How can people remember their past life memories?
First you should have any idea of how things are stored in our mind. There are three layer of mind the conscious, sub conscious and super conscious. Conscious is the top most layer and Sub conscious is the second and the super conscious is the last layer.You could imagine a pile of sheets stacked. Sub conscious stacked above the Super Conscious and Conscious stacked over the super conscious.Conscious - Every thing your remember and doing it consciously is all stored in this layer. Sub Conscious - This layer is where things which you do without thinking consciously are stored. All your habits are stored in this layer. To introduced a habit you have to first consciously do it till it move from your conscious to subconscious layer.Super Conscious - This layer is the bottom most and this where all your memories and past experiences are stored. So in your past whatever stored in the super conscious mind you could remember it.So the trickiest part is your conscious mind sub consciously hides/forgets something that is stored in the super conscious layer.Memories stored in the super conscious layer are remembered in multiple ways. You could remember of any incident just by seeing a Object, Person, or an Image etc.. You have to go to super conscious mind and see through all the memories that are stored to remember your past. And while doing this you could only move only from top to bottom. The depth of the memory is based on how emotional you are when a incident happens. The more happy you are or the more sad you are then memory is stored in the bottom most. And some are bad or evil memories and some are good ones. And if you go to a level of any particular memories you will temporarily go through the emotions which are the reactions of that incident. Like you may cry, get angry, happy, smile etc..The beauty is that once your react to any incident of bad memory, that memory will be deleted.There are many ways of doing it like hypnosis, Vipasana meditation. But all that is you have to do it with a trained therapist.
Why some people remember the memories of their previous life?
Nature has made rule , remembering past life is not in rule book . But you know there are always exceptions . Few persons are able to remember their past life.There are three division of our consciousness , conscious mind , subconscious mind and unconscious mind .Conscious mind is active in wake up state , subconscious is active in sleep with dreams , unconscious state is felt in deep sleep without dreams. But all three are there in one .Death is deep sleep , conscious mind merged with subconscious mind and unconscious mind . Conscious mind is no more there , only subconscious and unconscious remain .When we take birth , this conscious mind develop from the every biggning , child can not do anything until and unless we teach him .Suppose a person got awareness of his subconscious mind while in child , he become knowledgeable of his past life . it happen because subconscious mind at the time of death wants to do some work and use will , this will become so powerful in some cases that person remember his subconscious mind .You can also feel your past life in dreams or in meditation , so it is accessible through different means .You might have seen that you are living the life but you are remembering the past events , but all are connected with one body. See if you are able to remember the past life , you will be having life of two body .Do not you think little bit complicated ? It is complicated . These persons live life with abnormality until and unless they chose spiritual path.On spiritual path , it does not matter , even you will go through all your past life which might be numerous .
Is it normal to have a flashback of a past life? What does it mean?
It could mean that there may be something about your past life that is connected to your present life in some way. Past-life memories usually are evidence that at the subconscious level we want or need to know something about our previous life history in order to cope with or to understand something about the life we're presently living. Maybe you have a few memories that are knocking on the door of your conscious mind, wanting to come inside and to be recalled in more detail. There are ways you can get in touch with these memories if you wish to. Your subconscious mind has access to details about your past lives, but the conscious mind automatically blocks these memories from being recalled. There are good reasons for this, e.g., we couldn't function in the present life if we identify too strongly with a past self. You can, however, tap into your subconscious connection to your higher, eternal self by several methods, primarily meditation, self-hypnosis and dreams. A great book about dream control is the place to start, like this one by Patricia Garfield PhD which you can pick up used very cheap. (Ignore the dream interpretation books and get one that teaches you how to interact with your mind through dreams.) I recommend this one highly: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Dreaming-... And pick up another book too - a blank journal in which you can record all of your dreams (even the ones that don't seem to fit with past lives - even these can hold valuable pieces of the puzzle.) The title of this next book is stupid, but it has valuable, step-by-step information about how to recall your past lives through meditation and self-hypnosis. A great book! http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Gu... No one but YOU really knows your past-life history, so I would advise you to avoid scam artists who will take your money and tell you you lived a life in old Egypt and walked with Jesus, that sort of thing. If you want to discover your personal history in time, all you really need to do is to learn how to communicate with your deeper thoughts and unlock them. I think it can be "normal" in persons who are wise enough - like you and me - to know that the flow of life continues and they really have walked this Earth before.
