michaldembinski
Senior Registered
I'm sitting here at my PC, working. Suddenly a flashback. It's from this life - West Ealing, London W13, on a wet November evening, mid- to late-1960s. It's dark, overcast, damp, streetlights reflecting off wet pavements (sidewalks to our American cousins!); Christmas is still several weeks away. Some light traffic, shopfronts, bus stop.
This flashback occurred spontaneously while I'm focused on my work in the here-and-now. The flashback is vivid, clear, as real, as tangible as though for a brief second or two I was there again as a boy.
OK - so far, this is something any cognitive psychologist, evolutionary biologist or neuroscientist would be able to cope with.
BUT... I often get flashbacks as real as this one which DON'T relate to the past in my current life. What's more, they are consistent to a certain place and time (Platzgeist and Zeitgeist, thank you Etheleona:thumbsup. I've had these all my life.
A simple answer is I am a reincarnated soul. These flashbacks are merely brief openings through which my consciousness receives these anomalous memory events.
But HOW does this happen? I mean scientifically? And WHY does it happen? To enlighten me as to the truth of reincarnation? To give hope of a life after this one (on the basis that I've had at least one before?)
Anyone else experience a similar phenonomen throughout their life?
This flashback occurred spontaneously while I'm focused on my work in the here-and-now. The flashback is vivid, clear, as real, as tangible as though for a brief second or two I was there again as a boy.
OK - so far, this is something any cognitive psychologist, evolutionary biologist or neuroscientist would be able to cope with.
BUT... I often get flashbacks as real as this one which DON'T relate to the past in my current life. What's more, they are consistent to a certain place and time (Platzgeist and Zeitgeist, thank you Etheleona:thumbsup. I've had these all my life.
A simple answer is I am a reincarnated soul. These flashbacks are merely brief openings through which my consciousness receives these anomalous memory events.
But HOW does this happen? I mean scientifically? And WHY does it happen? To enlighten me as to the truth of reincarnation? To give hope of a life after this one (on the basis that I've had at least one before?)
Anyone else experience a similar phenonomen throughout their life?