text: question on what we were and where we were before birth.? ok, silly question alert but i was thinking of this today. what were we before we were even a gleam in our parent's eye?  what and where were we?   i know millions of sperm swim up to the egg, but why did ours make it?  ok, i know this is off the wall, but i was just thinking about it.  but anyway, so where were we when our parents were like 12 year olds?    were we destined to become humans?  i mean, could we have been in the sperm of a dog and we would then have been born a doberman pincher, or a cow or whatever? before we were conceived we were in a place sorting out things from our previous lives, getting ready for when we would start all over again as the baby of someone else (usually in the same family as we had been in before).  being in that other place can last many years...it lasts as long as it takes for us to be ready to return.    my daughter gets mad when i call her "nana".  my nana died when i was 6 so she apparently waited 19 years to be conceived again.  that's my theory, anyways.