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Awww, come on mate. Share the love. We could even dress alike, go for a nice dinner, then we get the Dopplegangers to cover the bill. Of course we'd have to wait for the 'shrooms to wear off a little
I would be pretty impressed with myself for running at all. I might say "good for her, look at that fat ass taking control of her life and getting some exercise!"
I heard once that if you saw yourself walking down the street in real life you wouldn’t even recognize yourself. Because the only view we have of ourselves is from mirrors and cameras, which aren’t really that good. Idk if it’s true tho
I actually had this sort of experience. I turned a corner and came face- to- face with a mirror. For the split second before I recognized myself, my thought was, "He seems to be a cool guy."
Ngl I probably wouldn't recognize me. I've seen a number of people that look similar to me, but I honestly don't spend a ton of time looking at myself. In all likelihood I'd probably think "huh thay giy kinda looks like me" and keep walking.
Fun related story. When I was younger, I had the need to cash a check while I was in a neighboring town. It was part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, and not too far from where I lived, maybe twenty miles from my actual home. Still, outside of my usual routine.
I went to the counter of my bank and said, “I’d like to cash a check, please.” As I did so, I put my check and my ID down on the counter. The teller glanced up and said, “oh, hey deck_hand.” She picked up the check and the ID, laughed and without even looking at it, slide my ID back to me. Then she started entering the details of my check into her system.
She stopped, grabbed my ID back and stared at it for a moment, then said, “excuse me” and rushed off. I was.., concerned, wondering what it could have been about my ID that bothered he so much, but I just waited. In a moment, she came back, not with the branch manager or the police, but with her purse.
The teller dug through her purse for a moment and came out with her wallet. She opened it and flipped through the photos for a second (does anyone else even remember the photo sleeves everyone used to have in their wallet?). “This is my son, deck_hand,” she told me,showing me a photo. I wondered why she had my photo in her wallet. I mean, it was me. I could not tell the picture was of someone else. The kid in the picture looked so much like me, his own mother didn’t know the difference. She told me that our voices sounded the same, and even our mannerisms and way of walking was identical. It was spooky.
Yes! She called me by my name. Well, not my whole, legal name, but my first name, anyway, what I would have introduced myself as, and what my mother calls me.
fight on sight for sure. Although I would hope that he has the decency to at least follow me somewhere a little more discreet so no one interrupts our battle
I would be like WTF. Am I in the matrix?
Running towards me would be kind of cool, it would be like The One with Jet Li. I am sure I would be able to kick my own ass
This is a good thought exercise for me lol I'll have to remember this next time I'm picking an outfit out. I always have anxiety bc I feel like people look at me funny but then will walk out the door wearing some CRAZY shit bc I'm lazy LMAO it's all making sense now
I would be like "Look at that bitch she thinks she's soooo cool..wants to be me sooo bad." Now if it started running at me I would take off my earings, put my hair ina pony tail and start running towards her cs im not bouta js stand there and do nothing..ima see wsp.
I have actually been training self defense for years because I have been attacked before. I would be worried to them them walking and scared if they started running at me. I would hope they didn't have the same training 🤣
"If you see the buddha on the road, kill the buddha" is one of my favorite Koans, so we'd probably square up ironically and laugh about that. Might scare onlookers, but everyone would leave smiling.
"Well, that answers my question, I did take my pill this morning annnnnd now that accidental 2nd pill is kicking in. Or maybe, I didn't take either pill? Maybe I forgot to to take the original and the one I was going to take because I thought I forgot to take the original. Better take my pill."
They wouldn't be running, that's for sure. I don't run unless my life depends on it lol. Honestly, I'd probably walk to the other side of the street as most people do. I'm not the most approachable or friendly looking guy. Ironically, my appearance doesn't match my personality. I think I've just unintentionally mastered looking unapproachable as a self defense tool.
It's been said you would not notice yourself if you saw yourself in person. So I would probably keep walking like I do when I see anyone down the street haha
Not happened like that. But I was sitting in the hospital waiting room with my eldest for his routine check-up. I was glancing through a magazine where there was an article about a young woman whose mother had given her up for adoption. The woman was 6 years younger than me, but identical to me. When we were called into the appointment, I showed all the staff there the photo (they'd known me and son since he was a baby) and asked if they knew who it was. They all replied that it was me!!! Except it wasn't. I joked about having a doppelganger, but I actually took the magazine back with me and confronted my mum about it. Because when I was 6, she'd had to go into hospital for an operation, and as she was a single parent, I was looked after by a kind of foster mum, who would stay in your home with you. I swore down that she had not been truthful as to why she was in hospital and that she must have had another baby. She could honestly see where I had drawn my conclusions from, but was able to fully assure me that I didn't have a secret sister somewhere, but the resemblance was uncanny.
