okay this might sound weird but i have strong emotional connections to the past and i don't know why. for instance, i feel most strongly about the early to mid 1800s. everytime i see or read anything related to this particular era i feel nostalgic. weird i know. i love everything about this era. the clothes, the housing, the still undiscovered landscape, etc. i also feel nostalgic with the mid to late 1700s. but i cannot stand anything after 1910 and i especially hate the 50s, 60s and 70s. samething with those eras with the lifestyles, clothing, housing. is this normal and does anybody else get connections to the past like this?

I have a strange connection to feudal japan, I don't know why, but I love almost everything about that era...and just cuz ninjas are so sweet.

Yeah, kinda... I have a fascination with ancient Egypt, it seems...

I primarily feel attached to the 1960s (England), 1910s (America), 1800-10s (France), and 1770s (France). I feel attached to the Elizabethan period (England), high renaissance (Italy), and ancient Greece as well, but to a slightly lesser extent. It probably sounds ridiculous, all those years. A lot of my interests and preferences reflect those particular years.
The 1960s gives me a sense of interest and of youthful belonging.
The 1910s gives me a bittersweet feeling.
I love the 1800-10s, and the 1770s. They feel very "me". If you knew me, you'd understand.
^^^ I love furniture, fashion, music, and lifestyle from all of the above. I enjoy the art to an extent. I don't like much of the art from the 60s.
I doubt my interests/attachments mean anything, though.

Are anyones periods of interest linked to nations?

I think that's pretty common. Almost everyone I speak to feels some sort of draw to another era. Why? Who knows, wishful thinking, past life memories, could be almost anything or different reasons depending on the person.

Definatly 1910 to 1947 . pretty sure i was a physician in ww2 , so that being said , probably because i was there .

I love the Roman empire

Why do you like your favourite tv show or band you do because it strikes a cord within you and its the same thing here
its got nothing to do with past lives oh and i like ancient asia best

I feel a nostaligic connection to Vincent Van Gogh's painting, as if what he painted i've seen before. I love the feeling.

I think it's pretty common and not paranormal at all... It's a matter of taste I suppose. I can feel "connected" to almost every era, if I think enough about it. On the other hand, I was never too fascinated by times and places... But yeah...it's nice to think about it.

There are a few eras attached to different places I feel attached to, or nostalgic over. I feel in some of those cases it's a past life thing. In others, just because I thought that time must have been pretty cool. I wouldn't necessarily say it MEANS it's a past life thing. Could simply be what Dayne said.

I suppose it could be caused by past lives, but for me its likely that these are just eras I would especially enjoy. You never know, though.

Well, as with everything, you come to a point where it's beyond normal, your fascination or even knowledge of the time/place. Simply enjoying learning/reading/fantacizing about a time and place is fairly normal I'd assume. When it gets to where you're recalling actual events that you've not read about in very vivid detail, or can list dresses in your closet from that time, it starts to become a bit strange.

i feel really at home in the late 1960s,i mean this started roughly when i was age six till now (39) when i see or even inside houses or buildings ,im there back in time,needless to say that i listen to and dress in 60s gear,i love it -it keeps me sane,especialy nowadays when it seems that hardly no one has any real respect for each other,or even themselves.ive often wondered if ive been reborn? here lies the dilema...if i could go back would i want to??people often tell me that britain in the 60s was pretty awful(well for most part of the country) and that the 'swinging' london scene was just a load of hyped up commercial bull...hence the backlash and introduction of the skinhead movement.I think that i would go back,if only to get clothes and records....ohhhhh now that would be heaven

I would say "my times" are... Ancient greece, The tudor period and the 1920/30's.

I also have strong feelings to the 60's but mine are not so happy. I have an aversion to VW buses, but I've ridden in them. When I hear certain 60's era music, I want to cry, especially Janis Joplin stuff. When I see stuff on TV regarding the hippy era, I feel uncomfortable but am fascinated.

The interesting thing is that I found my birth family about 7 years ago. My entire family is brushed with hippy paint. My grandparents were even responsible for a well known folkfest in Orillia. Of note is that I was born in the early 70's.

I do not know if any of this is significant. To me, it is a deep, internal feeling.

I also have strong feelings to the late 1800's era. I dont know if it was all of the heritage museums I went to as a child or watching too much Little House on the Prairie, but like some of you, I feel its more than that.

Maybe it is just my love of history and the whole what if I was there and how it really like but I feel connected to:

Ancient Scythians and Thracians around the time the Scythians first domesticated the horse as a tool of warfare. I would have been afraid of them. Then again when Thrace was a limitless country that seemed to never end and when the Sons of Heracles stayed there for a time before returning back to their homeland to reclaim it and avenge their father.

The reign of King Croesus of Lydia when the city burned and the king was to be burned but was not through 'divine intervention'. When he was told his city was burning by the enemy but his response was it is no longer my city but yours and they quickly scrambled to turn off the flames.

The time of the Germanic tribes, particularly the Franks, specifically the Ripurians.

Visigothic Spain and again during the wars of Reconquest and seeing the Alhambra fall. Christopher Columbus was there to see it fall and the last Moorish ruler, Boabdil, cried, and his mother told him not to and act like a man.

