Do YOU have GENETIC MEMORY?
So when mice can "inherit specific smell memories from their fathers - even when the offspring have never experienced that smell before" (and even when they’ve "never met their father" and "their children are born with the same specific memory") and when savants "clearly know things they never learned", what does that tell us about Humans? Here I talk about the recent DNA paper in which it is interesting to see how genes can lie dorment for millenia, apparently. Only to be reactivated when you need them, such as by moving into a new climate zone (links below).
So have YOU felt traces of genetic memory? I'd love to hear your stories in the comments below and in the coming livestream! I'll tell you mine on Monday at Lussi Night (Lussinatta):
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As a kid, I drew many Celtic knotwork designs with different creature heads. I always dreamed about exploring. Coincidently my ancestors were famous explorers in North America, fur trappers, and peacekeepers. We are Norman descendants, a mix of Celts, Franks, and Scandinavian Vikings. I could only assume it's due to genetic memory as I can't think of anything that would have influenced me at such a young age.
TV, books who knows we are very impressionable at a young age, I do 100% believe in genetic memory but I also believe there are massive amounts of lost souls desperate to identify with something authentic natural in this digital age, I think that's one of the reasons there is a huge cringe pagan/neo viking movement from 2012 still going strong
@@RS-xq6je Could be never know but I can't recall anything that would have influenced me. Maybe Narnia. This was before the internet and we didn't have TV.
@@RemiCouture it's a fascinating subject isn't it, I'd love to learn more about my own but I don't trust these companies that give you your heritage dna breakdown because I've met a few people who blatantly got suckered in by them and lap up anything theyre told i guess that ties into the lost soul carry on I mentioned earlier. I know nothing of my ancestors don't know anything about family past my grandparent's and I think that's quite sad.
@@RS-xq6je I am fortunate to be part of a group of people that have been well-recorded for generations from the early 1500s and, in some cases, earlier to the present. For me doing the DNA testing was all I had left to play with. I learned much about how those autosomal DNA tests work and why people will get different results. It's a question of the timeline. Your entire tree might be German but within a generation show up as Italian because that's how autosomal DNA works. I've done many tests and used multiple calculators and got different results. The most incredible test is mytrueancestry. They interpret your DNA results using ancient burial sites associated with groups of people of those eras. This was when my Danish DNA blew up in my results. Everything else is a modern melting pot; they do mass groupings of people when we know that's not the reality. Knowing the history of Normandy, specifically the eastern part, is where many Danes settled and Norwegians to the west. Then looking at haplogroups will place you in the historical timeline of people's movements. Paternally we are ancient celts, then the Germanic Franks, and later the Danes; of course, there will be a little mixing from other groups from that period to the present time and beyond. It's essential to have a family tree, then you can play around with DNA, sometimes people don't have any records, though, and DNA is all they have; this is still a great tool to learn about your possible immediate family and where you came from in more recent history but doesn't tell the entire story.
@@RemiCouture that's amazing i really know nothing past my grandparents. It's not that I don't believe DNA tests can be helpful but the people I've met have been told there a descendant of some famous person, one was told he was direct descendant of robert I the Bruce King of Scots he died 1329 but this tree had him living a few grandparents ago dates didn't add up and since being told his uncle was Scottish nobility this grown man of 40 years of age started to insult every person he thought was English for killing his ancestors, scooby doo is less confused. There was a lof of useful information in your response thanks for that, dare I say it in the future when we are more advanced I may just take one out of curiosity. As you mentioned I do too have some instances where I feel connected to something I don't quite understand it's hard to explain needs to be felt. Thanks for the information I enjoyed that read and may just learn a little more about my own ancestry one day.
I grew up in the southern United States... but a particular ecosystem always seemed hauntingly familiar. Deciduous forests, but high craggy mountains in the distance. I looked all over for such a place as an adult - the American northeast has the forests, more or less - but not the mountains. The coastal pacific northwest had the mountains, but the biosphere felt wrong. I'd about decided such a place must not exist. ... then in my 40's I saw a picture of Lake Hallstatt, and started combing through pictures of the southern Germanic regions, along the north face of the Alps. "Oh." I thought. "That's where it was." One of these days I really need to visit there.
Hope you get to go, it’s beautiful there. My mother is from Bavaria and would tell me stories about climbing on the Alps. I’m American and have been to Germany many times.
I have visited Hallstatt and it was a beautiful place! Gotta take the tram up to the sky walk if you go, visit the little celtic museum there as well. Also, go to Hallein and Visit the salt mine and celtic village.
i am norwegian and every time i specifically am in a scandinavian pine forest it feels like i am almost walking amongst people that lived thousands of years ago. which is interesting considering pine trees came 6500 years before spruce in norway. i don't have this feeling in any other terrain or landscape. only coastal or semi coastal pine forests in scandinavia
I know that feeling....wow
If you haven't already, you should do a DNA test and see how much DNA you have from that region. On 23AndMe they'll even give you a map with specific regions or counties of a country where your most recent ancestors were likely from. You might be related to the Nori, a Celtic tribe from the Hallstatt culture, or even the Bavarii, who were a Germanic tribe similar to the other tribes from Scandinavia that later inhabited the region.
I grew up in Australia to European parents. When I came to Norway to live in 2007, I felt I had come home. Driving through the mountains in Telemark felt like sitting in a familiar recliner. I feel this in the forests, fjords and mountains and I adjusted to the winters immediately despite living my whole life in Australia.
I hope to see many of you in my LIVESTREAM on Monday (DEC 12th). Click here to set a reminder: kzhead.info/sun/pbGcnLdwZJyagJ8/bejne.html And here's a shout out to an interesting conversation between the Stone age Herbalist and Survive the Jive recently. His description of woke culture from 40:00 and the next ten minutes onwards are so similar to my experience: kzhead.info/sun/l7qzlraumJ1ne4U/bejne.html.
What are your thoughts on J1 From North Caucasus having up to 40-45% EHG admixture?
Many years ago my sister and I got lost on the moors at Harden in Yorkshire. We were 6/7 years old and were on holiday at an aunts house. We were townies and knew very little about the countryside. As it started to get dark we became very scared. Suddenly my sister said we had to walk in a certain direction and we would get back to my aunts. We set off and she told me the stars would lead us back. Eventually we made it back to the village. Neither of us knew anything about the stars or navigating by them and over 60 years later my sister still doesn't know how she knew that night.
I believe that their is something to genetic memory. I have always had an interest in medicinal properties of wild plants. I also find that ancient crafts come easily to me.
Interesting. Same for me. Do you ever sense that the plants are communicating with you.