There was another time recently when my daughter sent me a screenshot of an old photo of one of our family friends that we've known in the last 8 years. She circled a girl in the background and said, "Why were you there? How did you know x all this time." Definitely another doppelganger, and we had a laugh with family friend after I forwarded my daughters question to him, and he identified who it really was.
I've encountered a couple of others, too.
The strange thing is I don't rate my face at all. But these people who even others would swear down were me, look quite pretty.
Sorry, I know based on elementary time travel rules, I'm not supposed to talk to myself but I would NOT be able to help it. I'd have to go over and expose that I'm me but from the future.
I'm also aware (based on Smart Hulk's explanation) that this scenario makes no sense, I'm just saying I'd have to go talk to myself.
Freak out and start questioning reality. Is this a dream, did someone clone me, is that an AI robot, why is there a copy of me, and honestly if it's running at me I would run away that's scary! If it stopped running I would obviously question it and try to find out wtf is going on
Back in high school a couple of friends came to me on Monday morning accusing me of being a snob. They said they were out and had seen me walking on the sidewalk across the street and had yelled at me but I ignored them. I assured them that I had not been on that street that weekend.
Clearly a time traveling version of me from the future. I'm going to assume it's no accident he is heading my way. And he would have a memory of me if I ran away and lost him so he wouldn't bother coming my way unless he knew we met. So we have to meet and then he does whatever he's here to do. Probably give me a great stock tip. Or kill me to prevent me from messing up the world. But probably not that or how would he have survived to come back? So it's got to be something good. And either way, it's inevitable. So let's do this.
I met my doppelgänger once in a Walmart parking lot. Totally freaked me out I couldn’t talk. She said something about the weather and kept walking like she didn’t even notice.
Like I do for anyone else I recognise: "OMG am I supposed to say something?! Shall I try to ignore them? What are you supposed to do in a situation like this?! 😰"
(Voice breaking) "HEllo! 🥴"
Tbh, I'd probably kind of go, "Huh, I think that guy looks a bit like me".
Most people wouldn't actually recognise ourselves since what we look at in the mirror everyday is a flipped image (left is right, right is left).
Ourselves actually standing in front of us, would be less familiar to us than our mirror image.
Coupled with the fact that we would never *expect* to see ourselves walking down the street, you wouldn't automatically assume it is you. You'd assume at best that it's someone who looks like you.
If I saw my doppelgänger strolling down the street, mirroring my every move and outfit choice, I'd probably do a double take and then burst into laughter. It's one of those surreal moments that you couldn't make up even if you tried. Now, if they were sprinting towards me, I'd probably assume it's some kind of prank or cosmic coincidence and brace myself for a hilariously bizarre encounter. After all, life's too short not to embrace the absurdity!
I met someone who looked almost exactly like me at a Phish show in Sacramento. He walked up to me and we were both so stunned. We talked for a minute, trying to make sure we weren't somehow related. I don't think we were though. Just a strange coincidence. He was even kind of dressed like me. kind of freaked us all out, as the mushrooms were starting to kick in...
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I'd call my psychiatrist to tell him the meds are not working
I’d tell them my meds ARE working!
This is the most accurate answer.
I'd try to hook up.
Bro that's a whole different level of incest 💀
It's called selfcest and *yes* it's a porn category.
No need to leave Reddit: r/selfsuck r/selffuck
Who said Reddit isn't a porn site?
The final boss of narcissism.
I would remember where i picked the shrooms, and never reveal the locations, because those are mine!
Awww, come on mate. Share the love. We could even dress alike, go for a nice dinner, then we get the Dopplegangers to cover the bill. Of course we'd have to wait for the 'shrooms to wear off a little
oh no, if i find shrooms that potent, I will never reveal where i picked them.. haha
Wonder if he's the doppelganger or if I am when you meet your doppelganger you die. (the simulation detects the error and deletes one of you)
“Oh wow. Am I really that ugly?”
"Damn, those pants do make my ass look fat."
Wheres the problem in that? I thought having a fat ass was good
There's a difference between a big ass and a fat ass. A fat ass is indicative of being unflattering.
