Son is talking about a previous life?!

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I don't really think that as I don't think I believe in any of that, but my son who is 3 keeps saying he wants to go home and his dad really misses him, he wants to go back to his blue house. He says he wants to go home about 10 times a day and randomly says my dad misses me. DH to him is daddy, and I have asked him when DH is on face time (he works away during the week) is this your dad, and he says no mummy, that's daddy, that's not dad! So he doesn't mean DH. Has anyone ever experienced this?!

I think it's imagination, bits from films they've seen mixed with bits from stories, and a few bits from things they overhear. It all just jumbles about in their heads, with imagination and a bit of empathy, and comes out in unrecognisable ways.

Fly down the stairs. It was quicker than using the steps. I thought everyone could do it. I even asked DP if he did it as a child, luckily by that point in our relationship he'd worked out I'm a bit random

At a similar age DS started talking about wanting to go home too. After a while of confusion it became apparent that he was talking about a holiday apartment we had stayed in a couple of months before. At that point he didn't have the same concept of home being where we live rather than somewhere we visited. Some of the kids mine were at infant school with referred to men and women as mums and dads so I'd be looking for a more mundane explanation than past life's or possession.

Vagina- I used to think I remembered flying/floating down the stairs too. I used to think it was real, then I thought it was an out of body experience, now I believe it was dissociation (in hindsight life was probably quite traumatic at the time)

Honestly, OP, as you say yourself, this is nonsense. This is very much the stage they're at when they're fascinated by the idea that different people call their parents 'dad', rather than 'daddy', or that people might think of you as 'Emily's mummy' rather than 'my mummy'. Mine was fascinated when he was three by the fact I had names other than 'Mummy'.

Something your son has read or seen will have touched off the blue house stuff, and he misses his dad while he's away in the week, and is figuring out that he lives somewhere else when he's not at home.

My little sister was about that age when she used to go off on viv spiels about 'before I was dead', but it was because she and her morbid little friends used to have funerals for my discarded Sindy dolls.

This is going to sound like BS, but I had the recurring floating down the stairs dream as well when I was little. How weird!! Don't think that is anything to do with past lives, lots of people probably have similar floating/flying dreams but I used to float out of my bed down the stairs and wake up before the bottom step with a massive jolt.

The thing that seems strange to me is that the "past life" always seems to be relatively nearby. For example, the Barra boy was Scottish. You'd think it could be anywhere in the world, really. I suppose it might just be the closer ones where people are actually able to investigate and then make the link. Hmm.

No idea about when I was a child but I sometimes get a deep feeling I belong in the past, particularly in relation to old stone cottages, and a deep yearning, reducing me to tears sometimes () to be back there, to be "home". There's been a few people who are very woo that have gone a bit weird around me, told me I'm an old soul, and given the impression something dreadful has happened/they hint I'm back here for a reason . I really hope not, but I do generally feel a LOT older (or deeper, or something?) than other people. Gosh I sound like a twat, generally not particularly woo myself but this is one area I wonder.... I don't want past lives to be true (I don't want to come back!) but sort of deep down think they are.

When my DS was 2.5 he randomly said 'I need to go to the river Thames because I'm a doctor and I help people there'. I was a bit creeped out because it was way more articulate than he normally was at that age and I really didn't think he'd ever heard of the Thames or had all that much concept of having a job/ being a doctor.

I have a deep and irrational fear of coal mines. Can't even look at a picture of a mine shaft. Historically, generations of my family were coal miners and I've always wondered if there is a bit of a genetic memory there.

From what i've read it usually stops as the memory starts to fade. Some of the things you read just can't be explained, and imo no need to. Easier to accept than try and find explanations.

here a0.muscache.com/im/pictures/753a2428-898f-418c-a403-58b74275afa3.jpg?aki_policy=x_medium blue house on island of barra

vagina I did it too. It's a common sensation in children. To come downstairs without walking or jumping.

Wiki:

Neuroscientific research on mice suggests that some experiences can influence subsequent generations. In a study,[2][3] mice trained to fear a specific smell passed on their trained aversion to their descendants, which were then extremely sensitive and fearful of the same smell, even though they had never encountered it, nor been trained to fear it.

Changes in brain structure were also found. The researchers concluded that "[t]he experiences of a parent, even before conceiving, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations".[4]

Scientists speculate that similar genetic mechanisms could be linked with phobias, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as other neuropsychiatric disorders, in humans.

My DD still remembers how she used to be able to float down the stairs and look down on us from the corner of the ceiling. She said once i was staring right up at her looking puzzled, then i looked away, she says it would have been because my mind wouldn't have accepted the logic of what i'd seen, so i dismissed it.

I can't remember where I heard or read it, but the floating down the stairs thing - it's been suggested that so many people think they did that as children because it's a memory of being carried by an adult as a baby.

I suspect that too nobodysbabynow but it's a very strong memory and at least 3 other people I know have spoken about it, plus the house I was in, I was probably too old to be carried.

Anyone who had this too, if you google literally 'children who float downstairs' there is an awful lot of people who speak about this, it's a vey well know 'thing' whatever it is.

My four year old is insistent that she used to live with her grandma and grandad, but they are dead now. She tells me a place name and a surname and they they lived in a house far and far away that they had to walk to. She says they killed a pig and ate it.

My son used to talk about his " other mum and dad",when he was about 3, and freaked us out when he told us they'd died in a car crash! He also used to have an imaginary friend he used to call " the other ( his name)!
He's getting on for 25 now, but he remembers about this and doesn't like to talk about it because it freaks him out now!!!
Neither of my other two children did this.

Sorry if there has been some fusion, the Barra and flying planes thing wasn't my story. If it was, I would be going to visit that blue house for sure!

*confusion

Ive nothing to add, other than that I watched the documentary the Boy from Barra when it was originally aired and it creeped the hell out of me. Not just the past life stuff, that little boy seemed wise beyond his years. He was so articulate for a young child of that age, like an adult trapped in childs body. It was completley bizare and im not easily spooked!

magpiemay Yep! It really does make you question these things!

I am going to find the book The Forgetting Time you said about Gerbil, it sounds interesting and might not spook me as much as a tv show

I love this sort of thing. Either 100% woo or hes been watching Bear in the Big Blue House