Mirror, Advice on better results Options

I have recently started working with a black (scrying, magic... whatever you choose to call it) mirror. I have gotten some results... but (always a but huh?) they seem kind of strange to me and I am hoping to get better ones.

So far I have seen a man who covered his eyes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif) and a woman who covered the mirror with her hands. Other than these two I have only seen what I guess you could describe as moving landscapes. (Don't ask me on that one, but hey... never a bad thing to look out over a field with trees or the ocean.. so not complaining)

I tried to speak to the man and woman both... the man disapeared and the woman just walked off uninterested. The man never returned, though the woman does occasionally move past as if making a show of ignoring me (though if I am lucky she'll stop to cover the mirror with her hands again) lol

I was hoping for some advice on how to attract anything else to the mirror if there is a way to do that, or atleast to get a response out of the woman.

I'm starting to think it may be time to move onto something else other than the mirror... maybe it's just not something that will work for me, but figured I'd ask for help before moving on to something else. I kind of enjoy the mirror and am hoping I can get better results with a little bit of help/advice.

Thanks in advance to everyone who has any ideas that may help me out.

IRT 1

Are you just staring blankly into the thing? Define your intent before you start. Perform an actual evocation of some specific entity and instruct them to appear to you by means of the mirror, that way you have some means of determining success.

On a more practical level, I often find that once the vision starts the whole "picture quality" can be improved by closing my eyes. Of course, the nature of the entity you are working with may determine whether you think that is a good idea or not.

Do not pay attention to things that you read giving you the impression that scrying requires some kind of meditative state of relaxation. This is, IMHO, bollocks. It is true that you enter into a trance state, but maintaining the image and working it requires the strictest concentration. It can be both mentally and physically exhausting.