hi - we don't know eachother but I'm glad to post on your topic[:)]
In my oppinion the soul remembers everything during IT'S life (that includes all our lifes). In jeneral we aren't supposed to remember our previous lifes cause it somehow could prevent us from learning our present "lessons". But there are moments when one could glance in the past - it's possible it to happen just before dying - why not? In few seconds when your body and mind are in shock you're able to see your whole present life, and why not some of your previous? These few seconds are enough cause you exist already in another time different from ours...
There are other ways to see past life of yours - while you're hypnotised or having an OBE (or during "dreaming" when you're somehow acheived your soul-state). Years ago I had one so weird dream that I remember till today. I still think that I was remembering past life of mine or I was somehow messed my astral body in other person's life and I was looking through their eyes...
They say everything that happens from the every begining of Universe is recording. So, if you're trained enough (or have good hypnotist) you could see them. Of course sometimes it happens just by chance... I'm afraid I'm not not good enough yet and most of my experiences were by chance...[:I]
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I remember I did have a dream one time that I was a dog. This wasn't just your "normal" dream. Everything was so weird. Sounds were so loud, and things were interpreted a lot differently from my prospective. I remember my owner was a jerk and yelled at me for everything. I was a puppy in the dream, so I was quite small.
This was either "just a dream" or my soul remembering something.
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It might have been something more than ordinary dream...You know, some people believe that one could reincarnate into animal or even plant. That's why they don't eat anything coming from animals(meat, eggs, cheese and etc.) cause according to their believes killing and eating and using living creatures makes bad Karma to them and they're going to suffer in their next life... I understand and respect that - so I'm vegetarian also[:D] but I think that if we're up to this present level of ours we should go only higher and I'm not quite sure if we could reincarnate in animals in future...Of course, everything's possible - it's going to happen exactly this which is necesarily with accordance with our Karma[:)]
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well i personally believe not everyone gets reincarnated. you get reincarnated because you need to learn something that you still didnt learn in your past life. but what haemetite said makes sense too because maybe you need to learn something that being human cant teach you so you become a plant or animal...
Reincarnation: Back in Black
Yes the Rum Tug Tugger is a Curious Cat--
And there isn't any need for me to spout it:
For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!
This is the way (your) world ends--Not with a bang, but whimper.
--T.S. Eliot
In a dream I had recently, I was about 40 seconds from getting killed. I don't know how, but I knew it. In the dream, I was running through this place that was environmentally unstable. I knew I wasn't going to make it out alive. At that time, it hit me. After my death, I was going to be reincarnated. The sad part was, I wouldn't have any recollection of this life. Finally, the time came to cease living. Right before it happened, I remember saying " Not again... " and then that was it. Is this the truth about reincarnation? Is it that before you die, you gain knowledge of past lives, as well as the existance of reincarnation? Just a thought.
I'm so glad I have friends that will reply to this.