Okay, so I dont have much of anything so far as memories but I do have a few weird little things about myself that have made me interested in past lives. Just a warning I feel like this is going to be a long post.
One of the biggest things and something I've heard a lot about revolving around reincarnation is phobias relating to a previously life or death. I am beyond afraid of heights, especially wide, open high places and man-made structures. I could never climb trees or even play on jungle gyms I was so afraid of them. As a child though we would go to the coast where I would climb all over the rocky cliffy shores. Also I love the feeling of falling. I'm always thought my fear had something to do with a past life but have been to afraid to comfront it due to the memories it could bring back and possibly worsen my phobia. Anyone have any stories or advice on phobias and their relation to past lives?
Another thing I've heard a lot about and experienced is attraction to people, objects, places etc for no apparent reason. This summer I traveled to Europe on a class trip. We went to London, Paris, Florence and Rome. Of course they were all beautiful and the experience was wonderful but I just cant shake Paris. Something about that city felt so right and so much like home. The Seine, Notre Dame it all felt so familiar like I'd been there many times. Ever since I've had this longing to go back to the city. It's like I can never be home again until I'm there. It may seem silly and not exactly prove of any past life experience but something inside me tells me it is.
I do have a couple things that may or may not be memories from past lives or possibly memories from past lives shadowing real things that have happened in this life.
The first being I remember very clearly having gone to therapy as a very young child. I remember making dinosaurs out of clay while talking to a women but not what we talked about. I remember my mom coming at the end of each seesion and talking to my therapist but I dont remember if it was MY mom from this life. I remember the woman had many kids including a small baby who was teething towards the middle of my therapy block. The only conversation I can remember between us is her talking about how the weatherman had been wrong again like he always was because he said it would be sunny but it was rainy. I know, very random but its what I remember. My mom has never talked about me going to therapy and when I finally asked about it this year she said there might have been a chance I went to a session or two right after my father died when I was three but I have never been to therapy on a regular basis as I remember from my childhood. The house I remembered from my therapy was one in the small town I had lived in as a kid but according to my mom it had always been just a house and no therapist had ever worked out of it.
The second possible memory is one I was so convinced was real as a child but my mom has comfirmed was impossible. When I was little my father was very sick, from before I was born until I was three when he died of lou gehrig's disease. The only memory I have of having a father is a dream I had often since I was very young about sitting on his bed in the hospital and talking and laughing. The room was on a very high floor and I remember looking out the window (without being afraid, remember my phobia) and seeing the parking lot and beyond it a beautiful treey park. It looked like a nice warm day out and I remember being so happy and him being so happy but I dont think it was my father from this life. I dont remember what he looked like but I remember what condition his body was in and it was not that of a lou gehrig's patient I can tell you that. He looked rather fit in fact, healthy even, yet he was in the hospital. The part that makes this impossible is my father never stayed in a hospital his whole illness. He went in for check ups and scans and stuff but only for a few hours, he never stayed. He was never in a hospital bed and I never visited someone in a tall hospital as a child. Maybe it was just a strange dream, but it has always been so vivid and felt so important.
The last thing that may or may not be past life related it something I have not heard as much about but I feel is entirely possible. I have always been a very logical person. I am calm and quiet, cold even. I have a hard time dealing with emotions and relating to others when they are upset, sad, angry or any other emotion that can cause irrational behavior. My mom said I never cried as baby and I was, and still am, very anit social. I do not like being touched or talked to really and am very inverted, especially when I was young. It went way beyond shy and caused my mom a lot of worry to the point of getting me evaluated. Of course they said nothing was wrong with me, that I was healthy and normal and had never been seriously harmed or traumatized in any way. The reason my mom was so concerned (besides the obvious of me being a weirdo child) is she thought I had been raped or molested which I hadnt but the doctor agreed I had the symptons of some one who had experienced such a trauma. So I know that all sounds weird and this may be a long shot but because of this, could it be possible to experience ghost or shadow effects as I like to think of them from your past life? By this I mean is it possible to have experienced something so awful or wonderful or important in a past life that it's emotional or mental effects carry on to the next reincarnation as parts of ones personality? I would love to hear what people think on that one. Greatly appriecate any similiar stories or ideas relating to the topic.
To conclude is a story about my brother and his weird experiences. He is a year and a half younger than me and has always been at my level if not above it and that is coming from someone in honors, AP, and dual (college) classes. He has a natural aptitude for many, many things. My mother wanted to give us "experiences" as children so we were always doing strange things and around strange people including but not limited to: going to cemetaries to explore, water and leyline dowsing, and having "people of the Craft" do tarot card readings. I guess this opened us up to all sorts of strange things. Dowsing was one of the favorite activities but I was never any good at it and could never find waterlines. My brother on the other always had his rods cross, and I mean all the way not just a little nudge, on the exact place of the waterlines. We used to do this just on out properity but then we started doing it on others who had the waterline plans and it would always happen for him. It also has always talked about the people by the road. No matter where we have lived he has always seen people standing my the road watching our house even as recently as a few months ago, him being 15. It has been one of the very few things that has ever frighten him and it has happened since we were very small. I guess what I'm getting at is is it possible for his natural abilities and strange experiences to be related to past life memories? Plato believed that everything we learn is just us remembering from past lives. So it is possible my brother's water dowsing talent and the strange things he sees memories from a past life? Please share if you have had similiar experiences or have heard of them.
