Woo thread - kids talking about past lives

[Elwynne]

My dear toddler has recently been telling me about her other car, the one that she drove before it went in the water and she came to live with me

I rationalised that this story was her imagination but then my friend told me there were lots of cases of children talking about "past lives" and it was completely accepted in countries that believe in reincarnation.

The whole thing makes me feel a bit weirded out. Did your child ever tell you stuff like this?

DS2 was like this when he was little, a lady in the shop asked him his name he said my names X but they call me Y, and looked really confused.

Someone else I used to know, said to me the first time she meet DS2, he’s been here before hasn’t he.

So sorry for your loss @endofthelinefinally

No experience with my own DC but I am fascinated by the case of Carl Edon.

exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Reincarnation-Of-Carl-Edon-And-His-Nazi-Airman-Past

So sorry for your loss x @endofthelinefinally

my 2 year old at the dinner table suddenly came out with, "Tell the people, fire is coming!" Very weird. Consider yourself told, people.

Noted.

This thread made me go and look up a note I made in 2013 of something dd said in the bath (she was 3):

Remember when I was a other little girl I went to nursery?

Remember when I went to nursery, I used to have black hair before?

I had black hair, and then I died and I had this hair [points]

I am firmly non-woo but it did take me aback because it sounded straight out of a retro horror script, and we had never, ever discussed dying, or notions of coming back “different”, or anything remotely like that with her — or anywhere near her! So it felt bizarre to me that she would even form a thought along those lines.

@MarkRuffaloCrumble

Such beautiful stories. So sorry for the loss of your beautiful boy endofthelinefinally . How lovely that he found his way home and back to his happy place.

Even if it there’s nothing in it, I love how unquestioningly little ones will state things - as if we should all know, of course.

My DS1 used to talk about his other mum and named his brother and sister. He said a few things about his old house etc that struck me as odd at the time, so I did read about small kids and last lives. When looking into it I found the story of the little boy who said he was from the isle of Barra. He had so many detailed memories of his life there. It seemed that people discounted it because he got his dad’s name wrong in among all the details. But as a 5 year old I always thought he probably wouldn’t have really used his dads name - and I think it turned out that was his uncles name or something instead! It was all really interesting and moving.

I love that story, I think it’s incredible.

My DS can’t really talk or tell things yet.

But I remember being 3 years old, going for a walk with my DF in a forest near our home after it had been snowing. As we were enjoying the winter landscape, I thought wow this is exactly like it is in Japan.

I had never been in Japan before and I doubt I had seen much of it as the internet did not exist yet. I’ve been very attracted to Japanese culture and nature troughout my whole childhood. Sometimes I wonder if it might have had anything to do with a previous life.

On three separate occasions when my daughter was a toddler totally unprompted she told me and DH that she had died in a swimming pool.

The first time she said it I thought she said she dived so asked her if that was what she meant but she said no she died and it happened in the other house, when she had a different mummy.

She then carried on as normal, the last time she said it she was three years old and then never mentioned it again.

I find it very interesting reading these stories.

I was a really early talker and people used to say the old saying ‘she’s been here before!’ To my mum when I was little

When I was 2 we walked past our local graveyard and I said to my mum ‘that’s where I visited my husband when I was an old lady’ 🙄🙊😫

When my DS was about 3 he did talk about when he was an old man and lived in France. I remember asking him what he meant and he said he used to be an old man and live in France.
Very weird and I am totally non woo.

@endofthelinefinally I'm so sorry

Reading everyone's stories has been so interesting! Some of them have definitely given me goosebumps, not to mention the prophecy of fire .

I've always been very much a once you're dead your gone and there's nothing else kind of person but now I'm starting to wonder...i find it really fascinating that your children all seemed to stop mentioning their other lives. You would think the more their vocabulary expanded the more they would explain it.

When mine first started talking, he used to talk about his 'other mummy' and his brother Max, and ask about going home to his other house. He was quite consistent in the way he said it but it fizzled out by the time he was about 3 and he has no recollection of it now.

This is a really interesting book that I read at the time.

Elwynne, interesting that it’s always a fairly short window where they talk of such things - from the time they have enough language to do so, so maybe 2 1/2 to 3 - until no more than about 5.
Maybe it’s for a reason - it’d be too unsettling if the memories carried on and became a distraction from their current life.

An Anglo-Indian uncle of mine, who was very much into such things, always said that a cousin of mine was an ‘old soul’. She was an extremely sweet natured person, who died unexpectedly and far too young of something the PM said could have killed her at virtually any time since she was born.

I believe in all this and used to ask my kids - trying to sound casual - if they remembered being here before. They looked at me like .

I still believe it though.

Before I got pregnant with DS1, a gypsy stopped me in the street and said “a child is waiting for you. It’s a boy and he’ll bring you much joy.”

I got pregnant with DS1 really fast - within the first month of trying - and I’ve always thought the gypsy meant him. Although he has a younger brother too. Both bring me much joy - even if the one who supposedly chose me is currently in his bedroom, shouting at his online gamer friends, in his pants.