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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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I had a dream last night that Leonardo DiCaprio is my brother and Jack Nicholson is both Leo and my father
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I had a dream last night that Leonardo DiCaprio is my brother and Jack Nicholson both Leo and my father
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That's weird, I guess it could be possible...who knows.

I'm not talking about dreams though. I'm talking about waking thoughts.

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Jack Nicholson is Leo's father in real life

Leo doesn't know it yet though
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Jack Nicholson is Leo's father in real life

Leo doesn't know it yet though
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Well, I'm sure that Leo's dad wouldn't be too happy about that.

At any rate...back on topic?

hf
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Ive said this for fucking years.

Yes, just like your body can be altered with an accident, so can your DNA through food, trauma etc.

You heard it here first.

One day I am gonna put all my thoughts together and might reveal who I am.

But who am I eh?
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Yes DNA memories

I am descended from the Kaiser

and I remember his decent into madness

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Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941)
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Yes DNA memories

I am descended from the Kaiser

and I remember his decent into madness

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941)
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I believe this.

I know I am a descendant of Romulus and Remus.
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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Yes, I have had things like that happen to me. One was when I was young. I was walking through a field daydreaming when a fierce fast moving storm appeared on the horizon. I knew I had to run home but for a minute I was torn between running towards my then home or in the opposite direction where I though my "other home" was. It confused me as it seemed so vividly real that I had two homes to chose from. But, as I could plainly see a moment later, there was nothing but field where I thought my "other home" was supposed to be I went to my real home.
I got chills up my spine when 15 years later I read in the news that a University archeology dept. was going to dig on a site where a 900 year old settlement had been discovered - at exactly the spot I had thought my "other home" was so many years before.
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Do not be closed-minded on the actuality of reincarnation. Our souls live forever. It is a long time forever. One would get bored to freaking tears if things did not change and give some adventure to existence.

Reincarnation provides the "game" human kind needs to keep us interested and dreaming. Being born over and over gives us lots of adventure to add to our soul's existence. After death we get to commiserate with fellow souls we share eternity with. We share our adventures and see how our lives intertwined and progressed.

We cannot remember our past lives for a reason. My take on that reason is that we get to start on a level playing field and sort of get a "do-over". Our own personality always comes out because we are who we are. We are kind of "role playing" in our lives that we live.

I predict a day when the Apocalypse marks the end of the latest "game" we are playing in history. Apocalypse means "unveiling" and suddenly our minds will be opened to our past lives and all of those memories will fill that unused part of the brain. We will be all the dead of the last thousands of years game all alive at the same time.

We will speak many languages and laugh at all the religions we have sworn were true...depending on the one we were born into.

No eternal punishment in a fire of hell. No eternal reward in a blissful heaven. Just our awakening after death into an existence filled with fellow souls who do not judge...because we have all been there and done that...right or wrong.

We awaken to pure understanding. We think about the life we lead...share our experiences with our friends...and then someday...when we start getting bored...dive into another adventure to see what we can accomplish in the allotted time.

I swear I will never come back to the life of heartache and debt etc. But in time we forget the bad times and want another go at it.

Karma provides a kind of punishment or reward for our past lives actions. A murderer may return to die young of cancer, be raped and murdered or spend his new life in prison. A It is a terrifying thought but it is true life. It happens, it always has. It is a real possibility.

It is a crap-shoot with the understanding that in the end...we get what we deserve.

I believe we have lived a series of games...then the games end with world ending calamities. But we start over with a new game...perhaps on a new planet.

I also think this game is just about over. Maybe we tally up the points we made and declare a winner. Maybe the really bad guys get to spend the next game as trees, or chickens who get butchered over and over. Who knows.

Take it or leave it...but let your heart and mind be open to the endless possibilities of living forever.
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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We are going to be exposed hopefully any second now to the truth.. that death is an illusion.

