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pixarfan

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A few times, I've babysat for a friend's kids (4 and 6), right around the age when children's past life memories tend to come up. Of course I've never pushed it, nor brought it up to their mom, but it's been interesting to overhear what could be past life memories that most people wouldn't give a second thought.

The 4-year-old girl is very talkative, friendly, and has a very inventive imagination! Her brother was pretending to be a dragon, and the girl said of the (imaginary) bad person who tried to shoot him: "IT'S MY BOSS! HIDE!" (I was pretty amused by this, because who isn't terrified by their boss? You'd think it she'd instead say it was a dragon hunter or something).

One time, she pretended to be a dog that kept eating poisoned food, dying, then coming back to life. She then changed to a more serious tone and said, "I worked in an office, and then friendly aliens came and gave me a new life." I said, "That was nice of them."

The 6-year-old boy has had a lot of behavioral problems, and has said things to his mom like, "You're not my real mother" (something that a lot of kids say to their parents when they're angry, but it does make you wonder). His mother, a friend, and I remarked that sometimes he talked like a 1930s gangster! (jokingly; never brought up the potential past life thing, obviously).
 
My daughter works in child care. I hadn't really spoken to her much about reincarnation until a few years ago, but it came up when she was telling me about a little girl who was saying things like 'I used to be the mummy and you don't tell me what to do!', and this sort of thing, when it was nap time or similar.


Since we talked about it she has started paying more attention and has many stories like this.


I think a lot of children's games and things that are often put down to 'imagination' are actually past life related.
 
Interesting post. I teach adult students who have disabilities. Sometimes I wonder about things they say, or their mannerisms, and how they interact with me or others, as well. There have been a couple of students who were keenly interested in different historical periods, i.e., Medieval and Renaissance periods. One of them became interested in film-making and has done stop motion animation with clay figures, creating stories from Medieval themes. One student greets me with a casual familiarity and uses my nickname, (which is close to my name and derivative, but no one else uses it, and I never mentioned it.) When Pixarfan mentioned the 30's gangster, it reminds me of one of my students, who I keep sensing has a past life in that time period from his mannerisms. One student kept saying my name to get my attention one time, when I was talking with another student. I finally turned to say 'yes?', and he answered with 'I do.' LOL:laugh:
 
THINGS CHILDREN SAY:


When my son was seven (he is now 29), I went along on a school field trip with him and 30 of his classmates. At lunch time, the children all sat on the picnic benches eating their lunches. I had finished mine and was just sitting near by .... listening to them talk. A little boy got up from the table and yelled to his friend at the other end. He said - "Come on Brian....let's go play. We have our lives to live all over again."


Needless to say - I was speechless...and could hardly believe what I had just heard. Yet , there was no doubt - it was as clear as day.
 
In general I always wonder, when kids randomly hug people they don't know well or even at all, if it's ever more than being innocently affectionate. I mean, I was such a child and I don't know that I ever did it because I remembered someone (though I DO remember seeing a woman at a party once and feeling I "had" to talk to her, but that was when I was a bit older), but sometimes I wonder about that.


The office story is so strange.
 
I have done a lot of childcare and have had a few weird experiences that might be past-life related.


The first? I was a teenage babysitter getting the girls ready to go out to the pool on a bus and the younger one (nearly 4 years old) looked at me and said "I used to ride the bus when I was big" When I told her "you're not big, you're little." She simply said, "I know that. But when I was big."


I kind of regret not asking more now, but I was in a hurry.


I've also had random children want me to pick them up the first time I meet them. Not a lot of them but a few. My family says it is because I'm so good with them. Sometimes I'm not sure.


My cousin's 4 children have said some weird things through the years too. (Well the 3 that are mysteriously attached to me). Most recently the youngest wanted to come home with me and ride the horses. Which apparently he's never mentioned horses until then. I don't have horses. I didn't mention them to him either.
 
Every time I meet with my youngest cousin at a family gathering I always get the sense that he's been before, although he does not talk about past lives. However, since he was little he has been gifted in a couple of areas which makes me believe that are talents passed over. I'd like to ask him questions but I do not think his family would approve since they are religious.
 
My friend has two girls, ages 5 and 11, I think. The little one likes to say that her big sister used to be her mommy. She's been saying this since she could communicate the idea, but she's kind of starting to move on.


Oh, and my 4 year old girl used to insist that she was a boy. Then when she was 3, she started saying that she used to be a boy, but now she's a girl.
 
