Do you ever get flash memories of another life?

Question

Sometimes I see an old lady sitting on a porch in a rocking chair. It is a hot day with a warm wind blowing and the front door is banging with the wind. I have always thought this was me before i died. Or maybe i just have a vivid imagination. what do you think and have you ever experienced this yourself.

Answer 1

Well, I don't know what a person would call all this (evidence for reincarnation, maybe?) but...Let's see:
My sister was deathly afraid of helicopters, from the time she was a newborn baby. When she was old enough to talk, one day my mom asked her why she was so afraid of helicopters. My sister replied (nearly verbatim): "Don't you remember, mommy? We were in a green helicopter, and it crashed in the field. Don't you remember?"
Green helicopters were used during the Vietnam War, which my dad fought in. We think that somehow a memory was...I guess implanted onto my dad, who passed it on to my sister.
Then there's my older brother, who only spoke French until he was five. We have no explanation for that.
AND until I was about five, I had a recurring nightmare of being in a car that went off a bridge. I seem to recall that the bridge collapsed. Now, the thing that's kind of funny (ironic is more like it) is that there WAS a bridge collapse that happened around the time I was born, a few years prior. Perhaps you've heard of it. The Silver Bridge, which collapsed December 15, 1967. I was born December 16, thirteen years later.
Even stranger, is that the "Mothman" sightings started thirteen months before the bridge collapsed.
But my family has no connection whatsoever to the Silver Bridge, so I don't know why I would have any "memory" of it.
Even my brother only speaking French can almost be explained, by the fact that many of my ancestors were fluent in the language, and several came from France.

But I still don't believe in reincarnation. I simply believe that sometimes things are "imprinted" onto us, so that we have "memories" of things that we never lived through, but that affected our ancestors, or their friends.

Edit: Cellular consciousness, that's a great term for it! Sounds about right. I think children are more susceptible to things like that, which is why most of us, if we're going to have "memories" at all, only have them when we're children.

Answer 2

I saw a celebration by the Nile once, in the spring when the Nile flooded the valley. I was one of the rank and file there, no one special....most were wearing simple cotton clothing, hats made of papyrus, and clay amulets on thier necks, most were barefoot, but some wore simple sandals woven from some sort of reeds, the wealthier folks had more colorful clothing, and leather footwear. I was there to watch the high priestess from the temple, coming down the Nile in a barge, it was a ceremony to bless the river and the fields for the spring planting, and to ask for bountiful crops.
An unrelated odd rocking chair story, I bought an old rocking chair at an auction about 10 years ago, it was old, and well worn, but I liked it's energy, it is in my bedroom today. For a couple weeks after I bought it, I could feel the presence of the previous owner, an old lady who liked rocking on the porch in it. I don't know how long it was between the time of her passing, and the time it was sold, but she was clearly very fond of it. I think that she was only checking in to make sure that her chair was in good hands, she moved on within a couple of weeks....
I found the comment by the poster whose brother spoke french interesting, and what the poster was saying about it not necessarily being from a past life, I have heard before a theory called cellular consciousness, where the cells of our bodies are able to hold some information that we can tap into, interesting. Another idea about it, is that some people are able to tap in to a huge cosmic library, where every thing that ever is, was, or shall be has been recorded, this library is called the Akashic Records....I have a birthmark on my body, which has been read by two separate psychics as having come from a bullet wound in a war about 100 years ago, but they didn't agree on which war, exactly, I get a great deal of pain behind this mark from time to time.

Answer 3

Yes, I do suffer from flashbacks some of which seem like they're from another life. Unlike yours, some mine don't seem so pleasant. I have memories of dying, violently I might add. Probably the most vivid of such is dying on a battlefield during the war between the states. This makes me apt to believe in rebirth.

Answer 4

I get flash backs of a woman being murdered. I see the same scene every now and then but I can’t say that it was me in a past life because I don’t believe in past lives or reincarnations.

Answer 5

in all probability no longer, once you have a flashback you're wakeful, once you bear in concepts something you're additionally wakeful, the actuality which you're feeling genuine now means which you're wakeful, i'm not sure if in the process a flashback you sense issues and scent issues and breathe issues maximum possibly no longer.

Answer 6

as a child, ever since i can remember i have had nightmares of being held down by adults and being cut up 'down there' quite vividly (i won't go into details). when i learned about female genital mutilation as a tween, i finally understood what i was 'remembering'.

Answer 7

Probably an old memory that you don't understand anymore.