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I've read many people's past life memories on here, and I've often seen that many of you remember events or conversations that you have had, but do any of you remember hearing any music or songs?

And for those of you that have past life memories of ancient cultures such as Egypt or Atlantis, did music play a big role back then? Did it have any major significance?
 
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I've read many people's past life memories on here, and I've often seen that many of you remember events or conversations that you have had, but do any of you remember hearing any music or songs?
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Oh yes, lots - especially from two of the three lives I remember, one in the American Civil War (farmer/soldier in North Carolina) and in the Napoleonic Wars (British sailor). I could probably make a list, but that would be rather large :)
I've always loved music, maybe this is why I remember so much of it...
 
Reynardine,
If you don't mind, could you list a few of the songs? I too love music deeply, and was hoping that music would be that trigger that could help me remember a past life. Sometimes when I hear songs (especially songs from the '60s and '70's), it's almost like I've heard them somewhere before. This might not have anything to do with past lives though, because I might have just heard the songs before on the radio or on a commercial, but it's nice to imagine :) .
 
Cunodante,

Of course I don't mind, could go on blabbing about that for hours :)

PL as a sailor (1776 - 1801)

Songs

- Seventeen Come Sunday
- Do Me Ama
- The Flash Frigate
- Captain Barton's Distress on the Lichfield
- The Bay of Biscay-O
- Sir Andrew Barton
- Jack Hall
- Admiral Benbow
- Botany Bay
- Spanish Ladies
- Skewball
- Pretty Peggy-O
- Old Billy Reilly
- Sovay, The Female Highwayman
- The Tailor And The Mouse
- Madam, I'm A Darling

(and probably a few that are just escaping me)

Tunes

- Lord Inchiquinn
- Gray's Inn
- Stingo (Oil of Barley)
- Parson's Farewell
- The Three Sea Captains
- several hornpipes (have always loved hornpipes, ever since I was very young)

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PL as a North Carolina farm boy/Confederate fifer (1842 - 1861)

Songs

- Pretty Saro
- East Virginia
- All The Pretty Little Horses (my mother used to sing that to me when I was a child, and I still get homesick when I hear it)
- The Frog In The Well
- The House Carpenter (James Harris, or The Demon Lover)
- Reynardine (hence my username, I *love* that song!!!!!)
- Lorena
- Cumberland Gap
- Dixie (of course)
- Shady Grove
- Martinmas Time/The Irish Dragoons
- The Bashful Courtship
- Old Rosin The Beau

Tunes

- Billy in the Lowlands
- Soldier's Joy
- several of the fife signals played in the Army
- Pigtown Fling (aka The Wild Horse At Stoney Point)
- Listen To The Mockingbird

Are there any tunes you know/recognize? That would be so cool :cool

Nathali
 
The first time I looked through my parents' old 78's (for you "youngins", those are the 78-RPM thick, fast-spinning records that were used exclusively from about 1905 to the early 50's when LP's and 45's stated to appear), I found the song "Holiday for Strings," and instantly knew the tune. My parents had not tried to play any 78's for many years (since before I was born) and this was during a time when there were no "nostalgia/big band" radio stations yet. This radio format appeard several years later amid comments that people of my parents' generation had not heard "their" music on the radio for a long, long time.

We put the record on the turntable, got one of thse special 78 needles for it, and played it. The tune was exactly what I knew it would be.
At the time I just assumed that this was the only tune that could go with these words. Frankly, that is one of the stupidest, most illogical thoughts I have ever had, but my a priori knowledge made no sense and could not have produced any sensible explanation without an understanding of past lives.

As this is being typed, Dinah Shore is singing in the background, on a satellite-radio 40's formatted channel.

...Rod
 
Music has always been very significant to me. I love music. But when it comes to historical music, only very particular periods and types, but they cause strong feelings.

Renaissance music and baroque music make me want to dance. (I remember one lifetime during the Renaissance period, and I don't recall anything specific, regarding the 1700's, other than being entertained by and dancing to the music of that period. I think I may have learned the harpsichord, although not been terribly inspired a player.)

