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Has anyone had past life memories while traveling?

Polaris8

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Had an experience while traveling to Europe a few years ago that I had lived in parts of England and Scotland many years ago. It's not so much a memory per say as it is a feeling as I am an empath in this life. Certain places while traveling there felt very familiar to me. Kind of like a Deja vu experience.

These feelings came up unexpectedly while in an open air market in London and a very strong emotional reaction to the Isles of Skye in Scotland. While there in Scotland I actually felt ill and sick to my stomach with this feeling of horrible loss and sadness. I actually started to cry which is not like me. I asked if we could leave. Even though the coast there was incredibly beautiful I just could not stay. After we got back to the hotel room later I calmed down.

A few years later had a psychic reading as a birthday present from a friend. The psychic told me that in London I was a street lad in the late 1800's. as my mother die giving child birth to my sister. Not having enough education I lived on the streets of London until I became older and learned a trade working in a saw mill outside of London. I was male in that life and died in my 40's from lung disease of emphysema.

The lifetime in Scotland I was female and spoke Gaelic. It was I believe around the 6th century. Was in a relationship with a man that went terribly wrong. The man that I loved was killed in battle and would never return home. We had problems in the relationship when he went into battle and the situation between us never did get resolved because he died. I was so upset with the whole thing that I committed suicide throwing myself off the cliffs of Skye. Leaving behind family and friends that loved. In this life I am male and was born an only child. My mother and grandmother raised me but have no other family ties. Which is no surprise there. Over the years I had to develop a network of friends that became my family of choice. As in life we get two family's. One of fate the other by choice. The one of fate is well obvious. It's the one we are born into. The one of choice are souls we chose to be with along the journey in this life and are usually a part of our soul group.

So now I know why I reacted like I did while in Europe. Every time I hear music sung in Gaelic I feel melancholy and sad. Love hearing Enya song water shows the hidden heart. Anyway has anyone else had such experiences?

Love this form and the site along with the people in it.

Peace, love and light...

P.
 
Hiya Polaris, first, welcome and thanks for finding us.

As to your question, yes. There are certain places that really ignited a flow of memories. Once was going up a mountain pass in Wyoming. It was one of the most vivid memories I've had. It wasn't anything dramatic, but I saw myself in the company of two or three others; we were walking up the mountain towards a pass we had knowledge of. The only emotional aspect I could gather from it was that we were leaving something behind. As we stopped at a pond we looked back down and our hearts were heavy. It was this view that I saw as I came over the mountain and was filled with unexpected sadness. On my return trip I drove off the road in that area to a very similar pond and sat... sat for several hours absorbing the whole experience.

Sometimes these triggers are directly related to having been there. Yes, Europe is a special place for such memories... ancient memories for me. Nothing specific just a feeling of home, of well-being, and an innate sense of place. This was particularly true of France. Now, a new development, all along our family has assumed we were totally German, yet having lived there for several years I never once felt any of these connective inferences. I did several extensive DNA tests and was shocked to find I was over 60% Great Britain, with Scottish, Irish, Native American, Eastern Europe and French most of the remainder. Despite all my time in Europe, France is the only place I've been. And the sense of recognition was powerful. I hope to visit England some day soon, I have a feeling it will be powerful. I too am deeply moved by Gaelic music, and Enya is one of my most favorite artistis!

Thanks again for finding us... it was meant to be...

Blessings, ~Tman
 
Hi Ken, Certainly an interesting question. The lineage of the soul vs the lineage of biology. I think there is a lot of room for thought. A dear friend of mine loves to argue against reincarnation, instead choosing the idea that "the seed remembers." In other words our residual memories from ancestors are slipping through. He offers a pretty passionate debate. But, who can ever say for sure... I'm just enjoying the mystery. ~T
 
Just curious Tman, why do you, or anyone else, believes that DNA has anything to do with reincarnation. To me, DNA would be more like finding that your Toyota was made in Indiana:confused:.
KenJ,

That put a smile on my face and made me laugh with that comment.:p Actually our DNA is the karmic blue print of karmic actions manifest into the physical plane. That is how the physical body is manifested and karma expressed in form. When we incarnate most of the karmic patterns lie dominate as seeds as potential energy waiting to be expressed in the new life. Because when we are young our inner subtle bodies along with our physical one is still developing. While they are developing those seeds slowly are released over time depending if the new environment activates them. Some are, and are encourage, others lie dominate and others simply die off and are replaced with higher vibrations within in the inner bodies which will later manifest in a future lifetime.


