Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

Thinking to myself that I knew how to do this and had done it countless times before. From a small baby, I was terrified of heights, to the point that I would immediately become hysterical with fear and terror and could not be calmed except by removing me from the height. I am still afraid of them, and I've always felt it was due to a past life event. Like others in this thread, i am strongly drawn to certain time periods and certain areas. I've never had specific memories, but I don't need them to believe and now I believe even more strongly. My sister and my niece are now believers as well. Here's why.
My mother died in 93, when my niece was 6. My sister and I and my niece were with her when she basically dropped dead of a heart attack. It was sudden and very traumatic for us all; my mom and I were super close and it took a couple of years for me to get over it. After her death, my niece began being visited in her dreams by my mother, who was bringing and introducing her to family members who had passed before her. Eventually that quit happening, and my niece grew up. Four years ago she had a daughter, who was born three days after my mother's birthday. She named her after my mom; I had a little trepidation about it but she had not been born on Mother's birthday, so I didn't actively fight against the naming. I don't have kids of my own, and I love this child like she is my own; she is a joy. She and I have a connection and have since She was born. When she started talking and putting sentences together, she started telling us things...things she could not know. One of the first was when she was in the bath, she looked at my niece and said, "When I was big and you were little, I always washed your back in the bathtub." That was about a year or a bit more ago, and while she doesn't dwell on it, when she does talk about it she is very matter of fact, and she will say these kinds of things fairly often, sometimes with specifics.
At first we were a bit freaked about it...it's one thing to believe, but another to experience it in a child in a real world situation. Our approach has been to let her talk about it when she chooses, and we can ask open questions but no leading questions and no judgement, but we don't push her to talk about it, and we treat it as if it's a normal thing.