I believe in recarnation, well no I believe in rebirth actually which is different. You mentioned that gathering enough personality and memories may enable you to be born again. In my opinion there is no 'self' as such, no indepedent permanent self or soul, you as a form exist, but like everything in this world, its existence depends on other phenomena. Within one life and across multiple lives, the empirical, changing self not only objectively affects its surrounding external world, but also generates (consciously and unconsciously) its own subjective image of this world, which it then lives in as 'reality'. It lives in a world of its own making in various ways. It "tunes in" to a particular level of consciousness (by meditation or the rebirth it attains through its karma) which has a particular range of objects - a world - available to it. It furthermore selectively notices from among such objects, and then processes what has been sensed to form a distorted interpretive model of reality: a model in which the 'I am' conceit is a crucial reference point.
So when you begin break down this ignorance you realize that everything that one senses is an illusion, it exists but just not in the way we think it does. The same can be said for a dream, a dream is an illusion that we often think is a reality and then we wake up.
I personally do not think that dreams can be an insight into future lives as they have not yet happened. Also, it is said that in a dream it is impossible to construct a human face that you have never seen before, but you can create all kinds of monsters and landscapes. So how could one see a person in a dream that is so say placed in a future life?
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