Creating a Database of Children's Prenatal and Perinatal Memories

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From research due over the last 50 years, faculty members of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia have been collecting more than 2,600 cases of children claiming to have past-life memories and these data are being coded and entered into a database with more than 200 variables. This database enables researchers to apply various statistical analyses and some important findings were published based on them. This article reports an ongoing project that is creating a database with a similar concept about children reporting prenatal and perinatal memories. However, the data are not limited to those obtained from children with past-life memories, but include those from children with one or more of the four types of memories: (i) birth memory; (ii) in-the-womb memory; (iii) life-between-life memory; and (iv) past-life memory. The expansion of the target data reflects the view of researchers that analyses of these memories, all unexplainable in general physical terms, shed new light on children's psychology.