@@LilyGazou i do....
My daughters and I love the dark months,the cold, the snow, we love being near the sea, the cries of seagulls. And the minute we stepped foot on Scandinavian soil, not only did we feel at home, but people automatically started to speak to us in Swedish or Norwegian ..and we all have a longing to return home …
I think about this often, I thought about it just yesterday actually. I don't have any specific "memories" as such, but when I'm out in nature I just know (feel) that my ancestors who lived in this part of the world before me make me feel at home right in a Norwegian landscape. Not very well formulated I'm sure but it's what I've got right now! Thank you for the video Sturla, very timely.
Epigenetics is very real! Trauma in particular can modify the expression (turn on or off) our genetics which will effect the genetics of our descendants.
Absolutely! I was adopted at birth and about 3.5 years ago tracked down my biological parents to get answers to some medical questions that have impacted me and my three children. The answers were found in epigenetics. This impacted(s) multiple generations and the conditions manifested before the knowledge of the causation was obtained. The link is undeniable, but part of my story also goes deep into my Nordic heritage outside the specific epigenetic situation.
You don’t understand epigenetics then. As Sturla mentioned, it’s an accepted fact that DNA function (not the DNA itself though) is altered via protein production (how DNA expresses itself) and these changes can be passed down multiple generations even if the offspring NEVER experience the same conditions that altered the DNA output in the original subject. Epigenetics are both permanent and hereditary.
@@cconder19 Stands to reason if descendants don't experience what the DNA function was preparing them for that the DNA function would again change which means epigenetic changes are, well, changing/not permanent.
Indeed. Have u ever read about the experiments with mice where they put some of them in a maze, and every time they got to a certain point they would spray this citrus mist on them (mice are supposed to strongly dislike citrus..?) So when they were sprayed they'd of course tuck tail and run. They're offspring would do the same thing at that very spot in the maze without ever having been sprayed. Genetic memory is very real.
@@galadrielwoods2332 Yes, and I would condition the previous use of "permanent" simply to mean in the specific recipient of the DNA in question. In my case, and the case of my children (just a little different or maybe weaker though), the epigenetic changes will be there as long as I/we live. Generations down the road from me these changes may possibly be absent though, so I do not mean "permanent" in the sense that it is impossible to never have an offspring that will not inherit a particular epigenetic change. Hope this clarification helps...
Beautiful winter surroundings you got yourself there ;)
Yes we do have genetic memory.. as a New Zealander.. I feel at home in Europe.. quite a feeling ..contentment :)
Such a good topic to discuss and explore!
Having winter Nov-Mar vs. May to Sept. that is a great example of that memory.
I dislike Europe......in general due to Restrictions and a behavior.... I prefer America to Europe....
My paternal grandmother was born and raised in Sweden. I had uncanny, instant memories on my first visit to Borgholms Slott on the Baltic Island of Öland in Sweden. I had feelings of being within the castle, walking through the outer curtain, climbing its grand stairway and traveling through its surrounding grounds when I had never seen the area nor photos of the medieval castle previously. Subsequent visits have drawn me to certain areas of the building and grounds where I have memories of caring for horses. In this life, I am a veterinarian also caring for horses as well as other animals and wildlife.
when I was about 10 or so, I was fishing alone in a meadow. A white horse came near, and I found myself transfixed. something so powerful took over, and I felt this insane desire/obsession to approach the horse, talk to it, and get on its back and ride off forever. I know it sounds silly - but I was not a 'horsey' type - I was a cheeky lad - into the countryside yes - but somehow...I was hypnotised into a dream. I felt the horse and I knew each other...and I felt 100% sure that if I chose, I could communicate with it and it would allow me to ride it. I still think about this moment..it was so strong. came to your channel as I'm a brit living in austrian alps - been here 10 yrs - and really curious as to the history of these people, for they seem very 'other' , and quite brutal and 'cold' re. attitudes to death (in my region anyway). got me thinking. also - I've always had suspicions of genetic memory. I had many ufo dreams as a kid. one time, a small ufo the size of a car landed in my front garden. the screen lifted up and 2 small humanoids inside said to me 'don't worry, we're your mummy and daddy' lol. thought this might help in your research haha
Most definitely yes! Everytime I go through the woods alone, especially during summer nights or the foggy autumn mornings/evenings. There is something primordial about it, like this is where you belong, and it is in such a big contrast with how I feel inside the big city. But I'm definitely not a Viking, we are belived to be slavic nation, but genetically we are mix of Slavs, Celts and Germans
Im slavic half and half jew that lived on slavic landscape for ever ..and mixed with German and Greek Ukranian and Jewish.... It is very interesting....i live between California and Stockholm Sweden And i do miss out on dark nights and snow and hot desert nights.... Both....😃
I have always had memories of snow, miles and miles of snow with nobody in site. These memories always have been so comforting and that I know how to take care of myself. Desolate cold icy places feel like home. I figured I must have seen a movie as a kid or was read a book and that is where the memories come from. A few years ago I did my ancestry dna test and started building my family tree. I am 50% Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish and 50 % East European Russian. I discovered all my ancestors are from Northern Finland, Finnmark, and Alta. I have a great great grandmother who is Sami. I am now convinced these dreams have been handed down from my ancestors.
My Great Grand Father was a boat builder in Cornwall. I have been working on the Viking ship that you filmed at Sundvollen in Hole Kommune, if you remember? It was your film that introduced me to the project, so thanks for that. I certainly get the feeling that it is very natural for me to boat-build. Could it be a genetic memory? All the best, Lucas. P.S. if you want to see some footage of how the ship is getting on, there are four films on my channel about it, and more to come.
I live where it gets really cold. And there’s always a moment where the switch gets flipped and you get a nostalgic feeling just from that deep cold. Makes sense! What beautiful scenery!
I get both from very cold or very hot 🙄
@@anyakosta364 Where does the very hot genetic memory come from?
@@galadrielwoods2332 my moms side? Or do you mean in general?
@@anyakosta364 Wondering if you had your own ideas about why very hot makes you feel nostalgic.
@@galadrielwoods2332 i feel nostalgic For a desert hot...where there's nothing .....for some reason it doesn't brings thoughts of fear but a comfort... yet let's say sunsetting sun that is... Im trying to think about it... Thank you for asking... Maybe you have any ideas?
I have always loved the rain, dark dreary days are my favorite and bring me great comfort. Oddly enough, Bagpipes have always been comforting and bring a great sense of calm and peace. I have recently found that my 2nd great grandfather is from scotland 🤔 definitely intriguing...
