According to TikToker @femspecie, she is one of those people who remembers vivid details about what life was like before she was born. She chose her parents and grandparents, and has a ton of other random memories about existing 100 years ago.
“When I was a kid, I would say all sorts of weird things,” she recalled.
“Like, I said that my other daddy works in San Francisco, and I had remembered my grandparents building the playground in the backyard before I was even born, and just other events that I wasn’t around for, but I still remembered and was able to tell them.”
For example, around 100 years ago, she was born to a very wealthy family in England. She lived in a manor called Countryside Estates until she was 12 or 13.
Growing up, she went to Kew Gardens, which is in England. The gardens burned down in the 1930s or ’40s and were reconstructed a while ago.
She also remembered this giant plant observatory with a very specific railing and a white spiral staircase. Eventually, she found a picture of it, and it turned out to be from the 1900s.
It burned down sometime in the mid-century and was recently rebuilt. She even recalls the way people dressed back then.
The Edwardian style was still popular. The women wore dresses and hats and had big hair. Her family and neighbors would go horseback riding on the estate. The estate was extremely large. It contained hunting grounds and places to play sports.
“Something that’s interesting is that some of those people who would come to my childhood home back then, whether they were extended family or friends, I’ve met a couple of them in this lifetime who were reborn,” @femspecie said.
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Furthermore, she went to a boarding school for a couple of years. The boarding school was for both boys and girls, which was rare at the time.
When she was young, she participated in vaudeville, and around the age of 14, she was allowed to join a traveling circus.
She remembers being a showgirl and what the fair rides looked like. The fair rides were almost exactly the same as they are today, so they really haven’t been updated much.
After the circus, she moved to the East Coast in her early twenties. She can still see the exact layout of her apartment because she had been drawing it on paper since she was 13 or 14 in this life.
At some point, she found herself a wealthy husband, and they traveled across the United States. She remembers going to certain hotels, but those hotels don’t exist anymore.
In her late twenties or early thirties, she started working on early television. She doesn’t know if she was an actor or working behind the scenes, but she sees flashes of big industrial warehouses, metal racks for moving heavy, bright lights, and camera equipment.
She lived in a huge house, but was left alone when her husband died. In the early 1940s, she got sick and passed away. After her death, she came back to visit her family.
In the ’60s, she visited during her grandkid’s birthday party. She had had a son, and this was his family. It seems that some memories really do last more than a lifetime!
By Emily Chan
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