[phoenix7]

have you ever had a dream that goes from inception to death ? I have - I even had all the names of all the people ...

I can still see it and remember it all months and months after i dreamt it .....

past life?

youre thoughts please....

[Thunder Bow]

It more likely your mind is doing an inventory of its self.

[phoenix7]

an inventory hmmm.... could be .... but this wasnt my life ....i have had two dreams like this one about the 2nd world war - which was just a short part about being chased across railway tracks and knowing if i was caught i would die..... maybe this relates to when i was attacked - could be i guess..

the other one is of a country i have never been in - yet i think i could find the forest paths to the open plane where my mothers partner died - i can see the faces of all the people involved

in my dream my mother was raped and made pregnant - but the women found out what this man was doing and when he came again to her - they were all there cleaning skins with sharp shiny knives - he never came to her again - but she died in child birth - me

I was a wild child always running off - no one really wanted me i was always getting dirty rollin in the earth and splashing in the water - nature was my friend the trees my brothers tall and strong

one day i was picking berries and a bear lumbered out of the woods nearby - some of my group saw it and ran to help but knew they would never get to me in time - i turned and saw the great bear but i wasnt afraid and i offered it berries i had in my hand and it ate from it and then after it had eaten it went back into the forest never harming me - this made the men afraid of me - but i can still feel the warmth of the bears breath on my hands and his rough tongue as he ate the berries

it goes on to when someone took me in - when someone took the time to know me and love me and wanted to marry me - but the man who raped my mother spread lies about me and he and a friend killed me - i can still see that... he called me a dog..

I saw my loved one search for me - he was so close - but he didnt see me in the bushes - and gradually my bones returned to the earth and my dream ended...

[Thunder Bow]

The Bear is You. You are the Bear and you are very much like it. This part of you, came up to you and ate out of your hand. You were feeding this Bear Self and taking care of it. The other parts of the dream might be repressed memories.

[MusicMike]

I would guess that when you dream of a full life circle like that, something is prompting your psyche to take a very broad view, to review your life story and how you got to where you are. Perhaps there is some significant life event prompting this.

Maybe past life memories exist, maybe they don't. Maybe we dream about them, maybe we don't. But you don't need to know the answer to that to look at the meaning of the dream to you. If past life memories exist, then certainly your past life experiences will exert an influence on who you are today, and you can look at the dream symbols as finding a way to explain that influence. But perhaps the dream symbols originate in earlier parts of THIS life. It doesn't really need to be decided one way or the other in order to take to hear the message of the dream.

[littletinyrock]

Originally Posted by phoenix7

have you ever had a dream that goes from inception to death ? I have - I even had all the names of all the people ...

I can still see it and remember it all months and months after i dreamt it .....

past life?

youre thoughts please....

Never had a dream like this, but this is fascinating. Are you a writer or something else creative like that? Our minds are very good at creating narratives and filling in details, especially if we hone our storytelling abilities.

[phoenix7]

i write poetry and short stories - never published anything - - well used to - mostly dont anymore - PTSD sorta stopped that mostly....