Can a familiar voice bring on a past life flashback?
I'm not going to condemn your belief of reincarnation, but to just put an idea out there: It's entirely possible that these visions you see, triggered by this particular voice, may well be experiences of your babyhood. Do you remember ANYTHING from that on demand? No. No one does. But it could be possible that your subconscious is harboring these memories that are brought up in accordance to hearing this singing voice. So this may also be due to why it's fuzzy afterwards. I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to reincarnation and previous lives. BUT something that I remember from THIS life was brought on suddenly, something to do with the 9/11 bombings but I have no idea what it is. I just remember I felt this massive panic flow through my body and it chilled me to the bone. Whether or not people have had memories of past life, I'd love to hear about so I'll keep checking back to see if anyone has any stories :)
Why do I have snippets of memories from past lives?
The images that are coming to you are a "fact" as far as your mind is concerned. The idea that they are past life memories is an interpretation. There are other interpretations. They could be symbolic 'flashes' from your intuition. They could be a flashback to a memory from this life - perhaps from when you were very young, or simply an image from a TV show or video. To jump to a "past life' interpretation is going to far, too fast. I doubt they are deja vu - "The perception (real or illusory) that the present moment is a recurrence of a moment in the past". That doesn't seem to be what you are describing.
Do you believe our memories are repeated over as we die?
Wow…. That’s an interesting question. I have thought about this a lot. Many people don’t believe that when you die, you don’t ascend to heaven eating Bon Bon’s and drinking endless Mimosa’s and that you never get a hangover!!! However, I have often wondered why we experience De Ju Vie?I have felt De Ju Vie more times than I can count. Seriously, I can walk into a place that I’ve never been to and know where something is located like I’d been there before. Many times I will look at a picture of someone and be able to connect to the person having never met them before. When I was very small, I overheard my Mom & Grandma talking about something that was lost. I sat down and concentrated on the object and thought of 2 different places it could be. It was in the 2nd place. Both my Mom & Grandma had looked high and low for it and couldn’t find it. They were amazed that I had found it and were sure I’d taken it and placed where only I would find it. They didn’t believe me for a long time and it wasn’t until I was much older and I could tell my Mom how I felt.Like today. A dear friend of mine who I haven’t seen in years, was on my mind. I hadn’t thought of her in ages, but at one time we were very close, showed up at my door for a visit as she was in town. Keep in mind, I had moved and was living in a different section of town. She made the effort to find out where I lived and showed up at my door!!! It was like no time had passed since we last saw each other. How do you explain that?So, I think that our spirit stays here on earth and drifts around for a bit until it finds someone that perhaps thought they way they did and takes root and grows within that person. Then their memories become yours. I wish I had a better explanation, but that’s the only thing I can come up with.Good Luck!!!!
Do you have flashbacks of old dreams?
Yes, I have had this often.I would just be going about my day and some random thing would bring back a bit of a dream. Sometimes it would be a dream from years ago that I had completely forgotten about. It could be an item, a feeling, a scene in a movie, a piece of music, anything could bring back a memory.It just shows that we remember so much more than we can actually recall. But if you send our mind down the same path, that memory is there. It's similar to looking back at old photos from your childhood and immediately remembering a day from your past, or a shirt you liked wearing, or a toy you got. Even if it is not something important, and you have not thought of it in years, you remember instantly and in great detail.
Reincarnation flashbacks? Anyone have these?
My answer was too long to post here. http://brianjkory.deviantart.com/art/Re-... So I posted it else where for you. The soul is and isn't a living entity in my opinion , it's without beginning or ending, it can exist outside of time as well as within time. The best way of describing this that I can find is that our realities are partially existing in all their possible states simultaneously. I never had a flash back of a past life, but to believe in such a thing I believe that each life is an aspect of our soul, a partial state of the soul in which the entirety of all of lives is all lives simultaneously existing at once within their partiality as quantum super positioning. I would say the soul is non changing, eternal, without beginning or ending yet can be experienced partially at the same time. Our experience here is partial, with a beginning and ending, for a limited amount of time in which there is no real time. Einstein , Tesla they all knew that there is a force , a mind outside of matter, outside of the physical in which intuition can be accessed. As I've noted in my reply through the link. Though I didn't quote Einstein for his thoughts on intuition he has made many claims to glorify it.