Has this ever happened to you before?  

Have you ever seen a picture of someone and known them but never met them ever before?

What if you had a dream about a person but you don't remember what their face looked like, but then see a picture and KNOW it was them?

It hasn't happened to me but it has for someone I'm friends with.

Any ideas or explanations would be great.    :)

It happens with my family all the time.  One of our constant sayings, "I know the face, but I can't remember where I know the face from".  Another saying we use is "I know him/her from somewhere".  I love to say to you, " You never meet anyone for the first time. You never say goodbye for the last time."  We are all spiritually connected, and some vibrations are stronger--- even if the vibration is just coming in from a picture or de ja vu/a dream. It's a very weird feeling, like you are watching a replay of something you just did, but you are very aware that you haven't done this thing "in real life". So it is when we meet someone or see a picture of someone-- we feel connected.  We are picking up on the vibration/aura of that person and it feels familiar. I hope that this wasn't too confusing!  We are all kindered spirits. We are all linked.
Love and Light --- Carol Ann

That makes perfect sense.  She is sure she has met this person in the physical but she really hasn't.  She's in awe about it though.

Thank you Carol Ann!

;)

Yes I know how strange this.I have dreams about people I know in the dream,but when I wake up in the morning,I dont know,It could be from a past life.George

HI Kate it does happen. I met Ryan out of body and he was a poster here but I didn't really know it was him until he sent me over to his website to look at his photo and I about fell out of my chair when I recognized his face. then he posted that he had seen me obe on the same night I saw him.
amazing huh? love, alysia

I've had similar experiences too.  One in particular about the picture, I had an OBE meeting a little boy and 6 months later I saw his picture in the physical.  The picture confirmed his looks as I'd seen him in the OBE.

that reminds me Vicky..was watching TV, a picture was shown of a 5 yr old girl who had died. that night I found her and retrieved her.

theres something about a picture which is a good energy signature for spirit.

Yes, its happened several times.  At first, it was quite disconcerting..now, I just accept that we must have met "somewhere" and leave it at that.. :)

 I generally agree with Carol Ann (and very beautifully put), but i also think it can be more specific than that.

  What Carol Ann said is very true imo, but in that case, we would get that feeling with every single person we were going to meet, or know about in some kind of way.

 Yet, it happens much more intensely at some times than others, and why?

 Could be various different reasons in my experience.  Sometimes we have a particularly strong tie via physical incarnations and/or nonphysical shared experiences/consciousnesses, and this person was part of our remembering class before we entered in.  

Much like as talked about in Journey of Souls or Destiny of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton.   We make sure that we will recognize that particular individual because they may play a more immediate and stronger influencing role in our lives, even if it may only be a brief incident from a linear time perspective.

 Course in the grand scheme we are all connected and part of each other.  But until we fully remember and more importantly constantly live (and be) that Oneness, we naturally will have more affinity and/or repulsion with different Souls and for various reasons.  Most commonly, especially involving strong emotions, involving shared physical lives.

 We haven't directly had physical lives with every single other Total self imo, especially not in the sense of particularly close and very constructive or destructive shared experiences (course its all ultimately for the constructive, but speaking humanly and narrowly).

as I was reading your last post AhSo, I picked something up and passing it along for what its worth. I saw your guides working on the head chakra to balance the left to the right into a merge situation. this enables you to increase your thought circumference to an expanded state of awareness. these guides spring directly from TMI's school of thought which is on the expansion itself. I saw your soul attending a classroom during your absence.

love to you, and I celebrate all of us here. alysia

LaffingRain wrote on Jan 11^th, 2007 at 4:00pm:

as I was reading your last post AhSo, I picked something up and passing it along for what its worth. I saw your guides working on the head chakra to balance the left to the right into a merge situation. this enables you to increase your thought circumference to an expanded state of awareness. these guides spring directly from TMI's school of thought which is on the expansion itself. I saw your soul attending a classroom during your absence. love to you, and I celebrate all of us here. alysia

 Thank you for sharing that Alysia.   There is something interesting which might be connected to this.  

  I hadn't seriously meditated in quite awhile and then a couple (or a week and a half) ago, i decided to meditate, and i used the "Opening the Heart" series which Laurie Monroe voiced.  

 I had no clue till i recently re-joined that Laurie had recently died, and i found this out well after that meditation.  

 Anyways, the meditation was really intense, i felt so much Love energy that tears were just rolling down my cheeks even though my body was pretty asleep.  

 Perhaps Laurie and others she know, were helping out during this meditation?   I did get a brief but quite well formed visualization of her face, but i thought at the time it was only because at one brief point i was trying to express gratitude to her, TMI, etc. for all they have done for humanity.

 Love is the great synthesizer and merging/bonding energy, the great expander.  

 Anyways, all i know is that for the last couple of years or so, i've been going through some pretty intense testings and its been rather constant.     Transiting Saturn has been in my 1st house for quite awhile, and transiting Pluto has been squaring the traditional ruler of my Sun sign, which is Saturn.   Uranus has been going through my 8th and opposing my Virgo stellium (N.Node/Mars Jupiter CON, and Saturn in Virgo cusping into Libra).  My progressed Moon just left (or still leaving) a conjunction with natal Saturn.   Some Mars stuff added in as well for good measure ::)

 Basically what this means or translates too, is that my Total Self decided this was a good time to put me through some constant ego pounding, challenges, difficult relationships, karma balancing, etc.   With the hope that it would help expand and balance my energies more and more.  

 I feel like lately, i've just started to swing back towards the Jupiter, Solar, Neptune and Venus forces.  Maybe T.S. will ease up a bit, hopefully i learned some things which i was meant to..

 Well thanks again for passing this along, i very much appreciate it :).   It seems like many of us have been going through some heavy and intense times, God speed and consciousness expanding to us all during these extreme times we live in.

thanks for verifying what I was picking up :) and I'm very very happy you are here again.

And thank you ladies for your compliments and agreements. That make my spirit very happy. ;D  Love and Light --- Carol Ann