Babysitting my 8 year old Goddaughter today, we decided to pull out and have a look at the album of photos from when she was a baby. Looking through the pictures, she turned to me and said "I thought I was a boy!" then she said "Yeah, I was a boy and then I turned into a girl!" and then she made up a little song and started singing those words to it, "I was a boy and then I turned into a girl, la la la! :D" It made me think, why would she say something like that? She's always looked like, and acted like a 'girly' girl with no tomboy tendencies whatsoever, so why would she say that? Could she have been remembering a past life?
 
ChrisR said:
She's always looked like, and acted like a 'girly' girl with no tomboy tendencies whatsoever, so why would she say that? Could she have been remembering a past life?
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Recently there have been some stories in the news about kids who "were born the wrong sex". Some people are even going as far as saying they need surgery to prevent psychological problems later on. I always think to myself, "These are past life memories". I wonder how long it will take the mainstream community to realize this fact? Maybe some well respected people like Carol Bowman or Brian Weiss should write a book on this subject.
 
argonne1918 said:
Recently there have been some stories in the news about kids who "were born the wrong sex". Some people are even going as far as saying they need surgery to prevent psychological problems later on. I always think to myself, "These are past life memories". I wonder how long it will take the mainstream community to realize this fact? Maybe some well respected people like Carol Bowman or Brian Weiss should write a book on this subject.
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I've often wondered about this very thing. I wonder what would happen if people started treating these situations as past life memories. I support whatever people have to do for their own or their children's well-being, but I do have to wonder if, by exploring past lives, a few people could come to terms with their current gender without having to eventually resort to drastic surgical measures.


I would certainly explore this if my little one were to continue to insist that she is a little boy. She is happy being a girl now, while still occasionally saying that she used to be a boy. Now she likes princesses and trucks equally, thinks farts are hilarious, and tea parties are an elegant full contact sport. Kids ... Smh :)
 
My boyfriend actually had a regression for this exact reason, but it didn't change him from wanting to transition. His spirit guide told him that he needed to learn the hardships of a woman to truely understand his lessons this lifetime :)


His grandma was convinced that putting him under hypnosis would stop him from wanting to transition into a man, but I don't think that's how it works :laugh:
 
argonne1918 said:
Recently there have been some stories in the news about kids who "were born the wrong sex". Some people are even going as far as saying they need surgery to prevent psychological problems later on. I always think to myself, "These are past life memories". I wonder how long it will take the mainstream community to realize this fact? Maybe some well respected people like Carol Bowman or Brian Weiss should write a book on this subject.
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I'm all for sex change surgery if a person desires, but I don't think kids should do it, mainly because wouldn't there be health risks, and wouldn't they be too young to really make such a huge decision? But I'm fine with young teens identifying as the gender they feel they were supposed to be. I sometimes wonder if it's ever PL related too, but I think transgender is more physical than that. I just don't think someone would go through all that if it were simply a matter of memories.
 
Supposed to be?


Someone mentioned woman that is considering sex change because she feels like a man and was man in past life yet he was supposed to learn what is it like to be a woman so question I'm asking is are they really supposed to try to change their gender back?


The reason they are this gender in this lifetime was likely for a reason, so isn't sex change interfering with karma? Similar to suicide when you get difficult life or some less drastical ways of trying to escape your plan for certain lifetime.


I don't claim all those changes happen for a reason but it raises a bigger question of our perspective towards reincarnation. Is it all just random or things happen for a reason and how much should we respect those changes accordingly ...
 
Back on the topic of things you notice about other people's kids...


Over the Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip north of San Francisco and I took a train ride through a Redwood forest. While on the train there was a family next to me across the aisle and they had a little boy with them who looked like he was 4 or 5.


When we started getting into the Redwoods the boy turned to his father and said, "Dad, I recognize this place, have we been here before? I know I've been here before."


The Dad tried to think of course and come up with something but my mind immediately started to wonder if the boy remembered Redwoods from his past life.
 
ZeonChar said:
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip north of San Francisco and I took a train ride through a Redwood forest. While on the train there was a family next to me across the aisle and they had a little boy with them who looked like he was 4 or 5.
When we started getting into the Redwoods the boy turned to his father and said, "Dad, I recognize this place, have we been here before? I know I've been here before."


