General Chat

We all know we inherit looks and medical conditions from our ancestors. Do you think it is possible that we also inherit some of their memories?

Just wonder sometimes why I am drawn and very interested in a certain era and maybe we kinda like things because it is a sorta memory?

i'm sure we do, but how far back before it get too watered down, but i'm sure a lot of us have flash backs or de javu

Hi CG

I feel you are right, Ive always felt this, I feel we have a collective, shared memory; a reason we are drawn to somewhere or feel an affinity with something....


Caz xxx

Yes, I can't see why not country girl......I read about it a while ago......it is called racial memory and was a theory by Jung, I think......the theory being that if we can inherit eye colour etc. why can't we also inherit memory from our ancestors.....

Perhaps you see me sometimes having a bit of fun pretending to be a peasant.....and I call myself sally the peasant.....partly because one one part of my tree they are nearly all ag.labs for centuries, and also because I feel I know the medieval period with hovels and pigs and strip farming etc.....I would have hated to have lived with fleas and things.....on the other hand, some of my ancestors had to....

One of my friends had a thing about the Napoleonic period, and Jane Austen and stuff around that age....she even wore an Empire line wedding dress.....

I have a bad feeling about the early 1900's and 1930's.....but I don't know why.....I also like the Tudor period, but more interested in the cookery etc....

My mind is open, and this theory sounds as good as others.....why not....

Mainly 1930's and 40's for me and I don't know why? I mean there was a war going on!
When I watched the series Lilies earlier this year I felt I had gone home. The look of the house, life style etc. Also a few years ago I printed out some gorgeous vintage travel posters mostly of ships and framed them in big frames over the stairs. I have always loved the idea of old time travel 1920's etc. Earlier this year I found that my great grandad worked on the ships most of his life, 1880's to 1930's.

yes I have often thought this.I feel a recurrent dream theme has its base in an inherited memory.
It is so strong and yet I know it is not (MY) memory
if you know what I mean,plus the buildings and furniture etc are very old fashioned.
It also explains a fear I have always had from being tiny.
Bunny x

Anyone else think they have memories of things they could not have experienced in this life time?

I have although it was more a recurring dream about a highway man in the new forest. Went to a littlepub in the New forest once & there on the wall was the names of the old land lords going back about a hundred years & one was a Gulliver my maiden name
bit creepy that.......

Hi ya CG , I visited the village that both my grandmothers and grandfathers family on my Mums side came from . Believe it or not it is only 40 mins from where I live , but until I started my tree no one knew .My Cook and Carey GG Grandparents were next door neighbours in 1861 and 1871 . The Cooks moved and in 1919 My Grandparents met miles away and got married , don,t think either knew their familys originated from the same place . I stayed in the local pub and have never felt so at home as I did that weekend , it was like coming home ..
Kim xxx

My mum is terrified of drowning and can't watch films with underwater action, she has never gone swimming and I am amazed she has a bath! She has never almost drowned or had a bad experience so maybe it is a last memory of one of her ancestors?

June and Newby, great stories!

Heather maybe you are related to Ruth Ellis!