Feel Like I Have Lived Before

Does anyone ever get this feeling? That you feel connected to far away places or older times, even though you have never been there? I keep getting a pulling feeling to Europe, even though I have never been there. I always like old music and fashion that no one else seems to have an interest in. I mean really old music, such as harmonys from medieval times, 1800s, or the fast paced music of the 20s. Sometimes I even feel connected to the 1920s, and feel like I am missing so many things from there. It is those 3 periods in time, that I feel connected to. Sometimes I do not feel like I belong in this time period and that I am different than everyone else here. I don't think that this is really unhealthy, just an odd thing.

I am really drawn to anything about England in the 16th century. The clothes, the food, the houses, the language, just everything. I can even picture how things would be. I have never been to England, but I really want to go. I have been this way since I was really young.

That is exactly how I get, especially with London or America in the 20s. It is so odd!!! I just want to wear old fashioned clothes all the time, and try to look for things similar in stores. haha

I would love to find some clothes that are similar to fashion in the 16th century. My aunt has an antiqye wedding dress from the early 1800's. I fell in love with it when I was a teenager. I begged her to let me wear it when I got married at 18. She said no. But it is really hard to find any clothing antiques from the 1500's. Material tends to rot and fall apart. I like to look up pictures of clothing, hairstyles, shoes, and even furniture from that era. It has been just me, so I never thought it odd until I was in high school.

I have a feeling I was an Aztec who suffered a brutal death.

Or a squire during the Romanticism times who suffers from an incurable disease..
but damn, living during those times would be great.. you could cheer on and throw objects at the people getting hanged.

Old times were so different... I don't really like the way it is in this time. I always imagine myself in a huge dress and large feathery hats with my hair curled, or shooting a bow and arrow in medieval dress. haha

Yeah.. and there was no violence when you went to your local pubs..

Just mystical jesters and chaps in fluffy-puffy pants playing the lute..

I liked the system in those times, but a lot changed when the industrial revolution came.. the enforced child's labor and deterioration of the surrounding environment for industrial use transitioned into a whole other system.

Speaking of this makes me want to play Fable 1.

I was there last December visiting my ex. It is amazing. Full of potential, full of excitement - maybe that is just because I was in love? The people were all very nice. You should try to go. I won't go again as my ex and I didn't last and anything about the country triggers me, but it is still a really nice place.

I do get the feeling sometimes that I have lived before. I have a ton of "deja vu" moments. I think most people do, which is why I feel like reincarnation is really possible. It would kind of be cool if it was, at least that way we'd know that we aren't really dying but that death is the beginning.

Anyways, I do know how you feel and I am sure almost everyone has had these feelings. It's weird, exciting, and scary all at the same time.

Love this post!!!

I have felt this way more times than i can count. For me it's simply a weird, unexplainable connection or attraction to something/someplace. I have felt pulled to Europe forever, even had fantasies of moving there. Though I don't feel connected to England per se, I have always loved their wit, their self-deprecation, and their humility--something a lot of Americans don't have. The East have the oldest forms of medicine and spiritual foundations. I've specifically been drawn to Japan--origin of Buddhism, and their culture, their respect/politeness, clothes, gardens, etc. etc. I have a strong tie to. A Palm Reader/Psychic once told me I lived in Europe in another life; true or not who can really say, but it was interesting, as I didn't offer any info prompting her to say that.

I can't remember when I didn't feel like I was in the wrong time period. Though I'm in my 20s I am not all about the tech-stuff my generation is so obsessed with; I don't feel the addiction to be tethered to the world/IPad/etc all the time. I used to believe I lived in the 60's/70's because I enjoyed the music and clothes of that era so much. Interestingly, I can put on fedoras/flapper hats/etc. and look like I stepped out of that time. My entire life my favorite ppl were adults--have always had difficulty relating to my peers. I feel I've been on the Earth for decades longer than my age; been told more than once I'm an "Old Soul", and honestly I don't feel 20-something; I feel more 50+ or 60s. My 68 yr old uncle told me recently that talking to me felt like he was talking to a peer.

It feels like my soul is just super old. I can't explain it. I don't have any past memories, though I kind of wish i did. My dad is obsessed with WWII, and he claims when he watches footage of that time period it is completely familiar to him, that he knows he was there, in another body, etc.

