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CFTraveler - I am longing for the expert-judgement here, did I exit that first time?

I believe so. It has elements that remind me of one of my projections. Ps. expert? No, just experienced. But not expert.

I will search "bleedthrough" just after posting this, but I would love if you could just tell me what you mean. Well, my beliefs in 'past lives' and such run more into the 'parallel lives', or alternate timestreams and possiblilities happening all at once. Some realities would be closer to this one, and others farther (let's say you made a radical decision at an early age that changed your life- your life now would be a lot different, as opposed to yesterday you had peanut butter instead of pizza for lunch, the alternate timestream would be much closer to this timestream) So two very close alternate timestreams would be easier to access than one that is very different and removed from this one, and they might even overlap in 'places', causing a 'bleedthrough', such as you having a memory of something that 'never' happened but is really inconsequential in your life. I hope this was comprehensible.
How's that for short and sweet?
Anyway, if you're still with me, I think that it's possible that some of the work we're supposed to do here with consciousness is try to integrate all of those versions of 'us' that put together constitute the 'higher self, oversoul, [put in your favorite term here] and that is why this type of exploration is useful, not just for the 'this is cool' aspect of it, or the 'bettering the ego' part of it that is also important, IMO.