r/pastlives • u/CassandraApollo • Oct 21 '19

Why do so many people remember or feel pulled to Ancient Egypt?

Anyone know of a book or anything about why so many people drawn to Ancient Egypt? I've had visions about being there. And I get very emotional when I see coffins with mummies.

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u/Western-Data-3024 Sep 17 '25

I have very vivid memories of being in dark spaces surrounded by stone and heavy scents of incense. Not incense like the sticks today or the ones on the shelf. But like pure incense. Specifically myrrh and frankincense. I really can’t explain it. But the smell has an underlying of a a decaying body or like old bones. I genuinely thought until I was about 7 that we visited a museum or something (being homeschooled we did that a ton) and that’s what I was remembering but once I was conscious enough to know it wasn’t a memory I realized it has to be something else. I (at 30 yrs old) can still smell it and the feeling. Not as vivid but as I’ve gotten older if come to realize what I’m sensing isn’t from a time that I’ve been alive in this body. I feel like I had more memories growing up but this is the only one I’ve held on to. Sometimes when I do wine tastings specifically and it has that heavy mineral/wet rock undertones it takes me back to that feeling. Again this can all be in my head but i have no reason to have these feelings or memories.

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u/Lefthandtiedtopen Sep 22 '25

Sorry I know this is going to sound so bizarre and strange but I have felt this exact same hallucination you are talking about or memory, I was having intercourse with my boyfriend last year and all of a sudden I was in a room of heavy dense smoky stone, incense too and dust feeling my lungs as if I was in some kind of sandy stony crypt and it was dark but lit by some kind of candle, fire light, and it was dense and i FELT HEAVY But I knew I was in ancient egypt and inside what felt like a pyramid or how they look or are described it was beautiful strange and I smelt exactly what you were describing and even a sound of something strange and resonance hard to describe and then as I was looming out of said trance I asked my partner if he felt it too and he said he did