doppelgangers
Hello...I've been lurking and commenting for a while and I didn't even realize I wasn't a member. So, since I just joined...
Has anyone had any weird doppelganger experiences?
"In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed at oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance."
So this took place about 2 years ago. I have to first say that I have never ever had any tendency to sleepwalk or anything. Never done it before.
Anyways, I am a night owl, and it was about 3am when I decided it was probably time to get some sleep. I got into bed and turned off my light and everything. I remember waking up at around 3:40 because I had to go to the bathroom. Now, the stairs are right outside my bedroom. The bathroom is to the left, and the top of the stairs is right there. Like 5 feet from my room. There's a night light in the bathroom so you don't fall down the stairs.
ANYWAYS, I didn't turn on any lights because I could see well enough in the dark. I opened my bedroom door and I was standing at the top of the stairs. I mean, I was LOOKING at myself, standing there staring back at...myself at the top of the stairs. I was wearing the exact same clothes, and I had this weird blank expression on my face. It was like looking in a mirror, except it didn't move with me. So I just stood there for like 5 minutes, SUPER confused. I tried to snap out of it, pretty sure I was dreaming since I had just woken up and was probably kind of out of it. then, my other self turned around and walked down the fucking stairs.
So I went to the bathroom.
I didn't go back to sleep after that because the more I thought about it, the more it terrified me. I wasn't scared at first because, as I said, I had just woken up and I was like OH HAI A MIRROR. And I'm 99% sure I wasn't sleepwalking. But I remember I was on edge all day the next day. I had a little mirror phobia before, but it's been a lot worse since then.
Has anyone had any weird doppelganger experiences?
"In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed at oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance."
So this took place about 2 years ago. I have to first say that I have never ever had any tendency to sleepwalk or anything. Never done it before.
Anyways, I am a night owl, and it was about 3am when I decided it was probably time to get some sleep. I got into bed and turned off my light and everything. I remember waking up at around 3:40 because I had to go to the bathroom. Now, the stairs are right outside my bedroom. The bathroom is to the left, and the top of the stairs is right there. Like 5 feet from my room. There's a night light in the bathroom so you don't fall down the stairs.
ANYWAYS, I didn't turn on any lights because I could see well enough in the dark. I opened my bedroom door and I was standing at the top of the stairs. I mean, I was LOOKING at myself, standing there staring back at...myself at the top of the stairs. I was wearing the exact same clothes, and I had this weird blank expression on my face. It was like looking in a mirror, except it didn't move with me. So I just stood there for like 5 minutes, SUPER confused. I tried to snap out of it, pretty sure I was dreaming since I had just woken up and was probably kind of out of it. then, my other self turned around and walked down the fucking stairs.
So I went to the bathroom.
I didn't go back to sleep after that because the more I thought about it, the more it terrified me. I wasn't scared at first because, as I said, I had just woken up and I was like OH HAI A MIRROR. And I'm 99% sure I wasn't sleepwalking. But I remember I was on edge all day the next day. I had a little mirror phobia before, but it's been a lot worse since then.