One of the biggest things and something I've heard a lot about revolving around reincarnation is phobias relating to a previously life or death. I am beyond afraid of heights, especially wide, open high places and man-made structures. I could never climb trees or even play on jungle gyms I was so afraid of them. As a child though we would go to the coast where I would climb all over the rocky cliffy shores. Also I love the feeling of falling. I'm always thought my fear had something to do with a past life but have been to afraid to comfront it due to the memories it could bring back and possibly worsen my phobia. Anyone have any stories or advice on phobias and their relation to past lives?
Another thing I've heard a lot about and experienced is attraction to people, objects, places etc for no apparent reason. This summer I traveled to Europe on a class trip. We went to London, Paris, Florence and Rome. Of course they were all beautiful and the experience was wonderful but I just cant shake Paris. Something about that city felt so right and so much like home. The Seine, Notre Dame it all felt so familiar like I'd been there many times. Ever since I've had this longing to go back to the city. It's like I can never be home again until I'm there. It may seem silly and not exactly prove of any past life experience but something inside me tells me it is.
I do have a couple things that may or may not be memories from past lives or possibly memories from past lives shadowing real things that have happened in this life.
The first being I remember very clearly having gone to therapy as a very young child. I remember making dinosaurs out of clay while talking to a women but not what we talked about. I remember my mom coming at the end of each seesion and talking to my therapist but I dont remember if it was MY mom from this life. I remember the woman had many kids including a small baby who was teething towards the middle of my therapy block. The only conversation I can remember between us is her talking about how the weatherman had been wrong again like he always was because he said it would be sunny but it was rainy. I know, very random but its what I remember. My mom has never talked about me going to therapy and when I finally asked about it this year she said there might have been a chance I went to a session or two right after my father died when I was three but I have never been to therapy on a regular basis as I remember from my childhood. The house I remembered from my therapy was one in the small town I had lived in as a kid but according to my mom it had always been just a house and no therapist had ever worked out of it.
The second possible memory is one I was so convinced was real as a child but my mom has comfirmed was impossible. When I was little my father was very sick, from before I was born until I was three when he died of lou gehrig's disease. The only memory I have of having a father is a dream I had often since I was very young about sitting on his bed in the hospital and talking and laughing. The room was on a very high floor and I remember looking out the window (without being afraid, remember my phobia) and seeing the parking lot and beyond it a beautiful treey park. It looked like a nice warm day out and I remember being so happy and him being so happy but I dont think it was my father from this life. I dont remember what he looked like but I remember what condition his body was in and it was not that of a lou gehrig's patient I can tell you that. He looked rather fit in fact, healthy even, yet he was in the hospital. The part that makes this impossible is my father never stayed in a hospital his whole illness. He went in for check ups and scans and stuff but only for a few hours, he never stayed. He was never in a hospital bed and I never visited someone in a tall hospital as a child. Maybe it was just a strange dream, but it has always been so vivid and felt so important.
The last thing that may or may not be past life related it something I have not heard as much about but I feel is entirely possible. I have always been a very logical person. I am calm and quiet, cold even. I have a hard time dealing with emotions and relating to others when they are upset, sad, angry or any other emotion that can cause irrational behavior. My mom said I never cried as baby and I was, and still am, very anit social. I do not like being touched or talked to really and am very inverted, especially when I was young. It went way beyond shy and caused my mom a lot of worry to the point of getting me evaluated. Of course they said nothing was wrong with me, that I was healthy and normal and had never been seriously harmed or traumatized in any way. The reason my mom was so concerned (besides the obvious of me being a weirdo child) is she thought I had been raped or molested which I hadnt but the doctor agreed I had the symptons of some one who had experienced such a trauma. So I know that all sounds weird and this may be a long shot but because of this, could it be possible to experience ghost or shadow effects as I like to think of them from your past life? By this I mean is it possible to have experienced something so awful or wonderful or important in a past life that it's emotional or mental effects carry on to the next reincarnation as parts of ones personality? I would love to hear what people think on that one. Greatly appriecate any similiar stories or ideas relating to the topic.
To conclude is a story about my brother and his weird experiences. He is a year and a half younger than me and has always been at my level if not above it and that is coming from someone in honors, AP, and dual (college) classes. He has a natural aptitude for many, many things. My mother wanted to give us "experiences" as children so we were always doing strange things and around strange people including but not limited to: going to cemetaries to explore, water and leyline dowsing, and having "people of the Craft" do tarot card readings. I guess this opened us up to all sorts of strange things. Dowsing was one of the favorite activities but I was never any good at it and could never find waterlines. My brother on the other always had his rods cross, and I mean all the way not just a little nudge, on the exact place of the waterlines. We used to do this just on out properity but then we started doing it on others who had the waterline plans and it would always happen for him. It also has always talked about the people by the road. No matter where we have lived he has always seen people standing my the road watching our house even as recently as a few months ago, him being 15. It has been one of the very few things that has ever frighten him and it has happened since we were very small. I guess what I'm getting at is is it possible for his natural abilities and strange experiences to be related to past life memories? Plato believed that everything we learn is just us remembering from past lives. So it is possible my brother's water dowsing talent and the strange things he sees memories from a past life? Please share if you have had similiar experiences or have heard of them.
