Possible dream of a past life?

[Aquarius Chik]

I'm sure that most who surf this site are familiar with reincarnation. I'm not here to try and convince anyone that reincarnation exists, but I've had one really strange dream in my life and it makes me wonder if it could possibly be a very traumatic memory of a past life that I may have lived.

I was about 15 years old when I had this dream:

I was a young woman applying for a job. I remember being kind of nervous. I was in a beautiful house that was completely immaculate. While looking around I noticed that everything in this house was antique. The items looked like they were all from around the 1920's- late 19'30's or so. Maybe even closer to the 1910's. I'm no expert on antiques. I just know that everything in that house was older and it was all very immaculate and beautifully kept.

I was looking around at photos in frames (one of a woman sitting on a table covered in a white table cloth in particular) and I happened to look out a big window and see a lovely green (clearing?) surrounded by woods all around. From what I could see the house itself was in a big clearing surrounded by woods. There were no other houses around it at all.

So I was waiting for a man to come in and inerview me (at least that's the impression I got) and I was hoping everything would go well.

All of a sudden I heard a ruckous in the house- like maybe some people were scrambling around or running or maybe fumbling around with something. Then I heard a great noise- like a machine and I heard guns and when I looked out the window I saw a tank coming through the trees. I saw the tank and I knew instinctively that there was a battle going on HERE and NOW. It was terrifying.

Then I saw the people. I saw the man of the house (whom I was supposed to meet) come rushing in the room as did some others (I'm assuming they were Jews because the man I was supposed to meet was a Nazi soldier- maybe even an officer) and everyone was panicking. He was rushing to put on his uniform jacket as quickly as possible and he looked distressed but calm. He kept saying "Be good Jews and in the end I will send you to heaven." He said it over and over again. I remember listening to this man say these words and it struck me that he was going to kill these people. Maybe even me. The thing is- I didn't get the impression that he was a particulary bad guy. He was saying this as if it were completely normal and nice-even.

He ran out of the room and I assumed he was going to join the battle. There was this old woman in rags with a shawl on her head. She mumbled something (I didn't catch what she said) but she fainted and I was right there so I grabbed her and she fell on me and I tried to get her onto the floor as comfortably as I could. She was still in my arms and I could tell she was dying. I think she must have had a heart-attack or something. She died in my arms and I remember how upset I was. I looked up from the woman and saw a little boy in the corner. He had on the typical dress: short trousers, long socks and little boots. He had a hat on and he looked like he was about 8 years old tops. He was in the corner with his knees up to his chest rocking himself silently. He looked so terrifyed and I just remember thinking that I had to get him out of there.

I knew we were all surrounded. There was nowhere to go. The battle was going on all around this house and I know we all must have died there. Myself and all the others.

I woke up from that dream in tears and it made a serious emotional impact on me. I've always wondered if there was something more to it.

What really makes me wonder is that in the dream I was speaking every word- even thinking every thought in the German language. It didn't even occur to me until I woke up.

That to me is an impossibility. I don't speak fluent German. I've heard it before in movies and such- but I myself don't speak it.

That's the only dream in my entire life (and I dream a lot) that I've ever had that makes me think that it might have been a past life memory. It was certainly traumatic. I will never forget the old woman or the little boy that I failed to save.

What do you guys think? Do you think that speaking in (and thinking in) a foreign language in a dream is a possible link to a memory from a past life? Has anyone ever heard of someone else having a similar experience? If so, I would love to hear about it.

[preacherman76]

Wow cool deam. Personally I don't believe in reincarnation. But who can say for sure? If there was anything to it like that, maybe it was a memory past on through your DNA. Like maybe it was a family member of yours from back in that time. Either way, as eightbits would say, well dreamt.

[Aquarius Chik]

Thanks, I guess lol. It wasn't fun to dream, that's for sure. But I've been told that maybe I was re-living something through someone else's eyes (which I suppose might be possible). I don't know. I've never really known what to make of it. The thing that still gets me is speaking and thinking in a language that I don't speak. The emotionality of the dream was also very vivid and it stayed with me. I still remember the people (at least the officer, the old woman and the boy) and I still almost feel guilty for not being able to save him.