Gregorian chant fills me with feelings of yearning towards communion with the divine. (I was either a monk or priest in more than one lifetime).

Military marches absolutely stir my senses and increase my heartrate. (I lived in a culture during at least two lifetimes where military marches were popular).

Swing music makes me wish I'd been an American teenager during that period, and I always listen to it in secret. (I lived in Germany during the period instead)

Wagner's orchestral pieces can either make me feel very sad, or fill me with anticipation, or the feeling of 'now what'. (These were used before radio broadcasts, and the piece often indicated whether it was good news, bad news, or a speech).

Whenever I write, music is always a part of it. To the point where there is often what I think of as a 'theme song or songs' connected with a particular piece.

Also, when I'm attempting to look back at past life memories, I find using music of that period helps me to home in on it.
 
Nostalgia

I want to make a difference between the (modern) music I like in this life time,
and music which invokes past life memories
and the feeling that I'm back in time.

Chopin does that, though I'm not really fond of his music,
I think he's too sentimental (no offence ;))
But he reminds me of a beautiful day in spring,
girls in white cotton dresses and innocence.
Chopin is sweet, especially his piano music.

Schubert is also wonderful, but today I'm a fan,
I don't know if I was in my past life.
I was quite melancholical back then, and Schubert's songs would've depressed me.
I needed the lightness and innocence from someone like Chopin.

This one is especially for Ben:
The Smiths, I've always loved melancholical music and poetry,
The Smiths are both.
They awake gloomy past life memories about England (especially London).
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down.

Another thing, I don't know if Morrissey (the leadsinger)
is gay,
but I was gay in my past life, and his songs are sometimes
so creepy accurate about my memories:
You took me behind a dis-used railway line
And said "I know a place where we can go
Where we are not known"
And you gave me something that I won't forget too soon.

The Smiths are an 80's band and so are The Pogues,
but it feels like they sing about things which happened
100 or 200 years ago.

Medieval music, especially French.
I love it, I love it, I love it!

Renaissance music, but not court music,
but music from the bards and streetsingers, love songs.
And no English music (gosh, how I "love" John Dowland ;))
French, German, Dutch (or actually Flemish) sends me back in time.

Baroque, this has to sound royal and stylish,
again I chose for France,
would you care to dance? :)

Georg Friedrich Händel, the first time I heard
"Lascia ch'io pianga", an aria from his opera Rinaldo,
I cried, like I never heard such a beautiful song before.
It has an "Green Sleeves" effect on me,
a song which everyone knows and everyone loves.
Perhaps it's just a good song which touches the sensitive parts of my soul,
or maybe it brings back memories I'm not aware of yet.

19th century piano music, not only Chopin,
Schumann makes me happy as well.
But also Johann Strauss Jr. has a strange effect on me (eeek!), but I can't listen to it without irony ;)

And then music from the 1920's to 1940's,
especially film music, broadway songs,
musicals, entertainment, cabaret.
Cole Porter, Kurt Weil, sentimental stuff,
Vera Lynn, Lili Marleen.
I also love series like the Singing Detective
and Pennies from Heaven, because of the music.
I don't have any past life memories about that era,
but it gives me still that nostalgic feeling.

...I feel so gay in a melancholy way
that it might as well be spring... :)

Curious Girl.
 
Classical Japanese music and traditional Armenian music are two genres that definitely strike a deep chord in me. As for modern songs, anything by System of a Down, Creed, Limp Bizkit (or any other band with that sound) makes me feel like I'm back on that battlefield in 1868.

The song "Freedom Fighter" by Creed has special significance-- whenever I hear the following section, I feel like the spirits of those who died fighting the supposed "new order"-- my side in that war-- are gathering to take revenge. Sometimes when I hear this section of the song I can physically feel their pain, shame, and hatred toward the people who crushed them:

"Can’t you hear us coming?
People marching all around
Can’t you see we’re coming?
Close your eyes it’s over now
Can’t you hear us coming?
The fight has only just begun
Can’t you see we’re coming?"