So perhaps that Toyota was made in Indiana after all.

P.
 
Actually our DNA is the karmic blue print of karmic actions manifest into the physical plane.
The people found with two distinctly different DNA add a little difficulty to that view I think. Also, since DNA comes from my parents makes it hard for me to see how it could be of design specifically for me. I guess I'm going to have a test done to see what info it holds!
 
Hi, so interesting to read your story!!

Yes, I have but to me it was totally weird back then because I was a very young teenager and I recognised myself through the eyes of a woman (this was in the US, LA area and NY years back), wanting to go places my mum knew nothing off (she had her little map and everything planned out for us).

I would also be confused at times because in my head I saw specific buildings and so far, but in reality some were removed. Then at other times some things looked almost the same, so it was as if I was being hit on the side now and then, being poked at.

It was really working my brain hard. I was so exhausted, like mentally which I had never been before. Like I was shifting from that life and then my own life, struggling to keep balance. It was overpowering me.

I don't think I can explain it to someone who has not been through it themselves. That is why I am so pleased after reading your post that one is not alone with these kind of experiences.

I asked my mum about "the girl" that I saw myself being, spending time with a young (but to me as a young teenager he was old...) actor Jimmy who later became the icon James Dean - of all people, I mean what are the odds??

I suppose by then I was hoping there was a movie I had seen from this girl's eyes, perspective (only no such movie exists). This due to the great sadness I felt. I did not want to feel it. Like it was sucking me right into it, trying to dress me in it's identity. This was when I really wanted to take distance to what was going on.

I also tried to deny it to my mum because I got frighten - thinking she would take me to hospital or start yelling at me or something. That I would ruin our trip.

I thought I better just not say anything. That this will go away. What ever it is - it will just go away.

I have had flashbacks from other possible past lives before and it would just come - and then just go away, little by little and then be gone.

Once I got to bed I slept - I don't know for how many hours at a hotel, like a hangover (only I did not know what hang over felt like back then...). Wanted to leave LA. (When we had gotten to a certain area in LA I saw these huge paintings of the James Dean and to me they were abnormal and close to frightening, like death and something else that I could not connect to the Jimmy I experienced as her, but still strong reminders, a glimpse of who he had been. I was like "Come on!!", like a bad joke, it was as if there was no where to hide at one point. I left one street and the next there was another huge image of him at some wall).

Thanks for posting. I am so sorry you experience such heartbreak and difficult times. I hope you have a good life this time around (despite of those experiences).
 
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Welcome Polaris8

I sometimes get memories or emotions when I visit specific locations and where I live now is near some of the places I spend a lot of time during WWII so plenty of locations can trigger memories and emotions, I've been to some areas so many times that I've been desensitized to a degree to the link to WWII
 
The people found with two distinctly different DNA add a little difficulty to that view I think. Also, since DNA comes from my parents makes it hard for me to see how it could be of design specifically for me. I guess I'm going to have a test done to see what info it holds!
KenJ,

Interesting you said that because I was thinking of getting my DNA test this year on my birthday. I know my mom's side of the family but not much on my Dad side since I never knew my father so that side of the family is a blank. Being an only child I know I have half brothers/sisters somewhere. All I know is on my mom side I am English, Scottish, German and Irish. My dad side from what my mother told me is Irish and Cherokee Indian.

P.
 
Hi,
I did get very emotional leaving Toronto in 2010, having had a hard time to avoid crying, sobbing, I´m not like that at all normally. I believed that this was where I ought to be and raise my kids (they were 1,5 and 5 years old at that time) , my heart was literally hurting -but in my head I knew that I had to go home to Europe and I think it was just an old lost half-aware memory of a past.
Same thing with Chicago, I always enjoy being around, it just feels good, and I knew my way around without maps, at least in the area of Lincoln Park.
California, Florida - all nice places but I´m happy to leave them behind due to not so happy memories.

I also had an interesting experience with the Taj Mahal, it moved me in a way I had not expected, I was in a dream like state, but maybe it just has a lot of energy, since there probably are some special energetic places out there. So I dunno…

I´m also wondering how DNA could be possibly related to my PL since it is from my parents…
 
Hi, liked to read of your experience and others here. Yes, I have been exposed to that too when visiting Italy, USA and Grand Canaria :), having memories of being an Italian female who later lived in the US and was also on vacation at one point in Grand Canaria. These memories and recognition came from when I was a child til I was an adult.
/Li La
 
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