Mirror phenomenon — Concentric halos around eyes in a foggy bathroom

[sophiecentaur]

To my eyes, the camera's ring is not visible. To my camera, my eye's rings are not visible.

Is that surprising? The geometry would only work for small angles about the line of the 'average' direction of incidence where there's symmetry - i.e. small rings. For light with incident angles near the axis of the lens `(eye or camera) any halo rings would be fainter and fainter and with bigger radii.
I'd expect any rings to be more visible when the light source is 'from over the shoulder' of the observer and in a room with dark matt walls.
A spotlessly clean mirror and very evenly sized condensation drops would probably produce the best effect.

 

[Davey1980]

So this also happened to me in a hotel room after taking a hot shower. Kinda freaked me out. I noticed the halo stayed with me until I stooped below the the foggy part of the mirror, then the halos disappeared.

 

[Brighteyes]

Hi,
This happened to me at my home. After taking a shower, I saw white halos around my eyes that had the rainbow spectrum in it, my irises were orange tinge to them.
I was initially shocked, confused and freaked out. I'm not a sceptic and am open minded, I've not ever experienced this before. I tried to no avail to capture this on camera. I'm glad I'm not alone in this, but there seems to be no definite explanation from anyone credible out there on this phenomenon.

There is no doubt that what we are experiencing is true, all theses independent people, with no other obvious connection between them. But some expert help would be helpful. There is a solar eclipse coming up soon, and the light from the sun has changed. I don't know if that is a contributing factor.

 

[mfb]

As discussed earlier in the thread, it's likely just an optical effect from fog on the mirror.

There is a solar eclipse coming up soon

There are 2-3 solar eclipses every year, with a total eclipse every 1-2 years. You see the upcoming one discussed more on English-speaking parts of the internet because it crosses the US, but there is nothing special about it from a physics perspective. And this thread is a few years old.

and the light from the sun has changed

It has not.

 

[FSJ]

The colored concentric circles happened to me today for the first time in ten years having the same mirror and opaque privacy glass through which the morning sun was bright behind me.

The freaky thing for me was that it was only one eye. I had to check with another mirror to make sure that the eye was okay lol, since last year I had partial cornea transplant with lens replacement, for (Fuchs disease and cataracts). The effect varied from the colored circles to just an extra wide open eye image depending on the density of the condensation on the mirror, or distance from the mirror.

My still diseased eye having less acuity with somewhat hazy vision, especially in the morning, had no color rings, just a small white halo. I told my wife about this, thinking this was something new to do with post surgery but she had the same thing a couple days ago. After a good laugh, I still can't help wonder why now?

 

[sophiecentaur]

and the light from the sun has changed

Wherever did you get that from? The light from the Sun is constantly changing but only by very small random amounts (sun spots, solar flares, solar mass ejections etc. etc). Be careful about connecting facts that you read about without very good cause.