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8 Ways to Trust What You See in Your Past Life Experience

Writer: CrystaCrysta

Truth: Most people who experience a past life memory think they made it all up. I'm going to show you eight ways to know for certain it was real instead of imagined.




If you’ve already had a past life memory come through in one way or another, odds are, you’ve questioned it once or twice.


“Was it real?”

“Did I make all of that up?”

“How do I know I didn’t imagine it?”

“What if I DID imagine it?”

“How could I know that?”

And the list goes on.


The research begins. Getting on every internet article you can find, hoping for some validation of your experience.


Posting on every Facebook group looking for answers.


You just need someone to tell you that you didn't make it all up.


I get it. It’s hard to say in absolute certainty “I KNOW it was real.”


So I’m gonna share 8 different ways you can know whether your experience was real or imagined.


1) You could feel the emotions, hear the sounds, and smell the smells, just as if you were experiencing them.


This sensory process is only available to our conscious minds when awake. Ever cried about something that happened earlier in the day while you were sleeping, or smelled something while sleeping? (BTW - smoke doesn’t count - it sets off danger alarms in your brain) If you had sensory processing during your experience, it was almost certainly real.

2) It seemed familiar. You know, like it was an actual memory.


This one’s tricky - it could have been a memory, or it could have been a memory of a dream. But combined with another few on this list, the familiarity of the place, time, people, etc is a great clue of a past life memory. So are recurring dreams.


3) Why would you make THAT up?


Of all the things your subconscious mind and imagination could come up with, why would it come up with that? This one also has a caveat - if you’re big into history, or watch a lot of historical TV shows, that can influence what you experience. But again, combined with a few others on this list, it was likely a real event that happened.


4) You experienced it as if it were your point of view.


Being the actor in the scene is a hallmark of a regression experience. You do this all the time in dreams, too, but if you weren’t dreaming and instead having a past life session, it was probably a real experience.


5) The dream was lucid and stayed with you long after waking.


We dream almost all night long, but rarely ever remember it. Some people don’t remember their dreams at all! So if you think it was a past life dream, and it stuck with you for several days or was really vivid and felt real, that’s a good sign you remembered a past life.


6) You could recognize other people in your experience as people in your life now.


As far as I know, the phenomenon of knowing someone you’ve never laid eyes on before is a hallmark of past life remembrance. In a dream, your spouse may behave differently, but you will recognize them as your spouse, in the same body they are in real life. But recognizing them as your spouse in waking life, and they look and behave completely differently in your experience is a really good sign of a past life memory.


7) You didn’t “control” what was happening.


If you think about imagining things as a child, you could control the experience. You could imagine you were flying, for example, and you’d see clouds, or had the ability to fly into outer space. You imagined that - made it all up. There’s an element of control to that. When you recall a memory (any memory) you see it as it happened. You don’t need to control it. If it was a past life memory, it will play out without you controlling the outcome.


8) Validate your memories through research.


This is my favorite. Historical validation, combined with any of these other tips, is a nearly fail-proof way to know you can trust your experience. Someone else validated it for you, and doesn’t even know you!


If you don’t know how to historically research past life information, or still struggle to know whether your experience was real, grab a free Discovery Session with me. I’ll walk you through the Travelogue program - where I teach you everything you need to know about validating your past lives.


And, if you’re a Curiosity Package client, you get the Travelogue program AND I’ll personally research your past life for you. Then, there can be no doubt your experience was real.


Bonus: Read about what other people have experienced and validate your own based on their accounts.


In fact, I made up a whole reading list just for that purpose. Grab a copy here for free.




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