My traumatic dream- past life or imagination

[teacup]

Hello forum,

Recently I had my first PL regression therapy session. And when I left I had decided it would be my last. I wasn't accepting in my critical mind what my brain "saw" in the session. I attribute it to my imagination because it was too spotty and not solid enough to make any sense anyway. So I figured I will just have to settle for that and be happy with the unknown.

I woke up from a very horrific dream two weeks later. I was overwhelmed with emotion. Overwhelming sadness, but more a feeling of being traumatized. ( I can only compare it to the reason you cry when you are just mugged) In my dream, I am with my Mom (but we don't look the same and I can't remember what we looked like and I am unsure of our relation to each other- I just know we are family). We are prisoners or hostages, something of that nature caught by this man in a Uniform or man of authority with a black hand gun. We are on our knees and we were not caught by surprise. We knew we were going to die. I knew he was going to shoot us. The dream mainly focused around my "last minute emotions and desires" before I died. I didn't want "my mom" to see me die. I wanted her to go first. I had overwhelming sense of concern for her and fright for how it was going to feel and be. I can't really explain it, that was a poor explaination.. eh.. But he shoots her first and then me and immediately I am now looking at my body from above and i can for the first time see what I am wearing, and see that i was shot in the back. I thought to myself, " my body has fallen in a very weird way forward." (It was slumped over, hunch back, arms just hanging, kneeling still, it just creeps me out) I later saw a woman running shot on from behind and she fell like that. i was surprised, it was the exact way I saw my body. Someone told me its common to fall that way but I have personally never seen that before.I just wouldn't figure that? I woke up my back was completely drenched and I sat against my wall trying to stay awake for the rest of the night and half delirious from exhaustion,crying, and groggy. My boyfriend was next to me and I slept on top of him with my back against his chest until I felt safe again. I was shaken.

I am not sure if this was a PL memory but there was a specific characteristic about this dream that was different from my other dream experiences. I had a very real experience, nothing super imaginative or silly ... seemed like real life.. then after that "segment" ended it tied into a party at my University with a keg and lots of beer.. and someone still trying to kill me. That seems like a normal dream.. lol.. I read on this forum, someone wrote that past life memories can be identified from "regular dreams" because they usually occur in a very "realistic manner" and then the brain continues with its normal "imaginative "dreams." This was exactly what I experienced. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you think of my experience? I don't really know what to think.. I am not unusually close with my mom in this life and if I had to say one person I would have followed here I wouldnt guess her.

I also recently two or three nights ago had a dream of sitting at a "lunch table" like you do in school with a bunch of boys, and I don't know why but I just knew it was a different time. I don't remember if we looked the same I just "felt knew"(?) that it was my boyfriend I met in this lifetime in Europe and his closest friends. (I am American) We had just been looking at some necklaces I decided not to buy in a store. ( it was quite silly and I know this part was my imagination) but once we were at the table everything was normal and very real at this point in my dream.. then a alarm rang outside and everyone rushed in a frenzy to get their stuff or coats and ran outside almost in fear. It wasn't a normal calm "school bell." I remember feeling scared to find my coat and thinking, " I have to wear both in case it is all I am left with. I will layer them for protection." Like I was going to be wearing only that for the next two months. I was frightened I was going to lose the guy who is my boyfriend through the crowd.I peered through the crowd rushing around and saw a large brick wall built high outside with people very frightened and a tenseness. Then I woke up. I didn't identify or pay attention to any certain time period in the dream, it was just a normal dream to me after all. It occurred to me when I woke up it may not be? I have always been attracted to the times of world war II and my boyfriend and I are quite young and both love a particular jazz from the 40's. I smile when I think of that for some reason.

Sorry for the long post. maybe someone can comment. I am wondering if this has to do with the regression. who knows? I cancelled my second appointment.

 

[Tinkerman]

Hello Teacup and welcome to our forum, thank you for sharing your story. I think that the only person who can be sure about the "imagination" vs past life memory question is you. Part of the process of discovery in my own life has been to learn and recognize those thoughts, emotions, and feelings that are fleeting and distant. I too once refered to these thoughts as imagination, "what else could they be?" was my common response. I had no knowledge of reincarnation. After going through the whole process, I can safely say they were part of my path to discovery. I guess what I'm saying is don't be too quick to dismiss your thoughts as imagination.


I can see why your dream was so frightening to you and why you might not want to return for regression. But keep in mind that was then. Your life now is safe. I'd urge you to reflect on the lessons you might learn from that past life glimpse. How can that life strengthen this life. Perhaps before the tragic death there were greater memories.


