A mirror image is the result of light rays bounding off a reflective surface.

When people look into a mirror, they see an image of themselves behind the
glass. That image results from light rays encountering the shiny surface and
bouncing back, or reflecting, providing a "mirror image."

Multiple reflection of light is the reflection of light back and forth

several times between reflecting surfaces.

If a reflected light ray is reflected again on being incident on another

surface, it is termed multiple reflections. If we place any two mirrors
in front of each other, then many images are formed because when
the incident Ray comes to the mirror it reflects in the perpendicular
distance from that mirror to the another mirror and comes with the
same angle.

When two mirrors are parallel to each other, the number of

reflections is infinite. Multiple reflections take place that gives rise to
many images. What happens is at each reflection, the incident ray of
light falling on either of mirrors gets absorbed. Its intensity keeps on
decreasing after every succession reflection. The energy of every
reflected ray keeps on decreasing. So the distant image gets fainter
and fainter.

Multiple reflections are used in periscopes. Periscopes are used

in submarines, war tanks and by solders in bunkers to see objects
that are not visible directly. In a barber’s shop, we see the back of
the head using multiple reflections of two mirrors. In
a Kaleidoscope, beautiful patterns are formed due to multiple
reflections.

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting

surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more objects
on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern
when viewed from the other end, due to multiple reflection. The
reflectors (or mirrors) are usually enclosed in a tube, often
containing on one end a cell with loose, coloured pieces of glass or
other materials to be reflected into the viewed pattern.