Their newest title, the psychological thriller Twin Mirror doesn’t stray too far from the studio’s blueprint, however its combination of mystery, emotion and narrative results in an experience that stands out from the rest of DONTNOD’s catalogue. ![]() "We really don't know much about it at all," says Professor Craig.Ever since DONTNOD released their first game Remember Me back in 2013, the studio has continued to hone its craft and has carved out a reputation as the AA darlings of narrative-driven experiences thanks to the likes of Life is Strange, Tell Me Why and the lesser revered Vampyr. So for now, mirror twins remain a bit of a mystery, even to science. But because these traits aren't consistent across twin pairs, reproducible studies have eluded researchers. Some exhibit mirrored birthmarks, handedness or hair whorls, and in extreme cases, organs can even be positioned on opposite sides of their bodies. There aren't any official diagnostic criteria for identifying mirror twins and mirrored traits can vary widely between pairs. So it's a good kind of an experiment for twins to do, to see how similar they are on the opposite side." Loading. "Well, with twins, it's like the mirror is not there and twins are looking at each other. Oh, that's my left side, that's the mirror of it, " he says. ![]() "When we look in the mirror as a singleton, we see ourselves. Professor Jeff Craig is Deputy Director of Twins Research Australia and he says identical twins can run their own mirror twin 'diagnosis' at home. Somewhere in these data-collecting years the researchers told us all of this had meaning. In a short paragraph, email us your pitch: The mirror of me Chances are there's others facing the same highs, lows and life experiences. " There were these kind of breadcrumbs that we are linked in some quite extraordinary way," says Jen.ĪBC Everyday's Perspectives is all about giving you a chance to share what you're going through. My right front tooth would go, then Jen's left front tooth. My left eye tooth would wiggle and fall, then Jen's right eye tooth would do the same. And sometime between a day to two weeks later, Jen would lose the same tooth, but on the opposite side. I would lose a baby tooth on one side of my mouth. We did this over a few years, collecting, dating, sealing the teeth away.Īnd eventually, an eerie pattern emerged. Whenever either of us lost a tooth, we were asked to store it in the jar and to write the date that it had fallen out next to the corresponding tooth on the diagram. Inside was a little slip of paper with a drawing showing two neat semicircles of teeth. We were each given a plastic pathology jar with a yellow lid. It sounds gross now, but at the time, deep in the bowerbird phase of childhood, it seemed perfectly normal. Soon, we started contributing to the research in another way: by collecting our baby teeth. "Realising, hang on, maybe being a twin is something unique."Ī few months after that cheek swab was taken the results confirmed what our mum had suspected for a while - Jen and I were, in fact, identical. "My most distinctive memory is of the dental researcher sticking his gloved hand in my mouth and being absolutely fascinated by us," Jen says. We were part of a research study being run by the University of Adelaide looking at the genes, teeth and faces of Australian twins.
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