Today I was at the park and I was playing monster with Nefarious, chasing her around the wooden castle and park grounds. Another girl about her age joined in, and I noticed that she was being watched by my sister, although I didn’t recognize her at first because she had dyed her hair light blond since I last saw her. Other than that she looked exactly as she always does, and of course had the same voice as we made idle conversation about the girl she was babysitting. I had a strange Capras delusion feeling though about her, the odd sensation that I was not talking to my sister, but instead some sort of doppelganger even though facial expressions and everything were a match. However, when the little girl called her by her name — “Ashleigh” — I was relieved. When I got home, I noticed that my sister had posted on her page about becoming a “white tiger”, so I assumed that was a reference to her new hair color and I commented on how the transformation was literal and made her almost unrecognizable.
To which she replied awkwardly, with paranoid confusion…
…because the girl at the park had not been her.
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woah.
Haha! I would be quite frightened if that would have happened to me, but reading it, i laughed.
scary story man !
oh my, that sounds very scary. any chance your sister’s got a twin that nobody knows about? hehe.
They always say everyone has a twin somewhere…
I have had so many people tell me that I look “just like” so-and-so that I just shrug it off and tell the person that I must have the most common appearance in the world.
Good thing you didnt start discussing family matters, I guess. I’ve never looked “just like” a person to that degree, apparently. :0
“Good or bad doesnt matter much, as long as they have that psychopathic touch”.
Niiiiice. I like it. :)
I was once walking across the quad at my undergrad university when my girlfriend ran up behind me and jump on my back. Only I was at home the whole time; the guy she jumped on was someone else who looked and walk just like me.
The thought of alternate realities springs to mind… amusing to think about.
Evidently Elizabeth and I need to get together and hang out, because everyone would think we’re someone they know.
It’s really often that people ask me if they know me from somewhere, and that’s a bit odd, because i have 1/2” ear lobes, which isn’t huge, not not common either.
In college, I had a class with a guy who told me a few weeks in, that the first day of class he was very concerned that his friend didn’t recognize him. Then he realized after about a week that his friend wasn’t ignoring him, it was just that I wasn’t his friend.
In High School, I had a teacher go to a conference, and when he came back, he told me actually went up to someone who he though was me and asked why he was there.
Maybe I just need to start a doppleganger club…
It’s kinda strange for me too as I dont think I have such a common appearance but I really have gotten that response from strangers no less than 10 times.
Odd.
It’s even wierder because all afternoon I was having the coolest conversation with a stranger about “POWERS” – on the other side of town! Serious. And the White Tigeress stuff is a crazy Taoist book I’m reading…
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