Who are you really?

[JustonTime]

I'm 100% convinced that I should have been born in France, learned piano, had a horse and obviously spoken French.

Who do you feel you are? Or am I the only one who feels they were born in the wrong country? And era.

Seriously though, it's like a memory in some things. I don't have to learn French - it just reminds me of words I know? Same with piano. And France, I feel at home there.

Always thought I should not have been born in the uk

Should have been born in a particular town in the US

It is I think one of my first memories.
It continued through my childhood that there had been a huge mistake and I shouldn’t have been born where I was born (poverty stricken northern council estate to a family of immigrants)

We should have moved to the States in the early 70s but my mother pulled the plug at the last minute.

I was devastated. Up to that point I thought I was at last going home.

Never really belonged in my family and went NC as soon as I could

Traveling in America in the early 80s with Dp we drove through this town that was rather seedy and had a reputation for being very violent.
Dp was very nervous.

I was at peace. I really felt like I had come home.
Tried to persuade Dp we should buy a house there to live in for holidays or permanently but he was having none of it.

Swore I would get gunned down as soon as opened the front door.

Dp wishes now we had bought a house in that neighbourhood. The place cleaned up its act and is now a really expensive area.

To me it is home. Even though I don’t live there.

I have moved around the uk and am in a position to have my choice of houses to live in but it doesn’t matter how beautiful a house is, it is still in the uk and none have ever felt like home.

If you can find it online, watch The Ghost Inside My Child. It is a really good series that will make sense of how you feel OP.

I don’t believe in past lives but I am well known for having no sense of direction - until I went to Liverpool for the first time. I knew exactly where I was going, almost by instinct. I also felt very comfortable and at home there. It was very strange

Bigmango I've always felt I should have been a cowboy too. As a child that was my ambition for when I grew up - I was so disappointed when I found out that was no longer an option.

I would have been brilliant at it! Just me, my horse, probably a dog, and a few thousand head of cattle, riding the range, and occasionally stopping to solves mysteries.

Lovely thread.

I really like things set in the 30s-50s.
I imagine myself in the countryside as the village drs or vicars wife, lovely stone house, big brood of dc, vegetable patch, couple of chickens, busy doing 'good works'...maybe on a topic that's a bit controversial for the time.

I can see myself in my wellies and floral dress and cardy traipsing around the countryside with the dc and ddog

I’m convinced I should have been a flapper.

Moi aussi! I'm keeping an eye on the "self ID" phenomenon for people who want to change their sex but not to have to do anything to prove or manifest or document the change.

I think the next logical step is going to be to recognise self-ID regarding citizenship. I'm looking forward to rocking up to UKVI at Heathrow, coming off an international flight, and simply telling them that I FEEL I AM BRITISH, and they cannot challenge me or ask to see my passport or everyone will call them bigots.

I've done a regression and it was fascinating. Still not sure whether I believe it or not, but I was a hedge witch and I can tell you I have never felt so at peace. If I get stressed, that's where I go to in my head.

Artistic aristocratic woman, widowed very young in the Victorian era, about 1847 at the arrival of steam trains, mezzo soprano career, no idea what a weekend is, adore all my staff. Widowed not cos I want that but back then widowhood was the only thing a woman went through that allowed her to keep money and have any agency at all.

My grand daughter when she was just three would pick up a stick and walk around bent over and squinting like a blind person. She would say when asked that her name was Lucy. She had never met anyone like the person she was portraying and was quite at home being Lucy.

I should have been a club kid in New York!

I should have been American. I know more about US history, geography, culture than my own. My family background is Irish, my parents came to the UK as young adults. I feel they should have emigrated to the US instead, arriving on a boat to New York and probably a few decades earlier so I could have been growing up in the 50s/60s instead!

I'm Jewish but I have always felt a pull towards Celtic England and Viking Scandinavia which I would have much preferred!

I should be an old lady living in a country cottage with a dozen cats, spending my time pruning my rose bushes, baking Victoria sponges and hosting afternoon tea parties.

Sally you can do that in future.

Definitely should have been born rich 😂. My parents used to say they must have picked up the wrong baby from the hospital because all my family are really outdoorsy and like camping etc while I hate it, get called ‘princess’ constantly and just feel comfortable in posh hotels and around rich people 😂. Also have a massive fear of boats so feel I maybs was aristocracy killed on the titanic 😂.

Look up numerology OP It’s very interesting
It can link in with past lives which I really believe in. I have several memories or emotional triggers based on prior lives.

I should have been born filthy rich - I am just so good at spending money!

I'd have been at home in rural life in the 1950s, I think. I'd have been not too impoverished, but not wealthy by any stretch - just enough to get by. Slower pace of life, no pressure to work long hours, could do lots of craft and gardening and walking of dogs.

I should've been a teenager in '50s America. I was born in California in the '80s (been in the UK since I was a child), but I'm not a California type at all, I should've been born somewhere like Tennessee or Georgia.

I looked up astrocartography (where you take your time, date and place of birth and your natal chart gets transposed onto a map of the world)

Funnily enough the place where I feel most at home is one of the luckiest places in the world I could live.

I shouldn’t actually live in the UK.

I live in the south of England and from the Southern most coast to up towards Leeds it says I won’t get any where because I will constantly be brought down by back stabbers and outside circumstances that work against me.

And anywhere north of Leeds everything will end in disappointment

I was born north of Leeds

My whole life could be summed up in those few sentences.

@flouncyfanny It's quite complicated to explain, in that it's like a tree with a lot of branches connected. But the simplest way I could answer is that, That "home" feeling is you (the inner you that is living in this body) remembering or still connected to the life you had before. And when you have the deep rooted, unskaeable feeling of not fitting in anywhere (especiallywith family/culture, etc), it's also either 'you' still connected to where/who you were or connecting to who/where you'll be after this.

And your deep rooted, unexplainable (sometimes thought of as irrational here) fears/aversion in this life is usually something to do with how you left the past life (died) or how you lived in the past life (something not pleasurable).

And the "home", longing feelings are usually due to a pleasurable past or "future" ( where you're going next), so to speak.