I meant to write about this for a while. The ting with me is that in the last 10-ish years 4 completely different people that didn't know me very well at all, have called me Monika.
1) A girl I met at Summer school, said I look like a Monika and refused to call me anything else as she said it "didn't suit me"
2) Another girl at University kept calling me Monika accidentally and said she can't remmeber my real name and I look like a Monika [also she came up with the name herself].
3) A boss of mine kept calling me Monika accidentally and said he doesn't know why [ I never mentioned the name].
4) A collegue at work had difficulties remembering my real name and keeps calling me Monika.
I find this highly amusing. Of course there is nothing "weird" about it in a fortean way but it does make me think.
I have to say that my normal name is of french origin, I have black hair but am of pallid complexion. So maybe that is an ideal mixture to come up with the name Monika, I don't know.
My synasthesia [slight] tells me that Monika is a dark name [i.e black or dark red] whereas my real name is definetly red.
What amuses me is that Monika isn't a common name in my age group, as a matter of fact I don't know anybody [not even celebrities] with that name that are my age [middleaged, leave it at that].
Anyway, the best thing is that people have never called me a different wrong name, its either they remember, tell me they don't or call me Monika.
Last but not least, my god-mother was called Monika. Ha.
