Anomaly21
The same dream, the same place, or the thing before it happened.
Nothing here yet. That is the point.
The double
Seeing yourself, or somebody seeing you where you were not
It comes in two directions. Some people see themselves: across a room, ahead of them on a road, once and never again. And some people are seen: friends greet them in places they have never been, hours before they arrive. Both kinds are reported soberly, by people who know exactly how it sounds.
What people describe
The seen double rarely speaks and rarely lingers. The witnessed double behaves normally, which is the unsettling part: it held a conversation, it ordered coffee, it waved. Norwegian folklore has a word, vardoger, for the arrival that precedes you. Psychiatry has words for some of this too, and the honest page holds both without deciding for you.
What this record actually holds
27
accounts out of 48,464 touch on this. Nothing in the seeded archives asked about this, which is most of why the count is what it is. The traces below are what a search of every account turns up. If you have met your double, yours would be the account this page exists for.
The reason is worth stating plainly rather than hiding. This record is seeded from archives that already existed: sightings in the sky, encounters in the woods, the French space agency's case files, a decade of dream journals, sworn testimony before Congress. Each one only holds what somebody thought to ask about. Nobody has built the archive for this, which is most of why it took years of searching at two in the morning for the person who built this site to work out that what happened to him had happened to anybody else. That story is here.
The nearest thing the record does have
the feeling of being watched 231the same thing seen again on another occasion 106sudden dread 38no face 15
Written by people describing something else entirely, which is what makes the overlap worth looking at rather than circular
Did this happen to you?
Then you would be the first, and the page changes the moment you are. Write it in your own words, and every account that arrives after yours gets checked against it. It takes two minutes and you can stay anonymous.
Tell us what happenedKnow someone this happened to?
This is the page that did not exist when the person who built this site needed it. If somebody you know has been carrying one of these around, send it to them.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
Other kinds of experience
2,673
The moment the forest goes quiet.
43
Hours that cannot be accounted for.
9,039
The oldest phenomenon in the record, and the most often explained.