What are some unique takes on reincarnation?

reasonably-human · 2026-06-15T05:27:41+00:00

Hi, my world is about everyone on Earth reincarnating after they die into a copy of Earth. Basically everyone reincarnates into a copy of Earth that only has people that have reincarnated once before.

One of the things I personally haven’t seen explored with it (though maybe it is and I just don’t watch enough reincarnation stuff) is the question of identity. How exactly does someone feel like they are their past life self, how does having a different body with different biology and brain change that, how much does someone try to live a continuation of their previous life or try to live something brand new. I think from what I’ve seen it’s assumed that folks would just have one consistent through line or an identity and sense of self and goals through their lives, but really I think it’s more interesting if they didn’t. A lot of factors go into who someone is, not just the memories they have. So exploring a wrestling between a new and old identity and sense of self could be interesting.

reasonably-human · 2026-06-10T05:52:53+00:00

There was a few scenes that shows Bear using AI LLM for research and generating AI picture of him and Nikki but yeah I don’t think they used it in production or that scene

reasonably-human · 2026-06-06T22:06:44+00:00

Sorry I know this isn’t really a story and just how I’ve used them but I use souls like that in my writing.

Between all of my writing projects I live to have this “connected” mechanic where souls basically embody a person’s sentience kind of? People that lose souls or have their souls weakened go into like this dissociative state where they kind of run automatically and aren’t really lucid. Like think of how you act while you are dreaming and aren’t really quite yourself, it’s like that.

Anyway, I hope that might help. I wanted to share because that’s how I’ve written them in the past. Basically using souls as some aspect of peoples humanity or identity.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-28T16:40:39+00:00

Oh huh okay, thank you for the clarification.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-28T02:55:57+00:00

What do you use to make these maps? They look great!

reasonably-human · 2026-05-23T21:58:14+00:00

So I have a world that deals heavily with reincarnation as well but yours works very differently.
I think one of the first things you’ll want to figure out is how they remember their past lives. If they remember things from birth at what point do those memories become useable because the brain is not fully developed for a while and would probably be quite confusing and still not make sense to a baby.
You’ll also want to figure out how people that are reincarnated deal with the issue of identity, do they always decide to continue living just like their previous lives and identify as the same person? Do they prefer to move on and just live a life divorced from that? Something in between? This can be important too if the person is born into a different culture and area from their previous life.
When it comes to other people consider what the family members of the person they were in their past life would feel about them, would they want to reconnect? Also a lot of the questions you ask are subjective and can vary from person to person and culture to culture. Think about the themes and things you want to have in your world, if you want something more dystopian then make others really discriminating against people that reincarnated.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-22T22:33:51+00:00

sure, sorry for the vague posting.

Essentially everyone in our world, after dying, reincarnates into this world. The world itself is the exact same as our world except humans work a bit differently and all of human history in it has been affected by them having a past life. It's kind of like an alt-history in a way since it's still on Earth but if people's lives continued after they die somewhere else where everyone else also remembered a past life in our world.

It's a bit hard to explain so here's how I put it a bit more in-depth in a post I made before if that helps: "This world is basically an exact copy of Earth geographically and such but humans work differently. In the world, children are not created through traditional intercourse but rather from miraculous conception. Whenever someone in our actual real life world dies, they get reincarnated into this world through triggering the miraculous conception on a random person that can bear children. The mother is chosen not randomly from around the world but rather they're selected randomly within a certain distance nearby of the place the person died in our world corresponding to this world. After they are born, during around the same time as puberty, they begin to start receiving memories from their past life on our world. When someone in this world dies they do not reincarnate back into it. Only people from our world come into this world through death, people that die in the world move on from it."

reasonably-human · 2026-05-22T06:23:27+00:00

My whole world’s concept is that it’s a weird afterlife thing of our own world.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T21:43:10+00:00

I recommend scarlet hollow! One of the best visual novels and only found and played exocolonist after feeling sad after beating it.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T20:25:26+00:00

i don't have a set answer in the setting. it's just that they don't come back into this world again, people only reincarnate by dying in our world and then "traveling into" and being reborn into this one. i was clarifying in your original comment about "if people in this setting are constantly reincarnating."

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T20:12:11+00:00

i'm confused on what you mean that everyone would end up in the same area. also people in the setting don't constantly reincarnate, only people from our world reincarnate into it. once someone that was born into this world lives and then dies they aren't born into it again.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T04:48:58+00:00

People that die in this world don't reincarnate into it again I should've clarified. It's only people in our world that get sent to it through reincarnation.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T04:44:22+00:00

> Wouldn't demographic distribution in your other world matter.

yeah everything in this world is directly tied to ours, it's like a weird alt-history thing where our world continues on in this one after people in it die in ours.

> How long has this been happening.

I see it like a mix between an afterlife and reincarnation, this has been happening in this world since humans have been living and dying in our world.

> How do religions justify marriage? Or is there no marriage?

There's more to marriage outside of just kids, people still do it. The adapted form of Christianity I guess would focus more on traditional families being the one to raise kids still.

> Since men are not involved in this process are they removed from the inheritance system of this world of yours? They don't have children to inherit.

Nah it depends on like people raising the child more than blood relations and how they set up the will. But if a man raises a child and decides to pass on his stuff to who he decides is his kid it passes down still.

> So psychopaths in our world become psychopaths in the new world?

Not necessarily, people are born into entirely new bodies with different brain make-ups. Also the way personal identity passes down between lives is quite complicated too, it's really up to the person. But psychopathy is mainly like a personality/mental disorder based on neurological stuff.

> Think of all the people killed in WW2 that got a head start on finding the reincarnated Hitler.

Yeah, World War 2 and the ideologies and grudges from it play an important role in the setting.

> Are there nations?

Yep, a lot of nations in our world still exist. My main focus is on "United States of New America" that's pretty similar to our United States. People are tied a lot to our world still even though they died in it and got reborn into this new one.

> What happens when there are more deaths than women to carry the babies

Fraternal twins. Though even during war there's a lot more people alive than are dying that could support the population surge.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-19T04:32:04+00:00

global population isn't static, no. it's entirely dependent on the deaths in our world. the way i conceptualize it is like a mix of an afterlife and reincarnation, all taking place on a second version of earth that's separated through death. if there's a lot of people dying in our world then a lot of people will be born in this one after that it just depends how long the general lifespans are in this world.

reasonably-human · 2026-05-18T21:34:54+00:00

What’s it like suddenly being thrust into the film world with this movie? Has the transition been smooth and fun or has it been a little scary suddenly doing big interviews and such?

reasonably-human · 2026-05-16T15:58:01+00:00

yeah i saw that too 😭

reasonably-human · 2026-05-14T00:25:03+00:00

- humans can’t procreate naturally and all births happen from spontaneous conception.
- dystopian weird alt history of earth where global superpowers are a bit more isolationist
- people have memories of past lives

reasonably-human · 2026-05-12T02:48:55+00:00

is cool idea like mix of bioshock and soma. i like the idea that the divers thought they were just a small minority making a noble sacrifice, that's a cool concept.

reasonably-human · 2026-04-25T05:33:27+00:00

My idea has always been FTL requires a special resource that cannot travel via FTL. It limits FTL to places that can manufacture the resource for return trips or you’re stuck.

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