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I tend to lean toward a belief in reincarnation, more than anything else. Maybe we live lives in order to learn all that we can and reach some kind of state of "enlightenment". And maybe once we reach that state, we sort of become one with the universe and reach some different reality that our human minds cannot understand. And maybe if we haven't reached that state yet, we become angels for a certain time and watch over the human world and our loved ones. Haha, I have no clue. But reincarnation is just about the only idea I have that I feel might be partly correct. I don't know if it's from watching too many old films or what have you, but I've had a couple of dreams, both from the same time period, around 1800s judging from the clothes I and others were wearing. In one dream I was in my early to mid 20s, walking along a bridge that connected to a jetty, and i was dressed in one of those bourgeois dresses, with a parasol. There was a very lower class, red headed family at the end of the jetty (I was a redhead too), and for some reason they were all trying to cram into this small wooden boat, it's like they were fleeing from something. A small girl fell into the water from the boat, I have no idea how old she was, but definitley 12 or under. And I don't think any of them could swim, but they were all calling her name, which sounded like "keer-ly" and sticking some wooden paddle into the water. In a matter of seconds I'd discarded my parasol and hat, and raced down the jetty, going into the water after her. I reached her and tried to pull her back up and somewhat succeeded, at least I *think* I was able to sort of push her near the surface. I have no idea if she survived. When I tried to swim back up my dress was far too heavy and since I never made it back to the top in my dream, I'm guessing I drowned. In the next dream I was a poor girl (still a redhead) getting adopted by a rich uncle, and so was my older sister. We were both quite young and I don't think either of us were any older than 17. He would take advantage of my sister, and that's all I dreamt about. But yeah, I just thought it was really interesting how both dreams seem to be connected somehow, in that they are from the same time period and I seem to be the same person in both of them. I don't completely believe they're dreams of my past life, I have no idea - I'm pretty sure it could just as well be my imagination also, but how interesting it would be if that turned out to be "past life dreams"! It's just the fact that I've never had 2 seperate dreams about being the same "character", which sets these apart from other dreams, in my mind.
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