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A soldier in the snow

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While watching a TV series on Napoleon, I saw a scene where his army was marching a long way. Why watching this scene, I suddenly got this strange feeling. The soldiers were marching on green grass, it seemed like spring, but suddenly I got a vision of soldiers (and me) marching in the snow. It was like I was really in the body of that soldier again. It was so cold, and I felt so tired, I could not even think properly anymore. All I could do (in my vision) was try to keep on marching, like on automatic pilot. My hands and feet hurted so much from the cold, and all I could see was snow....nowhere there was any wood...I tried to look out for wood, so that I could make a fire to have a warm drink...or at least to get some food unfrozen...I saw many soldiers marching with me, no one was talking, they were all just trying to keep marching. Suddenly I fell down in the snow, I was too weak to get up, and no one helped me up, it was like they didn't even see me, or if they would stop to help me, they would not be able to continue marching again. But I didn't care, I was so exhausted, I could only think 'So this was it then'. I think maybe I died there in the snow from the cold and exhaustion.
This memory was triggered by watching the army of Napoleon, but I don't think I was in that army. The soldiers I saw were wearing greyish uniforms, I think it might have been Hitlers army marching in Russia or Siberia perhaps.
Anyway, if I was a soldier in that army, marching in the snow, I can now understand why I dislike snow and cold so much...Also I never liked the Eastern European Countries (don't get me wrong, I don't mean the people, I mean the countries) . A few years ago, I went to Germany on a camping vacation, but it really took my friends a lot to persuade me to go with them. I must say, when I got there, it was really nice, and I enjoyed the vacation a lot, but I have no desire to go back. After the vacation, the aversion to the eastern european countries came back as strong as before.
The memory of the cold was the worst...

Eevee
 
Re: A soldier in the snow

Originally posted by Eevee

This memory was triggered by watching the army of Napoleon, but I don't think I was in that army. The soldiers I saw were wearing greyish uniforms, I think it might have been Hitlers army marching in Russia or Siberia perhaps.
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Hitler´s army wasn´t in Siberia, but Napoleon´s army did return wery exhausted from Russia. They had tried to occupy Moscow, but didn´t succeed. The army lost a huge amount of men marching back from Russia, they were starving and freezing.
 
Thank you, ksiren, for the explanation. But the uniforms the soldiers were wearing, looked greyish, not black (blue?) and white like I saw in the tv series, so I assumed it was not Napeleons army that I saw.

Love,

Eevee
 
Was the TV show accurate as to what color the soldiers wore so many years ago. Personally, I would trust a vision more than an interpretation of passed down knowlegde.
 
Thank you, Curious Girl, for the links. But I could open the main page of the uniforms site, but when I tried to click further I couldn't open any pages :(

Anyway, I am not sure if I would recognize a uniform, because as I said, it was like I was looking through the eyes of that soldier, and his/my mind was totally numb, unable to think or to observe, the only thing that I could think of was that terrible cold....
Maybe I will get clearer visions on this memory later, now that it came to the surface.

Love,

Eevee
 
Originally posted by Eevee
Thank you, Curious Girl, for the links. But I could open the main page of the uniforms site, but when I tried to click further I couldn't open any pages :(
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Perhaps the page is/was under construction,
because it worked for me this afternoon.
It has lots and lots of German uniforms,
also from pilots, snipers, and infantery.
And grey definitely rules ;)

I also saw the series about Napoleon,
those uniforms are quite different,
more elegant than the WWII uniforms.

Curious Girl.
 
Hi Eevee

Curious Girl's suggestion of Stalingrad seems like a good guess to me and I would have suggested the same - unless you felt it was further into the past (any idea on time period - even if just a rough estimate???)

The German's wore the grey uniforms...and Stalingrad was like the worst Russian winter in their history for a century or something ridiculous like that I believe. The troops and equipment froze and things went wrong...there would have been problems with supplies and all sorts and basically it would not have been a very pleasant place to be (not that any place in war was pleasant).

I'm sure there's plenty of other possiblities as far as cold weather and grey uniforms go, but that's what my mind jumped to automatically ;)
 
I am bringing this back to the top, because recently I realised the connection with that life, with my current life.
I believe the soldier's life was just prior to my recent one.

I have back problems for a long time already, which resulted in surgery last september. Still, since the surgery, I have problems walking 'long' distances.
There has been a thread here, or several, about how consciousness creates. And that our thoughts, feelings and emotions we have at the end of a lifetime, is what we carry over to the next.

