I'm so happy I have found this forum and that I'm not the only one who experience this strange connection.
My story started about a year and half ago. I wanted to watch some really good movie... I have found several recommendations, I didn't care about most of them, because I'm not an extra huge movie fan (I prefere watching documentaries), but there was one movie which stood out... It wasn't even a genre I usually watch. And it was from a film industry I always thought I could never watch - it just isn't my cup of coffee.... But for some reason I knew I had to watch this movie... And I did....
The lead actor simply bewithed me... I couldn't get him out of my head. I had to see him again, so after three or four days I watched the movie again... It wasn't any better. I started watching some videos with him on youtube and I started searching his other movies. I have watched them all, not once, not twice... I can't even count how many times I have seen them (and I'm that kind of person, who can't watch a movie twice)... I knew something is wrong with me, so I made next step...
I introduced him to my mother... actually I didn't tell her how I felt about him, I just told her I had found some really good movies and I gave her three movies with three different actors. She liked them and she liked all three actors, but didn't say anything specific...
After few days, I caught her watching videos on youtube... With the same man I could not get out of my head... And she finally admited she fell in love with him exactly like I did. We both started watching his movies again and again...
After some time, my mum asked me: "Don't you get strange feeling while watching him?"
I said: "No, what strange feeling?" (But obivously I knew, I was just afraid to talk about it.)
My mum said: "I don't know... Like he's here."
And I finally said it: "Like I know him... It's a strange sense of familiarity, it is hard to describe."
My mum: "That's it!!!"
Later she admited she thought I was crazy giving her his movie. She thought I was weird because I like him. But at that time I didn't tell her I liked him, I gave her three movies with three different lead actors. But she said, she just knew - she knew I liked him... And after 5-10 minutes of seeing him, she completely fell in love with him too.
We started watching his interviews in english (he is very well spoken in both of his languages). And that is where it gets really weird...
Things he says, the way he speaks, his thought process, his likes and disslikes, his hobbies... Everything... He's like male version of me.
Again, at first I didn't say anything, but my mum suddenly started saying: "he is exactly like you... "
I do the same little things he does and what is even more crazy, I can read him like an open book. I know exactly how he feels, I see through his mask... He is an actor, he acts in public, but I can exactly say when he's acting and how he really feels. And I can't understand how other people cannot see it too, since it so visible to me.
I notice the slightest gestures and I know what they mean, not because I'm an expert in body language, but because I do them too. And I am aware of doing them and I always try to hide them, because I think everyone must see it...and he does exactly the same...
I said few things about him. Not knowing they are facts... It was just something I think he might do or what he might feel or think (and it is what I would do or feel or think)... And later on, in other interviews he exactly confirmed all my words. Sometimes he even uses exactly the same phrases...
He has the same eating habits (which are honestly quite strange), he has the same insecurities like me... It is really scary... He is really like male version of me. When I see his photos or videos, I feel like he is me... I know it sounds absoletely crazy, but looking at him, I feel like that's me, that how my presence is felt, that's how I look in public... Even my mum says so. And I look nothing like him, I'm European, he is from Asia. We are from diffferent religion, different culture... We can't be so similiar... But for some reason even my mum thinks we have the same energy, the same vibe...
Mum also says when she sees him, she has strange sense of familiarty. Like he is someone she knows from the past. She remembers him, but she can't really grasp it and put it into words. She feels happiness seeing him, sometimes she feels strange tingling in her body. She can't see him sad (even not in the movies). Lately he looks really unhappy, depressed, he has lost lot of weight... When my mum sees him like that, her hands start to shake. She's worried about him like he's family.
My feelings about him are bit different. How I have said - the similarities between us are really scary. When I see him I feel strange mix of emotions - I feel happiness, excitement, love... I want to be with him, hold him, make him happy, I know I would do anything for him... But I also feel strong sadness, sometimes I have tears in my eyes, I feel depressed, anxious, desperate... The thought of never meeting him gives me so much anxiety like nothing else... seeing sadness in his eyes puts me deep into depression.
I don't know what is wrong with me... I want to see him, I need to see him, he makes me happy... But at same time seeing him makes me incredibly sad, lonely, desperate and even depressed.
My mum admits she can stare at his picture all day and never get bored. She also thinks she's absolutely crazy...
She says: "I'm too old to feel this way"
I always tell her she's not. I tell her there's nothing crazy about it, yet even I think I'm crazy.
As a teenage girl, I used to like few singers from boybands, but never like that. Even now I like few actors, but again, never like this. So does my mum. We looked at photos of few of our favourite actors, but we both agree, there is no connection. We like watching their work, but on a personal level, there is distance.
I have read the stories in this forum to my mum... She looked at me in a strange way a finally shyly admitted: "I think he was my husband."
Also I have to mention one thing - my mum has psychic abilities. Though she doesn't use them and that's why she can't use them properly. She claims I have them too - even one real psychic has told me so... According to him my abilities are even stronger than my mum's, but I have never noticed anything special about me.
My logical mind is telling me, I'm just seeing what I want to see. Maybe I'm too lonely and I'm making connections where there aren't any.... But it is not just one or two similarities... There are so many, I can't even count them - he is really exactly like me, deep down I know it, but it's hard for me to admit it, because I just don't understand what is going on and how is something like that even possible.
How is it possible that I know things about him even before he speaks about it? And how come my mum also feels this connection, even though no so strong as I do. We are both grown up women (she's 63, I'm 34). We have never been fanatic fan-girls of anyone, actually we both hate the whole concept of celebrities... But this man, he is like magnet for both of us...He's something way different.
I'm so cofused, I want to be with him...
Somehow I know I should be with him, I will be happy only by his side... Yet I fully realise it is absolutely impossible. He is super famous, succesful in everything he does, he is married with family... I'm absolutely nobody, I am complete failure... Yet deep down I know I'm incomplete without him. I feel so confused.
(I have just remembered todays little incident... At one point of the day, I started to have clogged ear, which happens to me very rarely... after some time it sudenlly stopped, at the same time the social media was full of pictures of him landed on an aiport...)
I apologise for this post being so long - I guess I needed to write down all those things.
I also apologise for any mistakes since english isn't my first language.