Recognizing... strangers?

Just wondering if others have similar disconcerting/ confusing experiences...

Do you ever actuall physically recognise a person but they seem to know you far more than you know them? I don't think that makes sense so an example:

I'm working at a supermarket for the summer and while I come acrosss various annoying/ horrible people, occasionally I get a few I recognise. One such person knows I've got into university, and treats me very friendily asking me how things are going there. On one meeting he told me a long list of names, saying they were of teachers who had retired, and did I remember them? I had no idea what he was talking about but I guessed he was once a teacher at one of my schools perhaps, or at another school and had confused me with another pupil. But then yesterday he was with his wife (familiar again, no idea who she is though) and something he said then revealed for certain he knows who I am... I just don't know who he is or how he knows me.

Another example: there is a really weird man I know. He's odd because I think he is old but his face is almost line-less so I can't decide his age but he must be at least 30 but probably older I think, maybe 40+. I'm 21 and I don't know wherever I met him but I remember I've been saying 'hi' to him when I've been seeing him around (again no idea where I met him). My dad said,' Did you meet him in the hospital?' but I'm pretty certain I didn't because I've met others who were in hospital at the same time as me and I know who they are. Anyway, a few weeks ago this man came up to me in the supermarket and said,'So, have you been going out recently then?' or a similar phrasing to that. I had no idea why he asked that! I'm pretty certain I'd never ever have been out anywhere with him - all I can think of is that I've met him through my friend but since he's way old er tha me I don't know. It's really weird. I must know him from somewhere because he is familiar to me yet a total stranger?

Anybody else get similar situations?

OH YES - have I ever........ and then you feel so bad for not knowing as much about them, or for not taking the time to know.
Example: the doctor that took care of me in the E.R. when I broke my left foot for the second time in a year knew me from high school, he remembered every single thing about me - down to my maiden name and I could not even remember him or his name.....


LoVe,
Rhapsody - ((( hugs )))

Yes, ever since I've had my babies, I've lost count and track of small things such as meeting a person a few times here and there, names, all sorts of stuff. You life maybe more chaotic then usuual, and may have just lettin go of the memory of meeting these people. It does happen, and is actually typical. Don't feel bad, just try to pay a little extra attention when meeting people, sometimes I have to take notes in my head like names, age, and where they are from.

That used to happen to me all the time. Folks coming up to me talking to me like they know me and I have no idea who they are. Both male and female would talk to me. I would just go along with it.

Years ago, when I was more or less closer to "normal" than I am today, it seems folks tend not to forget me after they met me. I was asking directions at this office and one of the guys I was asking said my first name. I did a double take and it turned out he was my boss from a job 20 years ago. He was all smiling and saying "how could he ever forget me".

I also think I have one of those faces that resembles a lot of folks and folks tend to think they know me. So it can be various reasons . Maybe I spoke to them at a store or restaurant and they remembered me. I would just smile and chat back. shrugs shoulders

I am always coming across people I know that I don't remember actually meeting. people come up to me all the time and talk to me and I stand there talking but thinking "ok how can I ask this person their name without letting on that I was probably dissociated when I met them and now have no idea who they are. I also have trouble recognizing people that I know in one situation but out of that situation I draw a blank. One day recently this woman came up to me in the grocery store and started talking to me and during the conversation, and about 5 minutes into the conversation it dawned on me that this was someone from a depression management group I had been in and I had said in the group that I had no problem with group members coming up to me out in public. Boy was I embarrassed when she finally said - you have no idea who I am do you laughing. I told her she looks familiar and knows my name so I knew we knew each other but names dont stick in my head. She laughed and told me her name and where we had met.

DID a real joy sometimes. LOL

I have this exact problem sometimes.

It sucks ... they are talking away to you and you have this complete mind blank.

heh.

I'm reasonably good at faking it and pretending I know them ... usually sooner or later something triggers my memory.