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

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QuintessentialShadow · 06/07/2009 00:09

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?

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snowykitten · 03/02/2010 15:03

One day last summer, we went to New Quay (in West Wales) to look for my dp's great grandfathers house. We had done some family tree research and new the address but neither of us had been to New Quay before. Ds was almost 4, he has ASD and doesn't have much language (well he had much less then than he does now which isn't a great deal).

Anyway, although we had the address we didn't know where abouts in the town it was. We drove around just hoping that we would stumble upon it. DS started making noises and "saying" what sounded like "that way, that way" and pointing. We decided to follow where he was taking us and....... you've guessed it - took us straight to the road and the house!!

He too looked "old" when he was first born and we've often said that he has been here before due to the things he does that we can't explain how he knows!!

I am doing a hypnotherapy course and have just done past life regression and I find it all so intersting!! I need to do a certain amount of "cases" to get my certificate and am really looking forward to finding people wanting to be regressed. Any one in South Wales fancy a go??!!

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5yearsto40bob · 03/02/2010 15:45

I was once driving down a street with ds1 aged 3, which we hadn't been down before. He shouted at me to stop and he pointed to a house and said look Mummy that's were i used to live when i was a bigger boy, before I lived with you and Daddy. He then went on to tell me that he lived there with his Grandma, he told me it was a long long time ago, he told me lots of lovely things they used to do together and that they had lots of fun. I asked him what Grandma looked like and he said 'not like anyone else, she just looked like Grandma' He said he was pleased he lived with us now.
It freaked me out at first, but now I think it's nice to know he had a loving past life.

CheerfulYank · 09/02/2010 00:59

When I was small (2 or 3) I asked my mother, "What was my name before? I forget." I got very upset about it. She said that I was being silly, that I'd always been who I was now.

But...I remember. I remember being in a very green place, and being old. And I remember being Catholic, and have always had affection for and understanding of the Catholic church even though I was raised by half-assed Lutherans who disdained Catholicism.

It just comes in flashes now, but when I was young I remembered quite well. I know I sound loony, but I really and truly remember it.

solo · 09/02/2010 01:12

I know someone who's son was her dog before he was born as her Ds...he described perfectly certain things that occured!

I think this is more common than we think.

indigobarbie · 09/02/2010 08:06

cheerfulyank get yourself to a past life hypnosis regressionist, sounds facinating, and you may recall even more memories from your past life! Awesome

Peaceflower · 09/02/2010 08:24

, fascinating though.

snowykitten · 09/02/2010 10:29

Cheerfulyank, pity you aren't closer to me - I do past life regression under hypnosis and love it!! As indigobarbie said you would probably be able to remember all sorts of details, could be very interesting!

MegSophandEmma · 09/02/2010 10:42

A fab book I recommend if you are intrested in this kind of thing is "Journey of Souls," by Michael Newton. It's a load of case studies of his clients who had regression therapy not only to past lives, but to the bit in between. I have just bought it again, after lending it out last year. I'm agnostic, yet still find most of the book "ringing bells" IYKWIM

piratecat · 09/02/2010 10:45

i was just going to post on this, then realised i already had as ipiratethief!! Where my dd said she'd been following me around.

becstarlitsea · 09/02/2010 11:01

Glad I'm not the only one who is a bit woo...

My DS has told me he was an old man and died before he was born. He tells me things that start with 'Last time...' eg 'Last time I was alive, I used to go in an aeroplane'. He told me that he's happy that I'm his mummy because 'last time my mummy died, but this time you'll look after me'. But that's not the weirdest thing...

I was 5 wks pg with DS, not knowing that I was pg. I'd been told that it was very unlikely I'd ever conceive naturally and I was really sad about it. I had a dream that I saw a little boy running around, a toddler but running like mad, and then saw him stop and look around in the crowd of people. I thought 'Oh, he's looking for his mummy'. Then as his eyes met mine, he recognised me, came running over and flung his arms around me and I knew that he'd chosen me to be his mummy. I woke up, realised it was a dream and was so sad because I so wanted it to be real. Then a week later I realised I was late... When DS was a toddler he looked EXACTLY like the little boy in the dream - I mean he is the same child I saw.

When DS was a baby he screamed non-stop for the first 3 days, he looked so angry - fists flying and bellowing constantly like he was engaged in some sort of fight to the death. When I looked in his eyes, and remembering my dream, I was sure he was an old soul. This really is a bit woo , but I lay down on the bed next to him and whispered 'I think the last life you had might have been difficult. But it's over now and this one is going to be lovely. You're going to be happy with us.' He totally changed from that moment and became a happy baby. Still a handful (always, always...) but happy.

TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench · 09/02/2010 11:45

Ooh I am shivering reading these.

I am not remotely woo. My default position is to be totally sceptical about all things even vaguely paranormal however when DD was about 2 - 3 she used to talk about "the other house" and "when I was the mummy and you were the little girl...". She was so earnest and emphatic, I couldn't help believe her.

CheerfulYank · 09/02/2010 12:31

I actually would be very interested in doing past life regression and may at some point. Dh will be totally !

