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Has any of you had a past life memory triggered by tv shows or watching documentaries?

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I read once on another website that someone's memory was triggered by watching a documentary on a castle and they showed the basement of the castle. This person remembered being imprisoned there by her husband and left to die.

I feel some shows can be highly triggering. Its interesting to know if anyone here has had such triggers due to watching tv shows or documentaries?
 
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That’s a big fat YES from me. I’ve seen so many documentaries and shows about my WWII lifetime that it’s triggered memories and I have even be able to tell people what it looked like and how I felt. Also been able to tell people just EXACTLY where certain things were.

Also there is a scene in the Anthropoid film, that features the interrogation cells of Petchek Palace, the Gestapo HQ in Prague that triggers me VERY SEVERELY. That’s where I was taken and interrogated when I was denounced as a Jew. The two times I’ve tried to watch the entire film, it’s only this scene that I’ve hid behind a pillow or closed my eyes. I’ve even felt the wood of the chair I was tied to even though I was safely on my leather recliner sofa at home.

Eva x
 
That’s a big fat YES from me. I’ve seen so many documentaries and shows about my WWII lifetime that it’s triggered memories and I have even be able to tell people what it looked like and how I felt. Also been able to tell people just EXACTLY where certain things were.

Also there is a scene in the Anthropoid film, that features the interrogation cells of Petchek Palace, the Gestapo HQ in Prague that triggers me VERY SEVERELY. That’s where I was taken and interrogated when I was denounced as a Jew. The two times I’ve tried to watch the entire film, it’s only this scene that I’ve hid behind a pillow or closed my eyes. I’ve even felt the wood of the chair I was tied to even though I was safely on my leather recliner sofa at home.

Eva x
Wow Eva! That must have been very intense for you. I can totally understand how these tv shows can bring up stuff, sometimes even if we dont remember the details , we often are drawn to one period more so than the others.
 
Wow Eva! That must have been very intense for you. I can totally understand how these tv shows can bring up stuff, sometimes even if we dont remember the details , we often are drawn to one period more so than the others.

So very intense. Hence why I have learned NOT to watch these documentaries anymore. OR I get my most closest trusted friend to watch them before I do so they can tell me whether it’s one that is ‘safe’ for me to watch. Anthropoid was released in 2016, and it took me until the late half of 2018 and early 2019 to be able to just watch it.

Have you had anything?

Eva x
 
So very intense. Hence why I have learned NOT to watch these documentaries anymore. OR I get my most closest trusted friend to watch them before I do so they can tell me whether it’s one that is ‘safe’ for me to watch. Anthropoid was released in 2016, and it took me until the late half of 2018 and early 2019 to be able to just watch it.

Have you had anything?

Eva x
No not direct memories although i am so very drawn to medieval period and 19th century for some reason. i watch a lot of those tv shows. for some reason 1950s to 1960s even 70s dont interest me at all. like i dont want anything to do with those periods. i dislike the style, movies, music. dont know why, but i am very much into 1800s and perhaps 1400s or earlier times.

Its good idea that you have friend to check out these WW2 shows before you see them.
 
No not direct memories although i am so very drawn to medieval period and 19th century for some reason. i watch a lot of those tv shows. for some reason 1950s to 1960s even 70s dont interest me at all. like i dont want anything to do with those periods. i dislike the style, movies, music. dont know why, but i am very much into 1800s and perhaps 1400s or earlier times.

Its good idea that you have friend to check out these WW2 shows before you see them.

Being honest, I do like a lot of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s shows and I was not even incarnate then.

Other documentaries and shows that trigger my past life memories are Ancient Egypt ones. Particularly ones about the Amarna period and also about the reigns of Pharaoh’s Seti I and Ramesses II. Sometimes I get wildly frustrated and angry with ones that explore Houses of Eternities (Tombs) and I know where this comes from. It comes from my lifetimes in Egypt both as a Queen and (later) a Pharaoh.

It is good I have a friend like this. They were with me in my WWII lifetime so it’s good :)

Have you ever wondered if your interest in the 1400’s and earlier (or like you said, the 1800’s) “could” stem from a lifetime around those times? I mean not all current lifetime interest stems from past lives, but I’ve often looked upon it as possible.