--N.
 
Music

Does anyone else get feelings from music? Let me explain certain kinds of music brings back memories.

Like you know the feeling you get from looking through a year book, or a photo or listening to a familiar song. I get that from music from a few different time periods.
Tthe 20s 30s big band,swing music. I get a feeling of happy fun times, even though the real time period was really devasating. But I feel like I'm young and out partying with friends, just overall fun.

The 50s like Elvis, school dance like music, like Unchained Melody really makes me sad. But I always get like a sad longing feeling from those type of songs, like thinking back on a better time and wanting to get back there. Like the feeling of, I wish I could have done it differently really kinda hard to explain. I also have memories from 50s early 60s in a school dance with teachers and banners and punch and music.

60s I imagine this is the same lifetime as the 50s early 60s one, I'm just older here. I love the entire hippy counter culture era, and the music but more of in a different way. like a happy time but like there's nothing else to live for kinda way. I feel I must have died pretty young in my "hippy life" as I call it. Probably from drugs or even suicide maybe in the early to mid 70s.

And 80s like all 80s music, I get a fun type of feeling, but also kinda sad, some songs nearly bring me to tears but not as much as the 50s ones. But I think this must have been my most current life before my own. Here is what I think my timeline was.


Born probably early 20s then by 30s I was like a party guy out drinking and having fun probably not very rich, but having fun with the little I had. Probably steeling a bit also. I would say I must have lived pretty long and settled down, I don't know if I ever got married or not, I don't feel like I did. I don't have many memories from that life.
Then born again late 40s maybe 1948 49, so by 1960 I would have been a young teen then by 1969 would have been in my 20s I say. I must have died 1970-1973 between there. I feel like I got into heavy drugs and got really out of it, I may have just died from overdose or suicide whatever I did it to die.
Then born again maybe 72 or so so; by 82 I was 10 ,then 87, when I died I would have been about 15 or 16, then I was born again 1987 may 29th into my current life.
 
The first and only time I sat down to hear Gregorian type chants I was horrified. The biggest fear and dread came over me. I had an anxiety attack and really scared my wife. I was shaking and trembling. The worse feeling of oppression and doom came over me.

This stems from a most unhappy life as an very unwilling novice monk. On the other hand Mozart's "A little night Music" (I wont even try to spell it in the correct German) makes me soar with happiness.
 
I have so much Celtic music it's not even funny. I can just listen to the music from Riverdance or any other upbeat Celtic music and my heart pounds out of my chest and I want to dance more than anything! And some of the slower songs make me feel soooo homesick...
 
I always feel a deep longing in my chest when I hear harps and lutes. I love music from the middle ages, I can imagine the cold stone walls and floors of a castle with hay strewn over the slabs in a bid to keep the chill out. I can see the flames of a fire and feel the weight of the heavy green gown I am in. That music makes my heart soar.
 
Any Christmas / holiday music which may evoke PL memories?

Can the current holiday season evoke any memories of holidays from "past lives?"

For example, some of the holiday music can evoke profound feelings e.g., where some people may experience dreams (not just of visual, and sound-related memories, but even touch, smell, and tastes) of places and people they have not experienced.

The holidays can be especially stressful & emotional for some people; Dr Ian Stevenson (who has spent decades researching "Past life" claims worldwide) has found that people going through stressful situations e.g., mourning loved-ones who have recently passed-away reported having dreams that felt like places/people from some other times e.g. past lives.
 
Welcome to the forum Marc Ross,

I imagine this would be the case- considering the Heart is most open -giving, compassionate and vulnerable at these times.

To me - our emotional (heart) intelligence - is the way to knowing thy self.
 