Hi. I have had an extremely vivid experience that I'd be happy to relate to while having partial hypnosis and regression as part of theraoy for trauma years ago. About 6 years later, I found out some details of some genealogy research into my family back to the 1600s that somehow gave me immediate vivid correlation and context to what I had experienced.
Hello from Athens!I am Greek from my father's side and my mother comes from the Székelys, a group of Hungarians living on the Carpathians. I know that some of my mother's ancestors also come from Austria. I never had a DNA test but this is what i know for me: I feel more at home in a cool pine forest than in a warm greek beach, and i detest hot weather. I have travelled twice to Norway and i knew nothing about the language. Yet, when i heard it it seemed beautiful, attractive, familiar. And when i listen to a fine voice singing in Norwegian i am so moved and i usually cry, not knowing why......
As a trained archaeologist and amateur genetic genealogist, I know there isn't any proof yet of genetic memory in humans but I do think we'll find some evidence of it possibly being passed down through generations at some point in the future. I believe the reason more people don't feel genetic memories is because of the mixing of genes that might strengthen or lessen the likelihood of the genetic memories expression. I'm definitely interested in hearing other people's experiences.
Interesting subject. As a young boy I had recurring dreams of the first world war, surveying tranches and stepping through rotting burried bodies that had been buried by the trench sides giving way after shells had landed close by. It was very real and quite grusome. I don't mention this very often to anyone but did once discuss it with a good friend some years ago who suggested genetic memory.
My ancestry is Irish Scottish and German and since my 20's I have not been able to stand the heat here in Louisiana
Beautiful Norway Sturla, thanks for giving us a glimpse! I often feel the presence of my Romanian grandmother with me- she was a farmer and always growing food and cooking- making a home is such a deep urge with me I am known for it, ha!! Learning about genetic memory makes so much sense to me and I love the idea of dormant genes as well- good to see you✌🏼🥰
I'm English and think I've had a feeling of genetic memory roughly three times in my life. The first was going to Hamburg as a child. Straightaway felt at home with the weather, the boats, the river, the wharves, the fish shops like 'Nordsee' which I didn't even need to know German to understand the meaning of. Even the way people spoke didn't seem that foreign, even if I couldn't understand much. Then it was going to the English East coast, particularly the parts where there are sand dunes like Northumberland and North Norfolk. It was only later I learnt that the Danish and Frisian coasts are almost exactly the same. I suspect if I went to parts of Denmark or Schleswig-Holstein it would feel even more like home than Hamburg. Finally, I got another weird feeling - maybe not so strong - going to Austria and seeing the mountain lakes around there. Was my genetic memory giving me a flashback to the Celtic homeland this time? Who can say, but it's an intriguing thought.
You should do a series on this. It's so fascinating!
I get strong chills and energy from listening to Viking chants, songs and synced claps. The rowing machine at my gym feels like home aswell... Im from Sweden Glad I found this channel, I love you guys
As a kid I loved the woods. When we went on a walk I’d always deliberately go off the track and stalk my family taking delight in the fact that they couldn’t see me but I could see them. Then after walking for a mile or so they’d go “where’s Joe!” and just as they start to worry I’d jump out and scare the shit out of them. It Was amazing! I would explain how I’d slipped off and gone to higher ground being careful not to make a noise, hiding behind hedges and lying flat on my stomach if I had to. I don’t know but I guess you could call that the thrill of the hunt! I also loved visiting my grandparents. My grandmothers were quite different but both had an interest in what you might call pagan beliefs and the celts, my maternal grandma was a vicar and she had two books that fascinated me one was the book of kells and the other was a book on Celtic Christianity. It wasn’t the words I liked it was the hiberno-Saxon migration era art, the interlace with the snakes, stags, wolves and bears woven in. My paternal grandma had been a hippy in the late 60s and she has a big bust of an owl outside her house and a stained glass window with a triquetra on it. I knew they were connected and what’s strange and spooky is I didn’t begin a proper interest in ancient European culture and beliefs until my mid teens but way back then in my child hood i was connected to them, drawn to them by what I can only describe as a feeling. I loved visiting my grandparents in the country. I loved the coast and the woods and the wild weather and I loved the visual motifs I saw in the books and the architecture and sometimes in church.
I have always loved the winter and cold, most think I am crazy. I love to be in the forest in the middle of winter, I feel so alive. I was with a friend on his boat once, and a storm came up while on the Ohio river. The waves were incredible tossing the boat all over the place. My friend became panic stricken, and literally curled up in a ball and couldn't move. I took over and knowing the danger. I felt more alive now than ever before. I actually enjoyed this experience, and steered us out of danger. I think there is a lot to what you say, and some of us still have Viking DNA... in us for sure.
That’s weird . I love the cold . I don’t like prolonged really hot weather. And I have an irrational fear of living somewhere where there’s a lack of water ? My dad was from Cyprus and my mum is Danish. So maybe it’s not so strange . Love being on small boats . And skiing
Same -- love the cold [ working outdoors! ], do poorly in extreme heat and am ill at ease unless fresh flowing water is nearby.
@@maxnovax3948 . Yes indeed . I used to work with horses , then went into gardening . Now semi retired . Just been out tonight with the dog ......and it’s snowing 🌲☃️🌲☃️🌲😀
This is a very interesting video, and I feel like genetic memory as a concept is something that's been known by a lot of people with a rich inner-life, by people in touch with their ancestors. I'm of Portuguese and Spanish ancestry and I do not know if I have viking/Scandinavian ancestry (though a lot of people from both sides of my family are actually blond or have blue or green eyes, and unless I'm mistaken those traits are recessive with myself and my brother having hazel/green), but I know my Portuguese family is from the North of Portugal, which was historically Celtic lands and also settled by the Suebi. And before the Suebi, even the first Romans who arrived in North Portugal noticed the local Celtic tribes were different from their southern neighbors, as we were living in hillforts called castros, deep in the mountains and with cultural links and exchanges with other Atlantic nations. Conversion to Christianity was notably difficult in the North as well, with Pagan deities being important to the people. It is the descendants of those Celtic peoples who created Portugal and the rest is history. I do not live in Northern Portugal (or Portugal at all for that matter) but it is true I feel a sense of peace and belonging when I visit, and with my ancestors having lived by the ocean and being sailors I often find myself longing for the sea no matter where I am. I feel very neutral about the South, in a way it feels like a different country altogether in more ways than one and I don't truly feel kinship. I've always felt close to Celtic culture and gods... And although I am Catholic (as you tend to be when you're Portuguese) I can't help but feel deep respect and love for the deities my ancestors once worshipped. I know those old gods are still lingering in Northern Portugal in one form or another, their memories and blessings stored in our genetic memory ;). As for my Spanish ancestry I'm not as well acquainted, they're allegedly from the south of Spain but with how fair-skinned some of them are and with their light eyes and hair, they're either from Northern Spain or some of my forebears have some explaining to do :). I could get a DNA test but I don't like the idea of a company having my biometrics, I already know everything I need anyhow and I guess I'll get to know who my ancestors truly were when I meet them on the other side when my time comes.