Eva x
 
Hi, I can remember one times that this has happened. when I was watching by accident late one night because there was nothing else to see an old black and white movie and an actor stood out from the rest as if he was familiar. I later had flashbacks of him when he was younger and skinner. Having later found out that possibly past life me and he were friends, then dated and then friends again. Then lost touch. I remember her telling him she was in love with someone else. I was highly suspiscious that my flashbacks were untrue becsuse they were, to me, so unglamouros, but later found that yes, he had had a place, home in the country, he had driven a typical farmers car, he had attended typical youngsters home parties, and from a close family source he had made efforts to find a particular lake where she wanted to go and swim, so this could explain why my flashbacks was of them enjoying the simple outdoors, I also remembered them visting someone he knew in New York, just like he had an ordinary job and was no moviestar. I remember his cat, there is one record of him trying to bring her out to the spotlight on a film premiere date. But she said no thanks. People must have thought she was nuts. All this did not come easy to me, the first biography I read of him did not mention her. I had to find sources that were his friends and her family to make comments of their relationship, I got this years after I had my flasbacks. In his memoir he did not mention her either. I remember the time when I found an old biogrpaphy of him, and saw a full page photo of her. She was young and skinny too and laughing at the camera. I had told myself so far that my flashbacks were untrue, to then see that photo and her name. Her skinny legs were like they had appeared in my flashbacks when they were at the lake or she was outside his home barefoot with a dress on and carrying his cat to go inside where he was. The other time was not something on television but a song that triggered another pl.
 
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Hi, I can remember one times that this has happened. when I was watching by accident late one night because there was nothing else to see an old black and white movie and an actor stood out from the rest as if he was familiar. I later had flashbacks of him when he was younger and skinner. Having later found out that possibly past life me and he were friends, then dated and then friends again. Then lost touch. I remember her telling him she was in love with someone else. I was highly suspiscious that my flashbacks were untrue becsuse they were, to me, so unglamouros, but later found that yes, he had had a place, home in the country, he had driven a typical farmers car, he had attended typical youngsters home parties, and from a close family source he had made efforts to find a particular lake where she wanted to go and swim, so this could explain why my flashbacks was of them enjoying the simple outdoors, I also remembered them visting someone he knew in New York, just like he had an ordinary job and was no moviestar. I remember his cat, there is one record of him trying to bring her out to the spotlight on a film premiere date. But she said no thanks. People must have thought she was nuts. All this did not come easy to me, the first biography I read of him did not mention her. I had to find sources that were his friends and her family to make comments of their relationship, I got this years after I had my flasbacks. In his memoir he did not mention her either. I remember the time when I found an old biogrpaphy of him, and saw a full page photo of her. She was young and skinny too and laughing at the camera. I had told myself so far that my flashbacks were untrue, to then see that photo and her name. Her skinny legs were like they had appeared in my flashbacks when they were at the lake or she was outside his home barefoot with a dress on and carrying his cat to go inside where he was. The other time was not something on television but a song that triggered another pl.
WOW! Those are such detailed flash backs Jaimie. I am fascinated by your experiences. Thanks for sharing. Gives me more perspective on the nature of reality , how our consciousness shares many bodies
 
Being honest, I do like a lot of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s shows and I was not even incarnate then.

Other documentaries and shows that trigger my past life memories are Ancient Egypt ones. Particularly ones about the Amarna period and also about the reigns of Pharaoh’s Seti I and Ramesses II. Sometimes I get wildly frustrated and angry with ones that explore Houses of Eternities (Tombs) and I know where this comes from. It comes from my lifetimes in Egypt both as a Queen and (later) a Pharaoh.

It is good I have a friend like this. They were with me in my WWII lifetime so it’s good :)

Have you ever wondered if your interest in the 1400’s and earlier (or like you said, the 1800’s) “could” stem from a lifetime around those times? I mean not all current lifetime interest stems from past lives, but I’ve often looked upon it as possible.

