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Posted: 30-05-2004 22:56 Post subject:

i have on sadly all too many occasions, been grabbed by someone who claims to know me, knows my name, etc... always turned out to be someone i'd met whilst drunk and forgotten.

my flatmate in fact, who studies the same subject as me, i met in halls of residence during my first year at university, when i was frequently drunk. several times she saw me, said hello to me, and i looked at her like she was mad and had to have it explained to me that she was doing the same subject as me, and i'd met her several times before, and had completely forgotten her those times as well.

i have encountered someone who looks an awful lot like me - the effect was amplified by the fact that when i first saw her we had very similar and distinctive hairstyles (pink stripes!). more frighteningly, i have also encountered someone looking very much like an ex of mine, right down to the dyed black and red hair. Hmph

Posted: 08-06-2004 05:58 Post subject:

When thinking this topic over I came to the following conclusion - just how 'unique' looking is any particular person? I remember when I was in college, being friends with a guy who always dated the same type of girl ( petite, about 5'2, a little over or under 100 pounds ) and they ( there were three in rapid succession ) all looked alike! seriously, you'd have thought they were the same person if you didn't know better. This, coupled with the fact that there are innumerable Elvis impersonators as well as travelling road tours of 'Beatlemania' leads me to believe that there may very well be several sets of 'us' out there. Just a thought... Wink

Posted: 08-06-2004 06:12 Post subject:

Posted: 08-06-2004 10:24 Post subject: types

When I was in my twenties I was invited by a friend to a party. The guy who was giving the party took one look at me and left his own house. It turned out I was the double of his girlfriend that had just dumped him.

There have been about three other incidents of people mistaking me for someone else, but last month was the best.

A woman walked up to me in the supermarket and standing right beside me started a conversation about an Art exhibition I was apparently organising! I was so fascinated that I let her talk away for several minutes until I had to stop her and say I was not the lady in question. She was dumbfounded.

I am definately a 'type'.

Posted: 10-06-2004 03:05 Post subject: This is Steve, msclairevoyants boyfriend

I have had a somewhat similar experience in the bedroom of my old house. One day about 3 years ago, I walked back into my room from the kitchen, and much to my surprise, there was another me sitting on the foot of my bed. He was dressed and styled differently than I was or concievably would ever be, but definitely me. His hair, for one was bleached blonde and spiked up, while mine at the time was kept shaved for the summer. Also, he was dressed in preppy style olive green cargo pants and striped polo shirt. Anyways, descriptions aside, I opened the door and there he sat. I looked at him increduously for a second or two before he noticed me, as he was watching the movie I had left on (Jet Li's Twin Warriors... great flick..). He then looked up and back at me ,nodded like an acknowledgement and then was promptly gone. I rubbed my free hand over my eyes, shook my head and sat down and thought long and hard about what had just happened, and whether or not it was possible or probable that it had just indeed happened. Strange, huh?

Posted: 12-06-2004 03:57 Post subject:

I've often been told I look just like so-and-so (sometimes a celebrity!) and have often been mistaken for other people. However, I've met most of the people I've been mistaken for, and the funny thing is, I look absolutely nothing like them, nor do I resemble any of the celebrities I'm said to resemble (though I am holding out hope on the "Milla Jovovich" one). Cool

However, in every case, I do share one striking feature with the person I'm said to look like. Usually it's my hair. What I've noticed is that people will often latch on to a strong feature, make a connection in their minds to the familiar person who also has that feature, and perhaps "see" me as that person instead of as me.

That's just my theory, however - I know very little about the way the brain recognizes features and faces.

My other theory is that I'm so ephemeral I can't really be seen at all. All you can see is my fairy glamour. (In which case, yes, I really do look like Milla Jovovich!) Wink

As far as seeing myself, however - I've never really met anyone who even remotely resembled me, let alone a doppelgänger. I can only imagine how chilling that might be.

Posted: 12-06-2004 07:34 Post subject:

I once saw myself following directly behind myself in a big shop mirror.

The 'fetch' was dressed exactly as I was and carried the same unique rucsac and hat and was unmistakeably me.
Yet it/she looked downwards with a glum expression, as I stared in disbelief. Now if this had been some kind of mirror effect, eg 2 mirrors mounted on a pillar, BOTH reflections would have looked back at me, not just the first.

The whole thing lasted only seconds but I was quite shaken.

Dunno what it meant, but while the 'fetch' looked as solid as the real reflection, it also looked every bit as miserable as I was really feeling inside in that xmas week.

Posted: 12-06-2004 07:56 Post subject:

About 15 years ago my then boyfriend and myself went to stay with my parents for a week. Because they didn't really approve of him they made us sleep in separate rooms. We drew straws and I ended up on the sofa down stairs. Well one morning, around 7am, the dog came in and woke me up. I must have stayed their for a further half an hour or so before my boyfriend came down. He swore blind that I had walked into his room upstairs, glared and said that we're going to be late. Now he wasn't asleep because he was sitting on the edge of the bed putting his socks on when it happened!

Posted: 12-06-2004 08:04 Post subject:

Posted: 12-06-2004 18:26 Post subject:

I got a spate you look like so-and-so, or conversations from people I didn't know. I wasn't that worried about someone looking like me, 6'2" with long hair. But one day my mum told me she was crossing the road to talk to the other me, but realised it was someone else, as my hair was green at the time, his wasn't. For my own mother to mistake someone else for me is weird. Although the other bloke new people I did and Huddersfield isn't that big, I never got introduced, shame!
Got a big hippie beard now, so no mistaken identities anymore!

Posted: 12-06-2004 18:32 Post subject:

i dunno, mothers can be pretty daft sometimes. i've been wearing glasses since i was five, but when i was practicing reversing round a corner for my driving test, my mum said "you're lucky you don't wear glasses, because it makes it more difficult." roll eyes (sarcastic)

Posted: 13-06-2004 12:06 Post subject:

Posted: 13-06-2004 12:15 Post subject:

Crisis apparition, yup, I've heard of them, thank you Hally M8! Maybe that's what it was.

I've also been 'seen' by other people at times when I wasn't under stress. My next-door neighbour once saw me cycle through my gate, prop the bike against the wall and go into my house, wearing a pink top or possibly dress.

I was out all that day, the gate was locked and I NEVER wear pink, much less wear a dress to ride a bike. She insisted that she'd seen me though and even now, years later, would deny that she was wrong. confused

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