Do you believe in past lives?

[Chloefairydust]

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?

I always think when you look into a babies eyes you can tell if they have been here before or if they are brand new.

When my nephew was born he had wisdom in his eyes. He looked at you with scrutiny like he understood more than what he should. Whereas when my niece was born she seemed brand new, she looked at everyone and everything like it was the first time she had seen it. It’s difficult to explain…

I can’t remember all of the details, so I’m posting this hoping someone else does and maybe also knows the outcome. I saw in a paper a story about a little boy from (maybe) India. He said he was from another part of India and belonged to another family and then I’m not sure what happened but something like they went to the area he said he was from and there was a couple who had a child who died around a year before this boy was born and he knew them when he saw them or something.

I can’t remember the details properly so I can’t Google it but hopefully someone else will have read the same story but remembers the details!

@Batiqueattic Remember choosing my mum before I was born I was in a place which seemed heavenly and I could see many other children who would randomly vanish to go down to their parents, Psychically choosing my mother saying And feeling and knowing her and choosing her out of love, Adults for men with beards who looked like Saints.
I don’t believe in reincarnation, I believe that You’re so chooses their parent, and those that die go to heaven or wait to be charged that is just my personal opinion

Sorry meant to say I could see adults there who were holy and had beards !

That’s amazing, do you remember why you chose your parents?

Yes! When my 1st DD was born, every single person, including nurses in the hospital and family members said ‘she’s been here before’ the first time they saw her, which nobody said when my 2nd DD was born…

I am still not sure but from when i was very young I used to get visions, sometimes dreams, of a childhood that wasn't mine but in Europe many years ago which continued on when I got older and I could picture growing up there at an age which ran parallel to my own but during the 1930/40s, I was never a big reader or had the internet but somehow knew loads about life in Germany during that time and ww2, in detail that it wasn't normal for a child of my age to know. This all went on for years and messed with my mind until around 30 and then just abruptly stopped like it had never happened.

@transformandriseup Wow that must have been amazing to have all those memories , did you ever look up any of the details or visit the place you remembered?

My DS2, around the age of 2-3, told me how he’d been a Dr and died in a fiery plane crash. My parents took him to a museum and he told them all about how the WW2 guns operated (think this was before he told me about his ‘past life’).

My mum has always commented how he never wanted to be a baby - he was eager to be up and about and doing his own thing. It is like he’s been here before. He’s a very confident and independent person. I almost feel like childhood feels a bit inconvenient to him and I’m only getting to borrow him for a bit. My eldest son is the complete opposite.

Odd you say that

i have 6 children and I never gave it a thought with the first two,but no 3-everyone commented on it

the first two seemed to think everything was brand new-you could see it in their faces,but no3 had seen it all before,had heard it all before and to this day,nothing fazes him at all

the main difference was he was the clingiest baby I’ve ever met-to this day as an adult if he could cling to me,he would but nothing seems to faze him at the same time-life just floats over his head and he gets on with it

no 4-it was at least one life into his journey-he came out,seemed to look round as if to say ‘oh,I’m back am I?’

no 5-box fresh,brand new-you could see the wonder in his face at the world

no 6-who knows?she’s always been as mad as a box of frogs on acid

Yes - I can visit my past life’s and do experience them

I do.
But then I’m Buddhist and samsara is part of that.

I'm not sure I can believe that. Why would anyone choose Rose West as their mother? (other murderous parents are available) Or do you think only some children get the choice and why would that be?

One of my sons was like that, even as a 2 or 3 year old he would say he didn't like being young. As he got older he got more determined that he was a grown up stuck in a little body. God he was hard work. Lovely adult though and totally happy with his life.

There is theoretical evidence that the energy that is us continues after death. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states energy cannot be destroyed. What is the mind, or spirit or soul if not a form of energy?

Furthermore energy can be pure or in solid state. The only thing in the known universe that appears to violate the laws of thermodynamics is biological death.

Personally, I think the energy that is us goes from solid state to pure at death and then back from pure to solid state at birth. In a constant cycle of rebirth (samsara).

