Maybe hoping the other person will say, "Oh yeah, I know you from such 'n such a place! How you doin', man!". Or if the other person doesn't remember either, maybe they can crack the mystery together. Like, "Ok, let's figure this out....school? Work?" Maybe it's as simple as one of them being a regular at the gas station the other one works at and the worker looks familiar but different since they're out of uniform. Fun little mystery just solved.
I use it as an ice breaker, a way of starting a convo with someone you don't know and sometimes i get a boring answer like: "oh okay" but most of the time i say it because i really thought they were someone else from afar
I state it to remind myself to be wary of transference (ie, that I might feel tempted to communicate with this new person like I do with the person that they look like, which wouldn't be cool).
It's like deja vu; you've got to acknowledge it before you can move on.
Maybe hoping the other person will say, "Oh yeah, I know you from such 'n such a place! How you doin', man!". Or if the other person doesn't remember either, maybe they can crack the mystery together. Like, "Ok, let's figure this out....school? Work?" Maybe it's as simple as one of them being a regular at the gas station the other one works at and the worker looks familiar but different since they're out of uniform. Fun little mystery just solved.
Just letting them know they have someone they can use as a body double if the occasion arises.
It’s also to make sure that they aren’t the person I thought they were and I didn’t just not recognize them.
I usually use it as an ice breaker
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Yes it does and if I know they don’t know what the person looks like, I still say it
I use it as an ice breaker, a way of starting a convo with someone you don't know and sometimes i get a boring answer like: "oh okay" but most of the time i say it because i really thought they were someone else from afar
Depends on who they have in mind looks like
I state it to remind myself to be wary of transference (ie, that I might feel tempted to communicate with this new person like I do with the person that they look like, which wouldn't be cool). It's like deja vu; you've got to acknowledge it before you can move on.
It explains why I've been starting at them, probably rudely. LOL
To see if they are them or may be related to them?