 Doppelganger
:
"I saw my own ghost!"
I
believe that I am a bit psychic. I can literally
'smell' death around a person who I believe is going
to die. Although I find the exact scent impossible
to describe my intuition inevitably proves correct.
Very
recently I had a very peculiar experience. I was
stood in front of the mirror. Suddenly I felt as
if someone else was in the room. I turned around
and there, wearing totally different clothes, I
saw myself with a big smile across my face! I was
soon to go into hospital and at first thought the
worse but there was no 'smell' of death. My operation
was completely successful.
Mrs Jane
D
 You
saw your double - known as a Doppelganger. These
puzzling apparitions of the living are often seen
at times of crisis. The famous German writer Goethe
had a similar experience. He saw his own ghost
walking along the road. Years later at the same
place he saw his own ghost again but the roles were
reversed. Goethe realised that the first apparition
was of him in the future and the second was of him
in the past. You saw yourself in the future, happy
after your successful operation. The absence of
the 'smell' of death was an additional reassurance
you that you'd be all right.
More
info about the Doppelganger
The literal meaning of the word is "double
walker" A doppelganger is said to accompany
every human. Dogs and cats have been known to see
doppelganger's. A doppelganger is usually
seen standing behind a person and they cast no reflection.
It is said to be bad luck to see your doppelganger
and is believed by some to predict a death. Doppelgangers
are claimed by some people to be mischievous and
malicious. Percy Bysshe Shelley, still considered
one of the greatest poets of the English language,
encountered his doppelganger in Italy. The phantom
silently pointed toward the Mediterranean Sea. Not
long after, and shortly before his 30th birthday
in 1822, Shelley died in a sailing accident - drowned
in the Mediterranean Sea.
DEFINE:
DOPPELGANGER
Doppelgänger is the German
word for a ghostly double of a living person. The
word comes from doppel meaning "double"
and gänger translated as "goer".
The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to
any double of a person, most commonly in reference
to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation. Alternately,
the word is used to describe a phenomenon where
you catch your own image out of the corner of your
eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger
is an omen of death. Queen Elizabeth I of England
was shocked to see her doppelganger laid out on
her bed. The queen died shortly thereafter.
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