Has anyone else ever heard their children talking about their past lives? My youngest son Jason when he was about 2 yrs old used to talk about the 'old days'. He used to recall that when he was a boy they didnt have cars they used to use horse and carts and the roads were bumpy. The children used to play with hoops and skittles and his clothes were always tight and dirty. He said that they had to use candle for light and food was a luxury if they had more than water to drink and dried bread to eat, they couldnt afford fruit. Hes now a lot older and has no recollection of his past but when he talked it was as though he were living it there and then. I'd forgotten all about it but 9 years on my 2 yr old daughter has now started recalling a similar past that she plays on bumpy streets with rope and she doesnt like her dress that she used to wear cos it made her itch, she likes the clothes she has now cos there soft. Does anyone have there kids recalling a past life with such detail, on how they used to live.

That is very interesting, Lyn! I don't have kids and am not around them much, so I have nothing to add onthat score. I just wanted to say that your son's description very much reminded me of Angela's Ashes[/URL] by Frank McCourt. The book (it's also a movie) is about his poverty-stricken childhood growing up in New York, then Limerick, Ireland (30's-40's). It's a heart-rendering tale, but he injects his own brand of humor - I found it to be an enjoyable read.

Take a look at the book cover[/URL]... see the clothes? That's the kind of thing that came to mind when I read your post. The bumpy roads etc. also match the state of things in Limerick at that time. I think too that little girls in that era and area wore wool dresses. Itchy. And of course, food was very scarce, as was firewood or peat to keep a fire going.

Kell

I was also going to say that it would be interesting to talk to your daughter while she's young to try and find out more about what she remembers. The more, the better (not pushing her, of course).

Around the age of 6, I use to drive my mother crazy by asking her when did my hair turn blonde. I would swear I had long black braids and remember playing with them by flapping them up and down like eagle wings.

This brought to mind something Elizabeth was saying earlier this week. We were driving back from her grandmother's when she asked. "Mommy do you remember when we lived in the green house with only 1 bed and an icky bathroom?" I told her that I couldn't really remember and to tell me more, so she said well mom it was right over there and pointed out the window. There was no green house there, no house that could even be remotely considered green. We have also never lived in a green house, especially not one with only one bed and an icky bathroom. =P I asked her to tell me more but she said that's all she could remember. This isn't a first for her so I fully believe that kid's can remember past lives =)

Miranda & Lynn, I think its wonderful that you did not dismiss their statements. So many children come out with things like that and are discouraged in negative ways.

Even if you don't believe a word the child is saying, allowing kids the chance to express themselves and showing an intrest in what they say is a foundation of good communication skills that last their whole lives.

I did something similar to this when I was young, and it has always puzzled me in later years. As a child, I claimed to have "a little red-haired sister". I could "see" this little girl very vividly as a really cute little tyke about three or four, sometimes dressed in a pair of boys overalls. I can remember being about that age, and her encouraging me to climb out the window on some grand adventure. I even went to Mom and told her about this, which she handled well -- she told me to go back and tell her that little girls were not supposed to climb out windows.
Anyway, this was something that was very real to me. Around that same time, I remember crying unconsolably, Mom picking me up and asking what on earth was wrong, and me telling her that I "missed my house in the country." Now mind you, at that time, my family's home was on 10 acres of land with several horses in a rural area. Everyone was quite puzzled by the comment. I also had an imaginary friend, a little boy I named Fido, (ok, I know it's a dog's name ) that was dressed in what I would call pioneer clothing.
I think this type of thing is more common in little kids than one might think. I agree with everyone on how important it is to listen with an open mind to a child describing this. Some can be chalked up to active imaginations, but when it gets so detailed and real, there has to be something to it!

Hi all I've only just read the replys my computer crashed amongst other things this weekend and I've only just got back on line. My little daughter oftens complains of pain in her knee this is where a man hit her with a stick because Daddy has no money. I can assure you that shes never been hit by me or anyone else in my life and she does not see her father. My friend Carrie says this experiance is from a previous life and that children were often punished to get money from the parents. Its confusing for her cos the pain must be real to her but there is no markings on her. My mate also has this theory that people with birthmarks have actually been cut or stabbed in a previous life and that they died as a result of this injury and so carried that mark with them into the next life, until it is resolved. Sorry I'm waffling so I'll leave it there.

I once saw on Unsolved mysteries a story about a couple of children that have talked about their past lives. One was a little girl and see told her mother about an car accident she was involved in where she was driving and went off a bridge. The other story was about an Indian boy who in his past live was shot in the head. He had a birth mark in the same place as this man was shot. The boy recalled details about this man's life and even meet the parents of the man. The parent swear that the boy is their son reincarnated. I thought that is was a very interesting piece.

I've heard of similar theories also, regarding birthmarks and wounds from a previous life. I remember that show, Blackadder. They did present some pretty compelling stories. I don't know, but there has got to be something to the whole thing.

When I was a young teenager, I used to drive my mom nuts telling her about dreams I had of been a young black woman standing at a well giving water to white men on horses dressed in American civil war uniforms ( the grey ones. Im Aussie so youll have to forgive my ignorance about which side wore what colors LOL) Anyways this dream would only be stuck in that one scene, Id dream on and off about it for a while. I used to think I was the dark woman serving the water. I came to the conculsion I was actually a third member of the dream/memory?, sitting on a horse looking at the woman serving the man next to me.
What was wierd about it was I dreamt the whole thing in color. Anyways, some time after (this is the early eighties) there was a spat of tv series and shows about the civil war era. Im not sure now if it was a dream of the future or the past. I eventually decieded it was a dream of the future, although I never did see any tv series that jolted me into thinking I saw it before.

Why dont you get your kids to draw pictures of what they are 'remembering' might be an interesting thing, they may draw something theyve never seen but would be typical of the era they are describing.

Ive also heard that theory about the birthmarks. I read somewhere too that a persons fears, are also related to a past death.

[ April 08, 2003, 11:34 PM: Message edited by: Gianes ]

Thanks for that suggestion I never thought of getting them to draw their memorys. I will get them to do this and I will let you know what I see.Its hard to believe sometimes that we've all been here before. I have also heard that how you died before has a lot to do with how you approach death now, I read somewhere that as you pass over you are taken into a room and given a choice of life charts which determines how you die and how you live your life, what mistakes you make. I must admit if that is true what on earth was I on when I chose this life, I really cant believe I sat down and said right you are going to have a rotten childhood and then at 16 get married, my daughter die at 7 months spend 10 years married to a man who confused me with a punchbag and divorce him to have him 6 years on still have him pester me, to stupidly marry again for only 11 months because he too thought I was a punchbag.The list goes on, so what was I thinking?

Sorry about that outburst but life doesnt make sense sometimes.

Lyn