posted February 21, 2016 04:57 AM            

When I was a kid, for some reason I always had an obsession with twins, particularly identical twins. Whenever I'd see some I'd look at them longingly because I desperately wanted to have a twin sister myself. Sometimes the longing was so great it was painful, as if I'd been cheated of having a twin of my own. I often thought "Why can't I have one too?". I was so obsessed that as a kid I'd frequently draw pictures of twins, or if playing with friends, I'd pretend to have an identical twin or even triplet sisters. I even asked my mum a few times "Are you sure there wasn't another baby born with me?" And of course she'd say I was the only one. I would jokingly ask this, but at the same time a tiny irrational part of me hoped for her to say yes, even though I knew that wasn't possible. In primary school I was unpopular and I often felt lonely. Not so much in the senior years in high school. My obsession has subsided somewhat in adult-hood, but I still think it'd be cool to have one.

Funny thing: a couple of years ago I had a dream that my friend's husband was walking in a park with two small girls who looked like identical twin sisters. The following morning I decided I'd send her an sms as a joke saying "I had a dream last night that you were going to have twin girls." She said "It's funny you say that. Twins run in my husband's family, and my daughter's been running around saying "twins! twins!". I responded with "Well, there you go. Congratulations in advance."

A month later, she said "Now I've had some more people telling me that I'm having twins." I was shocked and said "Wait, wait. Are you actually pregnant? I had no idea!" She said "Yes, I am. I assumed you knew since you had a dream and told me I was having twins. We hadn't explicitly told anyone I was pregnant, people just figured it out for themselves, so we forgot who knew and who didn't." I said "Well, yeah. I never knew. The dream just came to me randomly and I decided to jokingly tell you. But what a coincidence. Congratulations!"

Several months later she gave birth to a second girl, but not twins. So I'm not sure if my dream was of those two sisters or not. Mind you, I never normally have premonitions, so this was a weird one for me. At the very least it's as if I was channelling the fact that everyone around her kept saying she'll be having twins.

Another interesting one, and I'm not sure if I can put it down to mere coincidence, is Roger Federer. His wife Had twin girls in 2009, but one day in 2014 I randomly thought about him and thought "Wouldn't it be funny if Roger Federer's wife had another set of twins." Then I decided to look him up on the internet and, lo and behold, I saw two new names in the children section in Wikipedia and thought "What the heck? Did he just have ANOTHER set of twins?" And turned out he had twin boys earlier that month.

posted February 23, 2016 04:35 AM            

How very interesting. You are certainly attuned to twin energy, and there is no doubt a good reason for it.

I have a couple of thoughts.

Perhaps you were conceived as a twin, but the twin left this world very early on, without even your mother aware of it. Or maybe you had a very close twin in a past life, perhaps the life just previous to this one, and you still feel that energy. Perhaps learning to be alone/unique in this life is one of your lessons in soul/sole development.

How do you feel about this?

posted February 23, 2016 05:45 AM            

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Originally posted by Ra:
Hello bonsai

How very interesting. You are certainly attuned to twin energy, and there is no doubt a good reason for it.

I have a couple of thoughts.

Perhaps you were conceived as a twin, but the twin left this world very early on, without even your mother aware of it. Or maybe you had a very close twin in a past life, perhaps the life just previous to this one, and you still feel that energy. Perhaps learning to be alone/unique in this life is one of your lessons in soul/sole development.

How do you feel about this?

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Hi Ra ,
Those sound like pretty interesting theories. I've actually considered the one about me starting out as a twin in the womb. I'm left-handed and there's a theory that left-handers may be more likely to start out as twins, but may lose their twin at some stage during the pregnancy. There are many cases of "mirror" twins, where one is left-handed and the other is right-handed. However, I'm not sure, shouldn't a woman normally bleed if she miscarries one of the twins? And my mum said she never bled. So if she did lose one, then maybe it would have been very, very early on, and could that really have an effect if I wasn't even sentient?