Well, I don't have exact memories of the soldiers'/my last thoughts in that life, but I am pretty sure it must have been something like : I don't want to walk/march again !!!!

And that is what I got now...I am not able to walk for a long time, and my back always feels cold also, like the blood circulation in that area isn't functioning properly.

I hope that now that I got this insight, I can find balance between my feelings then and now . I need to work on that :)



Eevee
 
Eevee, isn't it interesting how we will remember something, and then later on find a significance for it for our current life, or an issue that's going on? I hope you the best and get better!
 
curious_girl said:
I don't know much about this part of history
but what about the battle of Stalingrad?
Not Siberia, but still Russia :)

Curious Girl.
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Still, the surviving German POWs after Stalingrad & other battles had to march to Siberia. This might be a memory from such a march? Out of 90000 from Stalingrad, i think only 6000 survived the captivity. :eek: War is hell.
 
HI Eevee,

Your post reminded me of one of my daughters experiences. She did carry over her thoughts and feelings into a next life. We were not together in that life. I was in Italy - she was not.

When Jennifer (my daughter) was 16 she took a nap, and when she woke up she said she reached down to move her legs and braces from the laying position on the bed to the floor. She patted her legs several times to find the braces- then realized she had black hair (light brown in this life) and was sickly. Jen is a healthy person this time - totally. She came to me and told me her experience adding. "I think I had Polio, I had straight cut bangs and I couldn't walk without my braces."

Jennifer walked The Trail of Tears with me in a life time long before that. Like you, she didn't want to walk any further. ;) She remembers the braces experience clearly to this day, and has told me many times..."it was so real, it was me but not me. I can still feel those braces."

Finding healing and balance is key - and something I too am still working on.
Brian Wiess talks a lot about healing in his new book, do you have that one yet? Thanks for bringing your thread up. Keep us posted!
 
Actually, what you described perfectly matches the experience of Napoleon's troops retreating from the Russian campaign in 1812. Napoleon's forces didn't carry rations with them, they lived off the land and expected the local population to support their troops and provide them with food and wood for fires. This is one of the major reasons why Napoleon failed to hold Moscow.

During Napoleon's retreat from Russia his troops died in the thousands from exposure and starvation. Troops, as you described, would collapse and not have the energy to get up, while their fellow soldiers would likewise not have the energy to help them. The men in Napoleon's army were actually reduced to eating the leather from their own boots, sucking their own blood, and there are some reports of men actually eating their own severed fingers.

Napoleon moved into Russia with 600,000 men. Only 5000 - 1300 returned with their lives.

The uniform you described is also correct. The French wore grey/light blue overcoats. The painting below is titled "The Retreat from Moscow". Note the overcoats and their colour:

800px-Napoleon-retreating-from-moscow.jpg


Here is some more historical art depicting this event:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/163607398938744447/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Napoleons_retreat_from_moscow.jpg
 
Wow, thank you Peter, !

Yes, looking at those paintings gave me the chills ! It matches very well my memory ! I became emotional looking at them, wanting to forget, because it really is an unpleasant memory.
 
Eevee,

I'm glad I could help, Eevee. This period is of particular interest to me and I do believe I also served as a soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. So, please feel free to share more if something else comes up.

My experiences tend to side me with the British but they aren't consistant. I've probably had over 100 dreams but the only consistant pattern seems to be that I'm in the service of Great Britain. Sometimes I'm a redcoated soldier, other times, with less frequency, I'm a naval officer. The thought just crossed my mind that perhaps I was a marine and fought both at sea and on land. Maybe that is why I dream of both...I've never considered that before.

I've always felt a connection to wide open water, where you can't see land in any direction, and I've always wanted to sail a tallship in these open waters. That sound of creeking rope and wood makes me feel comfortable and at ease, although I'm sure very few people who lived that hard life felt it was one of comfort. :)

This experience in particular is the most frustrating for me. I *know* I took part in the history of this period and I feel a very strong attraction to it, but I can't seem to nail down any particulars. I have very specific details about most of the other lives I believe I lived, but this one seems clouded and vague - and yet it has some of the strongest emotions attached to it and seemingly contributed much to my present personality.
 
I found a web site with past life stories from the Napoleonic wars, mainly French lives - but that was a couple of years ago.
About a year ago I tried unsuccessfully to find it again, and now I can't even remember the name of the site to make a google search..: angel
Anybody remember? A woman & several men shared their memories. The woman was somewhat famous in her past life - but now mostly known by those specially interested in the era
 
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