When I was a child I remember arguing with my mother. I was SURE that I'd been in a chopper and she insisted that I hadn't. We dropped it for years, but it came up again when I was 16. I was very confused aobut the whole thing. I remember being in the helicopter, sitting by the door. I remember looking at the back of the seat in front of me. I remember my thoughts at the time as I looked out the open door to the tree tops below. ("I'm actually riding in a helicopter!") I remember the feeling that I was on a grand adventure and I was very excited.
The problem: it didn't happen. I've never been in a helicopter in my life. But the memories are as clear as yesterday. I don't know if I'm remembering a past life, or somehow tapping into another person's memories (living or dead), but I do know that something is there.
I guess that it really doesn't matter to the big picture. All we can do is live in the now and work on doing our best to be better.
I was SURE that I'd been in a chopper and she insisted that I hadn't... I was very confused aobut the whole thing. I remember being in the helicopter, sitting by the door. I remember looking at the back of the seat in front of me. I remember my thoughts at the time as I looked out the open door to the tree tops below. ("I'm actually riding in a helicopter!") I remember the feeling that I was on a grand adventure and I was very excited. My memory of a classical experiment goes something like this: Child behaviorists get mothers to suggest to their kids an exciting time when they went to Disney World and meet Bugs Bunny. The suggestion is repeated and eventually kids will swear they had done so. Adamantly! And they can describe the meeting in great detail!
Of course there is no Bugs Bunny at Disney World as our favorite rabbit is a Loony Tunes character and not part of the Disney kingdom...