Before I was in your tummy, I was dead, and before then I was a little girl.

[QuintessentialShadow]

My 4 year old son broke those news during breakfast today.

This was the conversation:

"mummy, what happens after you die"

"not much. you are dead"

"NO you become alive again"

"No sweetheart. you dont, when you die, that is it".

"no, you live, you die, you live again"

"OH,honey, you mean, what were you before you were in my tummy?"

"no mummy, before I was in your tummy, I was ead, and before then, I was a little girl. I had an older brother then also"

I was slightly taken aback. Is this normal?

[SOLOisMeredithGrey]

I knew someone whose Ds told her that he was her dog before(long time before he was born)and recounted an occasion where is paws were frozen in the snow and she had to carry him home.

My Dc's had that 'been here before' look too as tiny babies. We are a very 'ghosty' family and spirits are around us all the time. I think it's comforting

[pickyvic]

i read a work of fiction called Cloud Atlas....i quite like the idea that your soul goes on learning and living.

[Papillon]

hi, you all might well be interested in this thread that about unborn spirit children.

blessings to the babies

[Papillon]

hi, you all might well be interested in this thread that about unborn spirit children.

blessings to the babies

mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/114631-unborn-spirit-children

[4andnotout]

My next door neighbour had a son born in the late 60's who as a child was adamant that he was previously a gunner in ww2 and died in flames, apparently for a 4 y.o he was very graphic and knew things about the planes that a 4 year old wouldn't be able to comprehend.

[whomovedmychocolate]

This is an interesting thread. Is this the same thing as kids that can diagnose illnesses and pregnancies. I used to be able to tell when people were very sick or pregnant but I can't tell you how but I lost the knack and DD now seems to have it.

[Papillon]

We all have lantent 'knacks' in all sorts of areas concerning the astral realm, or realms more than just physical. We are electromagntic creatures, its a 'muscle' so to speak that we either don't exercise, or grew out of... like the The imaginery friend

The sightings of fairy folk diminished greatly once 'education' became more prevalent in our societies... it breeds us not to believe, hence we don't and think its kook.

Yeats and Evans-Wentz did research around the UK 100 years ago looking at the phonomena and its disappearance.

[SOLOisMeredithGrey]

Well, I still believe in all of it. Fairies, witches, elves, the lot!

WMMC, I can almost always tell what sex a baby is when I see pregnant women. I just get 'told' by someone/something. I also have the knack of knowing what sex baby I'm carrying, even before any scans.

[expatinscotland]

Quint, that just made chills run down my spine.

[expatinscotland]

DD1 comes out with freaky shit like this, too.

[QuintessentialShadow]

I know expat. When I was pregnant with him, somebody told me "oh, it is very strange, I sense a very female soul, but.... I dont think you will have a girl"

[expatinscotland]

I've told the story here of DD1 in Dunkeld, a town she'd never visited or seen in her life, when she was about 3 and a half years old.

She wasn't even speaking that clearly back then (she has dysrpaxia and still has a tendency to mumble and has had lots of speech therapy) but she was clear as a bell that day.

Another time, I pushed button I shouldn't have, and stuck my nose where it shouldn't have, and had a strange encounter with a spirit who called my daughter by the name of a family known in this country. He mocked her, because he said the man she would marry was old and his face was molten like candle wax and he called her the brood mare of XXX, saying it was all that was to her credit as the old man's former wife had been barren.

It frightened the life out of me and I never told a soul, I still won't say that name if my life depends on it, but that family's heir is 18 years older than DD1.

A couple of years later, after we'd moved through here, I heard her brushing her hair in her room and calling herself by this name. I asked her where she'd heard this name, as she's not such a clever girl I daresay . She said, 'Oh, well, of course, that's my husband's name, and I don't care anything that he's burnt as I will love him so much.'

Freaky deaky!

[hocuspontas]

I'd love an update on that channel 4 programme where a boy visited a scottish island where he'd 'lived' before. The outcome was confusing with some unanswered questions but it was fascinating.

[expatinscotland]

I know a man called Brian who is from Edinburgh and everyone in his whole family is from there since time immortal.

Brian and his wife married young as she fell pregnant when she was 16 and he was 18 and had a wee boy first (they later had 2 other children).

Now of course they hadn't much in the way of money at first so they didn't get out of town much.

Finally when Seb, their son, was about 4 Brian had passed his driving test and bought an old banger so the family could go out a day trip of a weekend.

They chose to go to N. Berwick for their first outing, as it's a lovely seaside town and it's not so far from Edinburgh so doesn't require much petrol.

But when they got there as is typical in summer on a Saturday there are not so many places to park near the beach.

Yet Seb could tell them exactly where to go.

In fact, Seb could tell them exactly where nearly everything was on the two main streets in town, and where he was wrong Brian could go in and ask the shopkeeper and find out he was right, if you rolled the calendar back about 50 years.