I'm a big believer in what happens is all for a purpose. So if you've chosen to wait on the regression that's OK, the future and the message will unfold in other ways.


Thanks again for joining us. I look forward to more discussion


in this thread.


Tinkerman

 

[ChrisR]

Hi teacup,


Thanks for sharing your experience and i'm sorry that you found it all a bit distressing. The way you described the emotions that went with the dream, I would say that it does have all the hallmarks of a past-life memory.


I can't tell you what the correct course of action would be here, maybe somebody else can, but personally, I would keep that second appointment with the regressionist, especially if the dream occurs more than once. I know you face a lot of trauma with these memories, but try to remember that it all happened in the past, in another lifetime, and those memories can't hurt you now, but they can help you to heal if you can find the courage to move through them and leave them behind (which is easy to say, but not always so easy to do I know.)


It may not just be your mum who returned from that life to your present life with you, did you have any thoughts on the man who shot you in those dreams? There's always the possibility that he may have returned to this lifetime with you also, as a friend, or even a close relative, or maybe an enemy? I've learnt from a book that i've been reading recently that forgiveness is often an important part of remembering our past lives. Depending on the circumstances of your own situation, forgive yourself, forgive others and look to the healing (again, easy for me to say, but many of us are in the same boat here - )


I hope you can find the answers you are looking for on your journey, and please keep us informed how you are getting on.


Chris -


I hope this makes sense

 

[teacup]

dreams


Hi guys


I agree with both of you. I know there is something to be learned and to forgive. I know it has helped me see things differently in this life. Improve a personal relationship and most importantly be grateful for the security I feel in my country and for the comfortable life I have. We tend to forget that no matter how bad it may seem, it could be worse! I don't have much desire to delve deeper now, but I love that era the 40's. its music, clothes, it has a special spark to it. I am sure in the future the lessons of this life will unfold just as you said in other ways.

 

[Karoliina]

Hello Teacup,


Often doing a regression or trying to work with one's past life experiences opens doors, and dreams and/or spontaneous memories will come flooding. So yes, I think it's possible these past life dreams - what they sound like to me - were triggered by that regression session.


Can I ask what it was you experienced regressed? I was the same after my first time: it felt like I had imagined it all. It was only afterwards that I found out I had actually remembered, not imagined. The experience was just very different from what I had expected.


Karoliina

 

[teacup]

regression experience


Karolina,


yes. You felt exactly the same as me then- a. I expected something different and b. I left thinking, i made that up. How did you figure out afterwards that you did not make it up? I am curious.


I saw scenes from Europe during WWII. They were very brief and included the deportation of Men and boys specifically. I only had two or three things I saw and it was extremely spotty.I was definite of a year 1937 during one moment. Also I saw a young boy alone without his family, he was about 5. His was the only face I really saw in detail. I tried not to force myself to explore but to just relax. I didn't see anything very graphic as much as the emotion of being completely overwhelmed with sadness that I did not expect to have. If I think about the holocaust now, I am deeply saddened but do not cry. In regression I was moved to tears within an instant of seeing those images. That really was weird to me. It was like floodgates opened. I do not cry in front of people I do not know- especially in unusual situations like a hynosis or therapy session.


Regression is a very different experience than you think it will be, i can say that for sure, and after reading so many strong experiences on the forum I was actually a little hesitant of a regression to be honest! I am a curious person by nature but at a safe distance. lol.

 

[teacup]

The boys face was actually the second time I saw it. It came into my mind in a dream actually once before the regression. but i accepted it as a dream like image.

 

[Karoliina]

Karolina,
How did you figure out afterwards that you did not make it up? I am curious.

Well the first thing was something I would normally take with a grain of salt, and still did actually, but a psychic I hadn't told anything about my regression, told me about the same kind of life I had remembered. Hardly a coincidence. :tongue: Then later I started getting more memories of this lifetime - spontaneous and in a meditation/self-regression, and some of them were validated by a historical/geographical research and most importantly shared memories with someone else.


And now I know it just is how I usually experience past lives, if it's not in a dream or in a deeply altered state (between dreaming and being awake) - I always feel I'm in control and I need to bring the story forward. It still feels often like I'm making up a story, but after countless validations of experiences gotten this way, I have learned to trust what I get.


Karoliina

 

[teacup]

Well I should say also that a name came into my mind, and the country of Germany. I was able to find this name in death records around the year 37' only in Germany and none of the neighboring places. Poland, Austria, anywhere. Just Germany. I wouldn't have heard that name anywhere and would never have guessed it to be German either which is sort of funny- so yeah I agree with you. It backs up the experience. :thumbsup: