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When she was 2 1/2, my first granddaughter told me she was afraid an airplane was going to crash. We were at the airport waiting for her plane to arrive so she could return home with her dad. She and I went to watch the planes land while her dad was talking to my other son.
I asked her if she was afraid and she said "yes" it's going to crash. How does a 2 year old know about plane crashes, I thought. During that visit, she kept talking over and over about "going to see a man" and breaking her sunglasses. We were all puzzled by those comments at the time. She had flown with her dad to visit us.
She never told either her mom or dad about the plane incident.
Later, I realized she had been trying to tell me about a past life. I got some information from someone who could read past lives, and they confirmed she had died in a plane crash with her mother when she was young and that they had been going to visit an uncle. They were not surprised she remembered and said it may come up again whenever she flies. We flew again earlier this year and she said at first that she was afraid, then her adverturous self took over and she enjoyed the ride.
By the way, this granddaughter is the reincarnation of someone I knew when I was 16 (I'm not 58). At that time, she was my boyfriend. He died when he was 19 in a car crash. I knew my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her before she did and visited with him pre-birth in dreams, where he told me he was coming back as my granddaughter. We have a very close connection.
 
Another memory: This granddaughter mentioned one time that she had a sister. I was playing with her and showed her how to turn my tongue over and said my sister had taught me that.
She then told me she also had a sister and told me her name in a language I could not understand (at that time, she did not have any siblings). She described some of the things they did together. When her mom got pregnant again, she was sure it was going to be a girl - she never had any doubt. Sure enough, it was a girl.
One time I asked if she helped her mommy with the baby. She said "I can take care of her all by myself." I'm sure that was another memory but didn't have time to pursue it at the time.
 
2 year old

Has any one have any advise to help me with my 2y/o. In the last 2 weeks, she has been absolutely terrified of the sound of airplanesand helicoptors, (even though we live on the flight path of a small airport). Up until now, she hasn't had any fear of anything... Why I thought it may be a past life memory is that yesterday she was so terrified, she crouched down and balled up under a table and she wouldn't get out for anything and no consoling her... Does anybody know what I can do to help her cope with this.
 
Wow, it sounds like you are on the right track. Past life memories seem to surface in most cases between the ages of two and seven. Her terror is very real, and affects everyone in the room, as you have seen.

The recalling of the memory seems to be very helpful. And the memory of the death is the most clear memory. So she is likely to be reliving the trauma of her death. Perhaps in a war situation. I know this is hard to hear, as a Mom, that your child has this trauma to work through, but there it is.

Try to ask questions or get her to open up when she is waking up or going to sleep or just out of the bath. Sometimes you will see themes pop up during her play. If she uses certain names for her toys, write them down! Ask about them later. If you see her acting out a scene with her toys that seems beyond her experience in THIS life, write it down! Jump in and play with her and try to keep the scene going, see where it leads. Ask questions gently, she will respond more to neutral questions than emotionally charged ones. Like "how did you die" is just tacky, but "you were scared, weren't you?" is a litle more comforting (assuming she is acting out fear). Some other questions that might be easier for her, "were your friends with you?" because it will be easier to focus on friends and talk about that rather than the hard emotional stuff. My daughter talks easily about friends, food, daily routines that she enjoyed. But the death itself was HARD to get her to talk about. We played with puppets, recreating the characters from her past so she could dialogue with them. One day she wanted the puppets and she told her Grandfather (past life) that she was sorry for jumping on the bed. And I got the Grandfather puppet to apologize for beating her (this is how she died). It blew me away, but it resolved a HUGE list of phobias for her.

It took months of keeping the lines of communication open to get to that point. Lots of validating her and her her emotions. And I did sometimes find clever ways to trick her into telling me more. I asked did the have phones or cars or TVs (to narrow down a historical time frame). I asked all of her friend's names and ages, her Church, what did they do for fun, etc.
When I had narrowed it down, but had no city or family name, I got a list of names from a random source on the internet and just started saying "do you know who ____ is?" in the middle of the night, no more than one question a night. And as luck owuld have it, one of the random names was her grocer! It was a rare name at the time, few people by that name were around, so I was able to trace HIS family tree and find HER city! Still not certain on the family name, but I have a researcher working on it. It turns out *I* was there in that life too, but had NO recall until I was in the midst of my research.

So, welcome to the adventure. May the doors open for you as you seek your answers.

Marg
 
Colleen,

I don't know if this helps, but when I was a child between the ages of 4 and 6, I used to run for cover everytime an airplane flew overhead. I would be outside playing, hear the roar of the engine, and race for the house where I would wait silently by the screen door. I would not go out to play again until the plane had gone.
Considering that we lived five minutes from the airport, I ran inside about ten times a day.

Later in adulthood, I uncovered a past life from WWII. I realized that I had been alive during the war, and had reacted as a child in this lifetime, to planes, as if I were once again being bombed.

My sense is that perhaps your child is reacting to a past life war time as well.
 
Many thanks for your response and insights. What amazes me is that it is like a switch being turned on. She has been raised with the sounds of planes and helicoptors and up until recently, associated planes with daddy (he was in the air force but was discharged 8 years ago, well before she was born)and quite relaxed about it. I understand it will take a lot of time to sort through, but she has nearly passed out with sheer terror. She has started to talk in her sleep so may something will be revealed there as well. Again, many thanks.
 
Yeah, it is weird how it is like a light being turned on. There are discussions in other threads about how children remember past life and between life experiences. If I ask my daughter what is was like before she was born, she talks about events that happened when she was 1 1/2. Some theories are that the souls is slowly entering (or "pouring") into the body. It seems they do not experience time the way we do. Some people have said their children see future events as well as past lives.

And in another thread, someone gave advise to talk to the child's true soul self while sleeping and explain that they are in a new body and they are safe now. I can't remember, it might have been Carol Bowman's post? It's here in a thread near the top.

Anyway, good luck!

Marg

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What Zack recalled

Zack has told me a couple different things at different times. When he was just two, we were watching the History channel, and it was about WWII. He got very excited, and stated, " I use to fly off of ships like that. I flew my airplane, but it crashed into the water, and I remember looking at the clouds before I died."

I didnt want to push it, so I just said," Ohhh wow, I see." I didn't want him to start making up stories, so I left it at that. Then just the other day, we were on the way home from Grandmas house. And I said to him (out of curiousity of what he'd say.) I said, " what was your name when you were big before this life?" He paused for a second, and said, " Gustav." I said, "oooh, Gestaff?" And he yelled at me, " Said no, your saying it wrong! Gustav!" Anyways, then he started talking about a helicopter and being in war with me. I dont know if he was making it up, because before he told me it was an airplane, or maybe when he was two he didnt know the word for helicopter? Anyways...just thought I'd share this with you all. :)
 
Oh yeah

Zack is four years old. Also I forgot to say that he has always said to me that I need to be careful when driving, because he doesnt want to crash in the water again! He told me the other day, same day he told me he was Gustav...that him and I were on a bus, and it crashed into the water. But before we were on the bus, we were on the helicopters......he stresses to me everytime i drive, not to drive us into the water again.
 
Welcome to the forum Marsha,

Thank you for sharing your experiences with your son. Carol wrote a wonderful outline for what to look for when children are truly having past life experiences. The thread titled "The Four Signs of Children's Past Life memories" will give you an idea - of how to gauge your sons expressions and determine what is imagination and what is a memory. It sounds more like memory to me. Especially with the water and his name.

I also suggest you keep a journal and write them down for future reference.

Please do share on the forum, I look forward to your posts.
 
airplane

My daughter will be 15 in a few months. When she was about 3 (old enough to speak sentences), she and I were sitting on the front step one night, looking at the stars. A light was moving in the sky. I said, "See that light that is moving. That is an airplane". She then said, "I died on the airplane".

I was a little taken aback, and wondered if I had heard her correctly. I asked, " You died on the airplane?" She responded, " Yes, I died on the airplane". The next day, I asked my wife and mother-in-law (staying with us at the time), if our daughter had seen anything on TV about airplanes or airplanes crashes. They both said no. I had no idea why our daughter would have said that, until a few years later, when we purchased a computer.

I came across a site about the study of past lives at a university in Virginia. I found that other children had said similar phrases. I related my story by email to the university study. My daughter never mentioned it again and has no recollection of why she said it.
 
Welcome to the forum Perkins. :)

It always amazes me how children remember. Did your daughter have any fears of flying or behavior that ties in with that memory?

Thank you for sharing.

Chelle
 
Hi Chelle

No, she has been on a few flights from Texas to California and back, and has never shown any fear of flying.
 
I'm glad to hear she hasn't carried over any fears. Most children forget as they become more rooted in their current life and current identity. Thank you for sharing your story of your daughter. :)
 
Re: airplane

This is fascinating. It does occur to me, though, that dying on an airplane doesn't necessarily mean a plane crash. People do die on planes of heart attacks and other natural causes. That might be why she doesn't have a phobia about planes.


Cecily
 
father's cousin

That is right. My father had a cousin who was a turret gunner on an airplane during WWII. He was hit by enemy fire and died before the plane was able to land.
 
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