Is this past?

[s0ulfool]

Just wondering what you might make of this.

Through out my life any time I felt stressed, sad, or really any kind of negative emotion I would have this dream:
I'm walking through a forest along a dirt road next to me is a man (a boy when I was younger) he has brown eyes, is taller than I am, and I can somehow tell that he is older than me by a couple of years. I used to call him my "Forest Guide" because we would never leave that forest, he never showed up in any other dreams. Always us walking along that road, holding hands, happy.

About three months ago, I stopped dreaming about him (my life has been really stressful lately, but he isn't there) a month ago I went to a restaraunt for my sister-in-law's birthday. There was a guy playing a guitar at the front, something about him seemed familiar. I ignored that little "I know this person" sensation. Then I realized I was singing a song I didn't know, it was an origional by the fellow up front and I actually LOOKED at him. He looked way too familiar, I had never met him before EVER (If I had I wouldn't have forgotten him).
After I kept feeling like I had forgotten something, I looked through a couple of my dream journals and realised my "forest guide" looked like the performer.

Now, every once in a while, when we're talking I get flashes like we've done this before but I can't remember fully when or where or how even.

Friends and family say I just want something to be important about him, or that he looks like other people in my life so that's why I feel like I know him. But that's not it. Any time I try to say "yeah, he does look kinda like___" I can't think of anyone.
So, basically, do you think he's from a past life or am I just crazy?

 

[usetawuz]

Interesting situation you describe...and welcome to the forum.


I have had just such "recognition" of someone I have never laid eyes on before. It seems it isn't even so much of what they look like than a feeling of familiarity and comfort with someone you have never even met. What I have come to believe about these events is that I knew them well in a previous incarnation and my soul recognizes their soul.


It has happened several times with women and one I almost married, and another I did marry. It has happened with men who have all become close friends...relationships which are either continuously sustained or which pick back up without maintenance years later.


Another aspect has been that I do not get the sense of familiarity with those I have known in past lives that I see on tv, but when I have met several of those celebrities in person that I have known in former lives, they have approached me with a familiarity our current relationship does not warrant, and often leads to surprising lines of conversation.


Once again, welcome to the forum and please feel free to contribute your experiences and impressions; you will find an interested and interesting crowd here.

 

[Nightrain]

...do you think he's from a past life or am I just crazy?

I think you already know that none of us would say that you are "crazy". In fact, you can rest assured that there is some kind of soul connection with this man. And, given our sincere belief that this present life we share with each other is but a very small portion of the eternity that is our actual existence; it is not a large leap of faith to expect that we have shared close and profound relationships with many people that we have not yet met in this lifetime.


Most people can attest to the fact that we have had similar experiences throughout our lives, but few of us have truly questioned why, or investigated it further. Fortunately, here you will find many who have investigated this question with an open but critical mind. The common assumption here, of course, is that Reincarnation may be the most simple (yet complex) answer available.


However, some of us would also caution that not all such recognitions are necessarily wonderful; for, if each lifetime is but a separate play on the stage of life, it is not always good for the actors of one closed play to enter the stage after a new play has commenced. That is, of course, unless the new play is a sequel of the play that has closed. But then, sometimes, what is unfinished business is not always good business. In other words, one of the reasons we don't clearly remember those we have known before could be because we need to approach problems with a new set of eyes—literally, as well as figuratively.

 

[Kristopher]

Although I'm very skeptical about dreams actually meaning anything due to the lack of ways to measure them that I'm aware of, I have had a few weird dreams that can relate to yours in a way.


I've felt a strong connection to a person in my dream who doesn't exist (that I'm aware of) and, when I wake up, and realise that that person isn't "real", I tend to feel sad for a short while. After a while when I'm fully awake it puzzles me why I felt sad about someone not existing that I had 'made up' while dreaming. I know there was definietly a connection between us but I don't even know what the connection was, if that makes sense. There was other people in that dream, and dreams I've had before and since, why didn't I have the same feeling towards them? Also, I hadn't seen the person's face before in this life.


So, basically, I think its possible the person I was dreaming of is someone who did exist at some point - a past life maybe. It's possible that that person/soul did share past lives with me and will do in this one and/or future lives. They maybe haven't incarnate yet. I believe this could be the case for you too.

 

[Lady2]

Welcome to the past life forum!


Very interesting dream, and connection...Thanks for sharing. I think most of us on this forum believe everything happens for a reason, there's no 'coincidences', I don't think what you describe was a coincidence. It happen for a reason - but what reason?


Also, it is possible to recognize someone from a past life, not that they look physically similar, but you recognize them, them as a individual soul.


So glad you've joined us - I look forward to your future posts! Keep up the great dream recording! :thumbsup:

 

[s0ulfool]

Thanks for assuring me that I'm not crazy (haha). I'm feeling more comfortable admitting that he was a really great friend in a past life. I'm not sure the extent of our relationship back then, I'm going to try to explore my past a little more to figure that part out. But in the dream he was always a comforting person, which is why I believe we were friends, and now when we are in the same place we some how find each other.


Last night I went out with my friends, went to the restroom and there he was! We aren't too familiar (only meeting a couple of times and talking online about TV shows) with one another in this life but that didn't stop the two of us from giving eachother great big hugs like we've been friends for years. This helped confirm that I know him (his soul).


I'm going to persue this and see what happens (if I get any more flashes and if I start dreaming again), do you think that'd be a good idea?

 

[Sharry]

I think it would be wonderful to recognize someone, but then what? what does one do?


I think I had someone recognize me in a shopping mall a little while ago, they saw me and stared at me, and as we went around the mall I saw him walking past and staring, not watching where he was going. It didn't worry me. Then when I was at the bus stop outside, he had got on the bus, looked straight at me, was on the edge of his seat like he wanted to hop out of the bus again and talk to me.


I regret pretending not to notice and not waving or something.


Maybe he recognized me, maybe he just thought I was pretty. But I think he recognized me because surely if he just thought I was pretty he'd have a bit more self control? I feel compelled to look out for him whenever I'm at that shopping mall.


But now that I think about it there is someone in my current life that I recognize and I think we both sort of got a shock at seeing each other when we both spotted each other. We see each other nearly every day at a place I go to and we seem to be like little magnets, I'll walk past as he comes out of a room, someone will talk to me and then walk away and he'll be behind them, I end up queued in line next to him. It happens a lot. It's awkward.

 

[s0ulfool]

I think it would be wonderful to recognize someone, but then what? what does one do?
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But now that I think about it there is someone in my current life that I recognize and I think we both sort of got a shock at seeing each other when we both spotted each other. We see each other nearly every day at a place I go to and we seem to be like little magnets, I'll walk past as he comes out of a room, someone will talk to me and then walk away and he'll be behind them, I end up queued in line next to him. It happens a lot. It's awkward.

Yeah, that same thing keeps happening with my guy. We ran into each other at a performance of a new friend of mine, and like I said, we kept running into each other the entire night.


What is also strange, to me, is that I don't get worried about being his friend or anything like that (sometimes I worry about if people like me, cause I'm weird like that) with him it's almost like I know we will be friends for a while.


My sister-in-law said that she could tell we had a big connection because not only was I so focused on him the first time we met he was also focused on me.


She also said she would help me explore my past lives since I'm still unsure of what to do.