posted July 22, 2011 07:54 PM            

But how do I go about finding out about them? Can readers do this for me or is a costly regression really the only way?

If readers can do it, who's willing to do a past life reading for me? Thank you!

posted July 23, 2011 04:20 AM            

Why I want to know is because there are a lot of facets of my personality which I can't answer: why I'm attracted to certain places or things, why I feel more at home abroad than where I was born and raised, why I seem to have memories of being reared near a river while the only thing that comes close is my grandparents' old house but it is absolutely NOT as I seem to recall that house near that river, etc...

They're all vague things, not strong attractions like I've sometimes read about, that make you do things without realizing it, but just attractions to certain places, and memories of living in a wooded area near a river, which I just cannot place even though the area I seem to remember is similar to where my grandparents live, it is absolutely not what I have those memories from.

posted July 23, 2011 08:30 PM            

The odd thing is that what I remember, seems from not too long ago. It appears to be mid-70's, and since I'm from 1984 that's at best a decade before I was born. That would be very quick to be reincarnated, wouldnt it?

It could also be 60's, or 50's at the earliest, but it certainly has a contemporary feel to it. It kind of looks like a boat house, but it is definitely on land and the house has more of a cottage feel on the outside. It's just the inside that has been decorated in a bit of a nautical feel, there is definitely also that strong sense of connection with water in that place I seem to remember.

I also feel that either my past life (if that is what it is) or any of the other persons living in that house make a living with a boat in one way or another. Maybe on the ocean, maybe inland... Interesting fact is that my father's mother's family were inland skippers up until during WWII, but even though I feel at home near water, ocean water still gives me for of a feeling of homecoming than inland rivers do. Yet I do remember that the house I know from those visions, is definitely more inland than near the coast.

I would really love to get to the bottom of it, as it has intrigued me ever since I was a young teenager. Before that, the memory was so clear that I honestly thought it was from when I was a baby, even though I knew for a fact it couldn't be because there was no one in our direct family who had ever lived in such a place (my grandparents lived in something similar looking but clearly different and with a different feel to it and my mother's parents had lived in a sort of mansion which was close to the city and besides the park, nowhere near wooded areas or a naturally formed river. My parents had always lived in an apartment at the time and we didn't see the rest of my family often enough for me to have such a clear memory.

Anyway, what still bothers me is the fact that it's placed in such a contemporary setting. I do have the feeling that it is between the 50's and the 70's but I'm not sure about whether that would allow for reincarnation...

Also, I'm planning to look for that little house. Not sure where to start though. It could be anywhere.

posted July 25, 2011 10:12 AM            

I completely agree with you.

"The best way is to remember naturally."
I never did a regression nor ever thought about that. When I had (possible) past life recall, it happened in a dream (and twice in the state of mind between waking and sleeping) or suddenly getting very emotional and overreacting to a certain place.

Sure this still can be "wrong memories", but it struck me how intensely I felt. And in most cases I did NOT want to go back there. This I remember clearly. And after waking up it took quite a bit of time to get back my emotional tranquility. These "dreams" just left me feeling very raw.
(Probably because it was not just an emotional experience for me, but because I dreamed in the first person-perspective and on top of that it felt very real down to the noises and smells. I really never wanted to know how burning flesh smells, especially not my own. Now I cannot get it out of my nose anymore.)
Of course maybe I am just overimaginative, I also do not have a whole "overview" over whole lives, but just "stations", which left a strong emotional imprint.

"And if real memories, they will shake you to your soul. In many ways it produces a split personality like state of mind."
That is how I experienced it, too.
The intensity is hard to balance out.

but I also agree, that we are probably getting hints in our present lives as well. I think maybe if we react uncharacteristically or irrationally emotional to something or someone, a past life experience may have been triggered, without our knowing.

Aya,

I am sure these memories are in your mind for a reason.
Actually I have come to the conclusion for me, that it doesn`t maybe play such a big role if I have a REAL past life memory or just an imagined one; the images that arise inside of me and affect me emotionally so much, are trying to tell me something about myself in both cases.
They are there for me to learn something from them. Though I am not always sure what the "lesson" or "information" is.

posted August 01, 2011 07:55 PM            

If I get started about my dreams, oh my... I suppose I can filter most of them out, but I do keep having reoccuring dreams of a city... But since it reminds me too much of this one I live in, I'm going to go and say it's my overactive imagination. That, and the fact that it only appears in dreams. It's a cool version of this city though And sometimes I have recurring dreams of my hometown, with a few changes here and there. I guess the only thing connecting all of the above is the fact that each and every setting has a river running through. Then again, I literally feel lost if I don't live near a river (a lake doesn't even do it), and that might also be an underlying feeling that lingered from that memory and possible past life.

posted August 02, 2011 05:34 AM            

There is the thought too that we forget our past lives as we are meant to fulfill the soul contract we have agreed too for this incarnation and remembering past lives may actually be a blocker or distraction to this life right now.

However, in saying that. With your memories from the past seeping through into this life there must be a reason for this and again I would agree with the other poster about letting it unfold naturally with you.