Fascinating topic! Would love to hear more!
I have always lived within the sight of salt water- Atlantic and pacific. Maybe because my ancestors ( all the grandparents) lived on the coast of Ireland, made their livings from the sea.
Awesome Sturla I feel a knot tying my heart to Ireland and Scandinavia. It's hard to explain but my story is I sometimes look Northwest from my house at the mountains and I have a memory of being in the Viking age and I'm looking over a ridge in winter that leads towards the sea. It's a really powerful feeling.
Viking and Celtic ancestry --- as a little boy I wanted to make every stick a sword and swordfight with my playmates. In my 50s I was confronted one night by 3 teenage boys intent on doing me serious harm for their own sport. I took a pocket knife out and a dormant "someone" inside me stepped forward -- telling me HE was ready to handle this; and HE DID. The lead thug threw his best punches and missed. It took an effort for me to reign in "The Ancestor" after their cocky leader retreated with a precise cut on his disbelieving face. I had won. And a few minutes later I was back to my usual self --- but never quite the same again.
I hope so! Sounds like an Assassin's Creed theory!
What about sensing other presences? ghosts, people, animals, their mood, intent? I wonder if it is the biome and ancestors "memory" that gives people "sixth senses"?
In 1982 I was sent to Italy in the service. I took up residence in a small town called San Vito dei Normanni. In one of my letters to my family, I remarked that I felt like I was home. We have no known Italian blood. Last year when doing research, I discovered San Vito dei Normanni was founded by members of a Norman family I am descended from. I didn't know I was in that lineage until last year as well.
There’s no doubt in my mind that we have genetic memory.
I'm Norwegian, and both my mother and my father are from Helgeland, Northern Norwegian Coast. Our ancestors have lived in these coastal areas for as long as we can trace back, and have most certainly relied on the ocean for a living. Anyways, I've always been deeply fascinated by large marine mammals, as in whales, ever since I was a very young child. I have periods of very vivid dreams with whales as a recurring theme, and previously I thought it might have some spiritual meaning. However, now I'm leaning more towards the possibility that this actually could be my genetic memory at work, because there is a high probability that many of my ancestors in fact were whale catchers on the Norwegian coast. Fascinating stuff!
Thank you, Strurla! For helping me a voice and name. what I've known, yet couldn't describe!!
Everyone be like "I must be a viking because I love the cold!" and I'm here in Sweden hating the winters. Not because I think I have roots in a warm country, I do not, but because I know how to appreciate the easiness of the summer and winter was HARD WORK to survive in.
Well said. I know how to appreciate the hard work needed in order to survive a winter in the far north. It's a relentless and honest
It's quite normal to love something that requires us to be at our strongest and smartest. 🙂
In my case I remember as a small child (less than 5 years old) looking at images in books of the traditional log farmhouses that people in Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries and northern Russia have inhabited for centuries, and experiencing a sense of cozy comfort and familiarity, as if looking at my home, even though I have never lived in such a house. I am an American but my parents were both born in Finland and I have some ancestry also from the surrounding countries up there. So, is this an inherited ancestral memory? I don't know but it's odd for such a young boy to look at those images and experience such nostalgic feelings about them. Also I have always felt drawn toward dark, shadowy evergreen forests and to groves of white-barked birch trees and aspens.
I tell u the truth when I tell u that for my entire life, even as a child before I had even heard terms like ancestry and evolution and the like, I have loved the cold. I have loved everything about the north of Eurasia. I used to write stories and every time, my main characters would be from "the frozen north" lol. I would shoot basketball outside in the middle of winter (I was born in the US) with a short sleeve shirt and snow on the ground lol. IM 43 now, and I still freeze my wife to death because I always turn the heat down really low in the winter and I am absolutely miserable in the summer. I had my DNA tested, and I'm of the I1 haplogroup from my father and U5 from my mother, and the literature had stated how U5 people had evolutionary advantages that no other haplogroup had for surviving in colder weather. That, coupled with I1 being the fundamental Norse haplogroup, it all fits! My point is that I firmly believe in genetic memory and that in whatever ways to whatever degrees, we're all tied to our true homelands and yearn for it. Have a good day folks.
Truth and facts.
I agree with genetic memory. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada when I was 18. I felt like I was home. Same with Ireland for the first time. My goal when I go to Norway... Is to not feel overwhelmed by the coming home feeling. (Larvik and Egersund)
Fascinating
It is my sincere belief this is why so many of our burial or funerary customs have been changed or codified to be illegal in western nations. When I buried an Army buddy I found out if we wanted to place "grave goods" with him we had to sneak them as we were informed it was not legal or their "policy" to allow. This is but one way to tear out a people's folk root/memory to ensure the connection is severed to the closest of ancestors.
Well put, Michael
I have always felt I should of been born a 1000 or more years ago. I have been making dark age weaponry sence I was 8yrs old. I would go to a local scrap yard put a load of steel in my wagon and back to dad's shop to make weapons. Axe's, spears, swords, knives, and so on. All I would watch as a kid was old movies about the dark and middle ages. Then excalibur came out and ruined me for ever, lol One side of my family is Swedish, the other German, so all the food I would eat as a child was from those countries. Eather I'm a reincarnation of that period or it's in my D.N.A My real sir name is Gertsch, old German for lance or spear. Who knows what and who we really are..
@Rolf Robe.. German = Ger-mann, the man with the Spear, but non of these so said germanic Tribes was called Germanen during these times. You cannot trust any official History books and not the Edda at all, caused all these books are manipulated with some truth and a lot of lies. This is the name historians gave different tribes who all carried mainly the Ger as their main weapon.
Genetic memory is DEFINITELY real. Studying medical anthropology and archaeology is a real eye-opener. Too many incidences to list in YT. Because genes can go "dormant", genetic memory/ancestral survival (and celebratory-yes, that is a survival mechanism) genetic memory/land-sea "homing" goes back for thousands upon thousands of years. Also, there is a distinct difference between past-life memories and genetic memories.
Are past-life memories and genetic memories not the same? Are we not our ancestors? Are the memories not in our genes? What say you?
