Past Lives: Were You Here Before?

It could be something as simple as the way you set up your desk when you're about to get started on your homework or on a work assignment. That moment, when something feels familiar, you could be sitting in the car with a light from the setting sun hitting your face at just the right angle, when your mind takes you to a time when you were sitting there as a little girl drops her strawberry ice cream cone right in front of your car. The mother then yells at her as she stares down at the ground, holding back her tears. You know what happens next. The mother grabs her by the hand and drags her toward the car. But how do you know that you've been here before? Some people believe that deja vous means that you remembering something from a past life right at that moment when everything around you makes you fully believe that you have experienced this before, or that part of you knew that this was going to happen. However, some of these stories I'm about to share with you go beyond that. People who have come face to face with undeniable facts that they have existed in the time before they were born. Were you here before? My name is Edwin and here's a dark member. Deja vu may not necessarily show you what you were before. In fact, scientists have put their own spin on this phenomenon, and unfortunately for some of us, they seem to make more sense. One of these ideas is the theory of split perception. It means that you see something two different times, but the first time you do you may only take it out of the corner of your eye while you're not paying attention to it completely. However, your brain takes note of it and will begin forming a memory from what you saw. Then when you view it again, you feel like it's your first time seeing it. Second theory is about minor brain circuit malfunctions, where a brief glitch like an electrical malfunction occurs. This can cause a mix up where short term memory ends up as a long term memory. Another one is where something that resembles a past event that happened to you triggers your flashback, but you simply don't remember when it happened the first time. It is interesting to imagine that you may have been a brave warrior or a great artisan in a previous life. But if we are willing to look at that then we must also be ready to accept that perhaps we may have been criminals or bad members of society too. This concept of having a past life and religion is called reincarnation, which typically explains that when you die, only your physical body dies, but your soul comes back, but this time and another body, and it doesn't have to be a human body. The process of reincarnation depends on how you live your life. Hinduism has this belief where you're constantly reincarnated based on how you live your life until you finally get rid of all evil intentions and selfishness. Other religions like Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism share somewhat of a similar belief without cycling through life until you're reunited with God. It is difficult for some of us to imagine these religious concepts, but here are some cases that will make you wonder about just how little we know about the world we live in. Little Ryan was born to a Baptist family in Oklahoma, and his case became famous for something that still has no explanation. Ryan's mom would sometimes hear him play in his room, and when Ryan was four, his mom began to hear him take part of an interesting game where he would direct imaginary movies from his room. What could hear him say action, just like a movie director would in real life. Things turned a bit more serious when he started waking up his family with screams nightmares that had him clutching his chest. His explanations were always the same, that he had a dream that his heart had exploded in Hollywood. Ryan was taken to the doctor, who said that they were simple night terrors and then made their typical suggestions for getting better sleep, and things once again took a turn. One night, before going to bed, Ryan looked up to his mother and said, Mama, I think I used to be someone else, and then he began to tell his story of what he believed was the life of that person. He said that he would remember a swimming pool outside of a big white house, and he became emotional after saying that he had three sons but could not remember their names. All of this baffled his family, but thankfully, his mother was determined to find answers in order to help her son. She purchased a book about Hollywood and brought them to Ryan to look over, and soon she would get her answers in a book about the movie Night after Night, Ryan noticed two men in a picture and told his mom that's George did a picture together, and then that guy's me found me. The photos in the book had no names of the people photographed, but it was later confirmed through some of his mother's research that indeed that man that he pointed to was named George George Raft, and the one that Ryan believed had been him was no other than the talent agent Marty Martin. In fact, Ryan's mother got in touch with Marty's daughter and was able to confirm facts that only she would have known about her father. Marty did have three sons. Ryan was a Broadway dancer and worked at a talent agency. Ryan even said that his old address had a rock in its name. In fact, the address where Marty used to live was eight twenty five Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Marty died in a hospital in nineteen sixty four. The whole case was so bizarre that the long forgotten stories about the subject can still be found on the Internet with the search for the reincarnation case of Ryan Hammond's or Marty Martin. On December eleventh, nineteen twenty six, a woman by the name of Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India. She would tell stories of her past life in a town she had never been to before. She started telling her family what her name was and said that she died after childbirth. In fact, she was able to detail labor pains in the surgical procedures she had gone through. Claims of her having lived in Matura, seventy five miles away from her current home, eventually made their way through the country even caught the attention of Mahama Gandhi. Shanti's story continued with her husband's last name being detailed, who was actually still alive right where she said he would be. She wasn't even further explaining what it was like in the afterlife. Many of the facts she said were actually able to be confirmed. Bruce and Andrew Lininger, from California, welcomed their son, James on April tenth, nineteen ninety eight. Then soon they moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, where James grew up. When he was about two years old, he started having nightmares that would wake him up with screams and tears. Their parents would find him kicking and screaming as if he was trapped somewhere. They claimed to hear him say an airplane, crash, plane on fire, little man can't get out. These events will continue, and eventually his mother asked who the little man and the plane was. James simply answered with me. James started developing an obsession with different World War II aircraft, knowing details that no kid his age should have known about or be able to understand. It was then, while playing one afternoon that he looked up at his mother and said, Mama, before I was born, I was a pilot and my airplane got shot down in the engine and crash in the water. That's how I died. When james father found out, he took in what his son was saying and brought him a book with pictures. James was able to provide more information that eventually led his father into investigating the strange names that his son would mention with details about the names of the plane and the ship he used to sail in. Eerie details about where his plane had crashed were also coming to the surface. Eventually, it was discovered that this man that is not kept talking about may have been Navy pilot James Huston junior, who died during the war after being hit and crashing into the water. All of the details are there and documented. Today, James tries to live a simple life away from the spotlight still though, when asked in a recent interview, he said that he can still remember some of those details and the things he used to remember about his previous life. Was there something from your childhood that stood out in the same way that a distant memory does. Perhaps a hobby or an interest that had no explanation, it was just something that felt familiar to you. These cases of past lives are only a few of the hunts hundreds that have been documented through extensive research. What do you think for some of us, these stories might provide the proof you need to believe that some of those who walk among us they have in fact been here before. Perhaps it's all you need to reassure yourself that maybe you have been here as well. This episode of A Dark Memory was written by me Edwin Komarujas with researcher a medal Inguera. Do you have a dark memory to share? Is it the website adark memory dot com To get in touch. You can share this episode through your podcast app. Don't forget attack me. At the same time, I'll leave details in the description of this episode. Thank you for your stars and the ratings of the show. Until next time, thank you very much for listening.