Q&A for How to Remember Your Past Lives

Your brain does this for you as part of a neural encoding process. The hippocampus part of your brain is in control of the memories and knows which areas of your brain to activate when you want to retrieve memories. You can help your memory become stronger by doing various memory exercises; if you’d like to try that, check out the wikiHow How to Improve Your Memory .

Some people believe that a dream about something in another era or time is a sign of having had a past life. In such cases, it is thought relevant if the dream feels real, if the details are incredibly accurate and if the events that unfold are ones that actually did happen. Of course, in this day of television, movies, YouTube and more, there is also a risk that your brain is just reenacting something you’ve already seen at some point in time, especially as many dreams have a cinematic quality to them. If you do think the dream might mean something about a past life, jump on a forum where people discuss past lives, so you can connect with people who share the same beliefs and to get feedback from them on what it might mean.

For some people and in some faiths, there is a strong belief held that humans have had past lives and are reincarnated. Where this belief is held, signs of past lives include such happenings as: clicking with a soulmate, experiencing irrational fears or undiagnosable pain, déjà vu, having the same dream often and feeling like an "old soul." However, some things are also explicable scientifically and some may just be the result of having a great imagination. So, it’s really up to you to decide whether or not you’ve had a past life.

Karma is considered by those who believe in it to be cumulative and gets brought into each new life you go through. Past life karma is a belief in some faiths that what you did or made a decision about in a former life is steering or influencing the kind of life that you’re now experiencing. If your past life was predominantly filled with negative actions and choices, then this life may be spent undoing the bad karma that resulted by doing positive actions so you can move onward in a more positive way. You always have a chance to redeem yourself, to learn and grow and to try to lead a better, more positive life each time.

Accept it and try to redeem yourself now by volunteering with animal-related organizations. It's never too late to make up for bad deeds.

If you were a criminal in past lives you have to just accept it. Since then you've probably become a better person.

It might be because of something that happened in your past life -- or, you may be a little too obsessed with this actor.

Yes, that's possible. Your focus might not be entirely on your vision, on your past life might be further back in history than you can reach.

It is possible. You may have enjoyed a past life with this man. But don't think that makes the choices you have made in this life previous to meeting him invalid. Often, we meet up with the same people because we are bonded in some way, or have something to teach each other. Look at the circumstances of your current life, and any issues that you have been dealing with, and ask yourself if meeting this man answers a question, helps with an issue, or makes you look at things a different way. It is also is a chance to perhaps not repeat a similar mistake. The same choices will often pop up for us in different lives, giving us the chance to either experience it again, or make a different choice.

Don't brag about it, as you might be considered crazy by peers. However, it is quite cool.

Yes. If you feel you are very related to them and there is a connection between you and the name.

Many humans have been warriors, across all time periods. Be careful when exploring such negative, horrible memories.

If you are dreaming, and feel this may have happened before, it may have been your past life. However, the brain is incredibly complex and can remember many memories and cobble them together in a highly imaginative way, so what feels like another life may just be crossed memories of your current life. Dreams are not reliable, as they are a realm of fantasy and the brain sorting out what isn't needed.

In meditation, that means you're not fully letting your mind go free or, in this case, you're only focusing on what you need to. Other thoughts or maybe the background noise you chose isn't letting you relax enough.

It might be that you were a nonhuman in a past life. Let it guide you to the full answer.

Listen to the voice. It could be trying to tell you a deeper message or preparing you for your next life, but do not let it dictate how you wish to live. If you want to skydive, do it. But if it as simple as telling you to take an alternative route instead of your usual one, I'd say listen. It could be something spiritual or supernatural, or it could just be your common sense talking.

Sure. Many believe you could have even been a different species in a past life. Souls are not bound to these types of categories.

Of course they can. According to this theory, you may have lived more than twice.

If you feel a strong connection with that particular individual, you might have been lovers in a past life.

It's possible. Try meditating and using the methods mentioned in this article.

It sounds more like you unknowingly had an astral projection and met that person while in another plane, only to meet them in person later while retaining all memory of what occurred while you projected.

It is very possible you had a past life in Asia, and your love of the Asian culture could be resurfacing. Try to see if you can remember anything else about the Asian town, the building structure, any dates that pop out, people etc.

Potentially. They could also be from a traumatic experience in a past life, or they could be unrelated. It all depends, every person is unique. Souls go through changes, cycles, and phases, but they are still the same soul, so it could be related, or it might not. If you feel it is, it is.

Yes.

Of course it could! It could be very interesting for you to go to that place and just feel what comes to you.

Maybe. Many people believe they could be related to wounds inflicted in previous lives.

It could, but try to connect to that person and see if they feel the same.

It could be past life recall, or it could be premonition. Remember dreams are not always past life recall.

If you are curious but deeply you don't really want to know, it's often because you are scared about it, and the fear will block the connexion. It's just mean you're not ready yet and it's ok. Keep trying. When you exhale, imagine you let go all of your doubts and fears, and feel that you're protected. Remember you connect with yourself.

No. Lucid dreaming is when you're dreaming and aware of that. Astral projection is where you change dimensions to experience reality.