In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

(To picture this, make a thumbs-up with your right ... We simply don't know what would happen when mirror life clashes with ours. And in a void of information, you plan for the worst.

Though it may sound like something cute from “Alice in Wonderland,” mirror life refers to synthetic ... with building blocks that are mirror images of the constituents of DNA, RNA and proteins ...