Hey Elvis I don't think you are nuts at all. When I read your post I felt a chill up my spine. Not in a bad way - I have had a similar experience but have never really discussed it with many others.

I am now 35 yrs old. When I was a young kid I had an insatiable appetite for learning German and was continually thinking about what German people ate, drank, thought and how they behaved etc etc. When I took up German as a subject at high school I excelled but did poorly or mediocre in all other subjects. My first trip overseas was of course to Germany and I just loved it and was mesmerized by the whole experience.

When I was 23 years old, I went to visit a friend in Sydney and had the most amazing experience. Whilst I was chatting with her I suddenly lost her face and it seemed as if I was transported into another time and place. I felt myself walking along an unsealed road and when I looked out to the right I could see a lot of autumn trees in their crimson beauty and then I saw an old style European looking house down in the valley. I could see a woman whom I instantly recognised as my wife and there were two young adult men standing near her who I just knew were my sons. During this experience I felt so intensely relaxed (no I don't take drugs!!) and at peace with myself. The scene felt as though it had presented itself for such a long time.

Anyway, suddenly it ended and there was my friend's face again and she was chatting away to me. I told her what had happened and she said that there had been no time lapse at all and that she had only said a few sentences whilst I was apparently looking at a chunk of my past life. Very bizarre but a beautiful experience.

Since then I have had snippets of things like this happen again. They will only last for a second or two and then it fades. From what I have seen or experienced I know that I was a German \ perhaps Prussian farming man who lived to his middle years, with a loving family, strong Christian belief and a fascination for agriculture.

The interesting thing though for me is that as I said I felt that I had strong Christian beliefs in my past life yet reincarnation is taboo in Christianity. My beliefs in my present life are probably now closer to Buddhism than anything else. I told my father who is a born again Christian about my feelings of reincarnation and he said that it was satanic and rubbish. Christians can be so cruel sometimes. Could you imagine the Dalai Lama saying that kind of thing to someone !!?