The possibility of transcending the idea of death is going to become very real

So if death is an illusion what happens when we die in the illusion? ;)

Past lives is what we have when we die within the illusion and come back. If you want t know your ancestral DNA you find this deep within yourself. as you transcend the idea of death. By breaking free entirely (transcending the illusion). all of this is going to become very real in a physical way hopefully any second now. GET ON BOARD. OPEN UP your heart. join in all the fun.. LOL

So when death is an illusion cause you have people who don't de walking around you (or age) are you going to then be forced to accept the idea of reincarnation. I think so. LOL
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Ive said this for fucking years.

Yes, just like your body can be altered with an accident, so can your DNA through food, trauma etc.

You heard it here first.

One day I am gonna put all my thoughts together and might reveal who I am.

But who am I eh?
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So do you think that they are ancestral memories or the result of damaged DNA?

I'm sure if you put your thoughts down, people would read it. As for who you are? You are you, as far as I know.

hf
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Yes DNA memories

I am descended from the Kaiser

and I remember his decent into madness

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941)
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That's pretty wild.

:-)
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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Yes, I have had things like that happen to me. One was when I was young. I was walking through a field daydreaming when a fierce fast moving storm appeared on the horizon. I knew I had to run home but for a minute I was torn between running towards my then home or in the opposite direction where I though my "other home" was. It confused me as it seemed so vividly real that I had two homes to chose from. But, as I could plainly see a moment later, there was nothing but field where I thought my "other home" was supposed to be I went to my real home.
I got chills up my spine when 15 years later I read in the news that a University archeology dept. was going to dig on a site where a 900 year old settlement had been discovered - at exactly the spot I had thought my "other home" was so many years before.
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Wow! that's really interesting! I've had similar, strange things like that, not exactly that as you described but similar none the less. I can only imagine the chills after finding out about the dig. Were you able to go visit the dig? that would have been really cool. I wonder what you'd remember if you did.

hf
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Do not be closed-minded on the actuality of reincarnation. Our souls live forever. It is a long time forever. One would get bored to freaking tears if things did not change and give some adventure to existence.

Reincarnation provides the "game" human kind needs to keep us interested and dreaming. Being born over and over gives us lots of adventure to add to our soul's existence. After death we get to commiserate with fellow souls we share eternity with. We share our adventures and see how our lives intertwined and progressed.

We cannot remember our past lives for a reason. My take on that reason is that we get to start on a level playing field and sort of get a "do-over". Our own personality always comes out because we are who we are. We are kind of "role playing" in our lives that we live.

I predict a day when the Apocalypse marks the end of the latest "game" we are playing in history. Apocalypse means "unveiling" and suddenly our minds will be opened to our past lives and all of those memories will fill that unused part of the brain. We will be all the dead of the last thousands of years game all alive at the same time.

We will speak many languages and laugh at all the religions we have sworn were true...depending on the one we were born into.

No eternal punishment in a fire of hell. No eternal reward in a blissful heaven. Just our awakening after death into an existence filled with fellow souls who do not judge...because we have all been there and done that...right or wrong.

We awaken to pure understanding. We think about the life we lead...share our experiences with our friends...and then someday...when we start getting bored...dive into another adventure to see what we can accomplish in the allotted time.

I swear I will never come back to the life of heartache and debt etc. But in time we forget the bad times and want another go at it.

Karma provides a kind of punishment or reward for our past lives actions. A murderer may return to die young of cancer, be raped and murdered or spend his new life in prison. A It is a terrifying thought but it is true life. It happens, it always has. It is a real possibility.

It is a crap-shoot with the understanding that in the end...we get what we deserve.

I believe we have lived a series of games...then the games end with world ending calamities. But we start over with a new game...perhaps on a new planet.

I also think this game is just about over. Maybe we tally up the points we made and declare a winner. Maybe the really bad guys get to spend the next game as trees, or chickens who get butchered over and over. Who knows.

Take it or leave it...but let your heart and mind be open to the endless possibilities of living forever.
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thanks for the detailed response.

I try to not be closed minded. I do realize that our souls are forever, so I can understand how reincarnation could be possible.

what you've described about the afterlife get togethers sounds neat. Probably would be fun in most cases.

