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What’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to you that you still can’t explain?
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Okay so I've told this story before.. completely changed my perspective on my beliefs.
One day, I was making food for my young one. He was maybe a bit over 2 years old? Maybe 3. Anyway, I made him food and said "anything you don't eat, I'll put into a baggie".
He then asks "what's a baggie?" I show him the sandwich baggies in the drawer and then explain that grocery bags can also be called "baggies", say "see?" then showed him a plastic grocery bag from the cupboard.
His eyes get all wide then ge starts sobbing. Alarmed, I ask him what's wrong and he sobs "No baggie!!!! No baggie!!!!" I asked him why and he says, still crying, "My old mommy... she put a baggie over my head and I died!" He then immediately stops crying, like nothing had happened, and went to play with his cars. I tried to coax him into repeating what he had just said, like "what? Hun, what do you mean? What did you say?" And he looked at me like I was bonkers and just said "huh?", apparently not remembering what he had said moments before, even after I brought it up at multiple different times of the day.
All of this was completely out of character for him, and nothing like that ever happened again. He was never told about death or shown it in any media at that point or anything else like that, so I was baffled.
It definitely made me rethink my stance on things like reincarnation and stuff like that. It was.. too strange. Never could explain it.
That's really wild. I've heard a bunch of stories like that, however not quite as scary haha.
I have these flashes of memory from my childhood, some go really really far back to 5 years or younger (i'm 34). Memories like my grandfather who passed when I was 5, or an accident I had when I was 1 or 2 involving my finger and a supermarket automatic door. Among those flashes of memory that's been in my head my whole life is a large theater with large red drapes everywhere, it's not a very clear picture but I distinctly remember looking up at the domed white ceiling, ornate pillars, amphitheater shaped room with seatrows rising slightly as they go back. I have never been to such a theater, even now, and I have no idea why I have had a memory of one my whole life even as a child who had never been to or seen a theater before. I sometimes wonder if it's a lingering memory from a past life.
I have a memory like that. I can remember details going way, way back farther than I should be able to remember (no previous life or anything). One day I decided to delve as deeply as I could to find my earliest memory and I swear I remember an image like you described of my arm with a huge medical bracelet on it from inside an incubator.
Unfortunately that memory is fading. I'm 45 now and every year it gets worse. I just don't remember the details I used to and am finding more and more things that I completely forgot happened only a month later. The older members of my mom's family all suffer with mental decline that almost approached Alzheimer's like symptoms. They say to take your B vitamins. We will see if that holds.
You may like this article about warding off dementia: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-become-a-superager.html
... of which you know. He may have happened to catch some sort of media about this and parroted it for a moment.
Otherwise, yeah, that is bizarre and downright disturbing!