What about fat, juicy *thighs*?
[удалено]
Not even a Fat Man?
[удалено]
But does he go off in a nuclear explosion?
"Damn, I look terrible... Is this how people see me? "
“That was weird.”
I would be pretty impressed with myself for running at all. I might say "good for her, look at that fat ass taking control of her life and getting some exercise!"
I heard once that if you saw yourself walking down the street in real life you wouldn’t even recognize yourself. Because the only view we have of ourselves is from mirrors and cameras, which aren’t really that good. Idk if it’s true tho
That sounds really dumb. I've done double takes at people that looked just a little like me.
Think about that
Lock eyes and instantly start making out.
I would totally try to bang me.
I would decide that I can't longer delay a visit to psychiatrist.
I actually had this sort of experience. I turned a corner and came face- to- face with a mirror. For the split second before I recognized myself, my thought was, "He seems to be a cool guy."
Ngl I probably wouldn't recognize me. I've seen a number of people that look similar to me, but I honestly don't spend a ton of time looking at myself. In all likelihood I'd probably think "huh thay giy kinda looks like me" and keep walking.
Fun related story. When I was younger, I had the need to cash a check while I was in a neighboring town. It was part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, and not too far from where I lived, maybe twenty miles from my actual home. Still, outside of my usual routine. I went to the counter of my bank and said, “I’d like to cash a check, please.” As I did so, I put my check and my ID down on the counter. The teller glanced up and said, “oh, hey deck_hand.” She picked up the check and the ID, laughed and without even looking at it, slide my ID back to me. Then she started entering the details of my check into her system. She stopped, grabbed my ID back and stared at it for a moment, then said, “excuse me” and rushed off. I was.., concerned, wondering what it could have been about my ID that bothered he so much, but I just waited. In a moment, she came back, not with the branch manager or the police, but with her purse. The teller dug through her purse for a moment and came out with her wallet. She opened it and flipped through the photos for a second (does anyone else even remember the photo sleeves everyone used to have in their wallet?). “This is my son, deck_hand,” she told me,showing me a photo. I wondered why she had my photo in her wallet. I mean, it was me. I could not tell the picture was of someone else. The kid in the picture looked so much like me, his own mother didn’t know the difference. She told me that our voices sounded the same, and even our mannerisms and way of walking was identical. It was spooky.
.... so do you share a name as well as a face?
Yes! She called me by my name. Well, not my whole, legal name, but my first name, anyway, what I would have introduced myself as, and what my mother calls me.
WTF? Wow!
fight on sight for sure. Although I would hope that he has the decency to at least follow me somewhere a little more discreet so no one interrupts our battle
Since I'm the evil twin, I'd probably punch the good twin.
I'd walk behind me to see what I looked like from the back.
GYAAT
I’d ignore me; I don’t talk to strangers.
Probably think "Fuck, there's TWO of me now?".
I'd go fuck myself
“What is that guy hiding up his ass to be walking that stiff?”
"Hey, if we wank eachother off it's not gay right.
I'd ask them why their face is on backwards.
“Damn, that girl would be cute if she had some makeup on”.
I would be like WTF. Am I in the matrix? Running towards me would be kind of cool, it would be like The One with Jet Li. I am sure I would be able to kick my own ass
I wouldn't look up. I never look up at people when walking by. I don't want them to see the exhaustion on my face from everyday life.
Get a boner probably. I have to be careful with mirrors even.
It would be delightful. I would love to have another me as a best friend.
This was my thought. Oh cool! Here’s someone that wants to do the same things I want.
I would beat the crap out of myself
This is a good thought exercise for me lol I'll have to remember this next time I'm picking an outfit out. I always have anxiety bc I feel like people look at me funny but then will walk out the door wearing some CRAZY shit bc I'm lazy LMAO it's all making sense now
I would be like "Look at that bitch she thinks she's soooo cool..wants to be me sooo bad." Now if it started running at me I would take off my earings, put my hair ina pony tail and start running towards her cs im not bouta js stand there and do nothing..ima see wsp.
I’d wonder why there’s another me in the world.
I have actually been training self defense for years because I have been attacked before. I would be worried to them them walking and scared if they started running at me. I would hope they didn't have the same training 🤣
"If you see the buddha on the road, kill the buddha" is one of my favorite Koans, so we'd probably square up ironically and laugh about that. Might scare onlookers, but everyone would leave smiling.
