Strangers who seem familiar

[kwerk]

Do you ever meet a stranger and get the deja-vu type feeling that you already know them somehow? That they seem very familiar or you were destined to meet them?

I've come to the conclusion that there is a quite small number of "templates" that all humans are made from, with minor tweaks to make people unique. And that when you get that feeling it's because they are on the same template as someone you are familiar with (maybe an actor you've seen a lot on TV).

For example if Nick Nolte wasn't famous and you went in to Starbucks one day and he worked there and made you a coffee... you'd get that weird dejavu feeling because you're familiar with Gary Busey from TV and they are made from the same template.

But these templates work in a way that it's more often subconscious than conscious recognition so it feels like dejavu or fate.

 

[randal]

Are you saying you fancy Gary Busey?

 

[DJ_Martin]

In answer to most of your questions in the OP, no

 

[kokuten]

templates you say.. then why am i lumbered with shrek!

 

[SourChipmunk]

http://totallylookslike.icanhascheezburger.com/

Have to go through them, but there are a lot.

I have the opposite problem, though. I see people who I have met before and they don't look familiar to me at all.

 

[HNR1]

I had that a few times people think they've seen you before and i haven't got a clue who they are.

 

[Hooa]

I find this with women

 

[WingZero30]

Do you ever meet a stranger and get the deja-vu type feeling that you already know them somehow? That they seem very familiar or you were destined to meet them?

I think I can agree with that based on some of my life experiences.

I used to work for an organisation that had many shops in different locations. Once I was requested to cover a particular shop and there I met a yemeni young woman worker whom I never met or seen before.

We got chatting and she seemed so familiar that I said to her that even though I have just met her, it seems I have known her for 1000 of years. Surprisingly she also stated the same.

I have had many similar experiences where I met new people who seemed very familiar and we became very good friends.

Possibly this is one of life great mystery and may further shed light on the fact that why we get one with some people and not with others.