Eva x
I am drawn to and have always been attracted to Old Egyptian culture too although i dont have any specific memory come up. All my past life related bleed through often come up as intense emotions like for no current physical event reason, and i have realised may be for me the memories themselves are not relevant but the opportunity to work with those emotions is relevant.

When specifics are concerned, I had one dream after i met my soulmate and currently my husband , the dream showed series of lifetimes we have had together , it was a fascinating dream because it started with the death in the dream, i died and was wandering in a dimension until i realised that i was dead and then i started to move at high speed upwards like in a high speed lift and came into a room which i sensed to be a life review room. There i met whom i felt to be my guide and she showed me an album which contained me and my husband's all past or alternative lives , like how similar we manifested our physical looks in each lifetime although our genders changed , in some he was female and in some i was. i saw one in the 60s or 70s in which he was a female and i was male, and one in ancient greek period , in which one of my fellow university class mate from my student days to whom i always had an affectionate regard for in this lifetime, was our son in that greek life time. As i was watching the album of our past lives, my guide said something like " Now i am going to tell you something very important'' and i woke up suddenly , without remembering what she told. may be i was not meant to remember that important thing she told me, consciously.
 
Gladiator got me real good. We watched it in Latin class and during that arena scene, I just had this not so great feeling in my stomach. I couldn't actually remember anything yet, but I could definitely feel it. I wasn't a gladiator, but I was killed by one, in what I believe was the Roman Colosseum. Occasionally, criminals or 'undesired citizens' would be tossed into the ring as a death sentence. I had a dream about it years later in what I can only describe as a horrifying amount of detail.

There's a historical Korean drama called Empress Ki that made me remember stuff too. The base of the show was about the Mongol Empire taking over Korea. Watching it definitely set off my past life memories as a Mongol ruffian.
 
Gladiator got me real good. We watched it in Latin class and during that arena scene, I just had this not so great feeling in my stomach. I couldn't actually remember anything yet, but I could definitely feel it. I wasn't a gladiator, but I was killed by one, in what I believe was the Roman Colosseum. Occasionally, criminals or 'undesired citizens' would be tossed into the ring as a death sentence. I had a dream about it years later in what I can only describe as a horrifying amount of detail.

There's a historical Korean drama called Empress Ki that made me remember stuff too. The base of the show was about the Mongol Empire taking over Korea. Watching it definitely set off my past life memories as a Mongol ruffian.

Often past life memories show up on a cellular level in the body in a very unexplainable way, seems like your body knew what was that all about even when conscious mind couldn't remember. Dreams are often the best place to unwind these memories because we handle and process their much better than here.
 
Gladiator got me real good. We watched it in Latin class and during that arena scene, I just had this not so great feeling in my stomach. I couldn't actually remember anything yet, but I could definitely feel it. I wasn't a gladiator, but I was killed by one, in what I believe was the Roman Colosseum.

A friend of mine had a reaction to the Gladiator movie too. Particularly the Roman Colosseum.

Isn’t it interesting how movies and films, even though they are with actors and actresses trigger our memories? :eek:

Eva x
 
I have lost track of the number of times this has happened to me.

Most notable was an experience parallel to the one described in the original post. A documentary was touring a castle. When they got to the depths of the dungeon, I suddenly tensed up, recognized the area and remembered that there was an oubliette in that room before it was shown on camera or mentioned by the guide. I had to pause it and come back later. That night, I had memories of being left down there in the dark, slowly becoming unhinged.

There have been several cases where I would merely become anxious and a memory would not resurface, such as when I first watched Gladiator or the History Channel's recent show Knightfall.

Another instance was when I had the ingenious idea to research some of the general culture from the period surrounding my lifetime in Japan. A few minutes into a video recreating a dance style from the era, I felt my eyes misting up. I am not the type of person to be moved by art like that and was incredibly confused by my overwhelming, bittersweet feelings. I later found out that the woman who appeared in several of my memories, who I was madly in love with, was a dancer who employed that specific style.
 
