How do people claim to remember past lives?
People can be presented with what appear to be past life memories in a variety of different ways. Spontaneous recall Especially with small children, memories simple appear to surface from nowhere. Some describe the process as being like a “waking dream”. Images and scenes may come to mind and the subject may often find themself as a participant in the memory, though often they report feeling somehow different in the memory from their current self. Although it might seem like a daydream, the subject is often surprised by the unexpected nature of the experience and it can also be very intense. Triggered recall The memory is experienced in the same way “waking dream” fashion as with spontaneous recall, but it is triggered by an event of some kind. This event may be anything which appears to remind the subject of a key part of the memory – for example a particular smell, the sight of an object, a noise, hearing a particular word or phrase, a taste or being in a particular physical setting.
