Bedtime Memory

[Galadriel]

I don't really expect replies, I just thought I'd share this...The other night as we were lying in bed, my 4yr old son asked me to go dancing with him again. I told him that we could do some dancing in the morning; that we'd turn on the radio in the kitchen and dance there. He said no, he wanted to go dancing in a bar with me like we did before, with Delenn (my youngest daughter.) I've never been in a bar in my life, so I told him that we couldn't go to a bar, and he sat up and looked at me for a minute, tipped his head to one side, and said "Oh yeah, that's right. Bars are for bigger boys and bigger girls."

 

[Raven]

I know you said you don't expect replies, but I thought I would anyways. I also have a four year old son, and don't they say the darndest things? I think it is a strange feeling for your own child to say these things, but it strikes a chord for you, doesn't it? Almost like, "Oh yes, but of course..." I also think it amazing that he caught it himself that he was thinking of a different time and that he is no longer a 'bigger boy'. I responded to you because, while my son has not made a reference to me (other then "being my grandfather" which both of my current grandfathers are still alive, and the fact that he described it as happening now, not in the past)stating that we were ever together in that way (spouse, mate) I still feel an intense bond between him and I (perhaps a grandfather/granddaughter/son relationship)He has shown me nothing but love and affection since the moment he was born. When he sees that I am not feeling well he gently puts his "Pooh" blankie on me and rubs my forehead. If I get upset for whatever reason he will hold my hand (and sometimes kiss it) and rests his head on my shoulder and pats my back saying it's going to be ok. Well, at any rate, I could go on all night and day of the bizarre happenings of my son...but back to you. Did you feel anything, even just familiarity when your son was born? Or even when you were pregnant with him? Does he ever give you that look like, "We have shared some good times together, and glad we can share some more?"...(Noo Raven.....just you...) As you can see I am use to being out there by myself with nobody to identify with

[This message has been edited by Raven (edited 02-28-2000).]

 

[tyrione]

Now if that were the case being out there alone than i would have to say my path is a solitary one and no can identify with it as well. Raven tends to be specifically general and someone she knows always cannot help but call her on it. If you were alone I dare say you would still be alone.

 

[Galadriel]

We are connected somewhat, though I can't say from exactly when. If it was the life in the...I call it 'home movies' then we were Native American together. (Home Movies are the name I gave the visions I had while I was pregnant with him. All very interesting scenes of everyday life, but not at a time when there were 'bars' so there would have to have been at least one other life together. I don't remember either.)

The past life he mentions most is one in which he lived with his grandmother. I assume it was somewhere in the U.S. because they lived on a Washington Street. He told us what colour the house was once, but I don't remember (not red, we live in a red house, and he was rather unhappy about that that day.)

Sometimes I wonder if I'm reading much into my kids statements though. I know my older daughter is a spirit that my husband had channelled off and on for a dozen or so years before her birth; and when he tried doing research on her based on what she told him, came up with someone who died in a house fire when she was 10 years old. (He had a microfilm of the newspaper article and everything. Then the following week, the article was gone, and when he went back to the library, that roll of microfilm was missing). At any rate, she has a tendancy to tell people that she's 10 when they ask her how old she is...She definately seems a lot older than 2 most of the time.

This is off the point though.

As to your son claiming to be your grandfather, maybe it was in your past life, seeing as it can't be in your current one.

 

[Raven]

It is interesting to me that both of your kids are remembering these things. And I don't think you are reading too much into what your kids are saying, as their mommy, you know them best. And perhaps it isn't anymore unusual that both of them are, then not. You are just aware of such things being possible where as other people would quickly blow it off.

So, I'm wondering if all of us say such things when we are little, and it depends on our parents response on whether we remember these things or not as we get older. Perhaps it was best that these things got pushed out in earlier human history, but maybe we are coming into an age where it will be the norm to accept these things, and we are just slowly raising the awareness as kids to the adults. Then the kids become the adults, and they will be even more receptive, so perhaps it is part of the changing the zodiac ages...The 'Age of Aquarius'. Well, perhaps that is for another discussion.