Optics and Reflection

Roles: mirror, reflection, lens, observer, image, distortion, angle, surface

The physics of light, mirrors, lenses, and visual perception. As a source domain, optics provides metaphors for self-recognition, accurate and distorted representation, and the conditions under which seeing becomes possible. The frame encodes the structural insight that reflection requires a surface — one cannot see oneself without an external medium — and that the quality of the mirror determines the fidelity of the image. Productive for reasoning about feedback, self-awareness, and the difference between what is seen and what is there.

As Source Frame (2)