It's just an idea that I've been entertaining for a while.
It starts with vivid mental war trenches imagery, bloody nightmares, all happening before I was age six. I suppose it was not induced from watching such scenes on tv, as parents and care takers would never have permit me looking at war or gun fight or any violent movie before I was age twelve or so. They were very unpermissive in the sense that I had to be in bed before seven at night, every night. Then I do remember these images as very real, nothing like any war movie I've ever seen.
Then, in my maturing adult life, I grew into strongly believing in reincarnation. It just make perfect sense to me. Everything gets recycled and reused on Earth, at least over some long enough period of time, so why would living experience be wasted and reduced to some education process? I've seen too many kids with such very strong character traits, talent and inclinations, before the age of reason, to believe otherwise.
Okay then, so why can some of us retain what looks like partial previous life memories, only up to a certain point and age? Because as an adult, I can only remember the topic, the nature of my early years nightmares, the souvenir of waking up in total disarray, and some nightmare details.
Let's say I'm right up to that point. Then why can't we fully remember who we were before, in the previous life, and enjoy some conscious continuum?
My theory lies in the fact that because the new born baby brain cannot fully process memories, because the brain is not totally functional yet, our previous life memories are kind of lost, with the exception of some strong traumatic memories and inclinations.
Then you naturally enter life inhabited by those feelings, which contribute to forge your self image, and you go on submitting to the education process, which end up wiping all sense of a previous self.
With that in mind, let's say we could one day prolong isolated gestation time outside the womb, after birth, say until age six. What would happen to our brain, to previous life memories? Could we keep them?