...Or... it could just be bullshit.

I don't know why I watch the paranormal documentaries on PBS. But I do.

Tonight, I watched one on past lives and re-incarnation. Plenty of parents claiming that their three or four year olds came to them and claimed to be a soldier from a past war, full of historical details. It could be reincarnation... or it could be a case of Mom wanting attention and she knows that if she just poisons the kid's soup, the hospital will catch on.

Two people stood out to me though. First guy: had recurring dreams that he was hiding from the Nazis. Nazis found him and sent him to a death camp. He remembers an old clock in the cellar that he's hiding in... and a year later, stumbles on the clock in an antique shop. The shop owner confirms that he purchased it in Holland from an elderly German major. So, he's convinced that in a past life that he was a Holocaust victim. So what does this guy do about it all the present? He now works for a Jewish bagel maker and sports a Star of David to show how proud he is of his Jewish heritage.

Next guy, he looks like Dwight Schrute from The Office. He talks like Dwight Schrute from The Office. Except, he's got really really long hair and dresses in Renaissance clothing and harasses patients during hypnosis sessions about the most insane things so as to discredit them. "Really? Who was King in 1674? Oh yes, and WHO was the town crier? And WHO owned the most horses?" That would be a fun job, but I don't think I know enough useless information to do it. Unless I was quizzing someone who claimed they were someone from 1996 in a past life. I'm not good at math--- would that even work?

I think that if someone was a reincarnation of Oscar Wilde, that person would be the coolest person alive. Even better if he came in the form of a burly straight man. One that knew the perils of terrible wallpaper.

Time for me to have dreams of my own...