When I was younger I remembered a man with dark hair, though whether he was husband, son, brother, etc, I don't recall. I just remember a green place, and being old, and there never be quite enough to eat though I think I was very happy despite it. And a decade ago when I saw the ocean for the first time I was very sure it wasn't the first time, odd as that sounds.

Yes, I'm well aware that it could all be a dream or a mixture of things I've heard or seen, but it doesn't feel like that. It feels like...memory.

These stories are so interesting! Your story is very touching bec! I also dreamed of my son before he was born-a little roundfaced blond boy with blue eyes. I thought it was silly because I was sure that he'd have dark hair and eyes like DH, but he's...a little round faced blond boy with blue eyes.

cheesesarnie · 09/02/2010 12:32

my sister used to swear she had had another mummy in Paris.she could describe the house,the dog the car.she was so insistent that at times it was spooky.

solo · 09/02/2010 16:29

I've actually been regressed under hypnotism some 12/13 years ago and it seems I was once blonde!!!
I've been part of a wealthy family and I've been a maid in a big, wealthy household.

ProfYaffle · 09/02/2010 16:38

When I was little I can remember telling my Mum that "I used to be someone else, before I was me, before I was in your tummy" but she dismissed it. dd2 (2.11) is currently coming out with stories about 'when she was a grown up/man'. When we went to the chippy she looked at the pie cabinet (we never buy pies) and said "ooh pies! I used to like them when I was a man". She says she used to have a brother who died, they lived on a farm and the trees fell down and she looked all over for the baby but couldn't find him.

I hope it isn't true tbh, sounds very

elmofan · 09/02/2010 17:05

ooohhhh i had a thread like this last year as my dd (4yrs) has often come out with weird things , last night when i was lying beside her in my bed she said " mummy, i remember seeing you when you were a tiny baby in hospital
me = really elmo jr
dd = yes but i was old then & i had to wait years & years for you to grow up so i could be in your tummy
me = as she said this exact same thing to dh about me last year .

Keepo · 09/02/2010 17:16

When my youngest dd was 2 I sat her on the sofa to put her shoes on and she suddenly said a particlar funny phrase (very distinctive phrase I won't say what as my family would be able to identify me) that I hadn't heard since my grandfather had died many many years before she was born. She was looking at me with a very odd expression on her face. I asked her where she had heard what she said before. She said thats what I used to say before I was small.

Nothing like that has ever happened since but it really unerved me.

Keepo · 09/02/2010 17:24

Also, my oldest used to refuse to walk past a particular house in the town. It looked just like an ordinary terraced house. She was about 3 and used to say it was a red house and it shook and she couldn't go near it. If I tried to make her, she would scream. To be honest I always thought she was being silly. I have mentioned it to other people who think she could probably really see something in that house that other people can't.

Nightshoe · 24/02/2010 05:02

This thread is so interesting. My DD is 3.8 and last weekend she saw some old toy trains in a shop, like hornby ones. She pointed at one and said thats the one I had when I was a child before. I asked her what she meant and she said when she was born in America she didn't have a mummy and a daddy to look after her like now, but she did have a train and it was the only toy she had and she was so happy she had a mummy and daddy now who let her have lots of toys. She said she didn't get to be a grown up before.

People have also remarked on her old soul.

CheerfulYank · 24/02/2010 19:55

How interesting Nightshoe!

Lauree · 24/02/2010 22:42

I had an experience this summer - I'm not very woo -( what a great word) but I have always carried a great sadness - since I was very young indeed , and this summer I had a kind of daydream, that I was me, but lying in a field in a tent ( on some kind of battlefield, but everyone else was off fighting or doing something), and it was at least a hundred years ago, I was the same age as I am now, and I had the same life experiences with children... miscarriage, abortion, a child with difficulties, another misscarriage...
and I was very very sad about it. ( in a way that I don't feel so sad about the same experiences in my current life) I really felt a failure and that my life had been for nothing. and in the daydream, I was very old, and my skin was papery thin, and then I died.

and after that, I haven't felt sad at all. As if it was all nothing to do with me really, just someone else and all that emotion has somehow gone with them

well perhaps that is a bit woo!

Monadami · 26/02/2010 01:27

Do you think you will explore things further Shadow and perhaps ask him more questions about this other life your son speaks of?

I certainly agree babies and small children are more in tune with things of a spiritual nature. When my baby was a few months old, he was always looking at the ceiling, smiling. I believe he was looking at my Mother, who sadly died 3 months before he was born. He's nine months now and hasn't done it for about 5 months.

MiniMousse · 28/02/2010 23:32

I've been following this thread with interest- there are some amazing stories here!

I felt vvvvvv strongly that dd chose to be born and that I had very little to do with it (if you see what I mean!). I can't wait to see if she comes out with any interesting comments when she is able to speak better (17 mo at the moment). When she was newborn I used to whisper 'thank you for coming' to her a lot - it wasn't really a conscious thought, - I just really had the feeling that she had been waiting about for the right moment to be born. (awww!)

Ok, that DOES make me sound very 'woo'. I'm quite a sensible person really!

hmc · 28/02/2010 23:39

My, then 6 year old dd, told me that she had been in heaven looking down, hoping I would be her mum. I just put it down to her imagination or something she had overheard on tv etc...or via adult conversation