Thread: Past Life?

As a long time lucid dreamer I have always looked for different things to do in dreams. Past life regressions was something I had never thought about, in fact I was always a skeptic, until I had very interesting experiences a few years ago. First of all, I consider myself a scientist. I am in my mid 50’s and 35 years I ago I studied physics in University and then switched to engineering, which is the field I have been working in since. I have always had a fascination with the fabric of reality (i.e Quantum Physics), which led to my interest in lucid dreaming (being an alternate reality). So you can imagine my surprise when I had success attempting a past life regression in a lucid dream. At first I brushed it off to being my imagination, but too much detail was there to simply dismiss it.

One night I was looking for something different to do while lucid and so I said “When I turn around, I will be in a past life”. I then proceeded to turn around and found myself in the Napoleonic army in the early 1800’s. There was some kind of guide with me who was showing me around (it kind of felt like Dickens' "A Christmas Carol”). He then pointed to rows upon rows of soldiers, and one soldier in particular in the middle one row. This soldier was in his late teens or early 20’s, he looked a bit malnourished, was not necessarily tall or handsome. He wore the French uniform with the white cross belt. I remember all the details of the uniform, which I was able to confirm afterwards online. I just knew that the soldier that was pointed to was me from a past life. This lucid dream was very clear and vivid, in fact one of the most clear lucid dreams I have ever had. Unfortunately it did not last long and I woke up after that scene.

That dream really got my attention and made me wonder if it was in fact my imagination or if I had actually tapped into a past life. I have often gone to my childhood in dreams but never once have I ever experienced a dream outside of my current life span (lucid on non -Lucid). I was so taken by th experience that I tried to replicate it again soon after but without much success. I therefore tried self-hypnosis and was surprised at the images that came to me in the form of hypnagogic dreams. In one regression I was very wet in a battlefield and solders were stuck in the mud. We were trying to get cannons in place but they too were stuck in the mud. In the next set of images I saw dead horses and soldiers on the field and simply lots of mud and blood and I had a great sense of fear. I knew nothing of Napoleon (in fact I have never had an interest in history) but after doing a bit of research I discovered that this could have been the battle of waterloo, which was a mud bath (and where I died in that life as a simple soldier). I have since tried to have other lucid dreams of past lives because the information was so vivid and detailed. I have had a bit of luck, but more than anything I have been frustrated. I am therefore curious if anyone else out there has tried this (with an open mind ) and has had any success. Many will say that my imagination was working hard here, but there is too much detail from the lucid dream and the regression, information that I have never come across.