old tumblr postsMay 1, 2016

can other-hearted people have memories? i have a few kintypes i have memories of but i don’t feel very much like i am them, and am beginning to think i might be other/fiction-hearted?

I’m actually not sure. Fellow otherhearted, what’s the consensus on this?

old tumblr postsApril 28, 2016

i have a strange fear of dying from a neck injury, yet none of my memories have that yet, is there more thinking i need to do or?

This is a tough one, anon. On the one hand, not every fear we have will be explained by things in our past lives and…

old tumblr postsApril 28, 2016

is there any good way to introspect on your past life, like looking at pictures or sitting in a certain atmosphere

Those are both good ideas! Looking at art, or making it yourself. Writing ‘fanfiction’ or reflections on your source material, or reading about it. Listening to…

old tumblr postsApril 28, 2016

how do i get over the fear of remembering traumatising or bad things? i want to try and remember my past lives, but i fear ill fall into remembering something really horrible.

That’s hard, anon. Sometimes that fear never really goes away. But we can do things to minimize it. I recommend you read about, and talk…

old tumblr postsApril 26, 2016

Recently I have found a double of me and I wonder if I should ask him for confirmation of my memories and feelings I have or if we most likely wont have the same memories.

You should never rely on someone eles’s memories to match up with yours- especially not a double who almost certainly experienced things differently. Its cool…

old tumblr postsApril 25, 2016

So I recently discovered that I might be kin with someone and now I’m trying to recover memories from “my canon”. The problem is that in canon I suffered from PTSD due to severe trauma and I also do now from trauma that happened a few years ago. Could it now be that I will never be able to access those memories from my canon because of the trauma that my brain is trying to block out?

It could be that you won’t– and possibly that’s for the best. If your mind is protecting you from something its for a reason. However,…

old tumblr postsApril 25, 2016

Sorry to bother you, but I have a bit of a dilemma. I have memories I know I can access, but I’m not sure if I should. As far as I can tell, I may have witnessed the death of someone I loved–every time I come across anything in the fandom that even references that person’s death, I start feeling really panicked and upset. I think I may have blocked out the memories on purpose. … I think I held him in my arms as he died. Should I try and look into this or am I better off not knowing?

Ouch, anon, I’m saddened to hear that. :/ Honestly, the thing about bad memories is they tend to be the ones that come whether you…

old tumblr postsApril 24, 2016

Can memories come more… idk.. passively? Like, I don’t usually dream at all at night unless I have a fever, but sometimes I think of something that just feels.. right. Like, when it comes to mind it’s just so overwhelmingly real, like any other memory, and… I dunno, it just feels like it really happened.

Absolutely. Not all memories come in dreams and not all are extremely vivid or concrete. Sometimes you just *know* something. Its weird.

old tumblr postsApril 23, 2016

Do you ever just think of something and it sounds like it could be a memory, so you write it down but when you think about it later, it just doesn’t feel right? Also, story/random ideas and memories, ever mix them up? I sort of just started contemplating the thought that I’m fictionkin and it’s still early, but it feels right, but I’ve always made up stories in my head and… well it’s confusing.

Unfortunately, sorting out what are really memories and what aren’t can be really confusing, especially when you’re starting out. Its a process that takes time,…

old tumblr postsApril 22, 2016

Is it possible to have kin memories without realizing they’re memories? I’m pretty sure I’m fictionkin, and there’s this character I made up that I accidently made very similar in some ways to a character I think I’m kin of, and was without knowing these things about that character. They have similar species, similar names, similar personalities, similar lives, etc. I made up my character in November 2015, I didn’t know anything except the species of the character I’m kin of until Dec/Jan 15/16

Its absolutely possible to not recognize memories for what they are. And its especially easy to mix memories into fictional ideas when you’re writing/