My Funny Picture

Anyone ever have that weird feeling when looking at a picture of yourself?

Its happened to me before and its the strangest thing. I looked at a picture of myself on facebook and it was like i was thinking about myself in third person or like I dont exist or something. I really can't explain it. Almost like, I am not me. Maybe its because I have a different perception of myself in my brain? But it seems to be deeper than that... I don't know, really really weird.

Public Comments

1. Well, typically when I see this picture of myself I kinda get that same feeling: http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8619/2204355.swf
2. depends lol i think it's normal to feel wierd looking at urself, same with me when someone videotapes me, i think oooh that's how ppl see me... don't worry bout it just be confident about urself and b happy with who u r
3. Well sometimes I think is this really me?? Then you think about it and think "Hmm... I'm my own person, I was created" its complicated I guess I'm the only person who thinks that...
4. when i looked at a picture of myself when i was about 1, i had a wierd but bad feeling, like when i looked at that picture, i looked like a little angel, but now, im tough looking and messed up. and it makes me really sad because i use to be really cute but now i became wierd and stuff. i feel the same way
5. I took a great pic and put it on my fb, it was so good unlike what I see in the mirror sometimes and I thought, how did I look so good there? that can't be me, I don't look like that lol. But I hate looking and taking pictures of myself. I also hate hearing my own voice lol.
6. You have to make a bond w/your archetype~either that or meditate in a cave to get to know the authentic you, just like indians do.
7. I feel that way sometimes too. Like I'm in a dream, and the world's not real, and nobody else in it, including me, is either. It's strange. I'm like, why am I here? Why am I me and not somebody else? Has my whole life even happened or is it all something that's playing out in someone's head? It's really unnerving, eh? I don't like listening to my own voice on a recording, either ! it's really fucked up. like man, do I REALLY come across that way? I wonder why my parents are MY parents, too. strange. Guess thinking like that is just one of life's great mysteries ! xox Sacha
8. Check this out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization. Read up on this. Does any of this sound similar to what you said? Not trying to scare ya, just an idea of what you described.
9. I do the same thing. When I set pictures of myself side by side I never look the same in any of the pictures and when I compare the pictures to how I look at that moment like in a mirror I look even less the same. I try to get other people to see what I'm seeing and they all tell me I'm wrong. It's been like that all my life, I used to look like someone else in my family every year. I'm serious my face, body shape, everything would just look different every year. My pictures would look more like sisters than the same girl at different ages. Even today I can look at myself in the mirror at different hours in the same day and I'll see obvious differences that are definitely more than fatigue. Just to prove it to myself sometimes I take a picture of my face with my camera phone then take another one immediately after and I tell you I never look the same. I agree, it has to be a perception problem because I can't believe anyone changes that quickly.
10. I have a twin brother. When I look at old pictures, I can't tell who I am. So, I feel like "I am not me."