--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Sounds like a dream while being awake. Any slippage into another time dimension makes it seem probable these dimensions exist simultaneously with the present.
Personally, I suspect this is the case. That is, that all of these events are happening simultaneously, and that something just occasionally enables us to step from one pseudo-timestream to another. > I wonder what it is in our brains or in the frequency of the dimensions called "time" that causes a momentary ability to be able to see sine past event. And are you sure it is a former you that is participating or simply the current you who has slipped, temporarily, into another time frequency and can simply see what happened back then in that spot? Again, I cannot speak to anyone else's experience, or to theory or hypotheticals. For me, this experience (whatever TF it was) always had a strong sense of "I" being identified with the person whose eyes and ears I was using to witness the scene. > Whatever the case or the reason it is something I would like to experience as long as it didn't freak me out too much or the event wasn't too violent. There have been the occasional violent flashback, but for some reason they didn't really freak me out. Probably the most violent was in a basement room of the Papal Palace in Avignon, realizing that I had not only been there before but been tortured (probably to death) there. My "point of view" within the room remained the same (standing in the same location against a wall), but in the "here and now" I was just standing there with a few other tourists, and in the "then and now" I was strapped to the wall and the other people in the room (all in monk's robes) were doing fairly nasty things to me. There was -- interestingly -- no real sensation of pain. What freaked me out the most about the flashback was seeing the look in the eyes of the people doing this, and realizing that they firmly believed they were doing it for the Greater Glory of God. They were ECSTATIC, as if torturing a heretic was GETTING THEM OFF. > ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: > > > > I was going to say this: If I was to find myself suddenly in a > past-life - let's say in Elizabethan London - I'd take careful note of > what clothes the people around me wore, what food they ate, what the > houses looked like, etc. and then when I returned I'd check against the > best-available historical evidence. Here's the thing though: if you were > to have a past-life recall can you alter what you're thinking or doing? > If it's a far-memory of "you" in a previous life is the you that's "you > in the 21st century having the recall" able to change anything? > > > I cannot speak to hypothetical situations like yours. I can only say > what it was like for me. > > For me it was *not* like lucid dreaming, which I have practiced and > gotten good enough at that I could change things in the dream to suit > myself. The flashes I've had were all short-lived -- thirty seconds to > at most a couple of minutes -- during which I was completely immersed in > the scene. I *did* seem to have some volition, in that I could decide to > try to talk to someone, and pull that off, but it was not the "I'm in > control of this vision" kinda thang one experiences with lucid dreaming. > > I never sought any of these flashes, nor am I interested in doing so > now. They just happened, almost always when I was in the physical > location where the original events took place. That's the part that's so > much FUN about whatever it is. I'm in the same room of a castle, or in > the courtyard of a large city like Carcassonne, and one moment I'm "here > and now" and the next I'm "here and then." > > The overall scene doesn't change, just the details -- like what people > are wearing, eating, etc. I guess I could have been more Sherlock > Holmes-y about it, but frankly each time it's happened it's come as such > a surprise and been so thoroughly entertaining that I just allowed > myself to be entertained. >