No. Wish I did. It must be comforting to think of those who have died being reborn and renewed.

If you read some books about it you will get a clearer understanding.

No I don't.

I think children hear and absorb far far more than adults think they do. When you think your young child is oblivious to X, y, z... they're not. They are taking it all in whether they understand it or not.

Then we have the fact most parents read stories about all sorts of weird and wonderful magical things to young children which they also take in. Stories read in school.

Next in the pot goes those TV shows, news programmes and films you think they aren't paying attention to or are too young to follow.

Add that to the brilliant imaginations children generally have and you've got amazing stories of things they've done 'before'. To go with the fact they're a unicorn today and yesterday they were a fire engine and when they grow up they want to be a cat.

Tie it all up with a big bow of the adults interpreting things in a way that soothes our fear of our own mortality and ta-dah. Everlasting life in one form or another. Evidenced by a kid who pretends they used to live in a castle.

I know of two young children who’ve said very strange things.

First was a 3 year old, much younger cousin of a dd. Dd was pushing her on a swing when she started talking - in perfectly matter of fact tones - about her daddy being very ANGRY! and the house burning down.

Especially since BiL is the most chilled, easy going bloke imaginable, dd was a bit perturbed and said she was sure her daddy would never be like that.

‘Oh, not that daddy,’ came the still perfectly matter of fact reply. ‘I mean my other daddy, before.’

SiL said later that there had been other mentions, but they stopped a year or two later and the (now adult) child has no recollections any more.

Second was the Gds of a close friend, only about 4 at the time, pre school anyway. The whole family was visiting some ancient ruins for the first time, IIRC in Cyprus.
As soon as they entered the little Gds said, ‘I used to live here!’ And went on, quite happily and very matter of fact, to point out the remains of his house, and his friend’s house - he even gave a slightly garbled but appropriate name for him - and a cave where they used to hide, and the pool (Roman bath?) where they used to swim.
Needless to say, the rest of the family was seriously spooked!
When they finally left, he said quite happily, ‘Thank you for bringing me home.’
He’s in his teens now and again, no recollections at all.

I forgot another, again a very small child, relative of a friend, who used to say the most extraordinary things for a child of that age - the parents wondered how on earth a child so young would have learned or heard such things.
When they asked, he’d say (as if it should have been obvious), ‘Oh, I learned that when I was here before.’
But again, it all stopped after about 5.

My mother lost a baby about 18 months before I was born. When I was very little, 2 or 3, I said to her 'I was in heaven and I heard you crying so I came down for you'.

When my son was around 2 he said to his Grandad when I was big and you were little I used to push you round Stanley Park and we'd walk all the way to the summit. His grandad grew up in Manchester where there is a Stanley Park and the name of his childhood home was the Summit My Dad went a whiter shade of pale. Son is now the biggest sceptic going and remembers none of it.

I have a very rational job, and tbh I think the only rational view about past and future lives is that they are a likelihood. It is as likely as not. We just don't know. Maybe little ones that know all about a past life are a glitch in the matrix who didn't get the memory wipe! Or maybe they watched a documentary secretly and didn't tell their parents! It's a fascinating idea.

I think there's something to it & it's to do with what consciousness is & how it works. Something like living things have a certain consciousness value during their lifetime made up of some kind of information strands that can be connected with or resonate with other strands through time/space, then they can re-used in a different combination with a new life.

I think it's also behind stuff like how someone claims to know something about another person, e.g. a twin "knows" their twin has been in an accident, and possibly also stuff like ghosts, mediums, etc And maybe even parallel universe stuff! I don't think we're anywhere near being able to understand it yet or as manifestations of it we might never be able to.

Or we are in a simulation & whatever simulating us is re-using bits of code!

Disclaimer: I had surgery last week & am still on pain-killer meds! 😆

My dd used to cry every time we walked past a big house on the way to the park that was very old. When she got older she pointed out the car window when we drove past it and she told us that's where the dead wait to go to heaven.

Curiosity got the better of me and I did some research. It was used to house the bodies of cholera victims until they could be buried.