I understand your point of view, my dad says the same. He refers to some flashbacks as "genetic memory" as well. There was one when he was standing, looking out at a lake and all of a sudden this heavy fog rolled in and he saw a gigantic Viking ship approach the beach with men in full Viking gear yelling and directing the vessel. We are decendants, and our people probably migrated to Northern Russia in that area. Wether it was a past life, or a quick enterence into the information field as he calls it, or a memory that was stored in his dna... It's one of those things that we won't know until we die, but it's fun to hypothesize about it!