@@galadrielwoods2332 Genetic memories and past life memories are not the same. Genetic memories are a part of how your DNA is formed given certain stimuli that your ancestors endured, failed, survived, thrived, etc. Environmental adaptation that even forms how your brain develops and reacts to a given circumstance and environment. For example, your great, great grandma grew up and worked in an industrial hell-hole, starving and being tortured every single day of her life. All she ever wanted was to escape that life, everything that created that life (because she was also very intelligent and absorbed the cultural dynamic that allowed that sort of environment to flourish). She managed to escape BEFORE she ever had children and made a very nice life for herself but she has internal hyper-vigilance when she hears machinery. Her children were never exposed to it and never knew that was her life before they arrived. Along you come, many generations later, and you have an internal jump and fear every time you hear machinery banging, and you can almost hear a voice saying "don't every allow yourself to go here; you will never escape"- and you go to business school. The feeling and voice seems like a warning, not a personal nightmare. Past-life memories feel like memories from your childhood: different address, different clothes, often-times from exotic locations, sometimes you wake up from a dream/memory and for a few moments you can't remember how to speak your own language but it doesn't feel like your language. It's very personal...it's YOU. And you have your own thoughts, phobias, traumas, loves that you need to hang onto, want to run from, have an inexplicable understanding of - like continuing a story rather than reading a new book; this is not to be confused with fantasy or dissociation; "that" has it's OWN purpose in your development and survival capabilities.
I have always had a predisposition to combat. I am Scandinavian and I have always loved all things Norse. Since I was a child I always had dreams about being in sword combat. Still have these dreams as a 52 year old man. In my life I was always attracted to combat related things. I was a boxer, a infantrymen in the 10th moutian, got into a lot fights in my younger days, learned martal arts, hema, Kung fu, target shooting, hunting, airsoft , paintball, fps video games, mastered almost every weapon known to man..lol, ect ect. I sometimes wonder if it is genetic.
this is like the driving force of the dune series.
Prior to actually learning anything about it, I felt a stronger sense of belonging to Vikings and Normandy and also Mont Saint Michel. Then I found out of my great grandfather of Normandy, my relation to Merovingian noble Clothar II and William I of England and thus to all English nobles and many in Scotland, Ireland and Wales and all around there and more. I actually did feel connected without knowing anything. It was a strong sense. Someone said to me once that I had DNA memory and I had never heard of that, but I said I guess so. Is that like this genetic memory or not exactly?
Clearly I meant Rollo of Normandy's wife connected me all the way back to Merovingians, but was this along the lines of what you were referring to?
Hello! This is the first video from you I have seen + it is quite fascinating! And I will share a few things you may find interesting. I grew up here in Milwaukee Wisconsin USA. I never knew my father and my mother never told me anything about him - I only knew he had a French sounding last name... But it actually turned out that his family (according to the gene test I did from 23&me) were British, from the UK! I had learned that just a few years ago, when my gut problems were getting worse + someone had suggested I get the gene test to see if I had the celiac gene. No surprise but I do have that gene! So here is where the story gets a tad more interesting. As a kid my favorite type of pie was mincemeat. That is British.. My mother's family was Polish / German. Then when I got into my 20s or 30s I started drinking tea. And I love tea! Earl Grey, English breakfast, etc. And for unknown reasons I started cooking + really loving British style recipes. Stuff involving lemon peel. Found a tasty recipe for a goose stuffing involving lemon peel, celery, raisins, etc. Now at this time I still had no idea my father had roots in the UK.. Knew nothing about him at all. Only his name. Then to make matters a tad more interesting: you remember that gut issue I had mentioned? And the celiac gene? Well it turns out I do best on an almost carnivore diet! I have eliminated almost all produce (fruits × veggies) from my diet. They make me sick. And the other year I was reading this book that was set in the UK of many years past. It mentioned the common people's diet. They did NOT eat greens! They did not eat veggies! They did not GROW the stuff there. If they wanted it, it would have to be IMPORTED from over that sea that surrounds the UK, by ship..the English Channel ? But ships were slow. And veggies would spoil. So the common people mostly ate meat. Meat, daily, fish, etc. I believe they did eat some grain but I don't know how much. But they certainly did not eat greens or veggies. This was hundreds of years ago. I also seem to have a gift with horses. I started doing horse therapy back in 2019. I have been horse crazy my whole life but never had the opportunity to actually work or even see a real horse.. Yet the first time I rode I had excellent balance. And horses COME TO ME.. Even ones who normally don't.. Like a few weeks ago I was at the ranch snd the lady I work with told me to avoid that one particular horse as he didn't want contact with anyone. Well I go out into the pasture to groom my George and who comes right up to me but the very same horse I was told to stay away from!! This sort of thing has been going on for years..very first time I ever went to the ranch I had the alpha of the herd come to me - George. And the team I work with was shocked. They say that NEVER happens on a person's first visit. Yet it happens to me all the time. I think I have horses in my blood.. I am sure the ancestors in the UK had horses. Society back then - if you go back far enough - was a horse society. I also feel very in tune with nature. I hate seeing these Christmas tree lots with the cut down trees. Trees should be alive + growing. And then later they will get tossed out as trash. Heartbreaking. 😭 I see double + triple didgets all the time. 1111 or 4444 or 2222 etc. I manifest stuff. My life is full of synchronicities. And I see horses everywhere. I find a quarter lying on the ground, pick it up and it has a horse on the back! But I have started my horse journey very late. I am already 50 (almost 51) and I just started with real horses in 2019. I do feel my totems are the horse + the bear. The horse gives you a lot of endurance. And the bear gives you strength × power (to survive hard stuff)..
DnA memory is a really powerful part of all of us..
Hej, I was born in Denmark, at the top end of an island called Fyn. As a child I used to get flash memories of other places I had never seen. It was scary some times. One time I had a dream vision early in the morning. Where I had to realise I had died before I could wake up. I was clubbed down from behind by two individuals and everything whent blacker than black. I was only 11 when I had that dream. Later when I was 13, my parents and their friends had arranged a trip to a tiny island just north of the coast of Fyn. We were all excited. The trip over to the island went great until we drove thru the land scape and fores on the small island. I started to feel strange, nervous, afraid, and like in two places. It was like reality split into a double film. I tried to contain myself. We arrived at the main big building on the island, and we had to see where us kids had to sleep through the stay. We soon stood on a corner balcony and was going to enter our, to be bed room. I froze suddenly out of fear as I recognised the room the space and the island in my memory of the dream from earlier. I was NOT going to sleep there, I thought. I thought then that I was going to die and that it all was going to happen sooner or later that night. There was a wooden closet and the door and small enamel wash basin, I recognised it all even the grain on the wooden back-door that went to a loft storage attic. I was so scared. I died behind in that loft space in the dream. I survived the night and also the next nights. But other strange double reality visionary experiences at other houses on the island was still annoying me throughout the days we stayed. I learned after that there was some differences between dream and this real place now. That was the bed we slept in it was of metal and not a heavy wooden one as in the dream. I also realise that I had got a glimt at my close just before I died in the dream and I was taller and had brown dull clothes on. That's what happened to me. Sorry for the length of my eventful story. I have had memories later in life but of other lands far away. So my understanding of this is that yes, there is something as epigenetic memories, but some memories are like other lives lived. So that hints of reincarnation of some kind of spiritual nature. Just putting that out there. And I do think that Vikings did believe in reincarnation themselves, then before Christendom arrived.
