Life after death / Reincarnation

GrannyIvy, I am the same with water. I have the rising water dreams too where I get trapped in a town or on the beach and the water is coming in quickly and rising

I think I drowned in a previous life I have always freaked when my brother, then my children and grandchildren are near water. I have constant recurring dreams of someone drowning and trying to save them. I cannot bring myself have a cruise holiday and dislike swimming and a poor swimmer. I am terrified to go under the water. I firmly believe something happened in another life!

This is also not strictly about reincarnation but an interesting study

www.vice.com/en/article/wxnxxw/taking-psychedelics-helps-people-face-mortality-like-a-near-death-experience-study-finds

I must add I am not religious

my adult dd who has a learning disability told me her Grandmother had visited her (she had died a few days previously) she talked about it in great detail - she didn't know her Grandmother had died

I think something other worldly happens when people pass over. It is a very strange feeling that is hard to explain. Sorry I know this is a bit off topic

Spuddy, I well remember a film about General Patton. He was involved in WW2 in N Africa, and while looking at the Roman ruins of Carthage (just outside Tunis IIRC) he apparently knew he’d been there before, as a soldier.

I've always believed in it and always will.

There's no point in being born, living then dead with nothing after!

My 62 year old husband is ex-army bomb disposal and he KNOWS he was army in a previous life, he has memories of it.

He spoke to a woman at a church that practices spiritual stuff and believes in reincarnation, he didn't know her/she didn't know him and it was his 1st visit. The second she saw him she pinged onto him and started mentioning things from a past life they shared. Apparently they were somehow connected. He recognized her immediately but they didn't know each others ID's in this actual life!

He used to drive up to remote places and sleep in the car over night or in a tent in Lancashire and he's had memories of things up there from past lives.

I'm 59 but when I was 18 I was on a coach to Blackpool and on the way we passed these HUGE industrial chimneys and for a few seconds I absolutely froze solid, I just KNEW I'd been there on the chimney site before but not in this life. Strange feeling.

In my 20s there was a news story on TV, something to do with the motorway I was on on the coach and I eyeballed those chimneys again and again got a very strange feeling of being there beforehand.

A neighbour in his 60s, ex-army has had reincarnation experiences and has been to genuine psychics, who confirmed what he was saying about who he was in a previous life.

In the past, many times but not so much now, I've had the same 'dream' of walking down a wide lane with no pavements and walking past an old stone wall about 3feet high. In the middle of the wall is an opening and steps up to a path through a garden which leads to a cottage's front door.

I can see it now just thinking about it. It feels part of my past, whether in this life when very young or in another life. I always feel quite agitated when I dream or think about the place and want passionately to go there as it means something significant to me. I have a deep feeling of happiness when I 'see' it. I have no idea where it is.

I asked my grandmother once if it sounded like the place of a friend of hers that I can remember visiting when very small. I remember a long journey there [about 120miles from where we lived]. She said his house wasn't like that at all. I'm still puzzled and I still long to see it.

I have a memory, which I always thought was a dream but I don't think I would remember a dream so clearly after all these years,,,I was walking with my mother and my sister, who was 8 years older than me but in this memory she was only about 4 years older. I was walking a bit behind them, they crossed the road where we lived,next thing I remember is an avalanche of snow coming down a hill and I was covered in snow, I still remember this very clearly.

A lot of reincarnation beliefs are based around that.

So, when you meet someone and feel an instant connection with them, it could be that your past lives have always entwined with theirs, in some way.

I think it was Joan Collins who said in an article I read that she’d once met a man who she knew instantly that she’d known intimately in a previous life.
But the sensation was exceedingly chilling, because there was an aura of evil, and she knew that they had done, or been involved in, something very wicked.

I have this thought that we come back time and again through the same family line, for instance my great great great grandmother could come back as a newborn baby in my family 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure mine is hearing anyone talk about it, I can see the light from the landing as the bedroom door was opened and my Mum's voice so clearly. Then the door was closed again.

I think often our vivid memories are what we ve heard without realising it
I have a memory of a man ( think my Dad ) running down the back alley with me in his arms I m crying but I honestly don’t think it’s a memory I think I ve heard them talk about it over the years, apparently I was learning to walk found the stairs and fell up them (I always was different) cutting my chin badly we had no car and the nearest hospital then was about two miles away so I can imagine Dad running with me there
But I think I ve heard them talk about it when I was a child and retained that
(I still have a tiny scar just under my chin if anyone’s interested 🤣🤣🤣)

I have a very strong memory going back to being a new baby in my cot. I have a brother who is four years older than me and he must have come into the room I was in because I heard my Mum say 'come out of there, you'll wake the baby'. How could I have understood that as a new born. The memory is very vivid even now after all these years.

Interesting subject PinkCosmos. I believe I have inherited some memories that are not my own. They are memories that belonged to my grandmother who I never had the chance to meet. Things she saw with her eyes in the 1930s. I tried to find a theory on this but could not find anything so I just made up my own theory that memories must be in organs, not just brains and just as skin color or health issues are passed down, so, too are memories. That's the only way I could make sense of it.

I always said my Grandson was an old soul. A fascination with steam trains, at 5 years old he was walking with us around the NRM in York. His knowledge of the working of these engines was amazing telling us all as we walked along.A man was walking alongside us,he said" I've learnt more from this young man about steam engines than I ever knew, his knowledge from one so young is amazing ".

When I was about three years old, I told my mother that I used to live in Egypt, and was a pharaoh's daughter. I got very upset when she didn't believe me.
I seem to have memories of several past lives and have met some of the people I have known previously.
People are often born with talents which they have learned in a past life and carried over.

I think my DCs Dad has come back through my newest DGC. Just the way he looks at us and some mannerisms. My DD thinks so, too.
Their Dad died 10 years ago.
It's a bit freaky at times, but also quite a nice feeling that he may be in this beautiful child!

I can't remember anyone telling me that I said anything about previous lives when I was little but I'd have a sort of recollection.
My mother would wake me up and then go downstairs to start breakfast. I often had this image in my head that she was descending stone stairs into an old kitchen, rather than our wooden stairs into our modern kitchen.
I'd be convinced I'd be following her down those stone stairs when I got out of bed, but of course when I did get out of bed the house was modern. And I'd be confused for a little while!
I often remember those times. I'd be so sure I'd be going down old stone steps to the old kitchen.
Very strange, but like an old familiar memory hidden at the back of my mind somewhere!

What’s a soul though ???

keepcalmandcavachon

I also read that scientific types believe it could be memories passed down genetically. There’s much we don’t know and I keep an open mind.

tickingbird, neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow explains this beautifully in her book The Science of Fate, it's a fascinating read that really does 'open the mind'smile

Thank you for that, I will read this book.

I don't know MayBee70, I haven't heard of the soul taking a year, if so where is it during that time I wonder?

Don’t the native Americans believe it takes a year for a soul to reach it’s final destination?

Yes it is fascinating and I always wonder how long is it before you are reincarnated after death, does it happen straight away or do our souls go somewhere special for awhile before coming back. It is intriguing.

nanna8

When I visited some areas of the Lake District and Arnside where my ancestors had lived for centuries, I got a very weird, emotional feeling. I had never been there before in my life. I believe there is some sort of precognition involved in these instances ( or maybe ‘post’ cognition ) .

Similar experience, nanna8 - I went to Singapore with my family 30-odd years ago. I found that I could easily navigate the streets, someone asked me for directions - I definitely didn't look like a local! - and a visit to Sentosa Island and its museum from WWII had me so sad and distressed. As you say it was a very weird and emotional reaction, to every part of our stay.