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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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bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 22:07

Seeker..I wonder what you would have said about Pasteur's theories at the time? "No point in looking for those 'woo' explanations about germ theory ...we have a perfectly sensible non-woo explanation about disease already...." you got to love those open minded people who think outside the box!

ChippingInIsEggceptional · 07/04/2013 22:08

I remember a couple of these types of stories that have been on TV.

One was a little girl who was upset and wanted to go 'back to her family' and tell them she was OK. She was in Africa - but a long, long, long way away from where her 'old' family lived and her parents couldn't afford to take her and kept hushing her up, but they got so distraught by it that somehow a TV company got involved and they took her there. Everything was as she described it, the house, the directions to the river where she had drown, the people she pointed out as her 'original' parents had lost their daughter in exactly the way she described - how on earth do you explain that (other than saying it's all a sham for the TV?)?

These things are often reported with quite a lot of detail that small children couldn't possibly know unless it was true (as some posters above have given) and some children even have scars etc.

I can't explain how it happens - but then there's a lot about this world that I can't explain how it happens or see it for myself but just have to accept... I'm not so ignorant as to think we hold all of the answers.

PavlovtheCat · 07/04/2013 22:09

ah, I see this thread has stopped being about those who have had experiences, as asked in the OP and more about arguing against, or for the idea of it generally. I might well have not posted Hmm

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 22:10

Icbineg, some people on this thread have been able to verify it...

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 22:10

hmmm okay so from the other side...my toddler woke up screaming about pooping last night. She had not in fact pooped. It may be that mysterious forces are at work. Or it may be that she is a toddler and got confused about dream and reality.

I am keeping an open mind....

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 22:11

bum no they haven't.

seeker · 07/04/2013 22:11

"One was a little girl who was upset and wanted to go 'back to her family' and tell them she was OK. She was in Africa - but a long, long, long way away from where her 'old' family lived and her parents couldn't afford to take her and kept hushing her up, but they got so distraught by it that somehow a TV company got involved and they took her there. Everything was as she described it, the house, the directions to the river where she had drown, the people she pointed out as her 'original' parents had lost their daughter in exactly the way she described - how on earth do you explain that (other than saying it's all a sham for the TV?)? "

If you give me some more details, I'll research it and let you know. The will be an explanation- there always is,

AlanMoore · 07/04/2013 22:12

I'm glad you did Pavlov, your post was v interesting Thanks

bumbleymummy · 07/04/2013 22:12

Pavlov, I thought your post was really interesting. Hopefully we'll be able to get the thread back on track with more of people's experiences. Much more interesting than arguing about whether they are right are wrong! :)

marykat2004 · 07/04/2013 22:13

I read a book full of case stories like these. My niece did something like that, saying she hyad another mummy and daddy before, and making her dad walk her for miles to find this "other house" which was in a town that her parents claimed they had never told her about. She eventually gave up on the long walk. She did often talk about this "other mummy and daddy."

The strangest thing my DD did was pick up a wooden church when she was about 10 months old, and say "eglise" (church in French) (strange but she may have heard it from French people we knew). But she has never talked of "other" mummies or daddies or places.

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 22:14

pavlov I liked the bit where it fizzled out as her brain developed. I wonder if anyone can hazard a guess as to why that might be?

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 22:17

seeker I would imagine you wouldn't have to look much further than people playing along to see if there is any money in it. Certainly that will be the motivation of the film crew...but as long as they didn't speak to anyone at any point it might still be reincarnation....

marissab · 07/04/2013 22:22

All i have to say right now is ZINGZILLAS! Of course that is probably it. thanks to who posted that. Grin

PavlovtheCat · 07/04/2013 22:31

ICE I expect as we grow older, whatever is going on in our brains is open to corruption and external stuff. For example. As a child, a young child I used to meditate. I never even knew I did it. I used to get an 'outer body experience' of sorts and used to deliberately make it happen by repeating over and over 'who am I?' and fixing my glaze on a spot on the wall, or better, looking into a mirror. I would find myself looking through myself. I used to love that feeling and from then always wondered if there was more to us than just flesh and bone.

But, as I grow older, I became more cynical and stopped being able to get to that space. I expect, DD has grown knowing real facts about nana now, and anything she does say would likely be taken by me as coming from our many conversations about her. And same with past life experiences - even if she were to talk about stuff now I would be more inclined to put it down to her good imagination, fab make-beleive and excellent listening skills. But, I know some things she said before those things could have influenced her were too 'out there' to be coincidence. Once, maybe. Several times. I can't quite put it to bed as explainable.

DS, same age as DD, never had one single thing like that. So not just a childhood developmental thing.

littlebitofthislittlebitofthat · 07/04/2013 22:32

ICINEG you must feel really safe in your little world, where everthing knowable is known and proved and testified.

I feel sorry for you.

PavlovtheCat · 07/04/2013 22:33

and I wasn't fishing honest! I just noticed a few posts that were just ignored due to the need for A to be correct over B. When in fact, we will never know for sure. Not til we are dead anyway. Or not, depending on what the truth is.

greenfern · 07/04/2013 22:41

When my DD was three she asked where the bird ornament was describing in great detail the wooden stand and where it was placed at the window.

I was quite shocked As this ornament was actually my granny's and stood at her window. My Gran died many years before my DD was born.

EllieArroway · 07/04/2013 22:54

Bumble There was never anything "woo" about Pasteur's theories - that was good science. No one would have accepted a single word he said if he hadn't demonstrated his case with testable, verifiable data. A very poor comparison.

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 23:10

Yeah it is terrible being so constrained by evidence....

No fairies, unicorns, ghosts, or past lives.

Don't know why I will bother getting up tomorrow.

Seriously how DARE you people use all the benefits of scientific endeavour (phones, computers, internet etc.) and so off handedly deny its basic tenets?

littlebitofthislittlebitofthat · 07/04/2013 23:11

'you people'

?

littlebitofthislittlebitofthat · 07/04/2013 23:14

In order for evidence to be found.... it has to be looked for.

If we only ever spoke about what was proved by evidence, no one would ever look for anything outside what we already know.

In fact... we'd all still be in caves because 'its nice and safe in here, innit?'

I bet the first person out was mocked too, going against the evidence that caves are safer than woods/jungles.

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 23:14

If anyone had ever proven they had information that they could only have via memory of a previous life, then there would already be a scientific theory regarding reincarnation. It would be in the science, not philosophy/spiritual/religious realm.

Because that is what science IS.

Find high quality evidence then build a model that explains it.

There is no scientific theory of reincarnation because there is no reliable evidence it happens.

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 23:15

little yes you people..you in particular. Get off the internet right now because you don't deserve it.

littlebitofthislittlebitofthat · 07/04/2013 23:18

I believe that there are things we cannot explain so I don't deserve the internet.....
Ha

I am open minded to the thought of new discoveries....

I pity your small mindedness

ICBINEG · 07/04/2013 23:19

little yes scientists are so averse to looking for evidence that they completely refuse to even test homeopathy....oh wait that's the OPPOSITE of true.

Pavlov So when your daughter is a toddler and still has an undeveloped brain is the time you think she speaks unadulterated truth, but once her brain is fully functional she has been 'contaminated' by the real world?

Wow. I can't imagine the world we would be living in if everyone thought like that. Thank goodness someone somewhere along the line was willing to see what is really there rather than what they want to see...otherwise we wouldn't have ...oh I don't know...electricity?

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