Greetings,

some experiences I wanted to share, but I put them under the off-topic section, as I doubt their credibility,
might just be déja-vues, or overimagination. Another explanation would be, that this incidents are just made up by my mind, to give impressions of the life-circumstances during 1. the middle age/ 2. one pre french revolution.
They happened during "sightseeing", visiting e.g. castles.

1.) Wartburg http://www.wartburg-eisenach.de/frame_st.htm

After getting some information from the various information panels (only historical facts), I was standing in the courtyard of the castle, then starting to "daydream" (trapdoor number one, concerning credibility).
The people all around seemed not to be there anymore, just focussing on this state of mind.
While looking around to observe the architecture, I spottet a person in one of the windows.
The "strange" incident was the following:
When spotting the person (a man, dressed in medival clothes), I was able to see through his eyes, but not just me standing in the courtjard, the "I-here-and-now" was sourrounded by people, also dressed in medival clothing, but the time period was not the same, it was just the "I-here-and-now" was captured in a white, shining bubble, the sourroundings I could spot through the man's eyes (time shiftet?!?!) were more grey and brown, and also moving slow.
The impression of his feelings (alsways hard to find evidence through feelings) were, that he was trapped.
It might be me in an earlier life, but I tend to say that it was over-imagination. I do not know it better.
This happened at the age of 13 (just in case, that age matters)

That is not much, I guess, having a person, unknown, knowing it was back in time, obviously medival, but no exact year.

[url]2.) Versailles http://www.chateauversailles.fr/[/url]

Second scene, Château Versailles, I have had the chance to see it during a school exchange to France (at the age of 15).
While I was walking through the rooms, looking at the pictures, architecture and furniture, listening to the electronic tour guide (recorder plus headphones), I also shiftet into this "daydreaming" state.
Then I found myself walking near a row of windows, and suddenly I stopped at one of them, looking at the beautiful fountain, the second of this "strange" incidents occured. But this time on the same spot.
My alter ego this time seemed to be a female in her 20ies, it also felt like time-shifting again, I could spot the fountain in the yard through the eyes of the "I-here-and-now's" eyes, and also through hers, but like said before, it must have been a few years before the french revolution, at the Sunking's dawn.
The glamour of aristocracy seemed to fade, this time the sourrounding through her eyes, and time-shiftet to this "pre-french-revolution"-time period, were showing brightness and glamorous times, that are fading away, the colour slowly faded from bright shining golden light to grey.
To describe her, she had an impression on her face, a mixture of being sophisticated and sad. She was dressed in a long, white, glittering dress, having blond, curly hair, also wearing jewellery.
A golden ring on her left hand, with a white diamond on it, earstuds and a necklace, made up of white pearls.
To describe her set of thoughts, she was worrying about what life might hold next, or if it is just like a "train" passing by (or might I say carriage), and we are just like actors, until the curtain falls.

As I said before, as I have nothing that verifies if it is true, like names, dates, and further explanations,
the credibility is immensely suffering.
So I might just stay with the interpretation, that it was really just a daydream, that pushed me back in time, to understand the life-circumstances back then?
I guess, that most of you have had similar experiences (or even ones, that go further than this), so I just invite you to share them, if you want to.

These experiences are neither Swedenborg-like, nor are they valuable according to what I read so far about "new age experiencer's" journeys, I just wanted to know, if they are like an initial state, like the ignition that opens the spiritual gate, or if they are, like I suspect, just vivid daydreams.

yours sincerely,

pulsar

Greetings,

I believe LR's response is absolutely true.

How many people have had 'vivid daydreams,' dismissed them as unimportant, and then as a consequence lost their path on their spiritual journey?  It's a big, sad number of wandering souls, I suspect!

As one's collection of such vivid visions grows, themes will be found. Then it becomes easier to fill in the gaps between the revealed parts to determine why these views are ones your Spirit has determined are important to know. In other words, they are not the mystery; the mystery will continue to unfold! It's like living in another virtual reality !    (It is living in another virtual reality.  )
My own collection of vivid day dreams is now from across several decades and I'm still getting new parts that enhance the meaning of earlier ones.

This is to say that one doesn't get stuck on any particular image. You can just thank your Spirit for these gifts, tell It what you like or don't like about what you've been given, and ask for what comes next. From my POV, Spirit lovingly gave you these to catch your attention, so now turn your attention to It in order to determine what's next.

Love, Bets

By the way,
Dear Pulsar,

Off Topics Forum has covered a variety of subjects--favorite TV shows, bands, tools, news events,---
but I don't think that a lack of specific spiritual guidelines for a non-physical experience should
relegate a non-physical topic to this portion of the board.  Too many people will miss  learning from your valid
questions just because they never have the time to read this far down on the boards.   

Spooky's right---yours are specialer!

Bets

Right back @ you, Pulsar,

  Yes, I expect you will get more visions and information on these same identities. When you are calm, not fearful of that life you're being shown etc.  In my experience the first visions are the most dramatic, because they are expanding your consciousness of what reality really is--- that reality which goes beyond our current time and place.

How the information continues to be received by you may vary alot:
perhaps some day you will be reading and a particular phrase will stand out, requiring you to re-read it many times, until its importance clicks into place in your mind--"Ah yes, that applies to the man in the castle!" etc;
or someone will say something, ostensibly on another topic, and its rightness in fitting in with the images will be recognized in an almost explosive energy;
perhaps it will come as a vision you asked for, or maybe as an unexpected surprise addition.

I don't know if pursuing it will help.  A disciplined approach to spiritual phenomena is certainly helpful, that is having a set time and place to attend to your spiritual practice.

You are doing well!

Bets

I have also experienced something like you describe, while seeming to be in one place, but observing another far of place as if through the eyes of a local resident there.

The most extreme experience of this kind was during a near death experience where I momentarily saw and understood  all creation, as If I was looking through the eyes of God  Of course I could not remember all I had seen and undersood when I retured from the other side of life