Building Forts as a Child

[PastPilot]

I am constantly reminded by my past life memories where I was stationed at many different forts, castles, keeps, earth works, fortified emplacements, etc., over the many years. As children, we seemed to all have a passion for making forts, either in trees, out of snow, in the earth or sand, or just out of pillows and couch cushions in the living room while our parents were away. In many cases, in our past lives, we spent a lot of time either building such structures, or living within such structures on a day-to-day basis.

How much of this childhood activity stems from past life memories of actual fort/fortification building?

 

[argonne1918]

I am constantly reminded by my past life memories where I was stationed at many different forts, castles, keeps, earth works, fortified emplacements, etc., over the many years. As children, we seemed to all have a passion for making forts, either in trees, out of snow, in the earth or sand, or just out of pillows and couch cushions in the living room while our parents were away. In many cases, in our past lives, we spent a lot of time either building such structures, or living within such structures on a day-to-day basis.
How much of this childhood activity stems from past life memories of actual fort/fortification building?

Interesting. I don't think anyone has ever thought of that as a possible PL memory.

 

[PastPilot]

Interesting. I don't think anyone has ever thought of that as a possible PL memory.

If you were in the military over the last 1000 years, earlier if it was the Roman or Chinese armies (many ancient cultures were very good at constructing fortifications), you probably spent 90% of your military service constructing roads and fortifications. I have memories of digging trenches in WWI on the front lines (they were trenches captured from the Germans), and I have memories of being in, around, and marching through fortifications during the American Civil War (some of these were fortified wooden bridges; the American Civil War saw huge numbers of field works and fortifications almost on the same scale as World War I). I remember living in a fortification outside the walls of Jerusalem in 1099AD -- we lived in a fortified camp, along with women, built about 400 yards from the city to protect ourselves from possible sortie attacks from the Muslims within the besieged city.


Fortifications became even more common and extensive once firearms started to appear in armies and also as the numbers and sizes of armies grew as well. By the 1600s and 1700's it evolved into a science. I would assume every soul, at some point in time, has either helped construct, garrison, or has lived in a fortification even if it on a temporary basis, and that would definitely include woman and children because whole families often accompanied their soldiers to war. Fortifications have been very common over the last few thousand years.


It only stands to reason that as children, playing war would encompass our past life memories. Because such memories were closer to the surface in our minds as children, we rarely questioned where such thoughts came from, but as adults, these memories are gone, so we may remember playing war, we don't remember the past life memories that brought about our play.


Many times playing war with my friends, as a child, I had flashbacks of past conflicts, or they triggered dreams of past lives later that night. One memory was so disturbing that I went home afterward; the day of playing was over for me.

 

[Blueheart]

I maybe did that once or twice as a child. My girls make "tents" and "castles" sometimes, not forts. I think the fact that you returned to it often is the key.

 

[Totoro]

Most of my "play" was (and still is lol) based around being a soldier and a commander. I've also spent most of my life being obsessed with getting information. I seem to approach most problems in this way.. get the information, break it down into parts and form some kind of plan or solution. I'm also really good at working with people; interpreting feelings, understanding patterns, feeling people out, communicating my thoughts and ideas to others..


When most kids played war or guns by running around the house, I organized entire "camps" with marching drills, defense plans, establishing perimeters, escape routes etc.

 

[PastPilot]

Organizing the other children is a good example of past life influences coming to the surface during play. No telling what past life talents emerge during a child's game.

Most of my "play" was (and still is lol) based around being a soldier and a commander. I've also spent most of my life being obsessed with getting information. I seem to approach most problems in this way.. get the information, break it down into parts and form some kind of plan or solution. I'm also really good at working with people; interpreting feelings, understanding patterns, feeling people out, communicating my thoughts and ideas to others..
When most kids played war or guns by running around the house, I organized entire "camps" with marching drills, defense plans, establishing perimeters, escape routes etc.

 

[Agathe]

I used to build with my cousins "secret bunkers" (with a lot of spare cardboard boxes) which had a lot labyrinth like tunnels and secret hidden rooms. We would bring food,drinks,games and we would sometimes sleep in them. We would also play certain games in it. Either there was two camps at war who both had a base and had to "kill" off the rest of the opposing team. Or one team would try to stay the longest in the fort (without any food), while the other team "layed siege".

 

[Carloloner]

I used to build forts with my brothers friends as a kid only we called them dens and used them to chill in. Not sure whether this was past life related though.

 

[Alkibiades_S]

With my siblings, we used to barricade ourselves in our food pantry (in the basement) with nerf guns or we would try to build a wooden fort in the forest. We would always be obsessed with having multiples palissades and defensive arms on them. We would use mostly more "archaic" types of defensive armament (exept for the nerf guns ) like small catapults or buckets of water,exc..