Any Explanation? Keep seeing familiar faces, only to find we've never met before...

Hi OP! Great thread topic!! I have many, many times been approached by total strangers or newly introduced people who tell me they think they know me from somewhere or that I look very familiar to them.

Most of the time I just smile and politely assure them that we have definitely not met before (at least not in this lifetime or timeline) but it can become uncomfortable when they persist and scan their memories trying to figure out where they know me from. They can be so certain about this that I almost feel like they think I'm lying to them!

This happens so often to me that I know there must be something to it. Maybe I was famous in a past life or something. Who knows!!

Until last night I didn't think much about this, but know I am more than stunned. If anyone here has had similar experiences, please respond.

Went to a housewarming party last night for my cousin.

Anyhow, while at the party, I recognized a number of people, YET, when I approached them to say hello, found that we had never met before.

During the course of four hours, this happenned at least a dozen times, although I stopped asking after six or so.

After I got home, I started to recall that over the past few months I have seen the faces of strangers in stores, while away on vacation, and on streets here in NYC that also have seemed familiar. A few times I have actually gone over to a few whose eye contact led me to believe that we HAD met in the past. With this in mind, I couldn't help but think that not persuing a 're-introduction' might be considered a shun...only to then find out that we had no common links that would have made our knowing each other possible.

Are any of you experiencing the same thing?

What explanation can there be to this phenomenon?

It seems bizarre, yet, somewhat 'natural'...if one takes into account some of the stuff we've been reading on threads here.

Of all of the people I have mistakenly said 'hello' to, only one person has ever seemed upset in any way; for some reason she seemed somewhat shocked, then quickly insisted that we had never met even before we could figure any commonalities (my cousin's coworker, last night.) THAT was really strange, as if I have frightened her. BTW, I am a pleasant, soft-spoken female, trim, neat and clean; there should have been no reason for her to seem upset. I am a person who makes eye contact with and smiles at anyone passing me on the street...just about always getting back a similar response.

Any ideas?

I experience the same thing. Sometimes I "know" things about people I randomly encounter. Perhaps rather than "knowing" the person we are "knowing" their soul. I've been reading a fascinating book by Michael Newton who is a hypnotist who specializes in "Life between Lives" regression. He has 3 books; start with "Journey of Souls" if you're interesting.
I enjoy your posts here..