Absolutely yes, anytime a documentary comes on about world war II in Germany I feel very intense emotion. I almost want to cry and, I can't watch it even video games about war rules to trigger me. I have found out that I was infact a German soldier in world war 2 I had two sister, I lived on a farm before the war. I was 23 years old when I died. I was shot in the head by a sniper I have had many dreams about my past live as a soldier. Anything to do with war my heart breaks I feel my soul break.
 
Yes. Bleed throughs are the way past life memories usually make themselves known. We don't need to remember the exact story,but the emotions of intense abandonment, betrayal or whatever that comes up in exaggerated proportions out of nowhere in relation to a simple and not so intense moment in our current lives are usually bleed throughs from other lives in my opinion and this I feel is because all time is NOW , simultaneous, and when you are able to meet them and see them for what they are , story or no story , just seeing the energy dynamics , often resolves them all across the timelines, that means future and the past. Then the similar events when they happen do not invoke the same intensity of emotion, and our responses will be different, we dont react automatically , instead are able to observe it with some understanding of its truth and love for the traumatized self. This has been my experience.

I am fascinated by your experiences and grateful for all of you sharing them, there is an unconditionally supportive space here for your truth.
 
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A friend of mine had a reaction to the Gladiator movie too. Particularly the Roman Colosseum.

Isn’t it interesting how movies and films, even though they are with actors and actresses trigger our memories? :eek:

Eva x

Yes it is! I usually have more of a reaction to various world music though.
 
You do? Which world music? I have a deep fondness for Yiddish Music and also Hindi/Bollywood Music.

Eva x

All different kinds! Traditional Indian music, Native American, Medieval, and Mongolian throat singing to be specific. I'll have to check out Yiddish music!
 
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All different kinds! Traditional Indian music, Native American, Medieval, and Mongolian throat singing to be specific. I'll have to check out Yiddish music!

This is one of my favourite Yiddish songs at the moment- Belz, Mayn Shtetele Belz.

Belz was actually a town in Poland and its Jewish population was almost wiped out completely. It’s more or less a Yiddish nursery rhyme. My Jewish Mutti in my German-Jewish WWII lifetime used to sing something similar to me when I was a little girl.


Here is my other one too. “Mein Yiddische Mame” Some of the photographs in the clip are actually Occupied Paris during the time of the Germans.


There’s a video a friend shared a little little ago with Mongolian throat singers. I will have to find it.

Eva x
 
Yes ive had a few memories being triggered by watching documentaries on the holocaust. One of which was me and my two nephews hiding from the SS. We three were praying they would not find us at all, but it wasnt meant for us to hide...someone told on us....I remember one of the camps had a cell which had a blue star of david in the cell..i was by myself i remember that...my two nephews were not there...i'd love to explore this lifetime further. its why i have anxiety with being alone in this lifetime.
 
I read once on another website that some one's memory was triggered by watching a documentary on a castle and they showed the basement of the castle , this person remembered being imprisoned their by her husband and left to die. I feel some shows can be highly triggering. Its interesting to know if anyone here has had such triggers due to watching tv shows or documentaries?

That’s very true for me.

The very first example was watching Third Reich documentaries. I had a sudden interest in that time period for some reason because I just found their actions rather intriguing, especially the SS and the Gestapo. I also watched Der Untergang at one point and it triggered my bunker memories. Well that and a few biographies.

Another example was my Ancient Egyptian memory. I watched Ancient Aliens first to entertain myself and I found some of their theories hilarious and eventually, I somehow got my first few memories from there. I dug even deeper and boom, more memories. I assumed I was a citizen but I didn’t really expect that I would eventually get high-ranking in that life.

Last but not least, there’s my Joseon memories. They came from me watching K-Drama. However, I don’t really know too much about that life, apart from the fact that I was a rich guy who got murdered by his own brother, and that I dated a Chinese woman. That’s mostly about it. I have a love for Korea, though I’ll admit it’s partly the food and entertainment too.

Another trigger for me is music. Some classical music songs surfaced memories of my Third Reich self playing an instrument. Ok, maybe it also includes Soviet music. My Third Reich self has played those when he was spying on the Soviet Union. Armiya Moya is one of those songs.