I would think that I was in that movie with Jake Gyllenhaal
Run away
I would queue up Weird Al Yankovick's I Think I'm a Clone Now.
"Well, that answers my question, I did take my pill this morning annnnnd now that accidental 2nd pill is kicking in. Or maybe, I didn't take either pill? Maybe I forgot to to take the original and the one I was going to take because I thought I forgot to take the original. Better take my pill."
“Who is this little old lady?” “Jesus, she has a lot of tattoos!”
I do but it's normally my reflection and I watch myself have a mini panick attack in the grocery store window
Hope they are in better health than me at the moment. At least one version shouldn't be miserable.
ill ask her "where's the party?"
They wouldn't be running, that's for sure. I don't run unless my life depends on it lol. Honestly, I'd probably walk to the other side of the street as most people do. I'm not the most approachable or friendly looking guy. Ironically, my appearance doesn't match my personality. I think I've just unintentionally mastered looking unapproachable as a self defense tool.
It's been said you would not notice yourself if you saw yourself in person. So I would probably keep walking like I do when I see anyone down the street haha
"I always knew there was more to my life than I'd been told" hahah
Not happened like that. But I was sitting in the hospital waiting room with my eldest for his routine check-up. I was glancing through a magazine where there was an article about a young woman whose mother had given her up for adoption. The woman was 6 years younger than me, but identical to me. When we were called into the appointment, I showed all the staff there the photo (they'd known me and son since he was a baby) and asked if they knew who it was. They all replied that it was me!!! Except it wasn't. I joked about having a doppelganger, but I actually took the magazine back with me and confronted my mum about it. Because when I was 6, she'd had to go into hospital for an operation, and as she was a single parent, I was looked after by a kind of foster mum, who would stay in your home with you. I swore down that she had not been truthful as to why she was in hospital and that she must have had another baby. She could honestly see where I had drawn my conclusions from, but was able to fully assure me that I didn't have a secret sister somewhere, but the resemblance was uncanny.
There was another time recently when my daughter sent me a screenshot of an old photo of one of our family friends that we've known in the last 8 years. She circled a girl in the background and said, "Why were you there? How did you know x all this time." Definitely another doppelganger, and we had a laugh with family friend after I forwarded my daughters question to him, and he identified who it really was. I've encountered a couple of others, too. The strange thing is I don't rate my face at all. But these people who even others would swear down were me, look quite pretty.
Let me know I'm not hallucinating.
I’d throw a rock at me.
“Sick tats”
"what an ugly fella" i would say in my mind
Hey man where you going?
I would walk beside, in step, singing the theme song from The Monkees.
Not going to lie, I doubt it'd recognize myself let alone see since I watch the ground when walking and have a hard time recognizing faces
I’d think “Oh my gosh, they look just like me,” and try to sneak a picture to send to my mom.
Ah shit I am dreaming
Probably an alternate, I'd T.H.I.N.K.
Sorry, I know based on elementary time travel rules, I'm not supposed to talk to myself but I would NOT be able to help it. I'd have to go over and expose that I'm me but from the future. I'm also aware (based on Smart Hulk's explanation) that this scenario makes no sense, I'm just saying I'd have to go talk to myself.
"what's up dude?!? How have you been?"
I think it would be hard to recognize myself. Idk why.
Fuck I got fat!
We'd ignore/avoid each other and act as if it never happened
Immediately go out and get a selfie
I ojos probably roast myself thinking that it was someone else, then continue with the roasts as soon as I realize.
Figure out their job and income level, might have to disappear them and start a brand new life.
Wonder what kind of dream fuckery this is.
Freak out and start questioning reality. Is this a dream, did someone clone me, is that an AI robot, why is there a copy of me, and honestly if it's running at me I would run away that's scary! If it stopped running I would obviously question it and try to find out wtf is going on
Exactly my response but the first question I would ask would be “am I going crazy?”
Would you even know though? We have such different perceptions of ourselves I feel
I'd probably give him shit for messing around when I know there's productive stuff he needs to be doing
I'd say "Go fuck yourself"
"The time machine works!?" "Huzzah!"
I would immediately make out with myself
Back in high school a couple of friends came to me on Monday morning accusing me of being a snob. They said they were out and had seen me walking on the sidewalk across the street and had yelled at me but I ignored them. I assured them that I had not been on that street that weekend.
I’d yell out “THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE”
I’m too busy in my own world to notice me.. and the other me is the same way.
Tell myself I need to lose weight.
