Past life connections can be so magical. Like all relationships, we are learning lessons through these interactions. In a past life connection we get a glimpse of our interdimensionality and sometimes can be drawn into taking the past life as more important than our present life. Yet, the magic is really that you have the opportunity to reclaim a part of you that has been learning a lesson through multiple lifetimes and NOW are able to bring all that of you into completion in the present time. When I see it, it looks like your energy is stretched across time and space, and healing that karmic cycle, that unresolved lesson, etc. is an opportunity to bring you into your present wholeness.
Alternatively, on occasion, what we experience as past lives is the expression of inherited patterns and conditioning that make no sense to us in this life. This is an interesting article related to the subject: The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors? | Genetics | The Guardian