[TheGreatBeliever]

We dream all sorts. How to know which is past life?

Edited June 10, 2015 by TheGreatBeliever

[Aquarius Chik]

I just think it is strange that in this dream I was thinking and speaking in a foreign language that I don't ever speak. I don't speak German and the impression the dream gave was so traumatic and real somehow that it made a very lasting impression.

I'm just interested in finding out if anyone else has had a similar experience with dreaming that involves speaking an un-native language. The dream itself was in a chronological order that made sense. It wasn't jumbled up or crazy or random. I dream a lot, and this is the only dream I've ever had that made me wonder if it could have been more than just a dream.

[sarah_444]

I had a dream, about 2 years ago that had a made an impact for sure. It was incredibly realistic, chronological , emotional, vivid. I didn't speak another language, but I was male in the dream, and funnily enough, it involved the German military. There was this moment that something clicked, and I remembered everything that was going to happen. I wasn't lucid, it was just like, "Oh..right, this again".

I was attacked, shot at in the sea with a bunch of others. My brother, Zachary died in my arms, after we were captured and pulled out of the water. Such an emotionally painful part of the dream. I remember kissing his forehead and apologizing to him. I knew I was going to die soon. I remembered the way it happened before, so I was preparing myself for it. There was this man, I think some kind of general, yelling at me. He seemed torn about killing me, but he had to do it. He emanated so much rage and sorrow simultaneously.

I probably wrote 6 pages in my journal after waking up from it. Such an intense dream.

[Professor T]

Cool dream..

I can't say with any certainty if it was a hint at a past life, but it sure fits the bill as far as I know..

What's most important though, isn't what others believe, but what you perceived as the underlying truth of it..

Most dreams seem like they're just noise in the psyche.. Some though, strike home as important insights.. Fewer still transcend what we understand and know from our current lifetime..

[Indiogene]

Reincarnation is a strong possibility many of us have, and I'm a firm believer in reincarnation. I believe to had 15 (?) past lives: to be different people in different places in different times is an amazing feeling one can have, as if we're eternal or immortal in a way when we die, you could return in another body as someone else. I had dreams of them or had memories of who I was in the past, some were rather odd: I had 3 or 4 past lives as women, which indicates whom or where we were before is unlimited to sex or gender. It's like a rich man can return in the next life as a poor man without privilege he had before, or a misogynist bigoted man could return as a woman to experience or learn about his unfounded prejudices are wrong or inaccurate.

[Aquarius Chik]

Wow magnoliaReverie- that sounds about right. The emotion is unbelieveable and I also remember preparing myself to die. I knew it was coming.

Professor T is also right about what we ourselves believe. I have come to the conclusion that it probably was a past life, although I will never go to hypnosis or try to regress the memory. It was enough to have dreamed it so vividly. I remember it all perfectly and that's enough for me.

Mike D boy, your theory makes a lot of sense. I think the point of having a human soul is to evolve spiritually. Sometimes we don't always necessarily learn the lessons we need to in our current lifetimes in order to move on (so to speak) in the realm of the afterlife.

I think dreams may very well prepare us for things we have to face at some point in our lives and though they don't always make sense- they guide us in a way that we can't be guided while we're awake and coherent. The hidden part of our psyches that we sort of tuck away during waking hours is surely there when we're dozing at night.

I also think that if there were things we had to endure in a past life that were so awful and so traumatic- they never truly leave us. It's kind of like having a soul print.

So whenever I think about the phrase "we are one" and see the serpent eating its own tail representing life, death and regeneration I think "yep. In a way- we are all related and we've all lived in eachother's shoes."

[AstralProjection1]

Edgar Cayce talks alot about this kind of thing in his readings. I for one do believe in reincarnation and find the concept of past life regression fascinating.

[Nic727]

Wow. This topic is interesting. I don't know what to think about reincarnation, not that I don't believe in that, but I never had dreams that look like that or a realistic dream that I can remember...

Maybe I am a new soul?

That could explain my difficulty to do OBE or AP and why I'm a bit lost in my life. I'm 21 and don't know what I want to do as a job. I have too much idea, but can't do everything lol.

whatever, about your strange dream... Can you change the past or everythings seem on rails?