I can’t see your face
I first realized that I have a serious issue with faces was when I watched “The Departed” a few years ago. I was so confused throughout the entire movie, completely unable to grasp the plot line: how is the good guy the bad guy the good guy the bad guy?
It was only after the movie was over that my brothers told me that Roba, you idiot, that’s two characters acted out by two actors.
Oops. I spent the entire 151 minutes completely unaware of the fact that DiCaprio and Damon are two different people, two different characters, and two different actors. In my mind, they were the same person.
It was a little later that I realized I have the same issue with people not on my TV screen as well. It just never occurred to me before.
I once was at the same getaway wedding as an acquaintance. It was years later, when I ran into him at a restaurant, that I said, “Hey, I haven’t seen you since that wedding!” He looked me and said, “What wedding?” Oops. I spent three days with him in the Dead Sea thinking that he is someone else.
Today, I realized that this one girl I constantly run into is actually two different girls. It was a shocking discovery, because I’ve known them “both” for years, see them “both” around a lot, and they’re “both” Facebook friends of mine. Yet, I somehow had absolutely NO IDEA that they were two different people until an hour ago.
It’s really creepy.
Mohamad Shawash
June 20, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
Ok, now you’re scaring me Roba.
Khaled Gharaibeh
June 20, 2012 @ 12:40 pm
by the way… I won’t mind if you think I am Matt Demon next time we meet.
Nasser Rawashdeh
June 20, 2012 @ 1:29 pm
This might interest you then:
http://an-ashtray.blogspot.com/2010/03/mind-blown.html
Malcolm Thomson
June 20, 2012 @ 1:57 pm
Seriously creepy. I would not have believed it had it been a plot device in a lousy paperback. Maybe now, though, I’ll use it in my current lousy manuscript.
dina al natour
June 20, 2012 @ 2:14 pm
and i thought i was the only one with that problem! i can so see myself doing that.. maybe i know the difference between leo and matt but i have waved , honked, ran to hug many strangers.. my husband always tells me i have a problem because i always tell him things like ” isnt that the same actor in that movie” and he gives me that look he give me all the time ( ino jad bti7ki ya mthay3a) look.. and i think.. hmmmm but they LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME!! hahahahah i think it has to do with being a creative person.. or so i tell myself that.. :P
Farah Nimri
June 20, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
Godot Basha
June 20, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
Hardly a congenital disorder. Frontal lobe is focusing on other things, thereby rendering them ‘more important.’ To use a digitalogy, your internal processing unit is putting off less important tasks to free up some RAM for the more important, larger load, programs. But…3 days woman!? Fek!!