A doppelganger experiencer recalls two instances, as a child, when he observed himself or a double of himself. His father kind of brushed it off as happenstance. Now he wonders what happened.
I received the following account:
“When I was a kid, like, I was 11 or 12, something like that, I was playing in the huge parking lot that was behind my house in North Chicago, IL. I had a baseball bat and I was pretending it was a sword.
So I was in the parking lot, slashing around, pretending I was fighting bad guys. The parking lot was one huge parking lot and then it had driveways going beside the building out to the main road. So I was fighting in it and I got up to the fence that was on the side of one of the driveways and I did a fancy little slash and then I pretended I sheathed it on my back and then I stood up and I looked down the driveway. I saw myself standing on the sidewalk staring back at me!
Of course, I was freaked out because I didn't know what was going on. At first, I thought it was someone who looked just like me and he probably thought the same thing. And then he kind of did a jog down the sidewalk past the building where I couldn’t see him anymore. So I ran up and looked around the corner and he was gone. I looked around the parking lot just in case he was looking for me but I couldn't see him. So, creeped out, I decided to head home and I told my father about this and then he told me about doppelgangers. I was convinced I saw my own doppelganger.
Two or three years later, I'm walking down the sidewalk toward home, and I look down the driveway and I see myself playing in this parking lot doing all the same slashes. I did like the fancy slash and sheathed it. And I was like, I remember this. I remember seeing myself in this position. So without even thinking about it, I dashed off to the front of the building and turned around and I waited for my younger self to come up the driveway. But my younger self never showed up. I looked down the driveway and I was not there. I walked home and I told my father about what I just saw and he laughed.
I wonder if seeing a doppelganger is common? My father acted as if it was something that happens to everyone. I'm an adult now, and it's been over a dozen years since that last encounter. I'm just wondering what caused me to see it?” C
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