Conference hydra::dejavu

Several years ago I took my kids on a steam train. As the train started
    into motion I had a very strong sense of dejavu. This is very unusual
    for me.Occasionally I've had a dejavu feeling that has turned out
    upon reflection to be merely an association with a past event or
    place that was similar. In this case, I knew that I had never ridden
    on a steam train before. As it turns out My mother went by train
    from Kentucky to atlanta, about a month before I was born.
    
    john

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    I had an interesting past life regression episode. If you're interested
    see note 1233.
    To date, I have not had any confirmation of the person I seem to have
    been....
    
    
    Regards,
    
    
    Marilyn

    When I was a very small child (around 3 and younger) I had lots of
    dreams that were, well, not recurring dreams, but recurring locations. 
    And they weren't familiar to my life then.  But, in those early years,
    it seemed like all my dreams took place in these other places.  Beyond
    the age of 4 or so, I stopped having these dreams, and the memories
    have faded somewhat.  But they were extremely vivid at the time.  More
    so than the dreams I have had since (except once, but that's another
    story).
    
    Then, when I was 10, my parents took us to New York City to see a
    Broadway show.  It was an all day trip, and to kill some time, we went
    to Central Park.  As soon as we walked into the park, I went into
    shock.  It was one of my dream locations!  I was so shook up about it!
    I remember walking with my family with this absolutely stunned feeling,
    unwilling/unable to mention it to them.  I kept it to myself.  But as
    we walked through the park I was seeing different areas that I had
    thought, in my dreams, were different places.  Not all of my old dream
    locations were there, some of them had been indoors.  And things
    weren't exactly the same; everything seemed more modern.
    
    Of course, I rationalized this.  Central Park is used in movies and TV
    frequently, and I could have seen it on TV.
    
    But would have seeing it on TV have been enough to make me dream of it
    so many times?  And at such a young age?
    
    I'll never know.
    
    /Wendy

    JUST THIS PAST WEEKEND, I NOTICED THIS CUTE LITTLE HOUSE THAT HAS
    BEEN EMPTY FOR SOME TIME. PROBABLY BUILT IN THE 1940'S OR 1950'S.
    I THOUGHT I MIGHT BE ABLE TO AFFORD SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIVING IN
    AN APARTMENT NOW. SO I PARKED AND GOT OUT TO CHECK IT OUT. AS SOON
    AS I TOOK THE FIRST STEP ON THE PORCH I GOT THIS FEELING, WHICH IS
    NOT NEW TO ME. I GET CHILLS, MY KNEES GET WEAK, AND RIGHT AWAY I 
    TURN AROUND AND LEAVE. I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THESE FEELINGS. BUT
    IT'S NOT JUST THAT, IT'S BEEN ABOUT 5 YEARS THAT I STOP HAVING THE
    DREAMS ABOUT OLD HOUSES. IN MY DREAMS THESE HOUSES WERE ALWAYS DARK
    AND IN BAD CONDITION. AND OF COURSE THE DOOR, THAT DOOR WAS NEVER TO
    BE OPENED. AND IT'S THAT PART OF THE DREAM THAT SCARES ME THE MOST.
    ONCE I SAW MYSELF CLEANING THIS BIG KNIFE IN THE BATHTUB.  IT WAS
    FULL OF BLOOD AND I HAD A FEELING OF JUST MURDERING SOMEONE. I FELT
    INSANE. I CAN CLEARLY REMEMBER ALL THE HOUSES AND SOMETIMES I WOULD
    DREAM ABOUT ONE HOUSE MANY TIMES. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS A POSSIBLE
    CONNECTION WITH A PAST LIFE, BUT I ALWAYS ASK MYSELF WHAT IS WRONG? I
    LOVE OLD HOUSES AND AT THE SAME TIME I'M SO SCARED OF THEM? 
      
    

    You could be picking up on someone else's experiences too. ... someone
    whose experiences you might prefer not to pick up on.  Learn some
    protection and practice.
    
    Mary

    When you said someone else's experiences, do you mean someone close
    to me, like a relative? Can you explain what kind of protection.
    I'm very interested.

    Maybe in a previous life the was some traumatic event that now 
    influences and follows you.  The house could be symbolic--creation,
    family, personal dreams---and it could also be _real_ insofar as your
    previous life (if you had one) may have occurred around where you are now.
    There might be some unifying thing in all the houses that you
    dream/think about.  I know that I too like old houses, but there are
    some that downright icky.  I doubt that the knife in the tub is 
    the killer instinct in you rarefying itself.  Maybe you were a cook? :)
    
    djh
     

                               
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    Hi - this is a bit late, been gone for a month.
    
    You mean something like a DEJAVU-type experience?  Sorry, couldn't
    resist. (;^)
    
    The closest I've come to recognizing past lives is to recognize certain
    people in my life at the moment whom I feel especially close to, almost
    as if they're in my life to be part of my spiritual experience and
    growth this time around...and vice versa sometimes as well - I am to be
    part of their experience.  I'm not really curious to find out the
    details at this point.  Richard Bach wrote it best in his book entitled
    "One" where he wrote that the purpose of each lifetime is to learn to
    express as much love as possible.  Occasionally I'll run into someone
    who did know me consciously in a past life though.  The last time it
    happened was about a year ago.  All of a sudden this flash of
    recognition came to me intuitively and I turned to the person and said,
    "We've been together before haven't we."  He smiled and nodded his head
    yes.  I'm at a loss to further explain intuitive knowing however - it's
    just this sense of knowing inside myself that is beyond all doubt.
        
    More recently I was in Washington D.C. in the Smithsonian Arthur
    Sackler gallery and spent several hours going through the early
    Buddhism exhibits - I *know* I've been in that culture before, either
    in Tibet, Japan, Indonesia (went to see the Indonesian Sculpture
    exhibit at the Nat'l Gallery too and it was fantastic).  It was a sense
    of 'remembering' as opposed to 'learning'.  I went to the African
    exhibits  just after that and the sense of knowing was nowhere near what
    it was in the Sackler gallery, though I did recognize some things.
    
    Shirley MacLaine writes a lot about her own experiences with this 
    subject in her books, primarily in "It's All In The Playing" if I recall 
    correctly.  One story I feel compelled to pass on is that she found out
    through a regression that her present mother had in fact killed her in
    a prior incarnation, and it disturbed her considerably in this present
    life.  A psychic she went to after finding this out said that she
    should focus in on her present life rather than delve into the
    past lives because of the trauma it was causing her trying to deal with 
    it.  This is not to discourage anyone from considering past life 
    regressions - it is just a caution that you enter into it knowing that 
    you might be faced with a lot of unpleasantness not only inflicted upon 
    you, but that you have inflicted upon others as well.
    
    Cindy

The things I have "remembered" are hard to prove as past lives, mostly because
I don't remember enough to get some kind of date.  Two of the memories are 
generic medieval in clothing and culture, another is pre-historic (it is a 
memory of my current husband and I as mates in that time - living in a cave, 
wearing furs, is all I get).

But I haven't had to do regression hypnosis to get all of these (one of the 
medieval memories was gotten with regression hypnosis).  I sometime remember
how I knew someone before in a previous way - a friend in this one was a
fellow teacher in another, my grandparents in this life adopted me in a
different previous life.  Knowledge just comes, but I have no way of verifying
it, because the information is so vague, unless the other person shares the
knowledge too, somehow.

Beth