What do you think of kids "remembering" dying in a former life?

Yesterday, I read about a 7 year old boy whose developmental sequence was considerably far ahead than the majority of toddlers both in terms of motor skills, cognition, expressive language, etc. By age 5 he was already describing the "Twin Towers" of NYC.

Fascinated, yet terrified of airplanes he started doing repeated drawings of planes heading into tall buildings. By 7 he was explaining to his mom how he remembered being on a top floor of one of the buildings and saw one of the planes hit the building. He described his terror jumping out of the window to escape being burned alive and knowing he was going to die as he was falling. Eventually, he claimed remembering his former name as a grown man.

By this time his mom was convinced he was being honest and sincere but decided not to try and contact the family of the man (now a 7 year old) because it would be too hard to accept as genuine, and even if they did accept his story might be too traumatized. (I kind of disagree)

I would have dismissed this story but it's the third time I've read about kids remembering a past life where they were killed'

Any thoughts?

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curiouspirit · 36-40, F Best Comment

I think past lives are real and one can remember. I mean how else can we explain everything that young boy says?

Grateful4you · M

@curiouspirit The story before this one was also very convincing. This young boy remembers being in WW2 an Air Force pilot. He could describe facts about planes I am clueless about. He also described other men who also died. One thing in his story is that the older he gets the more the memories seem to fade. I myself, have no memories of any kind except for a re-occurring dream that is straight out of a scene of "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and my story was written up in a Sedona Az. newspaper. (My 15 minutes of fame lol)

curiouspirit · 36-40, F

@Grateful4you Oh wow, that's awesome! Yes that makes sense that the memories fade as they get older since they are remembering from so long ago.

Byron8by7 · M

@Grateful4you I remember seeing this story about the young boy remembering being a WW2 pilot.