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rynner2 What a Cad!
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| ramonmercado wrote: | | rynner2 wrote: | [pedant] I pointed out some decades ago (it seems  ) that the thread title should be Doppelgangers (or even Doppelgänger, as wiki has it!) [/pedant] |
Did you have to say it twice? |
Yes, I doppled up! |
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| SHAYBARSABE Great Old One Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 1377 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-05-2012 00:03 Post subject: |
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| sciotofloods wrote: | | I once had an interesting experience with my own double, or "fetch", while meditating. |
Interesting story. I think one rarely gets to face one's own dark side so directly. Jung had tons of things to say about the matter. |
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| bobandterry Grey Joined: 14 Aug 2010 Total posts: 24 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 09-10-2013 12:54 Post subject: You look just like me |
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| I was reading the false arrival thread and it discussed Doppelgangers. Bought me back to an experience when I was 11 or 12. I was in what is now Primark but I think it was House of Fraser at the time on the Horsefair Broadmead Bristol. A gang of us use to venture into town. While heading onto the stairs. A young lad my age was walking down. We both stared at each other, his expression I can only described as disbelief and probably replicated my expression too. It was my Doppelganger. It was a very strange feeling to looking at a double. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 541 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 09-10-2013 17:56 Post subject: |
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I wonder where the line is between having a doppleganger and bilocating?
One imagines that if one bilocated one would be aware of it afterwards if it was just yourself in two places at once... or would one?  |
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| SHAYBARSABE Great Old One Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 1377 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 09-10-2013 20:06 Post subject: |
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| OneWingedBird wrote: | I wonder where the line is between having a doppleganger and bilocating?
One imagines that if one bilocated one would be aware of it afterwards if it was just yourself in two places at once... or would one? |
Good questions. By chance, I'm reading "A Hat Full of Sky" where one character is a single person who has two (separate) bodies. The character seems to mix her memories.
That aside, perhaps, in bilocating, the person who ultimately disappears acts on their own without the knowledge of the person who will remain. Upon disappearing, however, the disappeared person's memories jump into the remaining person's brain--which might be confusing to say the least. Of course, the effect might explain where "alien" memories come from.
Erm. I must get some lunch, I sound sillier than usual. |
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| pipling Grey Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Total posts: 15 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 11-10-2013 13:49 Post subject: |
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I have a doppelgänger, or at least one it seems.
On numerous occasions I have been mistaken for somebody else, most recently a lady stopped me in the High Street to ask how "your Michelle" was up to, and then pointed at my daughter and said "When did you have another one?" I was completely confused and told her she had mistaken me for someone else, but she refused to believe me  . She carried on with "But you're Mary's girl!", to which I assured her I was not, and my family was from many miles away from the area i now live.
She was astounded when I finally convinced her I was not who she thought I was (It took about 15 minutes), and kept telling me "But you're her double!", she was still staring at me and muttering in disbelief as I walked down the street.
A few weeks later, my next door neighbour told me she had seen me earlier that day in the High Street, and that I had ignored her when she spoke to me and wouldn't acknowledge her at all - I told her I hadn't been anywhere near it that day - but she still swears to this day that she saw me.
The thing that puzzles me with these stories, is that I am disabled and walk with a distinct limp. My neighbour very tactfully said that the person she saw "Even walked like you do". So not only do I have a double, they have crooked legs like me too! |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-10-2013 18:18 Post subject: |
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| Fifteen minutes?! You have the patience of Job! |
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| pipling Grey Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Total posts: 15 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 11-10-2013 19:57 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Fifteen minutes?! You have the patience of Job! |
OK, 15 minutes maybe a slight exaggeration, but a good 5-10 minutes as she took some convincing, I can tell you! She decided to tell me a potted history of the person she thought I was and asked where I lived - as it turned out I live very close to my "double", but I have never seen her. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-10-2013 15:21 Post subject: |
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| Maybe this double is like a person echo you only hear through other people? |
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| SHAYBARSABE Great Old One Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 1377 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 22:56 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Maybe this double is like a person echo you only hear through other people? |
That's a fascinating thought. Thank you for posting. |
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