a few questions from an unsure skeptic

[Lonewolf]

When I was young I used to have really vivid dreams, once i dreamed of an upstairs apt. where i was convinced was above our garage when i woke up. This was clearly impossable because i knew there was no apt. above our garage, I described the apt. to my mother and she was shocked because it was an upstairs apt. she had lived in once in another town before I had ever been born. I used to love to dream, it was like a movie in my head, i'd only ever had one nightmare and all i could remember of it was the color red and me being more terrafied than iv'e ever been in my life. So normally I enjoyed my dreams. During my childhood the feeling of deja vu was a reacurring phenomenom I used to get it quite a bit. Once I got older, probably around 11 or 12 the deja vu ended and the dreams slowed down till now at age 28 I have a dream i can remember maybe once every 3 months. I've always been a skeptic when it came to reincarnation phychics and the like, I've always been drawn more towards science, even though my mother has always firmly believed she was a bit phychic, even claiming to dream about the deaths of relatives before they happen, never put much stock in her stories my self. However reading your stories after seeing carol mentioned on a&e I see similarities between my old dreams, deja vu, and scholastic abilities when i was younger, I was reading by age three, in kindergarten I was tested and found to have a 12th grade reading level, they wanted to bump me up a few grades but my mother said no. Anyway i saw similarities between my childhood and some of these stories and am begining to lose my skeptisim and am kind of floating between nonbelief and finally being convinced. Sorry to waste your time but it felt good to vent all that

 

[jereldeen]

hello there!
first reply, please don't think you're wasting anyone's time here, we're all trying to understand this concept of reincarnation and things that have happened in our lives that make us wonder "if maybe I lived another life....?" So, I say, welcome and hello!

Anyway, I had no idea about reincarnation or the concept that we could have possibly lived another life prior to our present life. Didn't really know such a thing existed until one day in 1985, when a coworker's daughter came into the office and she was so excited she could hardly breathe. When she calmed down she said that she had just been to a pastlife regressionist and had found out that she was a male, who had lived his life in the midwest in the 1800's. She went on to describe her experiences and then she told me, you've just GOT to see this guy...you've GOT to try this! At first I was amused and then I started to think and the more I thought, the more curious I became. Well, I went for my first pastlife regression in 1985 (I've had several others since then) and what happened, I cannot explain even to this day. I came up with very vivid images, emotions and memories of a Native American male who was probably born in Colorado or Montana (that part I'm not sure as the boy was orphaned during a raid on his village) and then spent the remainder of his life in Texas and Oklahoma, where he died on a reservation. What amazes me are the memories of something I had no knowledge of and still don't know how or where I got the information. You see, I told the regressionist during one part of the session, that we were angry because there had been a raid on our tribe by men in blue coats. When the regressionist asked me where I was I said, "Cheyenne Oklahoma" and I kept getting the name, "Black Kettle". I had never heard of such a place and I didn't know what Black Kettle was or what it referred to. I also gave the year as in the "1860's". After the session, I went and did some research because I thought I had made a mistake and meant Cheyenne, Wyoming (a place I was familiar with from books and such). Well, I did not find any references to any Indian Massacres that happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming around that time. I then looked under Cheyenne Indians and then came to "Cheyenne, Oklahoma" and I almost fainted when I continued reading. In 1864, I believe it was, General George Custer and his cavalry attacked and massacred the peaceful tribe of Chief Black Kettle, near the Washita River in Cheyenne, Oklahoma. I was near hyperventilating because I couldn't believe it...I didn't know this place existed or that such an event took place. Since that time, I've had several other past lives and was able to verify the information I gave. I could go on and on about other strange coincidences that have happened in my life to prove, at least to myself, that reincarnation does exist. I am now a firm believer.
Many blessings!

Jereldeen

 

[brain34ok (Stephanie)]

I, too, had deja vu all my childhood as well as quite frequent recall of dreams. Unlike you, my dreams were about 50% nightmares and 50% harmless and non-sensical. I found that, although I am in my early teens, these occurences have simply become stronger. When I was younger I used to dream about being a soldier in a war (I don't recall if they were in battle or not) and I've had a persistent fear of being attacked by "Indians" my entire life. I've long since forgotten the dreams, specifically, and stopped having them, but my fear still lingers, which is unexplainable because I am a small part Native American and familiar enough with Native American culture to know that it is a completely ridculous fear to have while living in an American suburb in the 90's (and "00's"). After reading the book, I have been fairly convinced that I may have lived a past life as a soldier and somehow had my life ended by "Indians". Anyway, I believe that if your mother is psychic, she may have somehow transmitted her memories to you through dreams. I would not necessarily think that you had a past life as someone you was familiar with the apartment, but it certainly speaks volumes about your psychic potential. If I were you, I would buy a book about delevoping such psychic powers and continue to strengthen what potential you have.

Love,

Stephanie

 

[brain34ok (Stephanie)]

Sorry... I was typing way too fast and I made a typo. Six lines up from the bottom of my reply and five words over, I meant to say "who" not "you". Sorry for any confusion.

 

[Moonbeam]

Hey Lonewolf... sounds like you have started on your journey. Like you, I tended to learn towards the scientific and still look for 'reasonable' answers, but I find that some things don't fit into the old ways of thinking. I'm fascinated by quantum physics, which really seems to be shaking up the old school. Somebody already mentioned spiritweb, and I want to add a few places for you to go. www.zukav.com is a good place to start, and I have a message board on my homepage(I think you can link there from my profile) where we talk about this (and everything else under the sun). New Scientist is a great, non-biased webzine that is dedicated to turning over every stone when it comes to the mysteries of our world. Many blessings!