Shirt was wrong color in reflection

[Helperman]

Ok, i have decided this is the best place to post this.
A few months ago, i was walking through the halls of our church early in the morning. I was there because i am 17 and my church does this early morning class for teenagers called seminary on school days. I looked at one of these glass door things they have that are like large windows with hinges from across a hallway, and i saw my reflection, but my shirt was bright blue. I currently had been wearing a black shirt. I walked down the hallway to see better, and just as i got within a few feet of it, the reflection faded away. The reflection looked exactly like me except for the shirt. Also, the color of the reflections shirt is my favorite colorz though i am unsure if that is related.

[Helperman]

Actually, rethinking, is this the wrong area? I thought it maybe was right because of the paranormal part of the name, but the stidies part of the name makes me wonder if this should have been in grey area

[quintessentone]

I recall walking past my church on a sunny day with many mature trees in the front and had flashes of red overtake me. When I asked a nun what did it mean, she told me it was just the sun through the branches.

You were in front of a window, was it stained glass? Even so, church glass can be very old and have prism like effects.

How do I know this? I worked with archeologists, who let me clean the artifacts which included old glass fragments, while I was out in the sun.

[Helperman]

I recall walking past my church on a sunny day with many mature trees in the front and had flashes of red overtake me. When I asked a nun what did it mean, she told me it was just the sun through the branches.

You were in front of a window, was it stained glass? Even so, church glass can be very old and have prism like effects.

How do I know this? I worked with archeologists, who let me clean the artifacts which included old glass fragments, while I was out in the sun.

No. They are just simple glass doors. They are like something you might see on a library or post office. My religion doesnt really do that many fancy things with its churches.

[quintessentone]

No. They are just simple glass doors. They are like something you might see on a library or post office. My religion doesnt really do that many fancy things with its churches.

My point is that the glass may be very old and it's manufacture would allow a prism like effect perhaps changing the color of your shirt.

[quintessentone]

So here's another slant on it. I am a painter and my paint colors change depending on my canvas color, the lighting in the room, and shadows. What color was your shirt by the way? What was the color of the walls? Were you in sunlight or shadow?

[Helperman]

So here's another slant on it. I am a painter and my paint colors change depending on my canvas color, the lighting in the room, and shadows. What color was your shirt by the way? What was the color of the walls? Were you in sunlight or shadow?

My shirt was black. The walls had two halfs, one was made out of straw and thus was brown, the other was reddish. Outside was pitch black because it was about 6 in the morning, but i was inside where it was bright, but those doors where the doors to outaide so it being dark out there is stilk relevant. I was mainly confused because it wasnt just a change of color, but a change from the darkest collor of all to a very bright color.

[Sirius]

I can get things to change color in all sorts of way, none if it is healthy.  I don't know anything useful on mirrors, check Shamanism in redit, make the post there also maybe. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shamanism/

[Byrd]

Ok, i have decided this is the best place to post this.
A few months ago, i was walking through the halls of our church early in the morning. I was there because i am 17 and my church does this early morning class for teenagers called seminary on school days. I looked at one of these glass door things they have that are like large windows with hinges from across a hallway, and i saw my reflection, but my shirt was bright blue. I currently had been wearing a black shirt. I walked down the hallway to see better, and just as i got within a few feet of it, the reflection faded away. The reflection looked exactly like me except for the shirt. Also, the color of the reflections shirt is my favorite colorz though i am unsure if that is related.

Welcome to physics 101.

First of all, "glass" isn't one single substance.  We add different chemicals (and sometimes pigments) to give it different properties.  For example, I've got a heat-reflecting glass on our big doors that lead to the patio (where it gets a LOT of sunlight) -- and that's different than the glass on the door on the north side of the house (which never gets sunlight.)

As light moves through the glass, various colors will be absorbed before being reflected back.  So what comes back isn't actually a perfect match or even a perfect "faded" match.

Also, "black" in clothing is not necessarily "absolutely no color."  There is such a thing as "the world's blackest black" (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180962748/) but most of what we see as black is actually a very dark red or a very dark blue.  Artists (and anyone who has done paper chromotography) will be familiar with this in mixing colors -- "warm black" mixes with colors differently than "cool black" does.
 
Anyway, the surface you saw has some sort of coating on it or embedded in it that changed the proportion of colors reflected back to you.  And the color of the light in the room (we think of it as "white" but it's more often "very very very bright yellow" or "very very very bright blue" and not actually white... it's also colored by the walls around you, but that's another discussion)

And that's what's going on.

[Helperman]

Welcome to physics 101.

First of all, "glass" isn't one single substance.  We add different chemicals (and sometimes pigments) to give it different properties.  For example, I've got a heat-reflecting glass on our big doors that lead to the patio (where it gets a LOT of sunlight) -- and that's different than the glass on the door on the north side of the house (which never gets sunlight.)

As light moves through the glass, various colors will be absorbed before being reflected back.  So what comes back isn't actually a perfect match or even a perfect "faded" match.

Also, "black" in clothing is not necessarily "absolutely no color."  There is such a thing as "the world's blackest black" (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180962748/) but most of what we see as black is actually a very dark red or a very dark blue.  Artists (and anyone who has done paper chromotography) will be familiar with this in mixing colors -- "warm black" mixes with colors differently than "cool black" does.
 
Anyway, the surface you saw has some sort of coating on it or embedded in it that changed the proportion of colors reflected back to you.  And the color of the light in the room (we think of it as "white" but it's more often "very very very bright yellow" or "very very very bright blue" and not actually white... it's also colored by the walls around you, but that's another discussion)

And that's what's going on.

Ok, but, only happened once and i walk past that window every morning and i have worn that black shirt more than once, so not just how the window shows the color black, and it wasnt a specifc angle that caused to happen the one day because it persisted as i moved.
Also, this might just be coincidence, but it was the exact color as my favorite color.