6/07/2010

Doppelganger

Ok that's it, this is the 3rd time the last 2 months that a person thought they saw me, and were pretty sure at that, someplace I wasn't.

Rog just came up the elevator and told me she saw me smoking in the ground floor. Was pretty shocked when told that I was in the 10th floor for the last couupld of hours.

Another person, I forgot who, saw me sleeping in the sleeping lounge, was pretty sure at that as well. When it was my day off.

Paking Jorge informed me just a while ago that I slept in the lounge. I told him I did , but it wasn't me becuase whoever he saw was wearing a white shirt and 'slippers'?? and he saw me, just a while ago, but I slept over 4 hours ago.

Ok, it scared me for a moment. Because I can't remember anyone telling me they saw me some place when I wasn't in that some place. I would never want to see my doppelganger.

---------- from: "http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Doppelg%C3%A4nger"

A doppelgänger is the ghostly — in some cases, the physical — double of a living person. The word "doppelgänger" is a loanword from German, in which language it is written (as with any German noun) with an initial capital letter: Doppelgänger. The word derives from Doppel ("double") and Gänger ("goer").

In English, the word is conventionally uncapitalized ("doppelgänger"). It is also common to drop the German diacritic, umlaut, from the letter "ä," writing "doppelganger," although in German the correct spelling without the umlaut would actually be "Doppelgaenger."

In the vernacular, "Doppelgänger" has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person—most commonly an "evil twin"—or to bilocation. It is an exact replica of a specific human being.

The word is also used to describe a phenomenon whereby one catches his own image out of the corner of his eye. In some traditions, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death, or a warning of an aproaching danger. A doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching health problem.

1 comment:

atticus said...

nakow. marami lang pogi at akala ng lahat, ikaw agad iyon. ano ba?