Have you ever seen a total stranger and felt a "connection"?

[GabbyChalice400]

So weird, I was just in Asda doing my shopping and met eyes with a total stranger. It was the strangest feeling ever, we couldn't stop looking at each other and then we went our separate ways!

Has this happened to anyone else?

No

No

Well I've caught people's eyes and fancied them and they've fancied me.

That's a connection albeit a sexual one.

If you couldn't stop looking at each other in assuming it was mutual attraction, no?

Never

No never, because life is not a movie........

Yes. There will be a strong unconscious element to the attraction. It's rarely what we think it is, imo.

Yes, I've felt it once, 25 years ago. Time stood still and everyone and everything in the background became a blur.

Yes. My Tesco delivery man.

Once I was eating in a cafè in a city in another (English speaking) country on my own and I just “knew” someone was watching me. I stopped dead and looking around, saw a very handsome man with a kind face very far away on the opposite side of the cafe staring at me. It was a large building in a major city but all the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. He smiled at me and I smiled back and we spent the next 20 minutes or so looking at each other, then looking away and trying not to catch the other one seeing us looking. Twice we got up at the exact same time (once for sugar and the the second time to leave the cafe). We actually laughed at ourselves and visibly cringed, twice! It was almost like we were subconsciously copying each other’s body movements.

Anyway...I was only in the country for one night and I don’t do casual sex so I saw no point in talking to him so I didn’t.

I often wonder if this is what some people mean by “love at first sight”. I personally don’t believe in love at first sight but I’ve been single for most of my life and feel like there’s someone I should have ended up with but missed out on. The romantic in me wonders if it was cafe guy. A sliding doors moment maybe?

Most likely it was just a physical/chemical/pheromone based attraction.

I didn’t feel like I’d known him my whole life or anything like that. It was just a weird “heightening of the senses experience” and that initial “someone is watching me” feeling felt very primal and instinctive.

James Blunt does

I made inadvertent eye contact with a man on the bus once, he wasn't conventionally attractive but had amazing eyes. He smiled and winked. It made me feel uncomfortable to be honest, I'm not sure why, and on all future bus journeys, I kept my eyes down and didn't make eye contact with anyone just in case the man with amazing eyes was a passenger. To be fair though, I was a 19yo student with limited life experience and he was probably only being friendly.

My husband would say yes. He remembers the first time he saw me and what i was wearing. The people he was with knew who i was, but i didn't talk to them then either.

We didn't talk until 2 1/2 years later. Which was actually down to me speaking to him first. We met up 5 days later and it'll be 11 years together next month!

My one sounds creepy.. we were teenagers when we got together!

Yes! Then I forgot about it.

Many years later when DH and a heavily pregnant me were moving boxes into the van for our first home together something happened that made us both remember it!

It happened to me back when I was young and carefree. I was a bar and glanced across the room and my eyes were drawn to the back of someone's head and I felt an instant connection. Even without seeing his face I knew that I would end upin bed with him at the end of the night. It's the only time something like that has happened to me, it was the weirdest thing ever.

Yes and we acted on it and it got very messy!

I have met people (like actually met them not just strangers looking at each other), felt something and let it go, then met them again by chance and got to know them better/became friends.

Yup, my first love. I saw him cross the street and just knew in that instant that he would somehow change my life.

I've had this a few times but had it once with a woman (not in a sexual way) it was the bizarrest thing ever. I felt like I knew her, like a mother /aunt type figure. Really like a long lost much loved relative type thing. She felt the same and said so, then we both shuffled away awkwardly.

Yes, my now husband. Don’t think it’s terribly rare!

Never had it happen sexually, but yes, like that, managed. I had spoken with this one person on the phone a few times, then gone my way, but then we wound up actually meeting in real life and later we both said it was a sense of that we would know each other more. But anyhow, the circumstances meant we met for a couple of hours and felt that but then that was that. A few months later, we ran into each other on the same walking route and started talking and are now friends and ramble together often.

Not a total stranger but a school mum that I had never spoken to but knew by sight.

Went out for a drink and she was there. We spent most of the evening utterly engrossed in conversation..we only realised that we had barely spoken to anyone else when it was time to go.

She texted me that night & we agreed that this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship...and it was!!

It was like falling in love but completely non-sexual. Never thought that would happen as I am older, middle-aged-type lady but it was (and still is) lovely.

Yes, theluckiest, totally non-sexual! Just have a lot in common and seem to get each other really well.

It wasn't even that I found him particularly attractive! Just felt like a connection never experienced it before

This happened to me on a flight this summer. I was by the window, middle seat was free, guy sitting beside the aisle. I looked at him and suddenly felt like I had to engage him in conversation. I fly a lot for work and generally avoid chatting on the plane if I can. So I caught his eye and we started to chat. And then we chatted non-stop for the rest of the flight, disembarking, going through customs and eventually parted when I went for a train and he went for a taxi. It was like we were instantly old friends. Never met him before, will probably never meet him again.