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Rosemary You don't suggest what age you were when you were staring at your hands, only the inference that you were less than 2. Yes, Len, your Socrates bit was good food for thought. However, as you rightly pointed out on the LAD thread, scoffers just scoff; they do not offer any cogent argument to support their views - to them, the world will always be flat. Rob

There is quite a lot of evidence that memories from a previous existence may rarely be recalled. Scoffers read the Life after Death thread, in particular my bit about Socrates. len

i can remember when i was 5 and my brother built a go kart.too frightened to go in it.he promised not to push me too fast even though ther was a big steep hill which i would be hurterling down.i got in and he push me so hard that i had to use my knee as brakes.you could just imagine the state of my knees when i got off!

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Interesting one, Maureen. In another thread, Len of the Chilterns mentions that scientists have shown that memory does exist pre-birth, perhaps from as young as 12 weeks after conception. What I postulate (if that is the correct use of that pompous-sounding word) is that I (and perhaps Judith's husband) have a memory that may be days (or even hours!) after conception. Is there anyone doing serious research into memory along these lines, or do scientists only work with people who have lost memory? Rob

i have so many memories from childhood,probably cos they were some of the happiest,but one ive always rememberd,is when my nan in neath was unwell,and i was sent to stay with my aunt in tewkesbury for two weeks,and her boyfriend was a right misery guts...i should be seen,and not heard etc..when he came home from work,he would eat a big dinner,and then gollop down a massive rice pudding,enough for four people,and i remember asking for some,and he gave me a spoonfull...bloody hated him,big fat pig! bryan.

my memory(age 3)...wanting a cabbage patch kid so much..id planned everything down to clothing was gutted when i got one as i'd asked santa for a girl..and it was a boy{yuk}still i learnt to love him dearly and he's now entertaining my own daughter some 24 yrs on.xx

Just caught up with this thread. My youngest daughter from learning to speak used to say" when I lived in the orphanage, before I came to live with you" then went on to tell us a story. How can a two year old know about orphanages?

Joanne, your memory could also appear on the "Life After Death" thread. I do sometimes wonder if we see more as children because we haven't yet learnt that some things "do not exist". Perhaps teaching can limit the mind as well as expand it. One good example is that I used to be good at "intuitive" maths - I could see a problem (some quite complex), and would know the answer, but had no idea how it was achieved. Naturally, even though the answers were correct, this did not sit well with the teachers at the grammar school, and the ability was soon ground out of me. Judith - at last! A memory similar to my own! I wonder if there are others sitting out there, to nervous to admit this strange, subconcious (for want of a better term) memory. Len, your suggestion seems to be a common idea, and it is one that I have thought about, though I do have reservations about submitting myself for hypnosis. I live in Yorkshire, but it is nice to know that there is a town named after me! Rob

I was 2 or 3 when my grandad died. I was with my mother near some cliffs and I asked her why we were there. She replied we were scattering grandads ashes. 'why?' I asked. 'Beacuse he died and went to heaven' she said. 'No he did'nt, he's standing by that car' I told her. I think I got a clip round the ear for telling lies. But he was there leaning on a black car and smiling at me. Jo.

Robert I suggest you submit yourself to a good hypno-therapist and are "regressed". I know a well-qualified man in Robertsbrige, Sussex if you are in that part of the world. Len

Rob - just another little post script that has just hit me in light of this thread - My granddaughter is three and often refers to 'when I am a baby again'. I have tried to explain that she will grow older rather than younger thinking that she just doesn't understand growing up but now I'm not so sure. Magsx

Oooh, you are frustrating me, Len! I had hoped that your input would have added greater insight to my own ideas! Is there anyone out there doing out-of-the-mainstream research into memory? If so, what sort of data are they looking for? Will they be able to throw any light onto my own "cell-memory"? Is there anyone else out there who has a similarly bizarre memory? Information, please, Number Six. Information! Rob

Robert After I retired from full-time , paid employment I retrained as a counsellor with an organisation devoted to mental health, sponsored by the South Bucks Health Authority. After 6 months initial training (continued for 10 years) I was let loose on a few clients , being Supervised by the Consultant Psychiatrist at Amersham Hospital. One client had a memory of an event when she was six months old, which I found it hard to credit although, naturally, I did not query it. Later I raised this with my supervisor and was told that it was rare but not unkown and that there were rarer cases on record of memories of the birth process and even pre-birth recall. An amusing anecdote the psychiatrist recounted was that the TV programme "Neighbours" was very popular in the maternity unit at Wycombe Hospital and it was noticed that new-born babies invariably responded to the signature tune which they had first heard whilst in the womb proving that memory does exist before birth. My first memory is of when I was 2. I had a client who remembered nothing from before the age of 14 and thought this to be quite normal. Len

Some very interesting memories are coming in here! Mags, your son's tale, and Sarah, your anecdote about your daughter, reminds me of a colleague a few years ago, who told me of his nephew (young, at the time), who claimed that he could remember being with God before he was born. Another tale that begs for more details! It also begs the question: when does conciousness start? I understand that the legal "start" of conciousness is at birth; some of what is appearing suggests that it may start a long time before - possibly even before conception, and if that is the case then the concept of conciousness continuing after death does become a reality. Yes, Judith, I was hoping the Len would see the thread, and investigate. Perhaps he is engrossed in more of his studies. It would be good to have others contribute more memories (preferably personal, but more vicarious memories will be accepted!), to build up a reasonable database upon which ideas and explanations could be built, and from which someone of more scientific abilities can formulate acceptable theories. Rob

I remeber talking to a friend a few years back, describing a 'dream' I'd had - I was dreaming of being a small child and crawling through a wall-space from one room to another. It turned out that it wasn't a dream, I was remembering a nursery I attended up to the age of 18 months which was in a very old building (no longer in existence) and each room had panelling, which, at one end of each room opened up to create a through space between the rooms. I have no other memories of this building, or being at nursery there (although I do remember the nursery I attended after that), and the friend I was talking to worked there some years ago so knew that what I was describing was real. On another note, my daughter, when she was about 3 or 4, made a comment that flummoxed me completely. We were in the car, driving past a car park that was being built on a derelict site. She suddenly announced that she used to work there when she was big. I laughed, thinking she had her grammar confused, and asked if she meant she wanted to be a builder when she grew up. No, she said, I used to work there when I was big! I've never pushed the point, and she made similar comments at other times when we went past the same site...although she's never said anything similar since the car park was finished. Spooky?? lol

I don't think this is a crackpot memory - it would certainly go some way to explaining reincarnation and why children recall things that couldn't possibly have happened to them. My son was about two (certainly less than 2yrs 3mths because we didn't have our daughter then) when he spotted a War Memorial that had a statue of a soldier with a bayonetted rifle and announced that he had 'one of those' and then went on to tell us that his friend had hurt his leg and they had taken the 'knife' off and turned it upside down to 'help his friend walk'. To the best of my knowledge he had never been exposed to this image -so where did it come from? Your theory would certainly fit in this case. Mags

Robert, interesting theory. I beleive we inherit 'memory genes', that go back a few generations. My son says he remembers a room and describes it, but it's not his room, it's mine from my childhood. Jo.

Robert, I find your last message very interesting, Have you ever been regressed by hypnosis(my spelling never good) I have always fancied it but, would be to scared.