All I can say is I don't feel at home where I'm at
Definitely 🙏🏻
I have ancestors that came to America on the mayflower and traveled west as Mormon pioneers, and many more that were soldiers in many past wars. Since I was a kid, I’ve had these needs to either fight and die for some great cause, or to venture out and explore the next frontiers of the moon and mars. I never understood it until seeing your video, and now it makes perfect sense as genetic memories.
This is such a fascinating science. Thank you, Sir. I live in Florida and my ancestors came from England and Netherlands. I am miserable here. lol. Your video was VERY interesting, and you just gained another subscriber.
Thanks for your good words. There's so much in Dutch people and esp. from Northerners in England. We see it when the Dutch come up here to settle. They return home, so to say. All best!
I had a dream of being pulled in a sleigh by reindeer wearing red capes and bells. I was wearing strange clothing. Fur boots with curled up toes. Beautiful warm clothing colorful and embroidered trim. With jewelery on the front like coins jingling. I later found to be the traditional gotki. I was going with family, to my arranged wedding. There was a big celebration. They had a rocking horse and the children were riding it down a snowy hill. I didnt know much about my history but started researching and found the Sami wore those clothes. Mom says were not Sami. Hmmm She has black hair and Hazel eyes and only 5ft 1inch. My grandparents on mothers side both from Norway. I traced them back to a grandmother born in 1800. Bjerkegjaerdingen oestel toten keibu. Probably need to check spelling . I could only trace them to 1800s. A Pedersdatter... And you look so familiar.
I haven’t heard of this for 30 years * 🧬 I had a science fair in 6 grade which had won 🥇 and its was about smell memory, I can’t remember to much about my hypothesis and conclusions where of the same that you talk about . Also it was so strange that someone that day had dropped by the school and said Faye (me) give that pile of science phenomenon and wired studies however, which I didn’t know if they would actually let me do it, so this one was a blind study that I had did, but anyway very cool to hear about it again. I think it made me look at things very differently just by the process that I had to, come to for the conclusion . Long short story lol ✨🙏 thank you
I'd like to see a discussion around 'recent generic memories'. Are genetic memories which were created nearer in time to our present time more prevalent/dominant?
Good suggestion. Let's do that 👍🏻
Yes, it’s a real thing. It’s called epigenetics and My life is a first hand testament to this fact. I have offered in the comments before to provide some details via email, etc., because the comments section is not the forum for this exchange, but if you’re interested I would be happy to share the details. The story is rather incredible, but it is verifiably true.
When I hear wolves howling (in real life) I feel an ancestral fear. I was never attacked by wolves nor I'm too scared by them but I just feel it like a remembrance of a far past.
I visited the area around Hedemora and Falun, Sweden where my great grandparents were from and it was eerily familiar. I felt at home everywhere I went and I particularly felt at home in the forest. It's giving me goosebumps thinking about it.
In any case, from an energetic point of view, it would be a waste if all the experiences our ancestors had were simply lost. I see the whole thing as a closed system. One question remains unanswered for me: Are these memories, or perhaps better described as retrievable knowledge, stored collectively by one's own or those of all ancestors? I am thinking more of the second. For my part, I can say that from about early or mid-August, I feel an almost irrepressible urge to collect fruit (blueberries, cranberries, and others), to preserve and store food, which nowadays seems obsolete since everything is available in shops. What is even more pronounced about me is that I am constantly watching my back (I absolutely can't stand it when someone is standing behind me, especially at the back left - weird). I must add that I grew up on a mountain with a border nearby that has long faced threats from the east. When I stand on this mountain, East is on my left. In unknown areas I am looking for evasion and escape possibilities or for a way out on a semi-conscious level. Surely a strong instinct has something to do with it, also. This may sound tedious, but it is not. Yes, and the cold and snow really brings life into life (but only till - 8 or -10 °C, then it becomes threatening.
Where can I buy the book, "Outbreak of the Viking Age" by Torgrim Titlestad in English???? It's not available on amazon or anywhere else in the U.S.A.
I have asked the publisher now (who's the son of the author).
@@VikingStories Thanks! If you or anyone else knows where I could purchase the book in English I would definitely buy it. I did buy Torgrim's book, "Viking Norway" and I must say it is a very good, high quality book. And thank you again, for asking the publisher about this. Keep up the great work.
Well, I share the Nordic "naivity" that you mentioned once in another video. People that don't share it laugh at this, but it might be the memory to a time when people living together shared the same feature - they didn't cheat because it wasn't nescessary, instead it was uncommon and outlawed for it damaged the community. And I think my ancestors must have lived in a "fellowship situation" where the individual steps back and invests as much as it can into the success of his community. A bit like Platon describes the rules of the warrior caste in his Politeia - a passage that has been misinterpreted as an "origiginal communism" by some people. If you share these mental features, it might have to do something with our Y-chromosome, and I also have a theory on that.
By the way, I like sailing and know very well the situation you describe - taking control of the vessel and feeling the responsibility for the boat, the crew and the mission, knowing that every wrong decision can be fatal for one or all of them. I have always considered this a fulfilling experience, especially when the land was far away - like when crossing the North Sea from Holland to England.
As long as I remember I have been drawn to castles, and of course I read many fairy tales, including ALL the Norse legends. In particular I've been drawn to the English king Charles II, even married a man who could be his twin. I've been the family historian for over 40 years, originally going to libraries to research, but once the internet became common, then studying family history here. My DNA test confirmed the paper trails I'd already acquired, and to my amazement I discovered that one of my 8+great grandfathers was a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber to Charles II, so he walked in the palace with the king every day! Not only that, as far as I knew I was English, Scots and Irish on my mother's side and German on my dad's but always felt drawn to the Vikings and the French as well. DNA results shows a good percentage of both in my ancestry. There is much more to say, but I KNOW genetic memory is real.