The border skirmishes between Texas and Mexico of the late 1800s and early 1900s and having to contend with the evils of the Texas Rangers.

I also have a strong aversion to the 1960s.

I have always been drawn to the time of World War II, and more specifically, though aware and interested in the European struggle, but fascinated by the Pacific Theater. I do not know why that particular time and place stick with me so strongly. On the other hand, the 1960's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo program grips me, also. Pehaps it is an awakening of past lives, or, more likely, it just interests me. I don't feel that anyone fully knows why they are drawn to different periods.

I feel exactly the same as you telirium. I feel such a strong connection with the 1800's. It's like I was actually there.
I just know I was a sailor on a man-of-war in the English Royal Navy.

I also get very choked up when i think about WW2. I know it's a sad event, but I usually don't care about that sort of thing. When I was little we went to this place called Eden Camp (It's like a living museum about the wars) & i hated every second of it, i cried & everything and i can only have been about 8-9. It was the smell more than anything. It just seemed so familiar and horrifying.

i feel a really strong connection to ancient athens and imperial rome, but what i feel very strongly is a sort of relation with independence wars(especially ancient, no guns) everytime i see a movie or read a book about some people invading a weaker country and then the guys from that country kick them out i feel like im there fighting for my home with them, it happens everytime i see braveheart and everytime i read about the greco-persian war

Waow , that's plenty of attachments !

I know.

well i'm impressed !!

my attachment would be ancient Egypt .. definitely .

You mention smell. I know what you mean!!! There is an old historic boat in a museum here called the St. Roch (an RCMP boat). Every time I visited it as a kid, the smell would follow me home. I can smell the boat right now. The oiled wood, the wool worn by the occupants, the furs, the machinery. I also remember several dreams about the boat. I was probably aged 5 to 8 during this time. My parents ran a preschool and this was one of the field trips they took the kids on, and I would usually get to go and also with my own class as a field trip. Only I can't decide if it is horrifying or just so darned familiar. I know only that I feel slightly queasy about it all. (Seasickness, maybe?)

Edited to add link: http://hnsa.org/ships/stroch.htm

My times are the 1700's. I love the style of clothing back then. I think it's very beautiful.

I'm also into the music of the 1960's and the 1970's. Like Fleetwood Mac, the Mamas and the Papas, Mama Case.

I'm also into Anne Frank. And the Jewish Holocaust.

Which style and decade in particular?

Telerium - I understand what you are saying. You are not talking about just a preference or an interest in another era but rather a strong attraction, a feeling of belonging, an emotional connection to the people, the culture, the history.
I have very strong emotional connections and interest in the plight of the Polish Jews during the 30's and 40's. I have read countless books, looked at thousands of photos and have suffered from profound sadness and nostalgia for what happened to these people, which of course is normal but it goes beyond on that for me into a feeling of knowing or understanding on a different level.
I also feel a very similar connection to the American Civil War from the Southern perspective.
I don't believe it is paranoramal. I am not sure what exactly is the cause except I can say I am empathetic in most areas of my life and for whatever reason that has spilled over into feeling very empathetic for the people who lived and struggled during those times.

To Everyone with feeling for a another era.
Its all in your minds, its becuse you would love to be there with strong feelings i get the same thing when I read
about asia or america before anyone other then the natives were here.
Our past life has nothing to do with it exep in dreams.

The Holocaust.

I don't know if this is on the same topic, but, I break down and weep whenever I see any images of Avalon. I don't know why this happens to me because I've never been there. But the emotional toll it takes on me whenever I see images of it is overwhelming.

Thank you!

ValkyrieVoice

I feel very connected to the Middle Ages, Tudor Times, and the American Civil War/Late 1800's. Also the Texas Revolution, but that could be the fact I had several relatives involved in it personally, and they knew Sam Houston and such.

How I wish I was Anne Boleyn in a past life...

Did anyone see the path finder thats how I feel like when I go hiking and my minds goes there to the past right before any white men came here
I can sense the natives and can feel thier energy.
I can see in my mind how this country was then with no roads just mountains and woods stream rivers animals
How it would have to see it all. (sigh).

Ancient Rome, and specifically under the rule of Nero.

I wonder what song he played as Rome burned?

I don't know, "momma, I'm coming home?"

I think he played this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw0TikGmVz4

WOW, my goodness. that's awesome. I added that to my favorites, amf.

Since I can remember I've felt a very very strong connection to ancient Egypt. Since I was a very young child something about that time drew me in. When I got older, I had a "psychic", or so they claimed, but they told me that I was some kind of Egyptian royalty in my past life. They knew nothing about me & I thought that was very strange that they said that. Everything about that era makes me feel happy & like I've known it all my life.

I think these connections to the past are very real, it shows sometimes how long certain people have lived. It also makes a more intresting point have you ever noticed certain styles that go in and out with the public from the 70s bell bottoms to acient hairclips that are so trendy!

How can it be that the population seems to shift back now and then and in certain places, makes you think were everyone has been haha. Everyone may feel a different attachment due to living different lives at one time and not being conciously aware of it. Only later being 'awakened' to this from objects that you touch, objects preserve energy (which most forget) and thus bring back memories.