Sometimes, I do wonder if we are in a game. I just hope that I'm on the winner's side.

hf
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Ive said this for fucking years.

Yes, just like your body can be altered with an accident, so can your DNA through food, trauma etc.

You heard it here first.

One day I am gonna put all my thoughts together and might reveal who I am.

But who am I eh?
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So do you think that they are ancestral memories or the result of damaged DNA?

I'm sure if you put your thoughts down, people would read it. As for who you are? You are you, as far as I know.

hf
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I believe they are DNA from ancestors because they are.

If you know how to raise the ancestral spirit in you, you can become a multi natured being but people aren't ready for that yet because then... you aren't entirely human.

Some people are born with two or more types of DNA.
I am one of them.

So yeah your past life memories are inherited through DNA.
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I am not from this place. I was stolen by beings from the 8th dimension. I was removed by the "8" from my original planet and brought to earth where they caused me to be born into the family I was born into. The reason I seem so weird to people on this planet is because I've never had past lives here and have had to learn everything from scratch.
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there has to be reincarnation, karma, and unique paths for each soul.

how else can you explain this world? Some people are born homeless, others are born with deformities, while others are born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

Most great athletes and actors always talk about how they feel God put them on earth and everything came together at the right time for their success. They chose their life scripts before incarnating here, based on their karma, while others had to choose difficult lives to balance out negative karma.

It makes sense to me.
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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Yes, I have had things like that happen to me. One was when I was young. I was walking through a field daydreaming when a fierce fast moving storm appeared on the horizon. I knew I had to run home but for a minute I was torn between running towards my then home or in the opposite direction where I though my "other home" was. It confused me as it seemed so vividly real that I had two homes to chose from. But, as I could plainly see a moment later, there was nothing but field where I thought my "other home" was supposed to be I went to my real home.
I got chills up my spine when 15 years later I read in the news that a University archeology dept. was going to dig on a site where a 900 year old settlement had been discovered - at exactly the spot I had thought my "other home" was so many years before.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51816488


Wow! that's really interesting! I've had similar, strange things like that, not exactly that as you described but similar none the less. I can only imagine the chills after finding out about the dig. Were you able to go visit the dig? that would have been really cool. I wonder what you'd remember if you did.

hf
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No I didn't do any follow up on the dig because I was too freaked out about the whole thing. I really don't know where these things originate from but I have had quite a few of these reality "bleed through" puzzling events happen to me.

Here's another one. I was absolutely certain when I was a toddler that I had an identical "sister" who was just like me but was oriental and lived on the other side of the world from me. It made me feel sad and lonely because I knew I would never see her again. I never mentioned this to anyone until I was an adult and something that my mother said in a conversation brought it up and I spilled the beans. My mother's response was that she had always hated Oriental food until she was pregnant with me and then ate it all the time because it was the only thing she could keep down. After I was born she went back to not eating Oriental food again. Pretty weird.
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I don't believe in reincarnation, but I also have "weirdnesses". As a child I despised the ocean. I perceived it as a malevolent, devouring monster. I feared stepping too near the water because I felt it would reach out and grab me and pull me under. I have vague memories of being in a shipwreck. If there is a shipwreck scene in a movie, I become ill. The sound of creaking, cracking timbers terrifies me. Several years ago, a close family member passed away and once I got over the initial shock, I had an intense vision of being on the deck of a wooden ship at night. I felt the wood underneath my hands, felt the wind blowing against me, heard and felt the waves striking the ship. I was looking at the moonlight on the water and feeling a deep sense of grief and loss. It was like I was reliving a previous loss.

There are a few other things, like having a mental map of a city I've never been to. The freakiest thing is that sometimes when it starts to rain I'm startled, like, OMG what is this?!! Then I think, "Oh yeah, it's rain, it rains here.", and the word rain sounds alien to me, like a newly-learned foreign word.
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About reincarnation. Do some research. Some professionals were dubious then changed perspective due to patients. There are several books about children having memories of previous incarnation. There are millions on this plant that believe reincarnation is very real, the Buddhists.

