Originally posted by Burns


Wow, that's really interesting! Can I ask what the past life experience was like? Where were you and what were you doing?

I also wonder how researchers doing this study could absolutely conclude you were dreaming about a past life? How did the study work to prove that?

Anyway, thanks for the intro, and welcome to DV! Hope you enjoy yourself! *
I'm new at this and I dont think I've got all I wanted to quote, but anyway...The original study was involving young children 2-6 (because evidentally that is the most common age for someone to remember/recall the most about a past life). I submitted my experiences via email and was later contacted by the University to prepare a full report for a side study done by the same group on adolescents. I don't think the study was concerned with concluding whether or not the dream was valid - honestly I think they were looking for people to include in reports, statistics, etc. In the case of younger children, there is usually no question about whether or not the child is telling the truth. From what little reading I have done about young children and past lives, they tend to recall and know things that are impossible for them to know. (e.g. names, foreign places, tiny details about a person's life) I did read one case where a three year old girl kept talking about a village in India and sparked the parents' interest. They did some research and evidentally the child's recollection developed further - they ended up going to the village and speaking with the family of the deceased the child claimed to be, and the child could answer in the family's native tongue questions about the individual's past that only he/she would know. I found this very interesting!

My "past life" dreams started out as extremely vivid and violent. Over time I learned more pieces of the puzzle, and it is hard to dismiss a recurring dream that grows both in the expanse and detail that I remembered. I initially knew only a vague time period (1850-1910), that i was a dark haired woman working in a restaurant, and that there was a fire. The details grew and grew, and eventually I could draw a map of the relation of my home, the store where I worked, and the visage of the building I was in front of when my memories end. Due to the geography and other details I remember, I believe it might have been the Great Chicago fire of 1871.