AIBU to not be woo but think it's woo?

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For starters I am not woo at all (although I do enjoy reading threads that are a bit woo). My son is 7. Since he could talk from about 2 he sometimes mentioned his 'other life before' including details of his 'other mummy' and his 'other sister'.

It's always little snippets that he can't elaborate too much on but he has said he was given to me after his other mummy died, that his sister was poorly, that he used to wear a green felt cap every day, that his name was William and he has also said he misses his other mummy. There are other things but these are just examples. He hasn't said anything about it for a little while now.

I've always put it down to overactive imagination but I watched a program on YouTube recently and I've started to think maybe past lives are a real thing?

Anyone experienced this sort of thing before or am I going slowly mad thinking there's something in it?

AIBU to be turning a little bit woo?

@Papergirl1968 off to google!

Jenny Cockell, sorry, not Cocknell

I've posted this before... My DD was about 3 sitting in the bath and suddenly told me she liked me better than her other mummy and when I asked her what she meant she told me she remembers her speaking to adults around her about something coming for everyone and her mummy giving her medicine for a sore tummy but when she woke up she was this new person with a new mummy and she was glad cause she wasn't scared anymore. I realise punctuation and grammar doesn't come into play a lot with that long strung sentence but I always try to type it the way she said it to keep it accurate

OP, maybe you're B a little bit U to think you're not woo

Papergirl1968 whats the explanation for the fact that the vast majority of us don't remember past lives and that most of the stories come from small children who are generally regarded as unreliable witnesses?

I don't believe in past lives either, but there is an argument for inherited memory. In the same way as animals/birds seem to be able to repeat behaviours/locations of their ancestors despite not being "raised" as such, so there is no direct passing of information.

I think that there may be the possibility that humans have an element of memories passed from previous generations that they are able to access as small children but lose the ability to as they grow older.

The Dalai Lama is found as a child who knows enough to prove their are a reincarnation, so there are plenty of people around the world who do believe in such things.

There are lots of people who believe that there is a god too, that doesn't make it any more true.

Those who believe in reincarnation say young children who talk about past lives forget by about the age of five, Janet.
I think it makes sense that we come back a few times because we have things to learn, and that we get wiser and better with each life.
Some people think marks and physical defects are related to what happened in a previous life, eg someone with a heart defect died due to being shot through the heart.
Some people think we are with the same group of people each time, but the relationship may not be the same eg your sister in this life might be your father in the next.
I think we’ve all experienced that feeling of deja vu where a place we are visiting for the first time us familiar to us. I have the feeling of “coming home” whenever I visit Wales , Ireland or the Isle of Man but not Scotland.

that most of the stories come from small children who are generally regarded as unreliable witnesses?
Because they haven’t yet been taught by society that their stories are unreliable. You kinda answered your own question there.

I remember going on holiday with DD when she was 3 or 4 to somewhere we had not been before
She knew where to go all the time and was directing us to places!
Went to visit a national trust type property and she told us some of the things we would see before we got there - all true and not things you would have expected eg saying exactly right number of babies cradles in the nursery and some of the toys in the nursery (not toys she had eg a Noah’s ark)
Really freaked me out
DD is now 27 and can’t even remember that holiday

Carl Egan??

That was fascinating and sad too.

I think he ended up being murdered very near to where the person he was in a past life (if you believe that) died in a plane crash. The strange thing was that the plane crash site (and pilot) wasn't discovered until after Carl had died. If I remember correctly.

Carl Edon, NCB, yes, that was another intriguing case.

ooo this is a bit creepy! love it

Not creeped out at all. I totally believe in reincarnation

A mixed bag of responses really then, as was obviously bound to be the case. My mind is no more made up than it was before posting but I AM enjoying reading people's tales. Anymore for anymore?

Need to google Carl Edon immediately

Hmm. Open mind but that’s not convincing to me. He looks like his mum, not like Heinrich! Also lots of children in the 70s played and imagined war scenarios—it was all over the place. If his parents believed in and encouraged him then he’d be bound to continue. Lots of blond babes born to dark haired adults as blondness is recessive, and hair does darken with age.