Myself I believe in both reincarnation and DNA memory.
My son told me at just past three he remembered being a solider and killing himself because he was cold and hungry. He proceeded to use a toy Star Wars blaster to show me how he pulled the trigger with his foot.
I was blown away - there is just not a real explanation to this.
There was no exposure to any kind of information/movie etc prior to my very young son telling me this. How did he even comprehend killing himself/death and being cold and hungry?

I had my own thoughts during the course of my life, I put them away so as to not be "strange" but children and the words of innocents can startle you back to what you have repressed. He is older now and losing his abilities to see into that mystic side, but it was there when he was very young.

My own thoughts on myself or DNA is I have a very very strong attraction to the pioneer way of life. I feel it in my bones. It is in my bones actually as my ancestors were pioneers.
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Would they not mean the same thing?

If you have the ancestral DNA and genetic memories of your precursors, did you not essentially live all of those lives as well?
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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We are going to be exposed hopefully any second now to the truth.. that death is an illusion.

The possibility of transcending the idea of death is going to become very real

So if death is an illusion what happens when we die in the illusion? ;)

Past lives is what we have when we die within the illusion and come back. If you want t know your ancestral DNA you find this deep within yourself. as you transcend the idea of death. By breaking free entirely (transcending the illusion). all of this is going to become very real in a physical way hopefully any second now. GET ON BOARD. OPEN UP your heart. join in all the fun.. LOL

So when death is an illusion cause you have people who don't de walking around you (or age) are you going to then be forced to accept the idea of reincarnation. I think so. LOL
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Well, this is pretty deep. I'm trying to understand it from an admittedly Christian viewpoint. I think that I know what you're saying about the illusions, but in the grand scale of what to expect, could you elaborate further?

Now, the part about being surrounded by people that don't age and don't die, well I consider them vampires - you know, the ones that actually drink blood (mostly from children).

hf
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Would they not mean the same thing?

If you have the ancestral DNA and genetic memories of your precursors, did you not essentially live all of those lives as well?
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I guess that's the main question that I'm trying to get the answer to. Did I live those lives, or are they just memories from my ancestors?

It makes me think about the sins of the fathers thing mentioned in the Bible. That things carry generation after generation.

As an afterthought, I think what you're saying is that since they are part of me now, that I have lived them too. Maybe?
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Ive said this for fucking years.

Yes, just like your body can be altered with an accident, so can your DNA through food, trauma etc.

You heard it here first.

One day I am gonna put all my thoughts together and might reveal who I am.

But who am I eh?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57688612


So do you think that they are ancestral memories or the result of damaged DNA?

I'm sure if you put your thoughts down, people would read it. As for who you are? You are you, as far as I know.

hf
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I believe they are DNA from ancestors because they are.

If you know how to raise the ancestral spirit in you, you can become a multi natured being but people aren't ready for that yet because then... you aren't entirely human.

Some people are born with two or more types of DNA.
I am one of them.

So yeah your past life memories are inherited through DNA.
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Cool!! :-) I don't know if I'd be ready for that, although it sounds pretty neat!

hf
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For the Christians Jesus spoke of reincarnation, google for more. The quotes are out there I've looked before.
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there has to be reincarnation, karma, and unique paths for each soul.

how else can you explain this world? Some people are born homeless, others are born with deformities, while others are born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

Most great athletes and actors always talk about how they feel God put them on earth and everything came together at the right time for their success. They chose their life scripts before incarnating here, based on their karma, while others had to choose difficult lives to balance out negative karma.

It makes sense to me.
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Is their success from karma or from other things? Law of attraction, contracts with the devil etc?

Are those born into difficulty, did they perhaps chose that life to prove something to themselves or to God?

I guess we won't know for sure, until the right time.

hf
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Would they not mean the same thing?

