Hallucinatory Effect

mirrors are tremendously deceptive, for they create a sense that you are looking at the real world. When alice goes through the looking glass in lewis carroll's book, she enters a world that is back to front and more than just visually. The hallucinatory effect comes from creating a perfect copy of an object, a place, a person. People take it for the real thing because it has the physical appearance of the real thing. This is the pre eminent technique of con artists who strategically mimic the real world to deceive you. It also has applications in any arena that requires camouflage.