Tobi, that little anecdote is hysterical and awesome. Thank you for sharing!
Before I go about posting long threads about this subject all willy-nilly, I want to say a word on my views regarding these experience. To me, there is no such thing as a "past life" experience in the truest since. But hear me out.
I had inexplicable 'phantom' memories from the ages of two to five, with a peak of them around three. I recounted, or just recalled, impossible points of information, such as being in my twenties and existing in an often (more or less) overcast location with architecture I only occasionally glimpsed in my present life. It would be another couple decades before I pinpointed certain regions and eras of northwestern Europe, especially the UK, that matched the houses, gates, and landscapes I had been continuously recalling.
My personal hypothesis is that these memories are in fact just that—memories. Not of a sequential or linear passage of a "soul's" incarnations, but the result of a fresh set of neurons catching existing experiential data on the 'ethereal' breeze. I mean, think about it: Biologically speaking, it would be
highly advantageous for an inexperienced organism to be capable of 'downloading' some information about their environment, not just from their immediate senses, but from the memories of others. In fact, it may be happening at the cellular level well before birth. And it's been my experience that, like Tobi said, there are no space-time constraints when we receive with our 'inner radar'.
Taking that into consideration, one can pretty much conclude that such sensitivity in toddlerhood wouldn't necessarily abate for everyone by adulthood. People with
sensory integration imbalances and
impaired latent inhibition seem to have never developed a way to 'shut off' to extraneous input as infants and toddlers, leaving their perception wide open to an overwhelming array of 'mundane' and 'extra' sensory experiences alike.
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