Question

How does phenomenon of lateral inversion occurs?

Answer 1

Answer:

The phenomenon where your left appears as the right and vice versa in a mirror is referred to as Lateral Inversion. ... The lateral inversion we experience is not caused by the mirror but by our perception of the mirror image.

Answer 2

Answer: most people say that lateral inversion means that the mirror flips the object horizontally.

But it doesn't actually flip us in any direction.The image of the object is as far away as the object is. The image is facing the object and so it is exactly opposite the object. So it looks like that the mirror inverts laterally. All that happens is that the image is as far from the mirror as the object is in front of it .