Im pretty sure Ive had dreams about other lifetimes, but Ive not been able to date them. One was set in Kashmir. I had this dream when I was very young, before I knew what or where Kashmir was. I just kept hearing that name in the dream, and I never forgot it. The day I learned it was a place was absolutely astounding, Ill never forget that feeling. Uncanny thing about that one in particular, I once randomly thought of it and started to tell my husband about it. He kind of sat there stunned, for a moment, and said 'come here' and so I did, and he had just started playing Kashmir, the song by Led Zepplin which he isnt even a fan of. Youtube had suggested it, and so he randomly clicked it. This also happened several minutes AFTER I started thinking about the dream, because Id been thinking of it a good 10 minutes before I decided to mention it to him. The moment before I started to tell him, he said, was exactly when he clicked on it. He is not a believer in anything really, but did agree it was a very, very strange coincidence. Anyway, some dreams have that strange vividness about them, the ones that you never forget. This one was one of those. I was commuting, and I remember the condition of the roads being very bad. There were cars, and in fact I was in a taxi, trying very hard to get somewhere (I believe I was trying to get to a port) but coming up against a lot of bothersome obstacles.
Had another icky dream about being smothered which Id not like to get into!
Another one, I was in some stone, underground cellar of sorts, on the side of a grassy mountain. I hesitate to call it a temple, though that is what it felt like. This had an ancient feeling to it, and yet it was more far into the future, I think, so that there was such an unfamiliarity to the world that it created this 'ancient' feeling. I do believe that our 'past lives' have also occurred in the future. Time is not linear, the way we perceive it is as such is an illusion. It is merely a measure of distance, as we perceive it.
So I was in this stone cellar. I walked through one room and up a set of stone steps, and I was looking out over a very long, grassy stretch of land. There were people, but I did not have the sense that they were aware of me. A bit of a way off from me was a large building, it seemed like some kind of official building, white stone, very ornate, everything was very manicured. I couldnt leave the cellar, there was an iron gate encasing it, and I didnt have a key. I dont have any reason to believe this was an 'other life' dream, but it was something important. It had that kind of feeling to it.
The other one wasnt another life, either, so much as a dream Ill never forget that I think was a sort of astral projection. Im still unsure. I had it when I was 17.
It started in darkness. There was nothing, only me, and then there was someone else beside me -- it was also me. I was only aware of this presence, not so much as I could 'see it'. Eventually, a door appeared. Or maybe just a doorknob, because I only remember the knob, no door. The 'other me' warned me not to go through. But of course I did, alone.
I entered on a pier, which seemed endless. I dont remember how long I walked, but what I noticed was a black, endless sea, and I knew this was the whole world, there was nothing else but that sea and, apparently, this pier that I was walking. It was as smooth as glass, not a single ripple in it. The stillness is important because it struck me very hard how absolutely still and motionless it was, even though I knew it was water. It stretched onward and onward. The most vivid thing was the sky, though. It was absolutely electric in contrast to this solid black sea, it was alive with motion. The sky itself was purple -- words dont do that colour justice, because it seemed more like light than colour, if that makes sense, and there were clouds, but they were black as well, and swirling like tornadoes. Then the asteroids or stars or, something, started. they were bright white, and moving impossibly fast, so fast as if on fast forward, but because this sky was so vast and endless, they just kept going and going It was amazing. I got lost and just stared in awe. I woke up feeling like I had gone through something incredibly profound and Ive also never forgotten it.
Im always hoping to have these kinds of dreams, but only those three times have they really felt like something 'important'.
Anyway, so thats a little back story on my experiences with other lives, or something of that nature. Other 'places', too Suffice to say, Im a *big* believer. I think that the next life I will experience will be in 2400, since that is a number that sort of flutters up from my subconscious whenever I think about it in general. Im not sure what I 'want' it to be. Ill have to think about that!