catseye
Old lady trouser-smell with yesterday's knickers
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I've read a few of these lately (not actually on here, but on a few other fora, where they've been asking for 'your most 'woo' experience', etc). Lots of 'I woke up in the night and an old lady was bending over me and when I woke up I described her to my husband and he said she sounded just like his dead gran' type stories. Or 'my daughter had an imaginary friend, and when she described her I knew it was my dead aunt!'
Just wondering how well someone can describe someone else that they can actually identify a person from it. All right if they have a distinguishing characteristic (one eye/huge scar) but when I try to describe even someone I know very very well, the listener would be hard pressed to pick them out of a line up. 'A tall bloke with fairish hair and a round face with a bit of a beard'. Well that's my younger son, but could pretty much be ANYONE, well, anyone capable of growing a bit of a beard anyway.
So, does anyone have any experience of this? Any opinions as to accuracy? I'm inclined to think that the listener may be putting their desire for their deceased relative still to be around ahead of actual physical accuracy. An old lady with grey hair could be me or it could be the Queen...
Just wondering how well someone can describe someone else that they can actually identify a person from it. All right if they have a distinguishing characteristic (one eye/huge scar) but when I try to describe even someone I know very very well, the listener would be hard pressed to pick them out of a line up. 'A tall bloke with fairish hair and a round face with a bit of a beard'. Well that's my younger son, but could pretty much be ANYONE, well, anyone capable of growing a bit of a beard anyway.
So, does anyone have any experience of this? Any opinions as to accuracy? I'm inclined to think that the listener may be putting their desire for their deceased relative still to be around ahead of actual physical accuracy. An old lady with grey hair could be me or it could be the Queen...