YomiRose posted:
Maybe the dreamer loved someone a very long time ago who commit suicide and after that, kept dream unconsciously about how her life would be if she confessed to her and were her girlfriend.
We already determined that the dreamer and the other two didn't even live in the same century.
I know that Buddhist and several other systems of reincarnation assume immediate reincarnation (or a 49 day wait) after death (although not necessarily as a human being), so a 25-40 year gap certainly could cover the death of the first character and the appearance of the protagonist.
But almost all the instances of reincarnation in fiction that I can think of tend to signal the past life/past memory trope by showing a very significant historical time/cultural gap so as to make the different eras unmistakable (the succeeding generations of Doumekis in XXXholic being the main exception that comes to mind, but that series takes place outside of ordinary time anyway).
But I'm hardly widely read in this area--is "the one reincarnation on the heels of another" trope really so common that the original audience would see the different styles of the TVs/phones and assume, "Aha--it's her past life memories"?