I don't really believe in reincarnation, or in existing as 'me' in any sense before or after this life,
'me' seems to me to be a physical organism with the temporary property of life,
and on top of that the intermittent property of consciousness,
both entirely dependent on that organism being in a particular condition: alive.
But who or what am 'I' that experiences being 'me'?
Still, maybe in my DNA there are inherited 'memories' of past experiences,
e.g. of being a female hunted, captured and impregnated,
and of the strange mixtures of pleasure and pain associated with them,
which might play some sort of part in my 'kink'.
And a friend of mine who does believe in reincarnation advises me
that if I feel strongly drawn to having some particular personality and/or experience
in my
next life, I should start mentally preparing myself for it now -
so maybe my slavegirl and crucifixion fantasies and play are a sort of rehearsal,
maybe next time around it will all be for real?