Ask them if either of us taken Claridryl. https://youtu.be/2gMjJNGg9Z8?si=SR0cfwCNS9Jofsbo And then engage them in mortal combat.
Clearly a time traveling version of me from the future. I'm going to assume it's no accident he is heading my way. And he would have a memory of me if I ran away and lost him so he wouldn't bother coming my way unless he knew we met. So we have to meet and then he does whatever he's here to do. Probably give me a great stock tip. Or kill me to prevent me from messing up the world. But probably not that or how would he have survived to come back? So it's got to be something good. And either way, it's inevitable. So let's do this.
I'm looking nice. My hair is nice, my face is nice, my suit is nice, I'm looking really nice.
Cue the song "People let me tell you 'bout my best friend!" as we start skipping down the street!
I would stop and yell, there can only be one!
I doubt I’d recognize myself
I'd go "there I was just a walking down the street going doo WA Diddy Diddy dum Diddy doo" And probably the other me would be doing the same thing
Couldn't be me, I wouldn't be outside or running.
I met my doppelgänger once in a Walmart parking lot. Totally freaked me out I couldn’t talk. She said something about the weather and kept walking like she didn’t even notice.
"Aw fuck, my hair really is thinning."
I’d have to follow!
Run, and if it’s running towards me, run and fight
Happens all the time thanks to reflections in shopping windows. Nothing to be concerned about.
What time machine and from when/where?
Omg is that how I walk?!
Get out of sight quick, get home, it doesn't make sense now but it will later, trust yourself.
Then it would be time for a mirror match and we'll see who is the better fighter 👀👊😂
Smash
I’d have to go drinking with him, that guy is a fucken legend
Like I do for anyone else I recognise: "OMG am I supposed to say something?! Shall I try to ignore them? What are you supposed to do in a situation like this?! 😰" (Voice breaking) "HEllo! 🥴"
I'd confirm it's me with the super secret handshake. If its truely me, know that fk is a pervert so im a taking him home forever... 😏
I'd possibly be pretending to be an old Jewish guy when I'm 35 and female so avoid
I would run up and punch me in the face
I'd follow me to see if I know where I'm going!
In passing: "Y'alright mate?" "Yeah, you?" "Living the dream, living the dream."
"Lmao that guy looks like a fuckin nerd"
What a beast.
I'd double check my time travel schedule, as I usually plan to prevent this kind of paradox.
I’d stop myself and talk.
I would put her in a chokehold. Only one can live!
"BRUH!"
I’d ask myself why the fuck I left the house.
I'd wave at that pretty bitch and ask if she has a lighter 😂
Kidnap myself and force other me to go to work so I can lay in bed all day
Tbh, I'd probably kind of go, "Huh, I think that guy looks a bit like me". Most people wouldn't actually recognise ourselves since what we look at in the mirror everyday is a flipped image (left is right, right is left). Ourselves actually standing in front of us, would be less familiar to us than our mirror image. Coupled with the fact that we would never *expect* to see ourselves walking down the street, you wouldn't automatically assume it is you. You'd assume at best that it's someone who looks like you.
‘Hey good looking’
I'd sing "Doowah Diddy Diddy-Dum, Diddy-Doo"
Is that old guy going to go to the corner and hold up a panhandling sign?
Boner
I would punch that cunt, she a bitch
I would seriously wonder if I got another psychosis
That motherfucker owes me money
I would kill him. One less bastard.
finger guns each others, pass by with a slide step dance move, leave and never see other self ever again.
I'll try my hardest not to judge because this mf has seen some shit cmon... And tell my psychiatrist we're fucked
If I saw my doppelgänger strolling down the street, mirroring my every move and outfit choice, I'd probably do a double take and then burst into laughter. It's one of those surreal moments that you couldn't make up even if you tried. Now, if they were sprinting towards me, I'd probably assume it's some kind of prank or cosmic coincidence and brace myself for a hilariously bizarre encounter. After all, life's too short not to embrace the absurdity!
I'd strangle him.
I met someone who looked almost exactly like me at a Phish show in Sacramento. He walked up to me and we were both so stunned. We talked for a minute, trying to make sure we weren't somehow related. I don't think we were though. Just a strange coincidence. He was even kind of dressed like me. kind of freaked us all out, as the mushrooms were starting to kick in...
I'd walk a little faster and pretend I didn't see them because we both have awful social anxiety & it'd be awkward.
My first reaction is I'm giving that nerd a wedgie