My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

39 – Past Life Experience #1

Can you have a past life experience through magic?

There were many students looking at me from around me. It was because attention was focused on us because of Joo Hyuk. I asked Sarah in a whisper.

“Can you really see your past life?”

“It’s probably possible. We have a spell book written by my mother at home. It’s a book that contains spells for experiencing past lives, so you can just follow it.”

“Oh….”

Sera also spoke to me in a whisper.

Trustworth has risen sharply. I could believe it if it was a spell written by Sarah’s mother. Sarah’s mother, Hwayeon Bodhisattva, was a spiritual shaman and a researcher of Eastern and Western magic. It was her mother, Hwayeon Bodhisattva, who taught Sarah her magic.

“What kind of magic is it?”

“It’s a spell called Shared Past Life Dream. It’s a mix of a spell that allows you to experience your past life in the form of a dream and a spell that makes you have a shared dream. For example, imagine that I’m dreaming of my past life. Then, you sleep together as well. “If you listen, you can see my dreams together.”

A shared dream refers to multiple people dreaming the same dream at the same time.

In short, when Sarah dreams of her past life, I can also dream of Sarah when I fall asleep. What made that possible was the shared past life dream. It was like two people could enjoy the dream of their past life like a console game that supports 2P.

It was a unique form of witchcraft. If it’s not enough to make the caster dream of his past life, then showing the dream to others? But isn’t past life experience also a kind of private life? I don’t know why the spell that shows past lives to others was created.

“Why do you have a spell that shows your past life to others? Isn’t it a bit embarrassing?”

“Why does something like this exist?…”

Sera slowly avoided my gaze.

Sarah said while looking towards her window.

“Actually, this is a spell her mother made when she was dating her father? She said they held hands together in her dreams.”

“Wow.”

Sarah, was it a spell created when her parents were dating? Indeed, it was not unusual for a Hwayeon Bodhisattva to go on a date. In her dream, holding hands and playing with her husband was a date. There was a reason why I created a complicated spell like a shared past life dream.

“Anyway, Jinwoo.”

Sera cleared her throat and looked at me again.

“Do you want to try it after school today? Show me my dreams and show you yours, too. Honestly, I’m curious.”

“Yes.”

I nodded willingly.

Joohyuk, who was looking at us, opened his mouth. We spoke in whispers, so Joo-hyuk couldn’t hear much.

“What are you two whispering about so much?”

“I’ve decided. We’re going to have a past life experience today.”

“Aha! I knew so. You guys were curious about your past life too, right?”

Joo Hyuk said while shrugging his shoulders.

“When your past life experience is over, be sure to tell me what you were in your past life. Huh? Let’s see how good you are, you bastards! A wild boar looks funny.”

“Even if you try not to laugh, it’s still funny. Phew.”

“No matter what I do, I think I’m better than a wild boar. How could I have been a wild boar in my past life?”

“Kuwook!”

Because I kept teasing him, Joo-hyuk screamed and ran out of our class. We were a little nervous watching Joo Hyuk. Now, when I had a past life experience, I felt like I couldn’t come up with something worse than a wild boar.

After a while, school ended.

Sarah and I went to Hyehwadang.

“…What if something worse than a wild boar appears in our dreams?”

“I guess so.”

Arriving at Hyehwadang, Sarah took out a thin book from deep in the library where the books were stored. It was an old-fashioned book made of Korean paper. On the front of the book, the title Dream Secret Book (夢夢秘書) was written in Chinese characters.

Sarah and I read a book with spells written on it.

The method of writing a shared past life dream was as follows.

[First, a red silk thread is wrapped around the wrists of the two people like a bracelet. Second, the person who will dream of their past life recite the mantra written in this book. Third, the two people sleep side by side on wooden pillows. If this process is followed, the person who recited the spell will have a dream of their past life. People who lie side by side can dream of their past lives together.]

