Memory and/or Time Travel?

[Etheleona]

In some of my dreams (for example, the Old West and Gold Coast episodes) I've had the experience of going back in time to the past time period, and being present there as a disembodied phantom, invisible and intangible to the people there. I could walk right through people without being noticed, and could also pass through walls and other barriers. I could be perceived only by people with mediumistic powers, which, apparently, included some of my past selves. The past self is aware of my presence, and I can interact directly with him.

I'm curious if anybody else has experienced this kind of interactive contact with past, future, or parallel-reality time periods. If so, how do you distinguish between travel and memory? Or could they be more or less the same thing? That is, what if what we call "memory" is not just a recording in the brain, but a means of access to the probability fields of other time-frames, or can be used as a tool for this purpose?

[Rastislav]

Any memory of events from a different lifetime cannot be a recording in the brain. Your present brain was not there.

[Tiberius]

I'm curious if anybody else has experienced this kind of interactive contact with past, future, or parallel-reality time periods. If so, how do you distinguish between travel and memory? Or could they be more or less the same thing? That is, what if what we call "memory" is not just a recording in the brain, but a means of access to the probability fields of other time-frames, or can be used as a tool for this purpose?

Years back I had felt that I was in contact with a future incarnation of mine from the 30th century. I'm not so sure now how much of that I believe. The fact that years later I was contacted by a time traveller (see my time travel thread) who appears to stay a safe house looking exactly like one I saw myself living in in a past life in the 1640s seems strange if it's unrelated. The time traveller himself says he is a non-believer in life after death, so no comment there, but it would seem very weird those things could be coincidence.

One possibility I considered is that the time traveller is in fact a future life of mine but that in that life I simply don't have the level of interest or awareness I do in this life, so in essence I'd be visiting a past incarnation(s) of mine without realizing it. My 30th century incarnation, also a time traveller, does realize these things and has other lives as time travellers.

I suppose if we run into people we knew in past lives and be unaware it's also possible, in context of time travel being a reality, that in some lives we may actually run into past, future or parallel versions of ourselves! If we accept that time travel and reincarnation are both in fact real, then that also means there is the possibility of meeting ourselves at other points in our current lives or in other lives, our souls occupying the same space in different bodies. Looked at from that view simulteneous lives seems even more likely, more so if all time is simulteneous, which all of this would imply. The idea of extreme life extension or biological immortality also does not conflict with reincarnation, as it would be possible to be living multiple very long lives all at once as population expands and the rate of progress becomes more complex. So if Bill is my future incarnation and visits me and we go to other times we lived in we would be overlapping lives in many different ways!

As far as parallel lives go I've wondered about this as well. One of the time travellers, though not the ones I've corresponded with, said some physicists speculated, after the discovery of multiple worldlines, that precognition was caused by various parallel selves trying to communicate with other selves. To me this idea makes a great deal of sense. If you have an intuitive feeling that helps you avoid death perhaps you are actually sensing the memories of another self that DID die. It would also explain how some visions and predictions come true and others don't, your seeing the various twists and turns other yous have taken, will take or are taking (all at once since time is an illusion), some of whom will be more similar to you than others. Part of our evolution may involve interacting with other selves, so that not only are we experincing our current lives, but every possible variation on our lives, incluiding the variation of some versions of us knowing our own futures and changing them into something new altogether by virtue of that foreknowledge. Other parallel selves then become like simulteneous lives, other lives being lived that are like your own, but in parallel realities.

Putting all this together it does allow for every possibility to be realized by everyone. We are one being exploring itself through multiple lives and all the variations on all those lives. Evolutionarily we have already achieved the goals we set out to achieve and are just starting out all at once. We are both at the end and the beginning and every time inbetween all of our existence, we are just closer to some lives and realities than others. That is how my feeling my current incarnations begun 6.7 million years ago but there were more before that are both correct, because the beginning middle and end are simulteneous. Some are so far different from us we can't comprehend them, only that which is reasonably similar to our current existences can we currently understand.

Perhaps I didn't word it as well as I hoped, but this is an epiphany moment, so I thank you for bringing this topic up, I'd been planning to bring it up for a while before this, actually. But the way I see it now there doesn't seem to be any contradictions between the various concepts I'd been trying to reconsile. It's a very complex universe but not an entirely incomprehensible one.