Past life regression is a technique that uses
hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are
memories of past lives or
incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of
confabulation. Past life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a
spiritual experience, or in a
psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation, though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of
repressed memories of past lives.