The method of using magic was like this. The only things I could prepare were red silk thread and a wooden pillow, so I was able to prepare it easily. These were all items from Hyehwadang. Next to the method was an explanation of what happens after you fall asleep.

[The two people who performed the spell may just see a completely black landscape. In this case, it means that the person who recited the spell has no previous life. Also, if you wake up in an overly sacred space, it may be difficult to wake up from your dream. This happens very rarely, so there is no need to worry.]

This was all the explanation was. As I read the book, I realized that a person may not have a past life at all. It was referring to the person who started this life for the first time. I don’t know what you mean by overly sacred space, but I don’t think there’s any need to worry. We knew how to force ourselves to wake up from a dream.

I wanted to quickly experience a past life.

I spoke to Sarah.

“Can I have a past life experience first?”

“Okay. I’ll bring silk thread and a pillow.”

Sera came carrying red silk thread and a wooden pillow. We wrapped the silk thread around our wrists. I recited the spell written in the book.

“March 27th of the year of Gyemyo. I, Kim Jin-woo, are trying to peek into my past life, so please open the door. I want to dream the same dream with the person I am destined to meet.”

I continued to recite the incantation. It was a long order, as long as two pages of a book. After reciting all the incantations, Sarah and I lay side by side in the living room on wooden pillows.

We fell asleep after some time.

We were both tired after returning from school.

*

“Umm…”

It was when I opened my eyes again. I’m sure the light was on in the living room, but I couldn’t see things in front of me properly. I raised my hand for a moment and felt around. There was nothing that could be grasped.

“Is it a dream?”

I cracked my fingers. On the contrary, even though I applied light force, my finger broke easily. I didn’t feel any pain at all. The act of breaking one’s fingers was a useful way to realize that it was a dream.

This was the dream I was having. It was dark everywhere. My surroundings were pitch black, as if I was floating in space. Apparently, I used a spell to experience my past life before going to sleep. However, if all you see in your dream is darkness, you can interpret the meaning like this.

[In this case, it means that the person who recited the spell has no past life.]

A passage about dream interpretation came to mind in a book.

They say that if you only see darkness when you have a dream, it means you have no previous life.

I felt like I was the first person born in this life. It was a freshly created warm soul with no previous life.

That was the moment I thought about it.

A voice as if someone was whispering came from the darkness.

━Θέλω

What does this mean?

It was clearly a human voice, but the language was different, so it was difficult to interpret the meaning.

I could also hear other people whispering.

━Vrei

━Хачу

━רוצה

━Wollen

━Хочуть

━Xiǎng

Among them, there was one voice that I could clearly hear.

━Binaida

It was Korean. If you interpret the language that you can roughly understand, there are many similar words. Most of the whispers heard in the dark were muttering words similar to ‘Binaida’ towards something.

“What is this…?”

I was just wondering in a dark space. Just then, there was someone calling me properly from afar.

“Jinwoo!”

It was Sarah’s voice.

When I looked back, I saw Sarah waving her hand at me from a distance. I approached Sarah with a happy heart. Sarah also walked towards me and we were soon able to meet.

“Where have you been so far?”

“It was a long way away from here. I was walking aimlessly and I saw you.”

When I first started dreaming, Sarah was not by my side. This shared past life magic spell allowed two people to have the same dream, but it did not seem to determine the same location in the dream. Thanks to this, it took some time for me and Sarah to meet.

“It’s a strange space.”

Sarah muttered as she looked around her.

I asked Sarah.

“Can you hear the voice too? A voice that says things like Binaida.”

“Yes. I can hear it too. It seems like I’m hearing similar words in several languages. First of all, it sounds like a human voice.”

Sera also said that she could hear whispers in a dark space. I wasn’t the only one listening. Of course, the people who spoke out were completely invisible to us. I could not possibly interpret this dream.

“Sera. What kind of dream do you think this is?”