If you have the ancestral DNA and genetic memories of your precursors, did you not essentially live all of those lives as well?
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I guess that's the main question that I'm trying to get the answer to. Did I live those lives, or are they just memories from my ancestors?

It makes me think about the sins of the fathers thing mentioned in the Bible. That things carry generation after generation.

As an afterthought, I think what you're saying is that since they are part of me now, that I have lived them too. Maybe?
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If you have the memory then it may as well have actually happened to you.
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I'd like to say that I don't believe in reincarnation.

I'm bringing forth this question because there have been many times in my life that feel real, and I know that they aren't mere dreams.

For example, there are times when I absolutely crave pemmican. I've never eaten it, yet there are times when it sounds like it's the most delicious, most fulfilling thing that I could ever eat. Another related example is that there are times when I've seen wolves on my bed. I've never owned or been around wolves.

A third example is that I feel a certain peace, and feeling of home when I look at scenery in Japan.

As far as I know, I have no Japanese heritage, and no confirmed native heritage.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

Do these sorts of things happen to you?

hf
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Yes, I have had things like that happen to me. One was when I was young. I was walking through a field daydreaming when a fierce fast moving storm appeared on the horizon. I knew I had to run home but for a minute I was torn between running towards my then home or in the opposite direction where I though my "other home" was. It confused me as it seemed so vividly real that I had two homes to chose from. But, as I could plainly see a moment later, there was nothing but field where I thought my "other home" was supposed to be I went to my real home.
I got chills up my spine when 15 years later I read in the news that a University archeology dept. was going to dig on a site where a 900 year old settlement had been discovered - at exactly the spot I had thought my "other home" was so many years before.
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Wow! that's really interesting! I've had similar, strange things like that, not exactly that as you described but similar none the less. I can only imagine the chills after finding out about the dig. Were you able to go visit the dig? that would have been really cool. I wonder what you'd remember if you did.

hf
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No I didn't do any follow up on the dig because I was too freaked out about the whole thing. I really don't know where these things originate from but I have had quite a few of these reality "bleed through" puzzling events happen to me.

Here's another one. I was absolutely certain when I was a toddler that I had an identical "sister" who was just like me but was oriental and lived on the other side of the world from me. It made me feel sad and lonely because I knew I would never see her again. I never mentioned this to anyone until I was an adult and something that my mother said in a conversation brought it up and I spilled the beans. My mother's response was that she had always hated Oriental food until she was pregnant with me and then ate it all the time because it was the only thing she could keep down. After I was born she went back to not eating Oriental food again. Pretty weird.
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I do understand about not going to the dig. I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to go either.

That is strange about your sister and your mom and the food. There's got to be something to that. I'm really sorry about the sad and lonely part. :-( Hopefully, you'll see her sometime in the future.

I've had so many other weird things too. That's why I went ahead and asked the question. I guess it feels better knowing that I'm not the only one lol. :-)

hf
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Re: Past lives or ancestral DNA memory?
I don't believe in reincarnation, but I also have "weirdnesses". As a child I despised the ocean. I perceived it as a malevolent, devouring monster. I feared stepping too near the water because I felt it would reach out and grab me and pull me under. I have vague memories of being in a shipwreck. If there is a shipwreck scene in a movie, I become ill. The sound of creaking, cracking timbers terrifies me. Several years ago, a close family member passed away and once I got over the initial shock, I had an intense vision of being on the deck of a wooden ship at night. I felt the wood underneath my hands, felt the wind blowing against me, heard and felt the waves striking the ship. I was looking at the moonlight on the water and feeling a deep sense of grief and loss. It was like I was reliving a previous loss.

There are a few other things, like having a mental map of a city I've never been to. The freakiest thing is that sometimes when it starts to rain I'm startled, like, OMG what is this?!! Then I think, "Oh yeah, it's rain, it rains here.", and the word rain sounds alien to me, like a newly-learned foreign word.
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That's scary! I have certain things like that. I wonder if that is where our phobias/fears come from?

I understand what you mean about the maps and about the rain.

Stay safe, and maybe stay away from the ocean.

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