by Moran July 24th 2012, 12:55 am
The human brain can not process a sizable chunk of a lifetime's worth of experience and information in the span of a single night's sleep. Also, I'm pretty sure that's the cop-out they used at the end of the Transformers series in the 90's.
But assuming this were so much as possible and, going further, that I actually experienced it: I'm an optimist. I'd take it as a preview. I'd be 10, so if we're to assume that my life prior to 10 is the same as I remember it in exactness, I'd be in 5th grade. And, given that I'm a damned genius, I'd find it unlikely that I'd fail a primary school grade even in an "alternate but equivalent" reality. But I'd be not even in middle school, with the wisdom of a grown man and the energy of a teenager and then some.
I'd recall details from those dreams, try to make the bad parts not come true in reality, and seek out the good that happened and more that didn't. That generic feel-good new beginning stuff. Because really, it would be a new beginning. Screw the first 10 years of your life; you start living in just the most basic sense of the word when you enter middle school. And I'd insist I'm still not fully alive even yet.