to ask if you've ever met your doppelganger

[blackpoe]

I haven't but I have met a friend's one when on holiday on the other side of the world in NZ, it was such an odd experience - they obviously didn't sound alike but they looked identical.

No, but I've been mistaken for her twice! In two different parts of the country.

Not in person but once I saw a photo of my ex boyfriend's next girlfriend and she looked exactly like me, it was unsettling! I guess he had a type...

I haven’t but I know she’s out there somewhere, she lives in New Zealand (or at least did). I left NZ in 2008 & not long before this I was waiting at a bus stop when a lady came up to me very excited excited and animated about my “win” at the cossie club last night. I laughed and said unfortunately it wasn’t me, she was surprised and said we looked exactly alike, same height, friendly etc. My doppelgänger had won $300 the evening before & seemingly had a fantastic night
I kept my eyes peeled for her before I left, and in the times since when I’ve been back there but I’ve never seen her.

No but I've been in a lift and been 'recognised', the chap was adamant my name was Wendy and we'd met on a course. He was so confused when I explained repeatedly we'd never met, I'm still not sure he believed I wasn't Wendy!

Yes, on a bus. She was getting off when I clocked her. Very surreal.

When I was a student, I worked on a summer camp in America. When I got home, I eventually showed my mum and dad the photos that I'd taken. This was back in pre-digital camera days when you had to wait for photos to come back from the developer.

They thought that one of the photos of me was really nice.

It wasn't me; it was one of the other camp counsellors.

My own parents thought that a picture of another girl (who I didn't think looked anything like me)was me.

I went to school with my now sister in law. I remember SIL well. My daughter now looks the spit of her when we were at school together. Really weird.

I was on holiday in Devon. My mate was going to the same place the week after. On the the Monday I thought I saw my friend 'moving in'
I text 'boo, did you swap your booking' she thought I had gone mad. I took a photo of this lady. Even my friend was confused! The clothing was the same style, the way she moved and the car, even her dyed hair colour. It was so strange!

No, but someone I met tried to convince me that I was someone else and they would not be persuaded that I wasn't! They had presumably met my doppelganger. In my younger days, I did also apparently look like someone in the public eye, and used to get waved ahead into clubs, sent drinks over and so on. I never claimed to be that person, but who was I to argue?!

No. Would have loved to. She was in the public eye, but died a couple of years ago.

I have never met any of them, but relatively often (once a year?) someone tells me I look just like X person they know. And it can’t always be about the same person - I think I most just have a very generic face! (White, brown hair and eyes, average looking!).

Eg the last couple of occasions: I was with a friend helping her view a house she was considering buying and the estate agent said I was the double of this person he knew.

Then last year I was walking down a main street in London and a stranger actually called to me by another name but obviously I wasn’t the person he thought I was! And we had quite an amusing conversation about this other person I apparently resemble closely.

My (favourite) uncle has one locally, he became friends with my family but I instantly took to this other man (non uncle). You know when they just have a trusting face, I had to remind myself that he wasn't my uncle and stop being so cheeky, it was so so wierd. Non uncle was a about a foot shorter tho,.but exact same face.

Yes but not met. Large village where I lived for a short time, was walking down the hill, went round the bend and was behind a guy with a GSD. The dog turned round to look at me, & kept stopping to look. The guy looked back to see what ddog was looking at. He laughed & said sorry but you look like my daughter & ddog must think you are her. It was a gorgeous dog!

There’s a very interesting documentary on Netflix called “Three Identical en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers

[quote Annonymiss123]There’s a very interesting documentary on Netflix called “Three Identical en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers[/quote]
Sorry, that should say “Three Identical Strangers”.

A friend saw mine in our tourist town. She was just about to speak to her when she realised the hair was a bit longer than mine had been when she had seen me the day before.

I remember being on holiday in Devon/Cornwall when I was about 10-12 and seeing another child on the campsite who looked the same as me

A few days later they actually came over to me and said You look exactly the same as me. Very weird. I wonder thirty years later if we still look the same

No, but a couple of friends have thought they saw me locally when it definitely wasn't (I don't cycle).

Yes, it was bizarre! I was filming a wedding and she was the harpist. Everyone kept asking if we were twins. I had to explain we’d never met before. Remember watching the footage back while editing thinking how strange it was to see someone so like me.

There was an article on fb with a photo of a child that I could have sworn was DS, although it was in black and white. It wasn't just the looks, the whole expression and body language. I showed him and he thought it was him. The personality types desctibed in the article were him too

I often remind people of someone they know.

Not me,but DH came face to face with his in our local mall a few years ago.they both stopped in their tracks and stared. I couldn’t believe he didn’t speak to him but I guess that’s men for you.

Not mine, but my son's, when on a day trip. He was even wearing a similarly coloured fleece, and I found myself holding a hand of a complete stranger 6 year old in a cafe. Thankfully the other family had mine and they were further ahead in the queue. It was twin-like resemblance, we have each other's details and were thinking of doing a DNA test when they are a bit older, just out of curiosity. There's nothing "similar" in the children's genetic background, my son is quarter Jewish, quarter Slavic and half Irish, the other child is 100% French for several generations, all ancestors from the same small town.

I wonder how many of us are related, distantly or otherwise, to our doppelganger, but don't know it - secret children of a relative and so on?

No, but years ago on holiday some older women came up & started chatting to me in Spanish - they were very confused when they realised I was English, and I worked out eventually that they thought I was someone they knew.

My ex DH is getting married to mine!

My best friend has a time travelling doppelganger who looks just like him at the age of 20, down to the same hairstyle and eccentric dress sense, who I see at my local tube station regularly.

DS is my doppelganger in photos as long as he isn't sporting a beard! Obviously that's genetics but even my mum can't tell the difference between some photos of him and me at the same age. In real life, his Adam's apple, height and stubble and other masculine attributes and lack of female ones are more obvious but in a photo, if you can't see them, he's my twin. Although even in real life, people tend to see waist length blonde hair and are blind to his beard.