different, highlighting every defect you didnt even know you had. You might notice that your left eye drops off more than your right eye or that your chin is slightly longer on the right than on the left. Our brain is simply not used to seeing this version, even though it acknowledges that this is me. The result is like looking at a strange alternate universe image of ourselvesone in which we arent very good-looking!