Reincarnation.
It goes by many different names, but the process remains the same.
Noun. Where a soul is reborn into a new body after death.
In my first life, I had been raised by a Christian couple but turned out to be an atheist later on as I got older. So I suppose that the world, or fate, or whatever it was that was in charge of fate and destiny found it rather fitting to have me reborn into another universe. One where there IS an afterlife and supernatural beings like Shinigami exist.
As I grew up, I went from being a happy child raised by devout Catholics to then having a similar mindset of atheism from my first life ironically. However, a small spark of doubt was created when a small trickle of past memories of another life living in America began to leak through to my unconscious self when I should have been sleeping peacefully and dreaming mindlessly of nonsense such as the likes of rainbows, unicorns, and faeries. A few times, the memories confused my younger childhood self, such as seeing more advanced technology than what was currently on the market and hearing about news events that hadn't yet occurred And one other thing. That at first seemed so small and trivial but turned out to be so much more important to my days than I at first realized.
A name. Well, actually a couple of names to be more specific.
First, the name Death Note seemed to be thrown around in my past self's memories quite prominently, and then a few others followed. Shinigami, L, Misa, Ryuk, and finally Light. As in Light Yagami. Which at the time I thought was an odd little coincidence, since I happened to have a classmate who goes by the same name. But he was a sweet, ambitious, and bright boy. Nothing at all like the piece of absolute evil vermin I saw in my dreams of a seemingly much older Light.
Then, many years later IT happened. The first killing, and I knew.
I knew that I wasn't crazy. That my years of therapy were all for naught, as one singular event took place both in the dreams of my past self from a godforsaken ANIME and now my current reality. An event that helped reassure me I WAS SANE. Or as sane as anybody in my situation could be. I had been reincarnated. That piece of information was rather well-known at this point in time to both me and my parents. But the one factor that turned my worldview completely inside out. Was the fact that I was not in the same universe I was originally from. I was in a world, that used to be fictional but now is my reality. And I decided promptly that whatever entity was left to decide the fate of humans after death, was cruel.
Because of all the worlds that were now supposedly out there - and I now believe to exist - I just HAD to be reborn into the anime world of Death Note.
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