It freaked out Brian's wife so much she cut the outing short, but Seb led them back to their car by way of the local cemetary, which he wanted to go in to show them where he'd been buried when he was an 'old man'.

[Papillon]

wow that is spooky bout your dd expat, and Seb story amazing!

just turned on tv and Fallen is in! Angel movie I think...

A book am reading past few weeks has alot of stories in it about paranormic ways, that make 'sense' of mystical, spiritual and psychic experiences. its called the holographic Universe. I read this morning, that a Dr Stevenson of Uni of Virgina Medical school, who is a reincarnation researcher does not have to hypnotise children to gain reincarnation info, he just interviews young kids who spontaneously remember previous existences. He reckons is relatively common among kids. Most start about age 2 - 4 talking about their other life, remembering, their name, family names etc, where they lived, how they died, where they hid money before they died, murder cases!

[jabberwocky]

I really love this thread. I will have to admit when snuggling with ds2 I decided to ask "So do you remember where you were before you were in Mommy's tummy"

His reply "Nooo, but maybe I was at Home Depot"

I guess that's what I get for asking!

Still reading everyone else's stories with interest

[mum2samandalex]

this is really strange as my mum often used to remind me and tease me of the fact that when i was 2 or 3 years old i used to say i was dog in a previous life,and before that i was a little boy and in my next life i will be a little boy again. I can almost remember saying it tbh. I find it fascinating that i was able to come out with such stuff at such a young age when just learning to talk.If ds who's 4 came out with that hwne he was 2 turning 3 it would serious freak me out.

[aurynne]

Very interesting thread! I don't have stories of children who remember being someone else, but one of my ex-boyfriends came from a family in which the men could "see spirits", according to him. His brother was very open about this "ability" and his son (my boyfriend's nephew, who was back then 4) frequently would talk about "peoples in my room" that no one but him could see.

Frightening stuff!

[Pwsimerimew]

My DS had many lives before coming to us - very spooky. (ONe of ) His other mothers had no boobs apparently!
DD didn't talk of any memories of before, but did tell me once about a lovely light purple glow that was surrounding me as I went down stairs from tucking her in. Ahhh!

[SalVolatile]

I don't know what I believe either, but when dc4 was born she did something that none of the others ever did and it was so obvious that the medics all stared as well. My husband lifted her into his arms so I could get off the delivery bed and she raised her head fully off his shoulder, rotated her head several times, and focused quite clearly on what she was looking at, all the time with a fearsome frown . It was so obvious that she was angry that one of the midwives said jokingly "she's trying to work out what the hell just happened!" and DD turned and looked at her as well. It lasted for about an hour, as I recall, and at the end of that time she went back to being curled up, eyes unfocused and no neck strength - as one would expect - and developed normally. We have one photograph of her taken at that time, peering around her. It was really weird at the time.

[DippyDino]

I guess 'ghostiness' runs in our family too, from my great grandmother right down to my dd, she's 3 1/2.

She talks of her grandparents (on dh's side) often, although they have both passed away, to her it's obvious that they are very much around.

She has dreams about them and will say 'grandpa showed me the farm and the chickens and geese' (right on all counts, when they were alive) or 'my grandma says no I can't have a rabbit.' (Spot on there too!)

She repeats the same stories, she does know the difference between 'pretending' and 'reality.' She has told me she remembers when I was the baby and she was the mummy, she was bathing me and I cried because the water was too cold!

I am developing my mediumship skills and have 'heard from' dd's grandma and granddad, and my grandparents, also my great grandmother. I find it a huge comfort, I know that they are they if I ever need their support or advice.

(It weirds dh out a bit though so I haven't told him about talking to his parents. He is okay when dd talks about it though)

[Tamz77]

Dino how do you develop your mediumship abilities? Interested to know

[kateeliz]

IF your interested in this from an academic point of view, theres a book called 'Life before Life' put out by...Dr Ian Stevenson or something...works for maybe the University of Virginia, they have been studying this phenomenon for years. Very interesting. If my children started talking about this I would probably ask alot of questions, in a casual way of course, and then try and verify the facts. I find it fascinating.

[ktbeau]

My younger brother used to talk about when he "was big" he knew the names of old motorbikes that no-one had told him. He had a fascination for Bing Crosby movies (in black and white! This was in the 80's!! why would a 3yr old sit and watch that????) we were sure he had been here before!

[Lauree]

I think it's normal. we have abilities as children but most of us forget them as we get older.

thanks for reminding me... DS also talks about before he was born, and when he was old... I've been treating him as if he's talking nonsense. I'll try to remember to listen a bit more carefully.

I heard ( from an esteemed scientist) there's now a theory that past life stuff is stored in the gaps between our dna. That's how birds know what song to sing... the information's stored in their DNA from past lives.