Hi everyone. As you can see I am a newbie and just kinda stumbled onto this site while looking for answers on the net. I guess I have been asking myself this question for years but never really knew who or where to find the answer. So here goes hope some of you can help me out. When I was young I really thought that I had some intense feelings towards another person. I moved away and kinda blocked this person out of my mind. I ve never met this person he is older then I am but still felt like I had a strange connection to him. Fast forward to today and I see this person again and start to once again have intense feelings like I know this person even though I have never met him. I also have been having intense dreams about this person and can picture in my mind how we would interact. I wonder if I am going crazy or if you really can have a strong soul connection to someone you have never met before. I would really like to know what all of this means. It is so intense sometimes it consumes my thoughts. I dunno maybe I am just reading to much into this. But sometimes when I see him I just feel this magnetic pull towards him. Any ideas anyone????? Or just tell me I am crazy.....

You're Crazy! just kidding I think that you two are Reincarnies from a relationship of your past life.... Now I sound crazy, it's a crazy world... CHEERS!

This sounds like either you were spiritually connected through past lives or are soul mates.

I couldn't say what it is but I think you should talk to him. Unless you wont be seeing him again? I don't know about the situation but it's always fun to strike up conversations with people on the street. Even if it's about the weather or the atrocious service at a store or something general. Go out and take a chance . Maybe he's felt the same?

A friend of mine liked a (really hot) guy on the bus and we eventually convinced her to start up a conversation and now she's best mates with the guy and his (hot twin) brother.

And a teacher I used to have said she met a man who she totally hit it off with. I don't really remember the details but I do recall her saying that the first time they accidently bumped hands she felt like she got an electric shock and she then started avoiding him. Now, though, she flies to scotland during the holidays to visit him.

So, give it a try, what is there to lose?

I agree, meet with him. When the poets talk of sparks, they know what they are talking about. There is an old song that says" The Lord knows whom I give my heart, But God knows who I will Marry".

Luck and Happiness to you!

I think many of us found this site the same way; I know I did.

I have no explanation of why you have these feelings for this person or why you would dream about him but you might want to get to the bottom of the situation in any case. You never know what could happen.

First of all I appreciate all of your responses. I really dont think that this person is someone I will end up meeting. I read somewhere about soul mates and just wondered if you knew a person was your soul mate even though you have never met them. I just cant explain the strange feeling that I have everytime I see this person. He is someone who is somewhat in the public eye and there is no chance that I would ever meet this person. Unless there was someway that fate entered in and a chance meeting took place. I have always thought that if he saw me he would feel the same way too. I know that sounds crazy but I did say call me crazy. I dunno I have never felt that towards another person before and it just seems weird that I would see him again and still have the same feelings. Thanks again for your imput. I really dont believe in other lives I think that you live once and then die. I dont think that he and I were together in a previous life.

If it is sexual then it is probably chemicals...

Cant say that there isnt a sexual feeling there but that is not it. I know when your lusting and when there is something more and this is most certainly more then sexual driven feelings.

I can well believe it ... things like that do seem to happen completely out of the blue... when you're never expecting it, you sometimes come across someone you seem to have known all your life ... as if ... you and they were meant to be ...

I'm a bit confused. Is the person you had intense feelings towards when you were younger the same person you are seeing today? Or is it someone who looks like that person?

Never mind...I get it now...

Here is the answer to your question:

There is a chemical response in the brain which governs our 'attractions'. It isn't purely sexual but is chemical nonetheless. Whatever the attraction may have been it was noted and entered as memory on your human hard-drive.
Fast forward to today...you see the same person...the filing system of your brain pulls up the appropriate file concerning that individual and ...walla....the same feelings come back. That is because of the memory of the feelings. Intense feelings are just that...feelings. Feelings are chemical reactions...and have very little if anything to do with thought process. Sometimes relationships based on feeling work out...mostly not...when they do it is because there is enough mutual 'thought process' to make it work.

My advice:

Introduce yourself...tell the person you have always had a 'crush' or whatever from a long time ago. Chances are you will both laugh and find out through conversation that you have nothing in common worth persuing.