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I'm just wondering 🤔 can genetic memory have an affect on the kinda literature a person is attracted to? For example I am highly attracted to the stories of Robert E Howard especially the Conan,El Borak and other adventure stories of his ,and Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan and other similar type stories
Me as well:) it could very well be, but I suspect then as a combination of several influences. The heroic traditions in sagas and storytelling could also have played a part, for example. Though it could all be connected, of course.
My visions include hunting and gathering the elusive mushrooms
I tell you a funny Story. I already wrote a moment ago when i was 5 i dreamed my own death that happened some 1000 years ago i was a Slavic Warrior And was killed by another Warrior by an axe . From that time strange things happened to me but the funny thing Is some time ago ( you maybe remember i am Slovak) i came to Russia i never lernd Russian within 2 Hours i was speaking Russian everybody around was - man i lern Russian fór 10 years And nobody understands me. The same thing happened in Serbia out of nothing i was speaking Serbian.
You know how people say "I have a bad/good feeling about this" "I have a gut feeling". I have heard that it is your gut biome. That some gets passed to you and I guess organisms can feel, need and "tell" some things. They may sense fear, I wonder if they can see and hear things as these organisms I think do get/live in your brain? We have the parts but maybe they get the same signals, have a "brain" to retain it? Interesting...I had heard of the S. pathway in organisms and about ancestral memory through them.
Don’t know if this is genetic memory related, but, I found in my family tree a German grandfather who was a mercenary for the British in the American Revolution, who came came here on ships that left Europe May of 1775 and didn’t get here until August. So they spent the almost the whole summer on those ships.
I recently moved from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian Mountains. I never experienced any potential genetic memories until after I moved. The new landscape triggers moments that make me involuntarily think of Western Europe, particularly Germany. I know I have a lot of German in me, so my thought is that I didn't have any moments like this before my move because the Rockies aren't very similar. They're very tall, rugged, dry, and lightly forested. Meanwhile, the Appalachias are shorter, more rounded, and more lush. I think moving to an area that looks more like Germany may have triggered these recollections - if that's what they are
I may have mentioned it before but memory is necessary for consciousness. I've had many people (some really quite learned people) vigorously disagree with my position on this matter - the fact (and I maintain it is a fact) that memory is necessary for consciousness. To put it another way - there can be no consciousness without memory. Clearly much of our behaviour isn't learnt and as such - whether it is conscious or non-conscious behaviour - it must be 'hard-wired' as it were; 'hard-wired memory'. When I get time I'll have a look at the links you have provided Sturla; they sound very interesting. Thanks.
Knowledge isn't learned, it is remembered.
@@trollkatt both learning and remembering involve memory
Yes! With myself it is medical knowledge and a knowing of all things healing from a very young age :)
I'm an American,and I have blue eyes,and it is a rarity these days,and i always wondered if I seenthings differently then brown eyes people ,snd i just learned I do! I have the ability to see better in the dark ( hunting and star gazing)maybe because my European ancestors sailed the atlantic following the stars as a map and calender or walked across the ice bridge to America because my ancestors name is nowhere on any mayflower or any other Pilgrims logs recorded on any ship .
Had a handful of vivid dreams over the years that seemed like past life dreams, but I've wondered if maybe I'm jist seeing through the eyes of a few ancestors. No one super special like the queen of sheba or Cleopatra or some shit but one dude during Elizabethan period was pretty goofy and funny at least.
I have a wood burning stove and I always wonder why I feel so comforted by the visuals of the flames, almost an ecstatic feeling. I don't have this feeling when I just put my gas boiler on for example. Do you think it is possible that the visual flicker of those flames meant survival to humans living thousands of years ago? If an ancient man couldn't light a fire they could die. Is this genetic memory?
Well, considering what a grave mistake it was to let the fire out, if you had that responsibility, up until recent times. Yes, I'm pretty sure
Yes!! I speak fluent Norse in my dreams. How? Maybe because grew up eating deer meat and spent half my life in the deep northern woods of Upper Michigan in amongst the largest Scandinavian population in the US? My father was southern Scandinavian, the tall, blonde, blue eyed type. I am a woman and look just like him, and am 6 feet tall. I have always considered trees to be individuals that I talk to. I have this thing where wild animals do not fear me and have hand fed wild deer, met wolves in the woods and was never in danger. I swear I can hear animals speak to me without words. I honor nature. I am happy to be alone with myself. I developed insomnia because my dreams always come true, I always look to them for answers. I am drawn to the ocean and water and love ships, maybe because my paternal grandfather was a sea captain? I've never been to Norway or Finland but feel like I belong there, like I'm being drawn there by an invisible force. And the people there are the only Europeans I feel comfortable with and can be my weird self around. I oddly don't value money and have no desire to become a millionaire. I'm painfully shy and detest meaningless small talk. Men from the Germanic and Scandinavian countries always would ask me out because they said I not like an average American woman 😂. I'm very very intelligent I am told. I do believe I inherited my genetic memory from my father's side, maybe a bit from my mom who was of English descent (Saxon?). I also hate the heat and get heat exhaustion in the summer so often I frequently can't really go outside in the summer, and I live in a moderate climate (Chicago). I love the snow, and have an incredibly high tolerance for the cold. So much so that my friends nicknamed me "Alaska". I was so excited to see this video. Thank you so much!
I can paint animals really well and I feel more at home in the forest, especially when it's foggy and I am watching the animals. Probably a lot of hunters in my ancestry. There's just something deeply primordial, instinctive and spiritual to move quietly through the woods and observing the animals. I always get this strong instinct to chase the animals but never follow through with it haha. I prefer just admiring them and being in peace. I was never taught to paint or sing but I can do both exceptionally well and I am a passionate storyteller. I remember captivating people at a school I visited once by telling them about Attila and his vast army invading the Roman Empire. None of them had an interest in history until that moment.
Wow that's cool. I'd just have the instinct to check out the animals but hide for no reason when the neighbors drove by. lol
@@Mithreniel Those are hunter instincts, low profile, always with the element of surprise. It's really cool.
I definitely believe it. I think everyone can think of a skill that you have that is just inherent. No prior training and you just have it. If we are born afraid of heights and loud noise all the rest is logical.
Would it be generalized memories? Like places and things other than specific memories about your ancestors personal lives? Such as landscapes and customs that seem familiar to people of a certain demographic?
