Previous life comments from child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is interesting, OP. When I was a young kid, I had a recurring dream about what I would describe as being in utero. I had no context for it at the time and couldn't explain it, but I knew that's where I came from.

Interesting. Not a past life but a current pre-life, when you were actually too young to remember. Did you also describe anything from your actual birth?

[Anonymous]

I'd want to take him to NYC and just have him take you where he lived!

[Anonymous]

OP here.

Just minutes ago my five year old said, as we were getting ready for bed, that he had a feeling he was supposed to go back to New York City to find someone. But he doesn’t want to go back, because now this is his home and I’m his mom now and New York is too far away anyway.

I typically refrain from engaging with his comments but in this case I did say, super casually, “Who are you supposed to find in New York?” And he garbled a name like “Adam” or “Eric” Marilock” or “Maldaduke” or something. And I said, “who is that” and he said “I think a friend.”

And that’s all. I decided I’d post here as a record and if he says anything else I’ll post again.

I’m not going to pursue this at all, however, because it’s either his imagination (and then it’d be crazy of me to pursue) OR it’s real, and I think it’s probably good if he doesn’t want to go to New York anymore because this is his home.

Pretty crazy though. Pretty hard for me to think there isn’t something there.

[Anonymous]

Check out the last episode of Surviving death on netflix. I think the kids seem believable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Just minutes ago my five year old said, as we were getting ready for bed, that he had a feeling he was supposed to go back to New York City to find someone. But he doesn’t want to go back, because now this is his home and I’m his mom now and New York is too far away anyway.

I typically refrain from engaging with his comments but in this case I did say, super casually, “Who are you supposed to find in New York?” And he garbled a name like “Adam” or “Eric” Marilock” or “Maldaduke” or something. And I said, “who is that” and he said “I think a friend.”

And that’s all. I decided I’d post here as a record and if he says anything else I’ll post again.

I’m not going to pursue this at all, however, because it’s either his imagination (and then it’d be crazy of me to pursue) OR it’s real, and I think it’s probably good if he doesn’t want to go to New York anymore because this is his home.

Pretty crazy though. Pretty hard for me to think there isn’t something there.

Fascinating. Please do keep us posted. I'd be tempted to look up the names he mentioned to see if they exist(ed) and then maybe go to NY, after he stops referring to people from his past life, as many here have said he would.

[Anonymous]

Take him to be hypnotized.

[Anonymous]

OP I think you should indulge it a bit. Ask him more questions about his before life, like what was his job, did he have a family, a car, what his house was like. I totally believe in reincarnation so this would be amazing to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I think you should indulge it a bit. Ask him more questions about his before life, like what was his job, did he have a family, a car, what his house was like. I totally believe in reincarnation so this would be amazing to me.

Good ideas, IMO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Just minutes ago my five year old said, as we were getting ready for bed, that he had a feeling he was supposed to go back to New York City to find someone. But he doesn’t want to go back, because now this is his home and I’m his mom now and New York is too far away anyway.

I typically refrain from engaging with his comments but in this case I did say, super casually, “Who are you supposed to find in New York?” And he garbled a name like “Adam” or “Eric” Marilock” or “Maldaduke” or something. And I said, “who is that” and he said “I think a friend.”

And that’s all. I decided I’d post here as a record and if he says anything else I’ll post again.

I’m not going to pursue this at all, however, because it’s either his imagination (and then it’d be crazy of me to pursue) OR it’s real, and I think it’s probably good if he doesn’t want to go to New York anymore because this is his home.

Pretty crazy though. Pretty hard for me to think there isn’t something there.

I would want to visit NYC with him. It is a great city!

[Anonymous]

When my daughter was born, my son who was 3 said he saw her before he was born and knew she was coming. I should have asked more questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son, now five, has consistently made comments about his previous life and how he died. I don't say ANYTHING in response to him except maybe "oh wow," and in the beginning I definitely thought it was just his imagination. But the more time passes and the more consistent the story is, the stranger I feel about it.

At the age of 2, when he could first talk, he would pretend to "fall" over and over, and would say "I falling, I falling" and cry hysterically. I had to act out catching him, and he said he'd die "like he did last time" if I didn't catch him. If he saw anything on tv that had to do with falling, he would get hysterical. He also said, from the moment he first learned about New York City, that he loved New York City and it's where he "grew up". We've never taken him to New York.

At the age of 3, he started saying he fell into a hole and died the "last time" he was alive. Then he said he had to wait SO long to be born, and asked me why it took so long to be born. Once we saw a sort of drainage cover thing in a foreign city (maybe over a sewer system, I'm not sure) and he said, "oh, that's like the hole I fell into when I died."

At the age of 4, he started saying he chose me to be his mom because he saw me crying on the beach and knew I'd love him the most. Before I was pregnant, my husband and I got into a fight about whether to have another child when we were on a beach vacation, and I went down to the beach late at night and sat by the water and dreamed of another child and how much I'd love him/her. No one has heard that story. My husband doesn't even know where I went that night (other than that I went for a walk to cool off).

Now at the age of 5, he once again said that in his last life he lived in New York City - and that he loves New York City - and he was pretty old and had an ok life but then he fell and he died. And he had to wait forever to be born and now he's five! He says it like it's no big deal. He just said it today.

That's all. I don't even want to talk to my husband about this - though he has also heard these comments - because it feels too weird. But he's been so consistent for so long.

OP have you heard of the research done by Uni of Virginia Med School into children who report remembering past lives? It is common enough to warrant systemic research.

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/

[Anonymous]

Super interesting article about this in the Post last year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/02/children-past-lives/

[Anonymous]

I would be looking up deaths in New York City by people falling into holes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be looking up deaths in New York City by people falling into holes

There were many falling to their deaths on Sept 11 - it came out of nowhere and must have been traumatic for so many who had no time to prepare for death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I think you should indulge it a bit. Ask him more questions about his before life, like what was his job, did he have a family, a car, what his house was like. I totally believe in reincarnation so this would be amazing to me.

Don't do this. It will push him in the wrong direction. Whether it's somehow real or a delusion, it's not his actually life or where his life his headed.

He has a life now. Don't push him toward a "past life"