P-Files #PF.DD-01: Doppelgangers (Doubles) Doppelgangers (i.e. Doubles) are apparitions of living people seen by the self or are seen in close proximity by others. They are seen as often as or even more often than apparitions of the dead. The appearance of a double is sometimes considered to be a bad omen and a foretelling of death. These people after they saw their own doubles sometimes died shortly afterwards. However not all such sightings follow this pattern. Some continue to live on after the sighting. Doppelgangers are not really harmful although the fear generated by the belief in them as an omen of death may play some part in deteiorating the health or state of mind of those who see them. These doubles are usually non-interactive. However sometimes there are occasions where they suggest some evil or a split in the personality of self. The doubles are seen by the person earlier and followed by some form of attack by the same doubles at the later time. Such cases seem to suggest that doppelganger might be the embodiment of some particular part of the self; the Mr Hyde released from the otherwise balanced Jekyll and Hyde combination. If so, then the entity, or perhaps thought-form, that was the doppelganger took on a dangerous life of its own. The `evil' doppelganger might be a hallucination that `allowed' the person to do something foolish on oneself. Occasionally, the doppelganger does not appear as a warning or omen, but does seem to show future event. It acts as a vision of future event or perhaps a version of precognition. The person who saw the doubles might experience seeing a vision of himself or herself approximately a few years ahead or older. Another explanation for doppelganger suggests that the doubles are projections from the sighter's own mind for a purpose. Like Crisis Apparitions, those who are in danger may `create' an image that guides them from their very own subconscious, so doubles may serve a similar function. It might be a complex way of talking to or communicating with oneself - perhaps the subconscious talking to the conscious. Under such circumstances, the person might be in problem or trouble, and experience seeing one's doubles coming into rescue one way or another to solve the problem and trouble. One interesting case had showed that sometimes a person is capable of deliberately set out to produce an apparition of oneself. It took a while to learn how to do it. However, the process is tiring and it requires the person to take some rest after the event. Info Source: The Encyclopedia Of The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (Book) Back to P-Files Database