yup.
I walked past a reflective window just a day or two ago.
I was horrified.
lp
I got chatting to someone on here.. then on msn... they didn't have any pictures on their profile.. when they came on cam I saw Timmy Mallett's lookalike... I thought they were completely different.. they knew what I looked like as I have pics on my profile.. he is a very nice chap though!
Oh my goodness yes !!!!
When I first came on this site I regularly chatted in one of the rooms to a lovely lady who’s pictures took my breath away and whom I guess I placed on a pedestal. There were no face pictures and so I mentally constructed my own image of what she would be like.
A few months later I was invited to a party which I knew she would be at. I asked the host “where’s xxxxxxxx” and I was mortified when he said “she’s standing right beside you”. Of course she was nothing like the mental image I’d created and I know for a few minutes my brain rejected the idea – I’m sure my face fell !!! – It took a little while to re-arrange the grey matter to accept someone who was just as beautiful as my mental picture – but not the same. Indeed no longer on a pedestal but a living walking talking vision of loveliness.
So if you are reading this xxxxxxxx – perhaps you will understand – and forgive me …
I honestly don't think i gain preconceived ideas on how people look prior to meeting them. I guess if i'm told the basics as in height build hair colour etc then there is a mental vision of. I don't know, a silhouette but in colour maybe. None of the bits and pieces that go to fill the real look of a person in are there though.
There may also be a little self delusion going on with myself as well. By this I mean that I know what I look like and that I really wouldn't want people to jump to a preconceived idea of the person that i am inside. This being the case, the idea of not formulating a visual opinion maybe done with the hope that maybe others will do the same to me as I too them. Does that sound like sense to anyone? I think it must be my latent insecurity poking its head out somewhere.
People are beautiful and they add up to more than the sum of their parts. Always.
Think we are pretty sure now that "flower" is indeed male :shock:
:giggle:
I never get to meet anyone anyway so can live happily in my land of preconceptions :lol2:
Oh I do this all the time... it's ace when you meet someone for the first time and they're completely different. Hilarious how your imagination combined with their posts/chat conjures up a completely different person.
Still, makes you wonder how people imagine you to look... :shock:
I tend to assume that people who have lovely voices or write beautifully will be lovely to look at.
It's really unreliable!
and it was a compliment! 
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