severs1966
open-minded empiricist
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- Apr 12, 2014
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- West Yorkshire, England
[...]And if the knowledge sort of passed esoterically into my head from a real person living a real life, who is that person? I'd like to know. How much more of my life's memories are his, not mine, but have never been tested to see if they belong to me or him?
I don't know if I have shared my experiences on this forum of occasionally meeting a chap who looks exactly like me. He lives somewhere around the area where I live.
Some of my friends and acquaintances have seen or met him, leading to "hilarious consequences", etc. (actually not in any way hilarious and occasionally annoying).
The very first time I met him was a huge surprise for both of us, and was also the occasion where I discovered he is deaf and a user of sign language who doesn't seem to speak. This goes some way to explain the misunderstandings that have arisen when friends of mine have seen or met him and thought he was me.
If it wasn't for this one fact - that he is deaf - I would be very tempted to imagine that we are somehow connected in an immaterial, esoteric way, and that he learned to ride a motorcycle and the knowledge "drifted" into me via our "special connection". Or something like that. It would be a fun idea and I'd love to have experienced something special like that.
Trouble is, the (fictional) memories are filled with spoken conversations and listening to experienced trainers, etc. That can't be the magically-transferred memory of a deaf person can it? That blows the "esoteric connection" hypothesis to bits.
If anyone is interested, I will write about my doppelganger experiences in the relevant thread (can anyone recommend the correct thread?)