• age when the memories appear—usually between two and four

• age when memory fades—almost always between five and eight

• child behaves like an adult

• claims the new body feels strange

• vivid events are remembered

• a large percentage of the cases remember a violent death

• children show fear of objects connected with previous death

• when children visit their previous home they can point out changes

• often the mother or someone else in the family can remember a dream in which they were told that the coming child was a reincarnation.

• the mothers began to like strange foods during their pregnancy which were the same as the foods liked by the person in the previous life.

• the child has skills not taught or learned

• some have birthmarks or deformities in the same place as a previous life injury.