 

Forgot to mention that this was another song that triggered a memory. It’s not really a Soviet song(the last time I checked) but I ended up with memories of my Third Reich self(when he was young) in Russia. He lived a rather nomadic life as a child. He was looking over a river somewhere in St Petersburg/Leningrad. He seemed to be around 11. His older sister was with him as well. It appeared sunny so we wore rather revealing clothes, especially me. My body was facing the river, leaning to the front, but his face was turned towards his sister, who was behind him.

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It looked something like this except that I was on land and that my memories were in colour.

I know the song is about serving Russia but the tune sometimes gives memories not related to the meaning at all but at least it’s related to the country it came from
 
Yes ive had a few memories being triggered by watching documentaries on the holocaust. One of which was me and my two nephews hiding from the SS. We three were praying they would not find us at all, but it wasnt meant for us to hide...someone told on us....I remember one of the camps had a cell which had a blue star of david in the cell..i was by myself i remember that...my two nephews were not there...i'd love to explore this lifetime further. its why i have anxiety with being alone in this lifetime.

A Blue Star of David? They were only ever Yellow. Well as far as I can recall.

I have that same anxiety too, being alone. But I learned that when I am physically alone, I am never truly alone because I have all my Spirit Guides and friends around me. This has helped quell that fear of being alone. Also, because there were so many of us in one barrack, we had no need to feel afraid because there were always lots of people around. But the opposite happens to me too in this lifetime, that I have Social Anxiety if there are too many people around. I tend to visit the same 'safe' places to go shopping because I know all the little alleyways I can escape down if I feel too over whelmed. Do you have social anxiety as well?

The very first example was watching Third Reich documentaries. I had a sudden interest in that time period for some reason because I just found their actions rather intriguing, especially the SS and the Gestapo. I also watched Der Untergang at one point and it triggered my bunker memories. Well that and a few biographies.

Well, they made Der Untergang pretty much true to form. Did you know (and this is what I read in a book years ago) that the Gestapo got the moniker 'Gestapo' from was a disgruntled postal worker who said that they should just be called 'Gestapo' for short. But how much truth there is to that story is unverified.

Eva x
 
A Blue Star of David? They were only ever Yellow. Well as far as I can recall.

I have that same anxiety too, being alone. But I learned that when I am physically alone, I am never truly alone because I have all my Spirit Guides and friends around me. This has helped quell that fear of being alone. Also, because there were so many of us in one barrack, we had no need to feel afraid because there were always lots of people around. But the opposite happens to me too in this lifetime, that I have Social Anxiety if there are too many people around. I tend to visit the same 'safe' places to go shopping because I know all the little alleyways I can escape down if I feel too over whelmed. Do you have social anxiety as well?



Well, they made Der Untergang pretty much true to form. Did you know (and this is what I read in a book years ago) that the Gestapo got the moniker 'Gestapo' from was a disgruntled postal worker who said that they should just be called 'Gestapo' for short. But how much truth there is to that story is unverified.

Eva x
Hi, sorry for jumping in like this, enjoy the readings on this post. Also I have only a suggestion that I thought of when I read about seeing a blue star of David. The person seeing this could have been colored blind. The most usual type is the red-green, but there is also the yellow-blue kind (so yellow becomes blue). (and another where every color is grey).
/Jaimie
 
Hi, sorry for jumping in like this, enjoy the readings on this post. Also I have only a suggestion that I thought of when I read about seeing a blue star of David. The person seeing this could have been colored blind. The most usual type is the red-green, but there is also the yellow-blue kind (so yellow becomes blue). (and another where every color is grey).
/Jaimie

Jaimie!! :)

Thank you so much for pointing this out, it completely skipped my mind when I was replying.. :oops: Many apologies.

Eva x
 
Well, they made Der Untergang pretty much true to form. Did you know (and this is what I read in a book years ago) that the Gestapo got the moniker 'Gestapo' from was a disgruntled postal worker who said that they should just be called 'Gestapo' for short. But how much truth there is to that story is unverified.

