Past Lives

The subject of past lives just really fascinates me!
I have some related stories myself, but I would love to hear anything anyone else has to say on the subject.
I can also answer questions if someone has one about this or anything related.

Please don't come here just to hate.
This is not a debate thread.
Pull that nonsense and I will knock ya down a peg bc that aint happenin.

This is one of many theories that trips me out the most. I think about it all the time, and I get really passionate when I discuss it.

The person who is thinking in your mind, the person who is looking through your eyes is who you are. That is you. And you, whoever you may be, has no name, no gender, no age, no appearance. You are just a soul, who is living through life and experiencing as much as you can and learning anything you can until our world doesn't exist anymore. You live through the life of the body you are currently in, learn as much as you possibly can in that body, and then you die. But its not you who dies, it is the body. Then you are reborn into another body, to continue living life and learning secrets. The body may not remember your past lives but your soul does, and it is impossible to remember anything about who you were in your past lives.  So your souls main  purpose and goal in life is to, in those bodies, learn every possible thing about our universe. Your close friends and family and anyone significant in your life had been perhaps family or a compelling figure in a past life, but of course, you have no way of knowing. Your lover however cannot be your lover in another life, any husbands/wives/girlfriends/boyfriends can't be any of those things to you again.

Souls who've had unfinished business in a body become ghosts, which I don't know personally if I believe in supernatural things, but its also just an idea. And until they've finished their business, then they go back into the cycle of rebirth. 

I haven't figured out anything yet to explain animals and pets, but my own theory says that a human soul can't become an animal, and vice versa.

That'd be a cool book to write, if a body becomes completely aware and remembers all their past lives and stuff.

Thats a nice theory! I agree with most of it, but also have my own.
I do agree that your body is not YOU, but your soul is.
but I also absolutely believe that souls have preferences, whether that be for other souls or specific bodies.
not necessarily that they get to choose, but rather hat they are drawn to certain things.
I definitely think we can remember pieces of past lives and meet other souls again.
I also think we CAN be other animals, but most of the time souls stick to the same kind of thing.

I think they have a preference, too. I just think they cannot decide if they want to be born into a male body or a female body. Hence, transgender (not to offend anyone). Hm, maybe a soul has a default gender then. Maybe the very first body you are born into decides everything else about you.

I agree that we can remember bits and pieces, but its quickly forgotten. Or Deja Vu.

Maybe we are able to become an animal, but its not the "right" way. Like, it'd mess up the entire system of rebirth.

I really want to write a book about this now. With a plot and everything.

Yes I think default is a good word!!
I tend to think animals have souls too, or even plants. And ours moves on to whatever needs.
Personally, I remember a lot of pieces of past lives, but I also had help from souls I have known in the past.
I am a very skeptical and scientific person but I have no doubt that I have spent a collective centuries with them, not just from intuitiom but from things they knew that they couldnt have known, or telling me memories and names that I had never told anyone else. Not even suggestiom, but spot on every detail.
I also think ghosts are souls that have no body that needs them yet.

I actually am kinda writing a story about it! Well, a comic. A victorian paranormal ^-^
I have written some scenes that are very general depictions of things I remember but no real stories.