[Weonsle]

Hello guys and girls,

Mainly a lurker here but I've decided to ask a question that I cannot seem to find the answer of. So, the title isn't very descriptive and it's hard to understand if you are not me but there might be people that recognize this?

So anyway,
Since I was young-ish I've been having sort of very short flashbacks to life elsewhere. Confusing? let me explain: I am from the Netherlands and have lived here all my life. Yet, I have flashbacks to a life in America. These flashbacks last for a fraction of a second and I cannot recall them after they have happened, but I know they show places and events (every time it's different). They give me sort of a nostalgic feeling. Sometimes it makes me feel lonely too, like I do not belong here but there OR I feel happy as in not empty and lonely (which I've been suffering from).

Furthermore, I get the same feeling (nostalgia, sadness, hapiness) when I listen to certain music, see certain things or think of certain things. I've also more attraction to American people. Sometimes it genuinly makes me sad and very restless because I want to be there, not here.

Does anyone even vaguely recognise this? Am I just subconsciously longing for a different life? Am I remembering some past life? (important note: it's usually not in present day but in the 90's), or am I slowly turning insane? I'd like to know. If you people wanna know more I can try to explain, but this is mainly all I know.

Thanks in advance .

Hi Weonsle...

I think it depends on your real life experiences (whether through film, news, etc. of where you are feeling nostalgic about. If they make sense, then there is a more logical explanation that a previous life.

Is it a longing for what you might perceive to be better?

I no longer rule out reincarnation since I had a dream that was entirely in a different language. I understood all of it.

[Skeezyks]

Hello Weonsie: Well... the Skeezyks doesn't believe in reincarnation or any such thing as that. I read somewhere that the Buddha taught... "Nothing is hidden." I take this as my mantra... However, many years ago, while I was still living out in the country with my parents, there was an old abandoned farmhouse on a secondary road I used to drive by occasionally. Every time I would drive by that house, very intense feelings of familiarity would wash over me. I would get chills all over my body... as though I had somehow had some connection to that old house, perhaps in some previous life. At the time, I was still willing to consider the possibility that such things could in fact be possible. Now, however, I no longer do... still... aren't these sorts of experiences interesting... ?

[Weonsle]

Originally Posted by Skeezyks

Hello Weonsie: Well... the Skeezyks doesn't believe in reincarnation or any such thing as that. I read somewhere that the Buddha taught... "Nothing is hidden." I take this as my mantra... However, many years ago, while I was still living out in the country with my parents, there was an old abandoned farmhouse on a secondary road I used to drive by occasionally. Every time I would drive by that house, very intense feelings of familiarity would wash over me. I would get chills all over my body... as though I had somehow had some connection to that old house, perhaps in some previous life. At the time, I was still willing to consider the possibility that such things could in fact be possible. Now, however, I no longer do... still... aren't these sorts of experiences interesting... ?

Yes. It's definitely interesting. Do you still have it? Also, it's weonsle with an L haha .

I wonder too about it being thoughts of what you percieve as a better place (although I've been to the Netherlands and I found it beautiful).

I once travelled and experienced an oddly familar place - like deja vu - that I had never been to. I knew where everything was and felt I knew it intimately. Not long after I returned home I felt myself drawn to a novel. It turned out to be set in that very place I had been.

[Weonsle]

Originally Posted by sophiesmom

Hi Weonsle...

I think it depends on your real life experiences (whether through film, news, etc. of where you are feeling nostalgic about. If they make sense, then there is a more logical explanation that a previous life.

Is it a longing for what you might perceive to be better?

I no longer rule out reincarnation since I had a dream that was entirely in a different language. I understood all of it.

I think it is? Like I'm not "satisfied" here or something.

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Originally Posted by justafriend306

I wonder too about it being thoughts of what you percieve as a better place (although I've been to the Netherlands and I found it beautiful).

I once travelled and experienced an oddly familar place - like deja vu - that I had never been to. I knew where everything was and felt I knew it intimately. Not long after I returned home I felt myself drawn to a novel. It turned out to be set in that very place I had been.

Haha, yes. This country is nice enough but for some reason it doesn't feel like home.
Interesting story you have. Did you get over it?

[Thunder Bow]

What your experencing is normal. I suggest try taking a vacation trip here, and tour the country, to fill your yerning.

[-jimi-]

I have some memories like that. I don't feel longing or nostalgia though. I just feel it is a memory. Until I realize that stuff didn't happen in my lifetime. Maybe it is a deja vu thing. I have similar with dreams. I can dream something say last night and the dream puts itself back in time so I feel strongly I dreamt it several months ago, but thinking of it I know I did not.

But if it is not neurological I feel it might be someone else's memory. Or that souls are mixed before birth so you can get a fragment of what once was someone else's soul.