the.com/body image
the gap between the mirror and the movie playing in your head.
means how you perceive, feel about, and mentally picture your own body, which often has little to do with how it actually looks.
from emerged as a clinical term in early 20th century neurology, describing the brain's internal map of the body, before psychology hijacked it to mean self-esteem wearing a swimsuit.
brain mapneurologists first used it for stroke patients, not selfies
distortionyou can have accurate eyes and inaccurate self-perception
social contagionperception shifts measurably after five minutes of scrolling
not fixedchanges hour to hour, not just year to year