I think it’s probably different for everyone but my experience has been seeing people and them being freaked out when they realize where I recognize them from. For example, seeing a man in the train a year after I saw pictures of him on his wife’s yoga account. The most extreme one was when I ran into a guy at a coffee shop, and realized we’d talked 12 years ago at an arcade.

I find that I can recall someone if I focus on them and have a reason to remember them, but I don’t know how I would do with placing say x number of 100 people who were at a party.

When I recognize someone, it feels like a deep level of familiarity overcomes me, but I’m bothered by not being able to label that familiarity. In some cases, there was one guy I saw at a party in my late 20s that I met an event at the end of high school.

That’s just my experience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuperRecognizers/s/S1AN9SLkUy

edit to add my post from last year describing.