(June 10, 2016 at 6:30 am)ignoramus Wrote: I have been carrying this around my whole life.
I specifically remember having a mature adult conversation with myself when I was so young I still was with nappies on and in a cot.
I knew then that I have been reincarnated. I gave myself some specific details as proof of this and told myself not to forget this stuff!
I couldn't write anything down because I was still a baby. What I cannot remember is whether I was the same "me" talking or someone else?
You probably think this is just another silly thing that I write, but it isn't. I will swear that I believe the above to be true on my wife's life!
Even though I now choose to ignore its significance, This experience will always be with me. Weird huh?
What could be some other non woo explanations?
I know it's an uphill battle to try to reconcile this experience with what we know in science so I won't even try to.
Even if it is real, I will still not relate any of this to religion. No reason to. I don't care to.
Any thoughts guys?
Could it have been a lucid dream? If it's something you wanted to do - pass on advice to your younger self - then that wouldn't be too outlandish to do in a lucid dream because you do what you want pretty much without limits, and you can remember lucid dreams the same way... with the same clarity... as real life and can mistake the one for the other. Or perhaps it was just a vivid dream after you'd been watching Donnie Darko or The Butterfly Effect
There's also the effect that memories can change over time and be influenced by suggestion... confabulation... for instance I have a memory of a room from my childhood which I found out later was impossible from seeing photos... I had conflated the features of two different rooms in my mind and turned them into a single memory of one room. Likewise I have two vivid memories of narrowly avoiding being electrocuted by faulty fan heaters shooting out blue lightning bolts when I was a kid... and which led to a long term fear of the things... but my dad, as a scientist, insists it couldn't have happened like I remembered it... there could have been an electrical fault because you're not supposed to cover them and kids do tend to sit too close to them but it would not have come out like a blue flash of lightning. I don't know on that one, but my dad is pretty adamant that it couldn't have happened that way. So it's more likely that my brain has later filled in the gaps and dumped a stereotypical image of an electric flash in place of whatever there was.