The holidays are already charged with emotion in this life, so it's not surprising that that charge is compounded when your past lives come into play!
For me, the month of December is especially traumatic (that's not the word I'm looking for but I can't think of the right one) because it includes the two most vivid memories of my PL as Myrrydd.
The first is so simple, yet so poignant. I am standing at a second story window in a huge manor, watching snow fall. My husband is behind me, his arms around my very pregnant belly. I have experienced this brief episode from both the first person and third person points-of-view, and I can literally feel the cold air blowing in and the baby moving inside me and my beloved's arms.
The second is my death soon after, which I don't care to recount at the moment...it's too intense.
 
Power of Music

Does anyone on the board have any experience with music's ability to induce memories or at least impressions?

I have, since I was little, had a real "thing" for a certain piece of classical music.
I was always able to keep it under wraps because it seemed a bit stupid and...I dunno...flakey?
Then about six months ago I heard it and finally decided to come clean to a friend about the effect it had on me and the images and names associated with it.

She's one of those brilliant types who knows a little bit about a lot of stuff and she recognized...I'm not kidding...RECOGNIZED the names I mentioned, seems what I'd done was sort of pick up some chap's memory of a moment in time.
No idea HOW that works.

Does music affect anyone else like this?

-Mary
 
Hi Palacegirl,

When I was a toddler I had one of those plastic record players with several records, and my mother says I would play the song "Molly Malone" for hours on end, day after day! This song has stayed with me almost every single day of my life, the most recent version I adore being Sinead O'Connor's. I also have a thing for classical, celtic, broadway and opera music. As a child my parents only listened to country music and 80's stuff. I was never exposed to this type of music. When I was old enough to start buying my own music, I turned to the genres that "spoke" to me. By ten I had a pretty impressive collection. My brothers were listening to metal bands, and here I was playing Rachmaninoff and Debussy. They thought I was crazy! Even now I tend to have a very different taste in music from my friends. I like the music of my generation, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't make my heart flutter, or bring me the sense of peace and security that older music does. I also prefer women's voices to men's. My current faves are Eva Cassidy, Sarah Brightman, Emma Shapplin, Sarah McLachlan and Lucia Micarelli (the violinist on tour with Josh Groban). Listening to various types of music has brought back some pl memories for me, although I haven't figured out the mystery of Molly yet. I just know whenever I hear it, I feel like I just came home. It's a wonderful feeling!
How does this piece of music affect you? Is it a positive or negative experience? Do you have any "flashes" of your pl? Do you have any other types/pieces of music that "speak" to you?
Just wondering...

Ailish
 
It all began about 39 years ago with a song.
It was the 1812 Overture, and there at the end where they play God Save The Tsar I evidently would wave and bow and grin like the maniacal 2 or 3 year old I was.

My mom used to call it "Baby's bye-bye song"

Of course I didn't know anything about the Romanovs and I somehow can't imagine my mother unfolding such an unhappy tale before a toddler.

Years passed and when the film Nicholas & Alexandra came out we went to see it but I don't recall that it made much impact beyond seeming rather dark and grim to my 8 year old mind.

Time marched on...


About 6 months ago I heard the 1812 Overture again and that sense of strenuously suppressed joy came up at Oh Lord Save Thy People along with the tears of happiness at God Save the Tsar.

I fessed up to my husband about how this song had always affected me, and this is the weird part---there is a STRONG feeling of..."Hey, they're playing MY song!"
It's as if the whole thing is for ME and oh golly I just want to make all the world happy to repay them for it.
Since Will (My husband) and one of our dearest friends are both interested in Russian history they encouraged me to allow myself to go into what I was feeling when the song played.

Sadly, me being my obtuse self all I really "saw" was a bunch of people milling about as if they were waiting to go out on some sort of stage.
There was a man standing in front of me and I honestly couldn't see much around him as he was a tall fellow but he wore a light blue military style tunic that was tailored to a fair thee well.
I came to about his shoulder from the back.
There was a child standing leaning against me. He was on my right side and I looked down at the top of a white cap, military in style.
He seemed pretty darn bored and like he wanted to get the show on the road and I was sort of amused.