Thank you for bringing this up, such a fun topic!

the closest i get to this is that i always feel that i should have been bought up in the 60's

the music, the way things were done, i'm drawn to it all

I get a flash in my head sometimes of sitting on the beach and waiting for my husband to come in from fishing...the setting feels like a south sea warm breeze big wave beach...like in the Philippeans...feels like home when it pops in my head.

contrast,

you are not funny.

i was just giving my take on it

I do. I have a ‘pull’ to the deep south and everything southern.

Ha, I'm in the Deep South. We need to trade!

I am also in the deep south, would trade in a heartbeat. Never felt like I belong here.:

I couldn’t tell you anything about it, it’s more to do with the effect some books and movies have on me, and a love of the southern accent and those beautiful long dresses they wore in the days of Gone With The Wind and Jezebel (with Bette Davis).

I used to think I was a medieval nun, since I'm drawn to solitude, and I can envision a small, spare stone room with only a bed, a desk with a Bible and a candle. I have since grown to feel this is just projection on my part. I once had a "past-life" analysis done. They told me I had been involved with the Essenes in pre-Christian times. I like the Essenes. But, you know, all of this is so subjective.

Great post! I sometimes feel out of place with this generation too and even this place im living in. I would love to be on a mountain somewhere maybe in Tibet discovering my Zen and my place in the universe, away from this big city with all the noise and rude people. Just want to be some place with the person I love in some place quiet. Oh the quiet!

Ha, it's even funnier you like our southern accents. I hate them. I used to have a pretty strong one, but I hated how it sounded, so I somehow worked it out of my voice. Now ppl hear I'm a born/bred Southerner, they usually don't believe me. One person said I sounded like a South-Central Illinois-an. Ha! I consider it a compliment, cuz ya can't quite tell where I'm from,

The Gone....Wind accents are quite nice, but that's like a regal accent. I hear a lot of backwoods/redneck accents (even from educated ppl, LOL). I can't blame you on the dresses, they were gooojus. And the "Southern Hospitality" is very true. We have great manners and hospitality. And THE BEST Sweet tea.

I am from Georgia in the south, but everyone says that I sound like I am from somewhere else. I guess because I slip into "proper" talk when I am talking with anyone besides my family. I agree the clothing from the 1800's here in the south was beautiful. And YES, we have awesome sweet iced tea. I have always loved an English, welsh, or scottish accent. I know they are different, they are just so soothing.

Its not really the same thing at all. But ive always said even since i was really young (apparently) that i was drowned in a past life. Ive never had any bad experiences with water in this life yet since a very young age ive had tonnes off dreams off drowning. Ive always been fine in any water and used to swim regularly until i went to one pool id never been to before and had a total freak out, couldnt let myself put my head under to swim or anything.ended up getting dragged out having a complete panic attack yet ive been swimming in other pools since and been completely fine!! Weird.

I was born in Scotland and have a Scottish accent. I think it’s one of the hardest to lose. You’re right, the Scottish, Welsh, English and Irish accents are all so different even on this little Island called the UK. These days though we have all kinds of people from all over the world - very cosmopolitan.

Back on topic. I had a pain in my upper arm for a couple of years nothing would shift it. Then a friend took me to talk to a medium who explained that I had lost my arm in an accident in another life. I’m not sure how I feel about that to be honest but the pain went and I have never been bothered by it since. Freaky.

I heard of someone who had a similar experience. She went through some past life regressions and apparently she died as a young child in another life by falling into a creek. I think she had recurrent dreams like that as well.

Its an eerie feeling! Did the person you know have any negative feelings towards water in her current life do you know?

You know, I don't remember for sure. I think she just had recurrent dreams, and said they felt so real...not like other dreams, but that she was the little boy. Went to regression sessions and "found out" she had been a 7 yr old boy. I wana say she liked water but had an intense fear of drowning/getting caught in an undercurrent.

Ever since I was very small, I've always been terrified when somebody would play around with me and throw a blanket over me and hold it so I couldn't get out of it; everytime it's always scared the hell out of me, even though I could breathe perfectly fine; it was just this instant panic. And for no reason. I can be in small teeny spaces as long as there's light; if it's a tunnel (even at a waterpark, freaks the **** out of me). I have always wondered if in another life I died of asphyxiation.