Recognising faces

[Scots_dad]

Hard to wite this one without it sounding crazy but the last couple of weeks when I'm looking at people's faces I feel I recognise them from somewhere else even people I know very hard to explain but anyone else with e experience this ?

[kitnkaboodle]

Yes, that’s common. I didn’t even recognize myself in the mirror for a while. The technical term for what I experienced is prosopagnosia. Google that word. Does that fit with what you’re talking about?

[Scots_dad in reply to kitnkaboodle]

Hi thanks for the reply . I don't think that's what I have as I recognise faces but just seems to be from other places or so strangers I don't know but when I look at them I think I have seen them before . That was interesting looking the meaning of prosopagnosia up as I've never heard of it .

[kitnkaboodle in reply to Scots_dad]

I think that’s a form of it and happens to me as well.

[Paula-38]

Hi Craig,

Sometimes I have had that, if I haven't seen someone for a long time or they are new to me I recognise their voices quicker, but if I see them regularly enough I recognise them better.

Familiar faces are best, and it's voices for others.

[HSE_Survivor]

I might be wrong Craig , but this sounds similar to a partial ‘onset aware’ focal seizure. That type of partial seizure can cause a general strange feeling that you’re witnessing events have happened before (basically a strong sense of déjà vu), without actually losing consciousness. They usually lasts for a minute or less.

Some people with partial seizures have motor symptoms such as lip-smacking or pulling at the clothes. But other people have non-motor symptoms such as a ‘rising’ feeling in the stomach, or a sense of deja vu .

It happened to me when I was admitted to hospital following severe seizures in 2020. Initially when I woke up , I had a very clear sense that I already knew exactly who the Drs reviewing me on the ward rounds were, even though I had never met them before . I didn’t feel crazy - the sense of knowing them felt very real. The sense of deja vu stopped after my meds were increased.

[Scots_dad in reply to HSE_Survivor]

Thank you for the reply someone who actually understands how am feeling. When I tell friends and family it sounds like I'm crazy . I've still to go to the seizures clinic so was gonna ask them but glad someone else has experienced this . Thank you ☺️

[Paula-38]

I don't think I have it on the same scale as yourself, but only with new faces and/or if I hadn't seen someone for years, but I recognise their voices so that takes over from faces (unless I know them well enough). People who I know, I have never really had that problem.

[Scots_dad]

I've got my 1st phone consultation on Monday since I was released from hospital so many questions for them would have preferred a face to face but somethings better than nothing. There's a neurologist from Cambridge on X looking for people who've had AI Encephalitis to take a survey because they don't know alot about it but couldn't find the link to it , have you heard about it ?