We can define reminiscence as an effect or phenomenon that makes us remember what is in the past from some particular element or situation. The word reminiscence is used in common language in a perhaps more poetic way than others since it implies a delicate and very fragile level of memories, not as part of clear and concise memory facts but as something that resonates in our mind but not in an obvious or obvious way. At some point, the word reminiscence is also used to say that someone or something can take elements from another person or another similar object and prior to which it resembles.
The idea of reminiscence also has to do with the fact that something, a situation, an object, an image or something generated by the senses, is the cause of the memory of something past. Reminiscence always starts from an element that takes us back to times past and the term is generally used in a positive sense, such as when we want to refer to happy or joyful moments, not necessarily negative ones. In this sense, the reminiscence of other lived moments can appear in our mind from the fact that something is immediately related to the present, usually from the senses (a visual image, an aroma, a feeling, etc. ).
In some cases, the idea of reminiscence can also take on a spiritual meaning, and this is so when it comes to remembering past lives; images that in our earthly consciousness do not have a complete sense but that always mean something emotionally to us because it is believed that they relate us to past lives in which we already experienced such sensations or did something similar. Reminiscence in this sense is widely used as a concept by religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism that do not speak so much about earthly life but with the idea of connecting with something higher, something that cannot be explained in practical terms and that it is nothing other than the essence of life.
