Incarnations: Pompeii Edition

Today, Lilith pretended we were all camping at Mt. Vesuvius. It was the strangest thing. We were in the car, driving out to run errands after picking her up from school. She told us that she wanted to pretend we were camping, and for me to pull up the camping place on a map. (We zoom the nav to somewhere green when she asks for this; I usually choose Griffith Park.) Then she starts telling us that we’re camping in Mt. Vesuvius, and she describes it to us: there are statues everywhere, and the fountains are all black. There are butterflies, too. And caterpillars. And the flowers grow large and beautiful.

I’ve never mentioned Pompeii or Mt. Vesuvius, and I don’t imagine that she’s learned about this in preschool. I haven’t been watching much tv, so I don’t think she picked it up that way. It’s all very strange and weirdly lovely. At the risk of sounding goofy — is this a past life memory?