One thing worth mentioning, since we’re sharing and I don’t want anyone judging their experience vs others.
Not everyone has this kind of lightning bolt moment right away. They’re not always madly in love from day 1. I’ve known twin flames who couldn’t stand each other early on; they were constantly complaining about each other. Always seemed to have the other on their mind… must look pretty funny to their friends from the outside. The only thing you don’t see from that early contact is apathy.
So if you feel nothing during the first contact, then I would maybe question if this was the real thing (or maybe something else is going on).
Whether it leaves you both shocked about what just happened or one of you is fighting to get away, I do agree that that first touch can also be the trigger for running. Just too much for the runner to process. Our 3D bodies aren’t always ready for what the soul recognizes.
For me and my TF, time seemed to stop… or at least blur. Felt a bit like a trance state during our first hug. The rest of the room (and everyone in it, for that matter) didn’t exist anymore. The whole world just kind of faded out.
There’s also the whole thing where time seems to stop or blur. People describe going into almost a trance state during that first embrace, like the rest of the room disappeared. The world kind of fades out. That altered state thing seems connected to how big the recognition is - your awareness narrows down to just this one person and everything else becomes background noise.
To be honest, even all the time later when we hug it still makes everything else feel like background noise.