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Why does the image in plane mirror suffers lateral inversion?

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The light rays which come from our right side get reflected from the plane mirror reach our eye. Our brain feels that the rays is coming from the inside of the mirror. That is why our right side looks like left side in the image. This is called right-left inversion or lateral inversion.

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