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?

Awww @sonjadog, should have got his number

Maybe not quite so instantaneous as yours, but I was thinking along similar lines the other day, having spoken to a friend I'd not seen or spoken to in 2 years. We met 10 years ago: he was in the local area for a month. In that time we met up once, maybe twice a week, but generally in the company of others. Since then we've met up twice, and spoken on the phone a handful of times. So, in all, we've not spent that much time together. Yet from the start we've always been incredibly close. Not sexually, but just very good friends. I'm always slow to open up to people so this isn't usual for me at all.

This happens to me so often. I think it’s more that some people are really pleasant to look at (notbin a sexual way) and when two people find each other pheasant this happens.

I did once - a woman sat at the same table as me in a cafe where I was having lunch. We instantly started talking and got on like a house on fire. We swapped numbers and she asked me round to her house. I went and she turned out to be mad as a box of frogs in so many ways. Clearly I wasn't quite barking enough for her and our instant friendship was very short lived.

I have formed some really good friendships veyr quickly though - some people you can just talk to straight away.

One of my first serious boyfriends was an instant attraction,- he was a friend of a friend and came over to sit with us when we were having a coffee in the student cafe. It was just an instant thing - quite weird and a bit scary - we had a very exciting but ultimately doomed relationship (too volatile) but I think about him sometimes 40 yrs on - he was the first man I was truly in love with.

Not a sexual instant connection, but when I first met my cousins soon to be wife I felt an instant connection. Absolutely love her!! We are so alike and she just gets me and I get her. Unfortunately I dont get to see her much as they live in Australia

Happened just today with a man helping at church. Sometimes you just get a mutual glint in your eye. It doesn’t mean anything.

At work. He is married, likewise me . We became good friends, his wife got a temporary Christmas job in a shop in town and he wanted me to walk down there with him and be introduced ( this was a few years of working together ) so I got to say hello to her.
It was totally non sexual on both sides, just good friends.
I eventually moved away a fair distance. We still phone each other for a catch up and I'll also chat to his wife if he's not about, and its a good few years since we've seen each other.

Posted this before, but we moved to DH’s home town and I took my little ones to the local playgroup.

I felt this massive attraction to one of the little toddlers; I really wanted to pick him up and cuddle him. It was a very strong, very strange feeling.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I got chatting to his mum and we discovered that she was married to DH’s second cousin, so our babies must’ve shared a certain amount of DNA. Presumably some subtle similarity to my kids sparked the attraction.

I should have asked for his number, but he mentioned his girlfriend a couple of times so I didn't think it was appropriate. I regret a bit not asking anyway because he comes to my home city to work from time to time and it would have been nice to meet up for a drink when he was here. Oh well.

Yes! I met a Chinese merchant seaman on the metro in Shanghai. Our eyes met and there was an immediate connection. We started a conversation but it was shortlived as I was on my way to the airport and had to get off after a few stops or I'd miss my flight, and he was on his way to his ship to head out to sea on his next voyage. Things could have been very different if we weren't both about to leave China in opposite directions.

Guy I met at work. Not a sexual / romantic attraction, but he's basically the male version of me. We get on like a house on fire and always talking / texting. Felt the connection the first time we were on shift together and five years later, we always say we're like brother & sister.

Yes it's happened a few times with men and women... not in a sexual-attraction way - just a feeling/meeting of 'minds' & a kind of natural warmth/being unable to stop looking. Always feels a bit weird like a sort of 'recognition' - am sure it means fook all

It's weird, isn't it? It's like, kismet. Same when I first met my female bestie. We were at a meet up for people who have just one thing in common, but from the get go, she and I were connected. We are also keen walkers and have done long routes together. As with my male rambler friend, it's like you almost know what the other is thinking.

Yes, met my now OH in a pub.
The pub was packed, but he just stood out to me, we both kept glancing back and forth to each other, he came over and we just clicked instantly which is unusual for me, I normally struggle in social situations but I've never felt awkward or struggled with conversation with him, it just felt right.
It definitely wasn't love at first sight though, we had a connection, a spark, but I didn't think it would go anywhere, we saw each other for a few months casually then eventually got together properly, we get married in a few weeks