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anyone else's toddler ever spoken about 'past life' experiences??????

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noonar · 18/09/2007 13:33

now, am not saying (necessarily) that i believe in reincarnation, but i've just had a rather spooky conversation with my 3 yo dd. (just 3)

the gist of it was that she's bored with being 3 and wants to be a teenager again. when i asked her where i was whilst she was busy being a teenager, she said that she had a different mummy then.

the conversation went on, and then she said that she got sick and she died.

as i said earlier, i'm not saying i believe any of this, but it certainly sent a shiver down my spine.

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headinhands · 07/04/2013 10:39

So what about the monster thats apparently under my ds's bed? Is that real? Or the zombie that's in my dd's wardrobe? That real too? How on earth have you decided that anything they say that sounds like a past life is true but the stuff they come up with at bed time is their over active imaginations?

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 11:00

Is it just me or are there a lot more sceptics around these days ready to jump in and dismiss/ridicule other people's experiences?

seeker · 07/04/2013 11:04

Toddlers have incredibly vivid imaginations.

headinhands · 07/04/2013 11:12

I'm not dismissing the experience but questioning the explanation some posters have given for it and to do so is fully within the rules of MN. If you disagree please do report my post.

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 11:24

Just to reinforce my point seeker... :)

I just think it says a lot that 6 years ago when this thread was started there were 3 pages of posters sharing their experiences with very few sceptical comments and today, after 1 post, there are 2 people jumping in to be dismissive.

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 11:25

Or to 'question the experiences of others' if you prefer.

headinhands · 07/04/2013 11:43

So what point are you making? That 2 skeptics have posted? What do you think it means? The OP said she wasn't saying 'she believed any of it' so felt more than happy to jump in for discussion, and to be fair anything is open for discussion on a discussion forum.

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 11:45

Just that there are more around these days - ready to jump in. I said that in my first post. I've noticed it a lot recently on this board and others.

headinhands · 07/04/2013 11:47

Again I'm questioning the explanations some have arrived at.

seeker · 07/04/2013 11:49

More sceptics - that's fantastic! It means more people are actually using their brains and critical faculties. That makes me happy!

Oh, by the way, why on earth is questioning someone "being dismissive"?

headinhands · 07/04/2013 11:50

Okay, so there are 2 posts from skeptics, but it doesn't mean anything? Why mention it?

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 12:15

It was an observation headinhands...I've just noticed that on older threads, skeptics were less likely to comment. Whether that means people are more skeptical now or whether skeptics in the past just stayed off the threads that didn't interest them or whether people weren't quite as...um.. 'blunt' even if they didn't agree..who knows?

seeker, I notice you on these types of threads a lot, commenting on what people have seen/experienced even though you weren't there. What amazing psychic abilities you have

seeker · 07/04/2013 12:28

"seeker, I notice you on these types of threads a lot, commenting on what people have seen/experienced even though you weren't there. What amazing psychic abilities you have "

The problem is that I don't have to have been there. Because all these experiences are very similar, and have very similar explanations.

For example, if you google Jenny Cockell, you will very soon find sensible, common sense explanations of her experiences. Which might just stop people wasting money on her wholly discredited book.

headinhands · 07/04/2013 12:56

What you call blunt I call honest discussion. How would you suggest there was a non supernatural explanation for a child recounting things that seem like they lived before without saying as much? And you know what, we're all adults here, I think we can cope with having our views challenged, I enjoy being challenged and invite it, it's how we all learn after all.

Twosugarsplease · 07/04/2013 12:57

I found the documentary of the young boy in Ireland fascinating too !
As I recall, his mum wanted to take her son back to the place to help her son, as he was quite distressed by his memory and it gave him a kind of closure. I felt so sorry for him, think everyone did.
You just couldn't doubt him, watching it all and explanations he had given his mum.
I think our souls/energy are powerful things, and to think this little boy clearly had a lost soul within him that perhaps was in some kind of limbo. Bless him.

Ledkr · 07/04/2013 13:00

Dd3 once ran I to the room and announced his name was
He was barely two. The name was that if a young lad who had been murdered in our town.
Pushing it to the back if my mind a few days later he showed me where he used to live when he was "somebody else"
On checking it was if course the rd where said murdered boy had lived I honestly had to push it out if my head and rarely talk about it.
I just can't imagine any other explanation.

Twosugarsplease · 07/04/2013 13:11

I believe the young are still very much in tune, unfortunately some are able to remember little things and in the boys case mentioned above, he remembered it all, and felt confused as to where everyone in his past life had gone, which was really sad.
I think if your son isn't distressed himself by this ledkr I wouldn't worry, hopefully it will dissolve from his memory.
Must admit I would have been taken aback myself

headinhands · 07/04/2013 13:36

What we know about the physiology of our brain based on observations/tests etc show that our memories are stored in the hippocampus. When we look at people who have had that part of the brain damaged we clearly see loss of memory function. How do you suppose these memories survive after the brain dies? At what point in our evolution did we start to come back for 'another go' as it were? Was there a time when amoebas had memories of a previous existence? Do all living things live again and again including bacteria? How do we account for the difference in population figures i.e. there are presently around 6 billion humans on earth, what about the time when our numbers were much smaller? Who/what is making the new souls/spirits?

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 13:44

Why do you think we should be able to answer those questions? All anyone can offer is their experiences and theories. Even your own theories/explanations are based on what we know (or think we know) about the physiology of our brains. Some people are open to the possibility that there may be things we can't explain yet because we don't know everything.

seeker · 07/04/2013 14:01

Bumbymummy- of course there are things we can't explain yet. But there has never been a "psycic experience" which can't be explained.

duchesse · 07/04/2013 14:12

DD3 is always telling me about when she was a big girl. Most of the time it transpires she's just confused and/or acting out stories she's had read to her.

TreeLuLa · 07/04/2013 14:16

DS often talks about "when I was a little girl" I say to him, no, DS, you've been a little boy ever since you grew in Mummy's tummy.

DS "No, mummy, BEFORE I lived in your tummy I was a little girl

headinhands · 07/04/2013 14:17

But bumble, in light of your reasoning skills, how are you able to so easily disregard a small child's claims of monsters in the wardrobe. Following your own logic you would have to accept that there may well be a green and purple pterodactyl under your 4 year olds bed. How can you in one situation think logically and bring what you know about the world to bear and reassure your child that it's her imagination, but in the other situation think there is something to it. Because both possibilities have as much evidence. Do you not see the glaring contradiction?

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 18:38

seeker, maybe there hasn't been one that you (or another skeptical person) hasn't tried to explain but that doesn't mean that it happened that way. :)

headinhands, I was referring to your comment about what we know about the brain so far not allowing the concept of reincarnation. I'm open to the possibility that we don't know everything about the brain, so perhaps it doesn't all work quite the way we think. I'm not sure how that means that I have to believe in pterodactyls under the bed.

expatinscotland · 07/04/2013 18:41

My elder daughter did this. So did the son of a mate.

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