Eva x

I did not. It’s been a while since I last touched on the Third Reich, not gonna lie. Maybe I’m gonna come back in a few days since I have a History test coming up but it’s mostly for exam stuff. As for how true it is, it seems a bit like a legend to me.

I almost forgot to mention about my Imperial Russian life. Basically, there’s this documentary series on YouTube about the Romanovs. One of the videos surfaced one of my Imperial Russian memories. Basically, I was a small child, standing in the living room. There were many people inside but the one who stood out the most was my father, who was the Tsar of that time. His height was about 2m and he was wearing a green coat. His face worried me because he looked frustrated for some reason. I just wanted to hug him to make him feel better but at the same time, I understood that I shouldn’t disturb him unnecessarily so I just looked at him with sadness.

The documentary series, there’s English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5qDbdRcALoAmL5MtKNuvBiuBMV_vG57p
 
I would have to have a full regression for that lifetime..i believe my name was Rosalindhe...i found my nephews and my mother from that lifetime. i began to dream about the lifetime when i was 13! i remember telling my current mom "I was Jewish" she was shocked, needless to say and knew about reincarnation prior to that! And yes i was colorblind in that lifetime. That makes sense i've found also many pictures of my last incarnation online and my ex boyfriend...which looks eerily similar to Josef Kramer who was a guard in Bergen Belsen.
 
Wow, yes.

Documentaries, movies, photographs, even television news, have triggered intense memories.

Two weeks ago I discovered that in a past life I was a slave. When I watch documentaries about slavery, my attitude changes completely. I get aggressive, angry, rebellious (I'm always rebellious, but watching documentaries or reading about slavery makes me very angry) I don't know if my past life as a slave has made me develop a rebellious and extravagant attitude... you know, memories of being humiliated and restricted.

In the news of my country people always talk about people who live on the street, saying that they are useless people. I was a kid who lived on the street in a past life. I died of hypothermia at fourteen. Now I always try to help people who need to eat or need a coat. Like I said, in my country it's common to watch news about it on TV, and memories come to mind in seconds. My mother says to me, "Why are you crying?" Memories are so intense. My guitar, my days without eating anything, my socks with holes in them, my youth, I was a very helpless teenager. When I died, I thought, "I'm so tired."

About my recent past life, there are many documentaries about that famous past life, so... I don't know if it's necessary to explain my feelings about that. It's just like all my past lives, intense memories and emotions.

Usually, documentaries about 1700 and 1800 bring back many memories. Whenever I see typewriters, men's suits (1800) and French or English customs, I feel like I've been there.

I'm sorry for my English.
 
Hi,

what I thought was really strange is that I got flashes of memories from seeing a photo of someone that pl-me use to know... and then seeing someone else in an old black- and white movie when flashes of memories came of him...YET when I saw photograph of pl-self I got NO flashes of memories. Did not remember the clothes she wore, where the photograph was taken, the circumstances, etc, etc. The only thing I could go by was really my flashes of memories first of all to then later have seen a photograph; like the dog she use to have that I use to remember and t hen years later saw a photograph of it.
Also it was peculiar because I recognized myself as her on a photograph when she was older, close to her death, it was so scary then for me because I was really hit --- emotionally -- when looking at it, like "that's me!". I remember turning the picture away, but when I saw a photograph of her when she was younger I did not recognize her face ( But I did recognize her body having looked at it from her eyes ). I also thought something like Oh, please God let it not be true, I don't want to have been her...

I was still doing my own little research then to prove
1) My flashes of memories are wrong -- it is only imagination, to calm down my nerves, because I did not wish the bad memories to be true ( Even when one thing after another came of the way I had remembered it -- I still did not understand that it could by reincarnation. I just had no explaination for it at the time )
2 ) What ever it is -- if I can only see that her family is fine after her death these flashes will stop on their own and she will be at peace, finally, at peace. Even if justice has not been made about how she died. I think her/my spirit was genuinely very worried that her family would be in danger as well -- because some of them highly suspected her then boyfriend had willingly killed her and not by "accident".

It is just weird for me that some times flashes of memories can be triggered and other times they can't, I mean, what is that all about ...?

/Jaimie :)
 
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