The Dad tried to think of course and come up with something but my mind immediately started to wonder if the boy remembered Redwoods from his past life.
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Was that the train up at Willits? That's been there a long, long time. Maybe he was there before. Also the old NWP RR used to have passenger train service all the way up to Eureka years ago. Hasn't been any trains to Eureka for 10 or 20 years now due to bridge washout. There has been talk about building a new rail line from Eureka over the mtns. to Redding.
 
Argonne, yes it was the Fort Bragg-Wilitis train. Seems like the train has a long history for 100 years or so with loggers and settlers in the area. The kid specifically seemed to remember a certain area once it started to get into the Redeoods.
 
Once, a boy about 3 or 4 ran up, sat down next to me, and leaned his head on my shoulder. It was cute, but totally unexpected. Then he trotted back to his family with a dazed look on his face. His dad said he sometimes acts that way with the parents when he's tired or wants something, but not with strangers. I still don't know what that was all about. LOL
 
Anna H. said:
Once, a boy about 3 or 4 ran up, sat down next to me, and leaned his head on my shoulder. It was cute, but totally unexpected. Then he trotted back to his family with a dazed look on his face. His dad said he sometimes acts that way with the parents when he's tired or wants something, but not with strangers. I still don't know what that was all about. LOL
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I think it's obvious he knew you in a past life. He probably was sleepy and in the right mental state for that to come through.
 
argonne1918 said:
I think it's obvious he knew you in a past life. He probably was sleepy and in the right mental state for that to come through.
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I'd say 'possible' rather than 'obvious'. Maybe there was just something about you that seemed friendly. Maybe in a previous life he lived in a village, and that's just what children did, even though it's a bit odd in our culture? Hard to say! Kids, eh?
 
Not someone else's child, but still applicable to this thread: I noticed in home movies from when I was a little girl age 3 to 5, I was wearing a long dress-up skirt and dancing (more like hopping actually), and I held the front of the skirt up like a lady in the 1800s would do.
 
I have asked this recently, and I will ask it again: How do you differentiate past-life talk from the normal vivid imaginations of many kids? Child past-life stories are very interesting, but sometimes little kids just play around. I certainly had a vivid imagination when I was a little kid.


Respectfully,


Andrewx
 
andrewx said:
How do you differentiate past-life talk from the normal vivid imaginations of many kids? Child past-life stories are very interesting, but sometimes little kids just play around. I certainly had a vivid imagination when I was a little kid.
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What makes you think it's "just" a vivid imagination? Many times if you watch little kids playing they will know details that someone their age is unlikely to know. Most adults don't pay attention to what kids are saying or doing. Take a look at this http://www.reincarnationforum.com/threads/children-who-see-inner-light.85/
 
argonne1918 said:
What makes you think it's "just" a vivid imagination? Many times if you watch little kids playing they will know details that someone their age is unlikely to know. Most adults don't pay attention to what kids are saying or doing.
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I do not believe that I have ever had a past-life memory; this does not mean that I have never had a past-life. I repeat the question though: How to differentiate between imagination and past-life memory when the child is four years old?


Respectfully,


Andrewx
 
You can read Carol Bowman's first book, andrewx, where she explains the four signs that point to a past life memory in children: a matter-of-fact tone when they talk about it; consistency over time; knowledge beyond experience (as argonne said) and corresponding behavior and traits. Some of them also suffer phobias or night terrors. A child that is fantasizing will keep lightly doing so, adding details, sometimes incoherent, that will tell you they're just making up a story. This story will change from one day to the next. They don't do this with past life memories. Memories are a serious thing, and it seems they are for them too.
 
My grandmother takes care of my youngest cousin a lot, and pretty much everything that comes from her mouth is taken as "imagination" as my family are huge skeptics and/or scared of the possibility of reincarnation or an afterlife :rolleyes:, but my cousin will occasionally come out with things that nobody is quite sure how she knows~


For example the other month, not long after my grandmother had taken her home, she told my uncle that:


"Nanny had to go to the church today and get food from the food bank."


My uncle called my grandmother to see if she was alright and if she needed anything, and she couldn't help but laugh because she's never taken my cousin to a church and has no idea where she got that idea from! None of my family are religious, nobody goes to church and nobody has ever spoken of food banks before :laugh:


Of course "she has a good imagination." was the response, but I can't help but feel there's more to it. Also nearing her 2nd birthday she very spontaneously came out with


"I'm gonna be 21 soon!!" at the time she couldn't even count to 21!!
 
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