Maybe older souls are affected by gravity and so usually stay within a planet or a star’s field, while new souls come from wherever (the star itself?). So if a being dies around a foreign star system, it stays around there until it can hitch a ride somewhere else.
Reincarnation has conditions and constraints. I like it. And maybe once in a million years the soul is too close to a wormhole and gets sucked away to the opposite side of the universe.
Talk to my mom. She’s a spiritualist Reverend who has talked to people who have been aliens in past lives.
I’m not saying it’s true, but there are others out there, maybe WAY out there!
There are plenty of stories like that, though? Thousands, probably. It’s a really popular genre. Granted, it’s usually people being reincarnated into fantasy worlds and such, so that might not be your cup of tea. Still, there’s always exceptions in any genre.
Some of my favorite fanfic ones are:
- Sublight Drive (Star Wars)
- Mass Effect: Jenkins Edition
- Borne of Caution
- The Many Lives Of Cadence Lee
- A Nerubuans Journey
- Orochitama
- Star Wars: A Penumbral Path
And some original works, too:
- Blue Core
- Burning Stars, Falling Skies
- God of Eyes
- His Magestys Immortal Academy
- In Loki’s Honor
- Molting the Mortal Coil
- Queen in the Mud
- The Snake Report
- The Simulacrum
These are just the ones that I found scrolling through my favorites list. There’s a lot more of these out there if you go looking.
I was just thinking about when people tell stories or you watch various Youtube videos…wasn’t thinking about Science Fiction. Cool list of links! Thanks!
You’re welcome! It’s one of my favorite genres, so I happened to have a pretty big list on hand. I’m glad I could help.
Look up Egg Theory. It will blow your mind.
I take the view that reincarnation is probably not desirable. I don’t want to live forever. I don’t want my supposed consciousness to continually evolve and change into different beings, states. I just want to fade into nonexistence.
Are you describing portal fantasy / isekai?
Who calls dying a fantasy? Immortals?