I'm inclined to believe so, Jon. One theory is that these places and things in combination could generate something special inside of us, a sense of tranquillity, sort of appeasing to the genes or our mental state. Such as a some of the ancielt fertility cult places in the fjords surrounded by mountains. What we know is that returning to an "ancient" climate zone turns on a certain set of genes, which is cool in itself.
The tar smell of a traditional wooden boat does it for me. I feel like a genuine weirdo passing by those boats. Smell is underrated.
Fascinating!
I love the cold too, I do come from a terribly hot place though.. it gets down to a very modest -12c in the winter where I am now, I love having a fire out of doors but don't use heating in the house. I do tire of half naked people complaining of the cold when it's 16c outside lol
I don`t mind cold. Colleagues at work get shocked when I wear only a t-shirt in the freezing warehouse.
Me too.
Have you heard of "morphic resonance " this may interest you. Its a concept by Rupert Shelldrake. I think It's a similar thing. But, yes, genetic memory is a thing.
Thanks, John.
The cold, the snow, the mountains, a dark forest of tall evergreens. I spent a pair of winters in upper Michigan in a youth search and rescue program where I experienced the cold and darkness of northern, (north to me coming from the DC area) climate. I've visited the Alps, and the Northumbrian sea coast. All these places just feel right and familiar. When I left, a longing stayed with me that has never left. My body just drinks in the air, vast spaces, and the nature. I have an acute awareness of that fine line where I end and the wild environment begins. But its like a puzzle fitting in its place rather than something to hide from.
Well spoken!
@@VikingStories I forgot to add the genetic context. I found out from my father about 3-4 years ago that we're I1 y-haplogroup. What the test also revealed is that we had much more northern English, Norman, Danish/Swedish, and Norwegian. As it turns out, the family name was German on my father's side, but the autosomal DNA only showed 3% German. Apparently, we married into a lot of English of the Viking flavor. My maternal DNA is pretty much half Saxon-German and half Lithuanian, which is pretty much more of the same north sea/baltic sea Indo-European.
Yes i do, and i will expand on it tomorrow. And it goes in generations back, and it has to do with boats, open seas. It goes back in generations all the way to the 1500s, my hertitage that i currently can research shows this.
I'm of 100% Norwegian origin. All 4 grandparents from Norway, born and raised in the L.A, CA area. Only one country that I would fight and die for, you guessed it, Norway. Why you may ask? If you go back, about, 1k years I'm related to everyone there. Do we have a genetic memory? For sure, I thought most knew that. The only jobs that I had were Seaman, Fisherman, and Carpenter (almost).
I went back and looked at my Ancient Origins on FTDNA after watching the recording of yesterday's livestream; 50% Hunter-Gatherer, 38% Farmer, 11% Metal Age Invader, 0% non-European. Being born and raised on the US Gulf Coast, I've always hated the weather most of the year; hot and humid like a sauna. Colder weather has always been more preferable to me as it's easier to breathe in and is mentally calming, even moreso when I'm in forested mountain areas like in the Carolinas.
Very interesting. And almost exactly the same as me 👊🏻
Don't take those percentages too seriously though. The problem with FTDNA's Ancient Origins feature lies mainly in its 'Metal Age Invader' component , which basically represents 'Caucasus Hunter Gatherer' ancestry , not intrusive 'metal age' steppe ancestry as we know it ( ie Corded Ware Culture and its offshoots). If you are of northern European descent you will almost certainly be somewhere between 40-50% steppe .
People also feel uneasy when they saw the trex realistic sound We never interacted with that animal No reason to be scared
I do but i dont know how to work with It. Yes i am an orthodox christian so i dont care fór some things but... You know i come to some place And i know everything about IT or where you find something And i am there fór first time. Or sometimes i know exactly What Will happen like a whole Story not fragments... In the last time i have strange things happening i go throug death like literaly go throug the whole proces...lets say i think how Is IT to die by electricity And i start to feel IT So real- from entering to the body And the steel Taste in mouth , the pain the Taste of blood. Its not normal. Would love to find out about What the f.. i going on in my brain. When i was like 5 i saw my death but like 1000 years ago( IT was in a war i was killed by Axe) i remember everything Till today i even know where it happened.
It's too easy to draw these types of conclusions; my father did this, it's probably in my genes. How do we distinguish between any interest and "genetic memory"
Interest is an intellectual attraction. Genetic memory creates a tugging on the heart. That's the best I can describe it. A longing, stirs emotions.
Because we humans are so much more intelligent than animals we don't need so much the genetic memory. but i have raised birds just out of the egg and raised them to maturity, with mo other birds around, and i think they have genetic memory because these birds that i have raised from the egg would produce off spring when i would allow them a space and materials to build a home. I think humans don't use this memory because we don't need it to survive. happy to have come on you as i have spoken to many about this and no one seems to understand my thoughts. I would like to access these memories. Also kept a bunch of birds native of australian desert and i could drive them into a breeding frenzy just by misting them, and i think this was a memory of the first rains after a dry spell which would mean they would have enough seeds to feed the baby. good theory on past lives you may be on to something.
I suspect I can present a few genetic memory experiences. I never understood why Mom wanted to live in the middle of nowhere. I did some family digging. The landscape where my last name seems to have originated in Europe has all the same features of being next to water with gentle rolling hills and even tree cover density. I suspect she probably feels at home there due to genetic memory 4 or more generations removed. I do think my own kinesthetics regarding riding horses are genetic but that is harder to prove. At age 11 I was on a blind old horse that got bit by a fly at summer camp. He shot off and I was able to stay on him. Granted at at 7 I was able to sit on a walking horse for "lessons" with the occasional trot. Never an open Gallop though. Fast forward to my early 30s and I was digging through the family Bible for genealogy and my mom only just then decided to tell me that my great great grandfather was in the Prussian Cavalry. How wild is that? It's curious that from the time I was born I just loved horses. Wouldn't play with dolls much at all, since it was always horses. She told me once when I was asking why she bought them for me that she always hoped her daughter would play with horses but I doubt she remembers saying it anymore. I'd be curious if there were some coded response into the maternal DNA, or maybe something tied to protein synthesis. We need better tech and protein research for this question I should think.
Very interesting, thank you so much Sturla! I tell you, in character, I'm the worst mix type of North Frisian, South Jutish, and Anglian Peninsular stereotypes, I guess! 😉 💛❤💙 + 🤍❤
That's funny, Carsten:) All best
Not 100% sure about this one Sturla. Anyhow we should learn about something new everyday.
It's more than okay to disagree:) All best,
@@VikingStories Indeed sturla. Dark nights deep thoughts. Best to put an log on the fire warm up relax. Positive.
Perhaps this is what "Junk DNA" is...