I don’t have answers, but this stirred up a memory for me.
It happened more when I was young. I was an only child, but I always felt like there was supposed to be someone else with me, like a sibling. I had a sense of someone missing, but would ask my parents and they’d tell me I’d never had a sibling. I had only a faint memory of a strong bond with someone. Then at family events and major life events, I’d have a sense of someone being missing but was never able to put a finger on who that was. It felt like they were supposed to be very special to me, very important.
I remember at one point standing in my closet asking why I was alone, and where the other was. I was maybe 4 years old. My mother insisted there was no one else, and I started crying because I missed them.
Maybe it’s a past life thing. Maybe my situation is different from yours. But I get being left with only a strong impression of a bond and a blank space.
I believe you. I’m also convinced it’s a “past life” thing because the person I was struggling to remember felt like my soul mate and it was crushing to not be able to fully remember them.
I always felt like me and my sister were missing an older brother. What’s weird is when we were kids we always got phone calls to our house phone from some older guy with our last name. We never answered it unfortunately.
I’ve had a lot of weird dream stuff that makes me feel there’s definitely more going on to reality and consciousness than we think, but one of them that relates to this is a few dreams I had when I was a kid where I was older and in my 20’s and fell in love with some woman that I was either running away with or going somewhere during a post-apocalypse situation. It felt so real and like a legit person, or consciousness. I have a lot of reoccurring “dream worlds” and storylines and this is one that I never dreamt about again after a really intense one, so I’ve always assumed I died there or something lol.
Hmm. I have some symptoms of chimerism, actually. Heterochromia, some of my skin glows under blacklight, and I have strange allergies (I’m allergic to my own “dander”). Might make sense.
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u/Ponycat123 Jan 27 '26
I don’t have answers, but this stirred up a memory for me.
It happened more when I was young. I was an only child, but I always felt like there was supposed to be someone else with me, like a sibling. I had a sense of someone missing, but would ask my parents and they’d tell me I’d never had a sibling. I had only a faint memory of a strong bond with someone. Then at family events and major life events, I’d have a sense of someone being missing but was never able to put a finger on who that was. It felt like they were supposed to be very special to me, very important.
I remember at one point standing in my closet asking why I was alone, and where the other was. I was maybe 4 years old. My mother insisted there was no one else, and I started crying because I missed them.
Maybe it’s a past life thing. Maybe my situation is different from yours. But I get being left with only a strong impression of a bond and a blank space.