Have you lived before?

Jane315STARX
Jane315STARX Online Community Member Posts: 787 Pioneering

I have wondered if I have lived before.I went to a very old building a few months ago built in the 1800s and a felt like I had been there before.I felt absolutely compelled to touch the walls and take in deep breaths of the air.I imagined what it would have been like in the 1800s and some things felt very familiar.Has anyone else had a simular experience?

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  • Pickle72
    Pickle72 Online Community Member Posts: 32 Contributor

    Hello, that’s very interesting. I did visit George Washington’s house in Virginia, USA and I immediately felt at home. I felt that some rooms were familiar and I definitely knew the gardens. Years later doing my family tree it was evident that an ancestor had gone to live in Virginia. I had loads of American family members across America but a big portion of them were in Virginia. I wonder if you can find out if any family members had lived in the house that you felt was familiar. Very interesting subject. Thanks for bringing it up for comments.

  • Jane315STARX
    Jane315STARX Online Community Member Posts: 787 Pioneering

    @Pickle72 wow that is absolutely incredible!.What an experience.I feel I should curtsey or something.It definitely sounds that you found a connection there.X

  • birdwatcher
    birdwatcher Online Community Member Posts: 149 Empowering

    Great question! For me I think the answers no. But did used to have a recurring dream about a place I knew really well. If I'd visited it I could have found my way round easily. Despite never having gone there in my life! Maybe I lived there in a previous life?

  • Jane315STARX
    Jane315STARX Online Community Member Posts: 787 Pioneering

    Hmm..sounds like you could have perhaps lived before and maybe as a bird?...perhaps the name 🤔 gave it away

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,282 Championing
    edited October 19

    I've often have that "Deja Vu" feeling that everyone gets, but for the last couple of years I've been getting a kind of double one … like "I've had a deja vu moment whilst sat here before". I even sometimes seem to know when/how it will end, which is spooky!!!

  • Jane315STARX
    Jane315STARX Online Community Member Posts: 787 Pioneering

    @66Mustang that is spooky.I think it would be nice to know what we looked like.I find it interesting when you see old photos from the past and then people have such an astonishing likeness here in the future but no apparent family link.Also im not sure ( in my particular circumstance,how much my imagination has taken a role in creating what I'd like as ive pictured myself.But is this really a true representation of the past? Or creation of my mind?.either way im happy

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 2,864 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    This is a really interesting post @Jane315STARX!

    I've never felt like I've lived before so I am fascinated by people who feel like they have before and love listening to their stories