I was wearing light colored gloves.
That was about the size of it.

I honestly don't feel that I am a "family member" It just seems too pat and unlikely.
What I am more inclined to believe is that somewhere out there float the memories and emotions of one moment so long ago when that music had that effect on a person's feelings.

Perhaps I am a "kindred spirit" or just able to pick up their frequency. Is this possible?

Since I feel more emotions than anything else it's hard to pin down. I don't know. I just don't know.
 
Music has often affected me so I am no different to anyone else. Although it has only recently occured to me that some of the emotion might come from previous lives. I brought a cd by Norah Jones a few months back and when I heard her voice while alone in my car the first time I played it, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I have been wondering if it was due to me having been American or known an American woman in a past life who sounded like Norah. Will I ever find out? lol
 
Popular music in England from the turn of the 19th C into the 20th was Music Hall. The invention of the gramophone and radio, plus influences from the US heralded the dance band era, guys like Roy Fox, Nat Gonella, the BBC dance orchestras... As Curious Girl recommends, try the 'Pennies from Heaven' soundtrack. Cross the channel to France and you'd get a similar picture, music hall turning to dance band. The greatest French singer/songwriter of the 1930s was Charles Trenet, greatly under-rated.

Tango was big across pre-war Europe. The Jewish musical tradition was strong further east, try Kletzmer for a taste of Shtetl life before the Holocaust. Polish popular music before the war was similar to that of Britain and France, cinema hits, radio dance bands, sentimental lyrics, heavy influence of US in terms of instrumentation and rhythm.

Michal
 
Heh,i have that with Mozart
I go to every single concert as much as posible from him
I see him playing in dreams,
hes music is just so perfect and when i hear it,it brings me happiness and i feel home!
Classical in general is so great,and opera too
but Mozart has somthing special in my heart,feels like i know this person
Elisa
 
I also love classical music. Opera music, broadway music and especially instrumental violin with piano accompaniment gives me shivers. As for more recent music, I do like some dance and pop music, some rap...I'm pretty open to all types of music except older country, which I find slightly painful ;) I love Sarah McLachlan, Sarah Brightman, Emma Shapplin, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and Eva Cassidy. There is one song called "My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose" that Eva Cassidy covers, and when she sings, the emotion is so strong it brings tears to my eyes.


Ailish :)
 
Ailish,again i have to agree with you that Piano and violin sound wonderfull together,i play the piano myself but always wish to play the violin too,
its only a hard instrument and you should learn it when you are very young,
but maybe one day
you seem to be a very romantic person :thumbsup:
Sarah brightman is great,also love her voice and Emma Shapplin .........
:D
 
I am a music freak. My favorite band is Yes. They are just so amazing, and brilliant also. I like those 70's progressive rock bands, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and Genesis I love too! I was a music major for 2 years, and that definitely turned me on to classical, which I love listening to on the radio. My favorite classical composer is Sibelius. I like Schumann, Handel, Tchiachovsky (did I spell that right?) and Strauss too. I am REALLY into new age, which is my favorite kind of music. My favorite artist is Paul Schwartz. I also like Diane Arkenstone, Lesiem, Terry Oldfield, Anael...



As for past life music, probably music from the Baroque period.
 
Haven´t posted for some time, but I couldn´t resist this topic :)

Music is very important to me. I like many different kinds of "genres", depending on the mood in which I am or what I need in that moment. At this moment metall gives me strenght and energy, for example. I also like ambient and trance - most have beautiful melodies and they are very relaxing. Good for imagination.

