Dreams -past life memories, future prophecies or just bad cheese?……………

So I had this dream the other night that was super weird- I was visiting a friend and her baby except the baby was a doll and had a screw on head. I accidentally dropped said baby and she accidentally stepped backwards onto its head. Then the doll (baby) head was all askew and I was trying to screw it back in and I couldn't.

Does this mean that in the future people should really not give me babies to hold? Is it fear come back to haunt me from the past, or is it the junk food I ate before bed?

I guess the answer depends on who you talk to.

I've always believed that dreams are there to tell you something that you didn't otherwise get on your own and that you should pay attention. However, I wouldn't discount that maybe your brain is just purging old information or something?

As far as I know, I have never had a dream and then that very thing has happened. That sometimes happens when I’m daydreaming but that’s for another post.

The one thing I’d really like to know more about is the past life thing. I do believe some dreams are either memories from a past life that you have lived, or somehow a collection of memories from ancestors. The reason I believe this is because it’s happened to me and I remember each and every one.

The first time it happened I was in my late teens. I remember seeing this town that that looked like something out of the 1920-1930’s era. The town was flooding. I could see a little black boy in tattered clothes riding a homemade wooden raft down the river. He looked exhausted and frightened but determined as well. I could see him, but I also could sense what he was sensing and I kept hearing a voice say “Remember the Louisiana flood” over and over.

I woke up and thought well that’s a peculiar dream so I thought maybe I’ll try to make some sense of it.

I googled Louisiana floods and sure enough the Great Mississippi flood of 1927 popped up. It apparently was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States. I kept thinking- How could I have known anything about that. I find history rather boring at times; I certainly wouldn't look that stuff up as a hobby. I suppose it’s possible I saw it somehow in passing and my brain stored it away, but I just don’t feel that that is correct. It happened a few more times, with the same sort of result, so I’m going to stick with my theory.

The second time I was in probably my mid-twenties or so. In my dream I was in this castle and I was a maid or servant of some kind. I apparently wasn't supposed to be there because I felt frightened but also compelled to stay hiding behind this pillar. Again, I saw the girl visually in my dream but I also felt what she was feeling. I saw two men that were priests, and there were talking french. I myself do not understand french, but in my dream I knew exactly what they were saying. They said “It’s time to act, it’s time to kill the witches-we have the way”

So, again, I thought hmmm that’s odd. Turned to old google and discovered that there was a book written in 1487 that was called “Malleus Maleficarum” or “The Witches Hammer” and basically was an instruction manual on how to detect, test and kill a “witch” It was written by a German guy, but it spread throughout Europe. In 1490 the Catholic Church condemned the book as false, but for a while it was quite popular.

Again, I don’t know if I had seen anything pertaining to this, but I don't think so. I will again stick with my theory. A few more dreams popped up over the years, but I won’t bother explaining those.

OR maybe it’s all just garbage- I did after all have a dream that N’Sync was fighting a mother and son who turned into squirrels….so……

I would be curious to know if anyone else has had a similar experience.