Make sure that in your past lives you are not some 'noble' 'high' being because the chance of that is actually not common, and evil spirits can be trying to relive through you by creating something larger than life inside your head...so be careful when thinking your some king or queen from any era, hence trying to find it out by yourself and not from other 'pyschics'.

Well, when I was younger, I had dreams about France. It was probably the 1500s or 1600s [?]. Anyway, I feel a connection with that era.
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It's all a matter of taste and interpetation. Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, ancient Asia and the Renaissance appeal to me. The reason for that are the history lessons I've got, movies I've watched, stories I've heard and information I've gathered. From there on out, one's morals, values and taste come into play and the way one sees himself in that era. In Ancient Rome I would be an emperor or a prestiges member of the senat, in the Middle Ages I would be royalty or a brave knight and so on would I be rich, powerfull, in peace and happy in every era. We allways completly forget about the poverty, poor healthcare, poor hygiene, constant state of fear for Hell because of the church of that time, fear of being prosicuted as a witch or devil worshipper, a life expectency of 50 and the inconvience of the technology we would miss.

In reality most of us wouldn't want to live in that particular era. But that's the good thing about dreaming and fantasysing - we see only the postives.

I know just how you feel.
I have a strong emotional connection to The Viking Age, 700 to 1066 and also to The Golden Age of Piracy, 1650s to 1720s. But it’s stronger in The Viking Age. When I was in high school my friend and I where nothing less then Norse, we believed in Odin, Thor, all of the gods. My friend even has a hörgr (an altar made of piled stones) on the land that his family owns. When we where in the 11th and 12th grades I grew my beard (which to my delight was reddish) and braided it in two with silver wire in it. When people who didn’t know me talked about me and someone didn’t know my name they called me “The Viking.” I don’t believe in the gods now, but I still long to live in that era.

I know when I've been somewhere before in a 'past live' or whatever you want to call it because everything feels 'right'. Now what do I mean by 'right'? The 'right' is a feeling in which you do not have to question yourself, a rare feeling most will never feel before death. I got this feeling when I was skimming over Native American picture of an open field and automatically I felt like I had lived there forever, not in some amazing civilization, no I had just lived.

I didn't question, because I lived in that time, I knew no words for places because our people did not have names for boundaries because we did not believe in that, until people started coming over from Europe. (I remember that I felt a strong sense of hatred for no reason when they put names on the land...sounds silly but true) Now I am not sure if I was alive at that time, but I know I was alive before they had come over here because words were of different meaning. Till this day I have extreme trouble with names of places and I believe it is due to this tradition that has carried on, the sense of how it was and should be. People have told me that I think too deeply and that is causes some destruction, especially for my age. Anywho back to what I was saying that a country should not be divided by a name, stating it's pride, because the name holds nothing but hot air. It is not just an attachment or fancy to the 60s or that really cool pike, no it's knowing what your morals and innermost thoughts are carried with you through each time and never forgotten. Some say it is easy to forget, but somehow I find that far from the truth.

I adore anchient Egypt and the Egyptian Times...no idea why (I used to excell in it at school too but people bullied me and called me Tutankarmoonjot *My names Amanjot* so I stopped eversince and never touched on the subject again)

i feel like i should have been born in the 18th century, i'm a man of romanticism.

I've always had a facination for ancient Rome. I've read many books on the subject and I love watching shows on TLC and The History Channel about it. I'm not too sure on the whole past lives thing, but who knows. I suppose most anything is possible.

I've had a longing to the eras of The Pax Romana, The early & late ages of Medieval Europe. I am skilled with a sword, and I always wanted to venture off on an adventure, and the early middle ages would be the perfect time. As for the late middle ages, I'm drawn to it particularly thanks to the Renaissance. Besides that, I've always felt a connection to the Pax Romana as many great thinkers were in that time.

One of my problems with past lives is people romanticizing "their" era. I'll admit there were a few nice things about all of these eras, but most of it was crap. Almost always definitely more so than now. Few people mention periods within the 20th century, which would make the most sense. It's always ancient or medieval this or that. I tend to think that the more recent years would be the most fresh in our consciousness. I also tend to think that these remembered years might be spaced in lifetimes, rather than here and there throughout the time line. Now, I know we can't remember all, but some things just make more sense.
If I was anyone in a past life, I already know who. There are too many feelings and likenesses to be coincidence. I wish I could know more about her. It's nothing far fetched, either. Local, and as realistic as such a thing can be. I wish more people shared accounts like that. I'd find them much more believable.

I have the same thing since childhood.I feel connected to the 19th century, Renaissance time, 1920's-30's & esp. to Britain, a part of Russia and the Basque area. There is doctor or Professor or something that claims we have "genetic memory from our Ancestors that has been passed down.

I don't know if this is true but it may be a good explanation of these feelings.

This guy also does past life regression and this is his theory.

Maybe it is influenced through the media somehow ? (on a subconscious level)

I beleive in reincarnation so it could be past memories of a very loved life you had then....
Food for thought