Subjective memories would be any memory that either obviously didn't happen to the body or you have no way of verifying it if physically happened. They are, as you said, unexplainable memories. Most of us feel that type of thing is much better off being left unexplained. Any theories you come up with are going to be impossible to prove anyway.
We understand why the whole alternate universes/astral traveling/reincarnation into the body ideology is appealing to people with these memories because it seems to give their memories validity. But really the walk-in thing is just the explanation they chose to believe. When you say that you're walk-in and a god of death, if people are going to believe you they will first have to believe in reincarnation, believe in gods in general, believe in the god of death specifically, believe you're being serious, ect. When you say this is my personal history blah blah blah and it's important to me whether it really happened or not, all they have to believe to accept that is that you're not deliberately making things up.
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Date: 2004-10-19 12:53 pm (UTC)We understand why the whole alternate universes/astral traveling/reincarnation into the body ideology is appealing to people with these memories because it seems to give their memories validity. But really the walk-in thing is just the explanation they chose to believe. When you say that you're walk-in and a god of death, if people are going to believe you they will first have to believe in reincarnation, believe in gods in general, believe in the god of death specifically, believe you're being serious, ect. When you say this is my personal history blah blah blah and it's important to me whether it really happened or not, all they have to believe to accept that is that you're not deliberately making things up.