“I’m not sure. Still, it’s a dark space. Doesn’t that mean there’s nothing that can be called a past life for you? I’m not sure why I’m hearing strange voices.”

Even Sarah, who was well versed in her magic, could not perfectly interpret the identity of the dream. All I could figure out was that I was a newborn in this life.

“Hmm….”

“It seems like this scene keeps repeating itself.”

We spent some time in a dark space. There was no change in the surrounding scenery or any special words being heard. Since it was just the two of us in the vast darkness, it felt like we were traveling in space.

“Isn’t it time to wake up?”

“That’s right.”

People who fell asleep were bound to wake up someday.

In the end, Sarah and I naturally woke up from our strange dream.

“Whoa….”

I yawned and opened my eyes again.

When I woke up from my dream, I was back in reality. This was the living room of Hyehwadang where Sarah and I slept. When I applied force, such as by bending my finger, I felt the pain. It meant I was fully awake.

The current time is 11 PM.

The numbers were clearly visible on the clock hanging on the wall in the living room.

Sarah got up next to me and started talking to me.

“It was a strange dream, wasn’t it?”

“It was a little strange. But I didn’t know I didn’t have a past life.”

“If you don’t have a past life, you are a newly born person. Now get ready to call me noona.”

“What kind of sister are you?”

“If I have a past life, I’m older than you. So, I’m your older sister.”

You sound like an older sister.

Is there anyone who even considers past lives based on age?

“Then, if the turtle was my previous life, should I call him grandfather?”

“Anyway, I can be your older sister. It’s the newborn little Jinwoo.”

“Wow.”

It was time for the two of us to joke around. There was something I noticed after listening to Sarah. If you have a past life, it could be your older sister. If you say something like that, doesn’t that mean Sarah doesn’t know her past life? I don’t think Sarah has ever had a past life experience before.

“But I guess you’ve never had a past life experience?”

“Actually, today is my first time.”

“If you can use magic, why haven’t you tried it before? Aren’t you curious about your past life?”

“It’s no fun when strange people appear for no reason. What if my past life was a witch who studied black magic?”

“Then why are you doing it together when I ask you to do it?”

“Because it’s fun to do with friends.”

Well.

Anything is fun if you do it with friends. It was fun to be with my friends, even if I was talking in class and then going out into the hallway and standing with my hands up. Sarah said she wanted to experience a past life, so she decided to do it on her own.

“Now, my sister, I’ll dream too.”

“Okay, I’m worried about your past life. Please stop calling me sister.”

Now it was Sarah’s turn to check her past life. As we had just woken up from sleep, we were very sleepy. It was getting dark so it was the perfect time to go back to sleep.

Sarah recited her spell.

“March 27th of the year of Gyemyo. I, Kang Sera, are trying to peek into my past life, so please open the door. I want to dream the same dream with the person I am destined to meet.”

Sarah and I lay down in the living room again. The wooden pillow and red thread were still there, so all I had to do was lie down.

After a while we fell asleep.

*

It was when I opened my eyes again.

This time the surroundings were not dark.

Sera had a past life different from mine. It was time to check out the secret life she had been unaware of until now.

I looked around.

I was standing on a cloud.

“Huh…?”

It wasn’t a mistake.

I was literally ‘standing on a cloud’.

The clouds, like cotton candy, spread out so wide that I couldn’t see the end beneath my feet. I was startled and moved my feet. But there was no falling below the clouds. The fact that I could move my two feet and walk felt amazing.

It wasn’t just that.

I raised my head and looked around.

I heard people’s voices in my ears.

「Princess Hongryeon will be coming here soon, right?」

「That’s right. “Please know that he is coming in 365234 days.”

「It’ll be quick.」

People dressed in old-fashioned clothes walked around me.

This was a city where people lived. I saw traditional hanoks being built on pure white clouds.

“…Where on earth is this?”

A city built on clouds.

This was the place where I opened my eyes.