The Mirror Protocol

Timestamp: 06:12 BST
Recovered from: /crypt/visual-studies/reflex-phase
Status: Partially redacted

In controlled light conditions, reflections should respond instantaneously. These ones don’t.

According to documents attributed to the early Nocturnis visual studies unit, a sequence of mirror-based tests produced a measurable delay of 0.47 seconds between physical motion and reflected image. The anomaly was repeatable only when participants remained unaware of the experiment’s start time.

Observers reported an acute sensation of déjà vu — not of the past, but of the moment itself looping back.
Cognitive scans taken afterward displayed brief activity spikes in regions associated with self-recognition and threat response.

One handwritten margin note reads:

“The reflection anticipates correction. It edits what we think we did.”

Following the tests, mirrors from the facility were removed and sealed in unmarked storage. Photographs of the objects exhibit subtle discrepancies in framing, as though the image retreated fractionally from the camera.

Researchers halted the study after a field operative described “seeing the reflection move when no one was present.”
No subsequent documentation confirms retrieval of the equipment.

Filed by: Visual Cognition Archive
Note: Latency unresolved. Recommend zero reflective surfaces during playback of accompanying media.
Tag: #Fugue