Some kinds of music awakes vivid pictures in my head, for example when I listen to classical music (not all tracks though). I wondered since I was a little child, how it would be to live in that period and go to a concert and listen to that. I could almost see the "concert room" or feel the evening gowns around me. I feel especially drawn to mediaeval music (also the dance music from later periods). My first contact with this genre were gregorian chants in the late 1980s, and I got goosebumps. I saw a picture of a peaceful inner garden of a cloister. Nowadays I don´t like gregorians that much, but I love the german troubadour sons, the dances and so on. I found many good bands (e.g.Estampie) playing mediaeval music, so my collection is expanding :)

Another kind of music that touches my soul is of celtic origin (especially Ireland and Scotland). I´ve always felt a sad longing to ... somewhere, sometime, when I listen to hornpipes/violin/tinwhistle/harp. I feel comfortable listening to gaelic language and I am sometimes frustrated that I don´t understand it. I feel that I should. (If my studies permit it I could start to teach myself that language in spring). One time I recognized one song. Unfortunately I don´t know it´s name but it was in the "second version" of Riverdance. A short, very powerful song. It brought to me the battlefields in mind. I know I had at least two lives in Ireland (one must have been as a warrior), so that´s why I am drawn to the music.

A similar effect on me, but not as powerful as above, has scandinavian ethnic/pagan music (I don´t know how to describe it properly). I mean the old folk tunes, played with "authentic" instruments or the slightly modernized versions, e.g. Hedningarna, Faun. I find this music very inspirating, spiritual and I had some powerful images, maybe memories.

To keep it short - it´s developing into a long post - other music that I feel drawn to is native american chants, mesoamerican panpipes, oriental rythms, indian sitar music, chinese classical music.

Caillean

P.S. sorry about grammar.
 
Music

I love drums. I love the rhythm and the vibration in my chest when I am close to them. I love Asian music, popular songs now and I love the Chinese string instrument and the Chinese drums. I listen to American Country music and I like rock and roll from the 70's and 80's. It takes me back to a place and a feeling. It makes me sad. But that is in this life. I love Black Spirituals like Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. I love bagpipes and Celtic music. Sorry that my thought pattern is so disconnected in this post! :confused:
 
I love all kinds of music too, but I get PL feelings especially from one part of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Irish folk music, jazz from 1920s to 1940s, Beach Boys and maybe Tshaikovsky's "Pathetic" symphony. Also a cassette I had as a teenager with piano music stirred very strong feelings, but I can't remember anymore whose music it was.

I'm sure there's more "PL music" but these are the only ones that I could think of now.

Karoliina
 
I dont know what it was, but the first time I heard O Holy Night, I knew it was not the first time I had heard it. It basically haunted me, as a new goal in my life was to find out what this song was. I think the first time I heard it was in the original Home Alone movie, I probably wasn't any older than 10.
As for memories connected to it, I wasnt quite raised that way, to indulge in "fantasy" so, I dont know.
 
Christmas in the northern hemisphere - Yule - is something that has been celebrated for so long that it has seeped into our collective PL memories and is a useful 'marker' for researching those memories.

I recall Christmas 1961; I was four, I recall my presents that year, an orange plastic diesel railway engine and two small trucks, plastic with tinplate bodies. But telescoping through that Christmas memory was a memory of PL Christmases; snow (a rarity in my current-life London childhood), frost, clear skies, tall trees, clear air, grown-up gaity and merriment, modern music, woollen sweaters with nordic motifs. I remember as a four-year old being puzzled by the provenance of these strong flashback feelings.

Winter in Britain was ever damp and gloomy. The occasional snow was accompanied by dark grey clouds and did not last long. Were these biological memories? Rather not - these were recent memories from a wealthier, technically more sophisticated life.

Michal
 
for the longest time the only, i mean only music i liked was 1960's. typically the 1965-1972 or so. now i like more 50's and more into the 70's. but my music taste doesnt often stretch past 1990. and i like 80's music becuase it reminds me of my childhood in this life, and perhaps the end of my life before this one? not sure. but i get the same feeling listening to say, i dont know a song popular when i was in 5th grade, that i get from listening to a song from 1965. its so weird, but it feels exactly the same, always has.

i also like swing, big band music, but that only came up after my very first regression. when i heard, what i believe was "sing sing sing".
 
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