Past Life Memories: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' gains memories of her previous life as Princess Serenity

* Eclair from ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' starts to remember her past lives after a few dodgy missions.

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': The outcome of the previous iteration in the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] flash in Madoka's dream. It's also seen in an earlier timeline, when she starts to recall Homura's name despite not having met her yet. Later, she gets a "mental static" during a certain event with Homura. Then things snowball into her [[Abstract Apotheosis]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'', the second film has Evy having flashes of insights and memories that make her think she's hallucinating. Turns out, they're memories of her past life from ancient Egypt.

* The film ''[[Dead Again]]'' has a hypnotist who specializes in [[Past Life Regression]] hypnotherapy of his subjects -- to help them overcome psychological obstacles, and to help him find and procure antiques they encountered in their previous lives. He even does it to the film's protagonsists.

* ''[[Childe Cycle]]'' contains an example [[The Hero]] Donal Graeme first travels to the past to take over a dying body, and then reincarnates himself as an infant in the future. In each case, he starts out with no memory of his original life, then manefests a few memories, and eventually gains full knowledge of all of his lives.

* Cinderheart in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' has memories of her past life as Cinderpelt, but she has only ever shown signs of remembering them in her dreams, or recalls her past life subconsciously; for example, Cinderpelt's former apprentice Leafpool notes Cinderheart flicks her paw in the same way Cinderpelt did, as well as another character once thinking she was acting [[Wise Beyond Her Years]], and Cinderheart remembering the distance between the Great Sycamore and ThunderClan's camp in the Forest, even though she had been born after the Clans had left the Forest. Eventually - after a night of dreaming about Cinderpelt's life - she is told/realizes who she really is.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In one of the Thanksgiving episodes of ''[[Friends]]'', Phoebe is asked what her worst Thanksgiving memory is. She recalls the time she was a nurse in [[World War One]].

* ''[[wikipedia:The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (novel)|The Reincarnation of Peter Proud]]''. A man has nightmares about being murdered. He investigates and finds out that he was indeed murdered in a previous life. Later made into [[The Film of the Book]].

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', {{spoiler|Heather}} occasionally has {{spoiler|Alessa's}} memories, even before she discovers she is her reincarnation. Some of the memories might also be {{spoiler|Cheryl's.}}

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Digital Devil Saga]]'' deals with this, although more prominently in the second game. To wit, {{spoiler|in the first game, Gale has continuous flashbacks to a weeping woman. He initially chooses to use [[Emotion Suppression]] to deal with it, but eventually is forced to confront the memory. Later, it's revealed it's the last memory of the man whose personality Gale was constructed. The Four Archangels are a ''much'' weirder example - they're victims of the Demon Virus, who apparently have had their personalities obliterated by it and replaced by the consciousnesses of the Archangels Uriel, Raphael, Gabriel and Michael. The problem? All four make comments related to experiences the Archangels had in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'', which apparently took place ''in another universe''.}}

* ''[[Touhou]]'': For Hieda-no-Akyu, it's one part this and one part [[Genetic Memory]], as she constantly reincarnates into her own bloodline (like certain figures in [[Real Life]] religions).

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In the ''Exalted'' fancomic ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' Misho Thrice-Radiant, a Solar, recalls his past life with perfect clarity due to taking both the "past life memory" and "eidetic memory" perks. However, for some reason he cannot recall anything of his current life before exaltation.