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Do you believe in past lives?

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Chloefairydust · 11/10/2022 20:39

Just been watching a series called ‘ghost inside my child’. Basically about children who appear to have vivid memories of past lives, including details they couldn’t possibly know otherwise.

Im quite open minded about things like this and paranormal stuff too. And I’m just fascinated by this phenomenon. Apparently children (especially when they are very young) can sometimes remember past lives, however as they grow older the memories fade away.

Just wondered if anyone here believes in past lives or has ever had their child say anything strange that might indicate a past life memory?

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Chloefairydust · 11/10/2022 21:36

@Tealpoppy wow that’s spooky 😮

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NewBootsAndRanty · 11/10/2022 21:44

FoxCorner · 11/10/2022 20:55

I used to love a programme that was on in about 2005 where a woman regressed celebs to their previous lives. Very entertaining. Think it was called "Have I been here before?" I think Toyah was one of the people regressed

Anneka Rice was on that and says she made it all up Grin

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Chloefairydust · 11/10/2022 21:53

I also read somewhere about pre birth memories , where children sometimes remember seeing their parents before they were born. So that’s also interesting🤔

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BadAmbassador · 11/10/2022 21:56

When my DS was about 3 or 4 he said something about 'when I used to be a soldier'. I only asked him a couple of questions about it at the time but enough to get the impression that he could have been remembering something. He's grown up now and doesn't remember it at all. Not sure if I believe in past lives or not still.

yerdaindicatesonbends · 11/10/2022 22:02

I’m open minded to pretty much anything like that. When DD was 4 she asked where she was before she was in my belly, and I replied ‘you’d know better than me.’ She said she was in the dead place in space floating around then floated down to my belly!

FindingMeno · 11/10/2022 22:04

I do.

Beginningless · 11/10/2022 22:07

Yes i do. There’s no evidence that the mind is produced by the brain, as neuroscience posits (this is a theory, not proven). Therefore perfectly logical that the mind is a continuum of consciousness which continues from life to life, projecting the different appearances of each new life.

MidnightConstellation · 11/10/2022 22:10

Michael Newton and Brian Weiss have written many books on the subject.

blackheartsgirl · 11/10/2022 22:42

I’m very open minded but it does give me a little bit of comfort to think that perhaps our loved ones carry on in another mind

my ds aged 3 at the time said something a bit odd. We were driving past a school in a village that ds had never seen and he suddenly pipes up from the back that the school was his old school when he was here before and he had a different mummy.

freaked me out a bit and his dad was like wtf but he’s never mentioned anything before or since.

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Chloefairydust · 11/10/2022 23:09

I know it’s a completely different situation but I once had a dream where a cat I used to have (who sadly died when she was 5 from leukaemia) was with a new family in the country side, and she was really happy. It was such a strange dream, and part of me likes to believe she was sending me a message to let me know she was ok…

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Chloefairydust · 11/10/2022 23:19

yerdaindicatesonbends · 11/10/2022 22:02

I’m open minded to pretty much anything like that. When DD was 4 she asked where she was before she was in my belly, and I replied ‘you’d know better than me.’ She said she was in the dead place in space floating around then floated down to my belly!

This is what I mean by a pre birth memory… how fascinating. 😮

Some people say their children have memories watching their parents before they were born, I read a story I think on Reddit a while back where a child told their parents they saw them get married and gave details they couldn’t possibly have known about the wedding… It’s so strange. But I kind of think it’s possible. I believe there’s so much that we don’t understand about the world, so many unexplainable things.

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surreygirl1987 · 11/10/2022 23:32

I do. I'm not religious, I'm not into the supernatural, I'm a pretty practical, level headed person. But I just believe in past lives. It's something I "know" without having to think about it. I don't really talk about it.

TugboatAnnie · 11/10/2022 23:37

I loved the programme years ago about a scottish boy from Glasgow who described his previous life on Barra in such detail that he and his mother (and camera crew) visited the island for answers. It was fascinating watching events unfold.

melchim · 12/10/2022 00:14

I think it's possible. There's so much we still don't understand about how the universe works.

DramaAlpaca · 12/10/2022 00:24

I'd love to think it's possible but no, I don't believe it.

Linnet · 12/10/2022 00:31

My mum told me that my brother used to talk about being a big boy who was on his bike when he got hit by a car and died. He said he lived in a house down the road from our house. He didn’t know which one, there is a whole row of them but he never said which one just that it was along there.

My mum said I was new as I never talked about anything like that when I was little 😁
My kids never said anything either.

kittenkerfuffle · 12/10/2022 00:34

Possibly something in it, but I think on those type of programme the parent is feeding it, because they enjoy the attention.

Adultchildofelderlyparents · 12/10/2022 00:34

I believe that our physical bodies are held together by energy, and that when our bodies die that energy is released back into the world. In the same way that a wave forms on the sea, breaks down onto the shore and the energy that formed it is reabsorbed into the sea. To me, it's possible that this energy can carry memory. So if the energy is absorbed into another physical body, even if only in part, that memory can present itself again.

Batiqueattic · 12/10/2022 00:34

When my mum was in her 80s she told me that, when I was about 3 - 5 years old, I often used to tell her that I chose to be her baby because I could see her life & see that she needed me. I was quite shocked. I don't remember ever saying that but I did feel, all my life, that I had to look after her. I never had children in part, I think, because I'd looked after someone already.

Could be cobblers of course. My dad was a bully & I always tried to cheer her up; maybe she leaned on me & this was the story we concocted to make it seem right.

I do feel that I knew her before tho. As she was dying, she often asked if I was her mum.

endofthelinefinally · 12/10/2022 00:34

When he was about 2 my late son used to tell me about a lovely place he lived in when he was a daddy. He described it in detail. It was thousands of miles away.
A tropical island.
He discovered it again just before he died. I know he felt it was his spiritual home and it was his favourite place.
I am glad he found it.

Adultchildofelderlyparents · 12/10/2022 00:36

Newuser82 · 11/10/2022 21:14

@Chloefairydust and have never visited Wolverhampton or indeed know anyone or anything there! Funny little fella.

Maybe he was from Wolverhampton and was only visiting Africa when he had the accident?

TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 12/10/2022 00:37

endofthelinefinally · 12/10/2022 00:34

When he was about 2 my late son used to tell me about a lovely place he lived in when he was a daddy. He described it in detail. It was thousands of miles away.
A tropical island.
He discovered it again just before he died. I know he felt it was his spiritual home and it was his favourite place.
I am glad he found it.

I’m so sorry for your loss but that is so lovely. I’m glad he found his place again.

RiverSkater · 12/10/2022 00:37

Most paranormal stuff bores me to tears but then I watched Interstellar, based on science. Mind totally blown, children's minds also.

This kind of thing now feels believable. Probable. But in a scientific time continuum way.

TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 12/10/2022 00:38

Adultchildofelderlyparents · 12/10/2022 00:36

Maybe he was from Wolverhampton and was only visiting Africa when he had the accident?

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Banana2079 · 12/10/2022 00:42

No I don’t - And I believe in the paranormal.often people especially children who describe past lives have watched something on TV Which has struck them,and it’s become stuck in their mind and in their mind they have created something bigger out of it As if they were part of that situation sometimes when we see and hear things you can be traumatic which is why we have nightmares on watching certain programs -the mind works in brilliant and very weird ways.
There was a child whos parent was convinced he had a past life And everybody was wowed by the information this child was giving out and then it was realised months later that there was a Magazine describing disasters at a relatives house and all the information child was giving Out of so-called past life was coming straight out of that.