As for having been a twin in my past life, I hadn't considered that, though that is something to think about. I wish I knew who I was in my past life, and it would make more sense that it's a recent one and not, like, 10 life-times ago, and one's current life would have the most vestiges of the life right before. It might also explain why I felt the need to be a twin more intensely as a child than I do as an adult, as the "energy" of the previous life would have still been lingering and more intense and relatively recent back then. I am very afraid of being alone in old age, but I think that this is a fear that is also quite common amongst us curious humans. It's funny, but whenever I see someone who looks like me, I get excited, even if I never have and never will meet them (like a celebrity). Whenever I saw twins as a kid, I would stand and look at them mesmerised, and if they spoke to me in a friendly way I'd feel all giddy inside, like I was being accepted by a supremely important human being or something lol.

And about being alone and unique, sometimes I feel like I'm the opposite of people around me, like I'm too different. It's quite strange. Maybe it's a result of finally being one of that kind rather than two? Sometimes I like it, sometimes I feel like it curses me. But maybe a lot of people have that sensation about themselves, that's quite possible.

posted February 23, 2016 08:11 AM            

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Originally posted by bonsai:
Maybe it's a result of finally being one of that kind rather than two? Sometimes I like it, sometimes I feel like it curses me. But maybe a lot of people have that sensation about themselves, that's quite possible.

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I do not know much about other people. I felt similar and was the mirror of many people. I used to have a friend that was born on the exact day, only some years later and I always treated her as a younger sister. I had my personal journey to bring back my other part or twin as you would say. The interesting part from my side is that I am calmer and have freedom within.

posted February 23, 2016 10:02 PM            

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Originally posted by GeminiKarat:
I had my personal journey to bring back my other part or twin as you would say. The interesting part from my side is that I am calmer and have freedom within.

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It must have been a nice feeling . Just another question. When one reincarnates (I've always believed in it), do you guys think people typically reincarnate within the same family? Or can they change families? Because if I came back within the same family, there are no twins on either of my parents' sides, or at least none that I'm aware of, but if I came from another family, then maybe....

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I wish you all the best on your search!

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posted February 24, 2016 06:18 AM            

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Originally posted by GeminiKarat:
I am sorry, I am miserable with reincarnation. I tried once to find out about my past experience with hypnosis. Everybody got a nice story with a lot of details. I only got a white room .

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Lollll, white room. However, I heard that hypnosis can be misleading and inaccurate when trying to find out one's past life, as people are more impressionable under hypnosis or something like that.

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From the family side I do know that both lines are not very happy that I belong to them .

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Doh! I hope that's not true!

posted February 25, 2016 04:32 AM            

I guess what I am saying is that we certainly can, and do, change physical families.

Does that make any sense?

posted February 25, 2016 05:55 AM            

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Originally posted by Ra:
I do believe we usually reincarnate with members from our own "soul family" or group, and there are physical genealogical families that are linked to certain soul groups that we may be inclined to incarnate into, but really, anything can happen.

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I've read about the soul group thing too, and that's something that I think is possible. At the same time we may be members of more than one "soul group", as that might explain why we may be close to a particular person but a close family member of ours may not know that person nearly as well.

I've also read that, like what you said, we may be more inclined to reincarnate within a certain physical genealogy that resonates most with us.

posted March 04, 2016 12:03 PM            

It should prove interesting to discover.

Thank you for sharing your dream.

posted March 04, 2016 06:45 PM            

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Originally posted by Ra:
You're not loony. I do think the answer to your 'twins thing' lies in the realm of past life experience or other astral/soul relationships.

It should prove interesting to discover.

Thank you for sharing your dream.

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posted March 05, 2016 12:15 AM            

It's just speculation.

posted March 05, 2016 01:02 AM            

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Originally posted by Ra:
Or maybe the twins of the past are existing as one in the present.

It's just speculation.

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What? Two souls in one body? Can that happen?

posted March 05, 2016 03:50 AM            

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Originally posted by GeminiKarat:
^^^ Yes, it can.

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posted March 06, 2016 05:23 PM            

I was thinking more that one soul "divided" may be at the core of an intense twin experience, and that the two "halves" of the whole have recombined into a single soul experience.

posted March 06, 2016 09:36 PM            

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Originally posted by Ra:
Two souls, one body. I suppose its possible. Why not? But that is not exactly what I meant. Just the opposite, actually.

I was thinking more that one soul "divided" may be at the core of an intense twin experience, and that the two "halves" of the whole have recombined into a single soul experience.

Does that make sense?

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