Dreams about my past life?

A number of years ago, I had a series of about 6 or 8 (maybe more) dreams. These were very vivid, I woke remembering the smells, feelings, etc. that were in them. Oddly, in these dreams (which sort of went in a series) I was a young man from Ireland. The first one was of me (the young man) leaving my family and home and walking to a port somewhere and finding a boat going to America. In the dream, my mother had sewn coins into my coat and gave me a knapsack of food. After finding a ship, at some point I was on it in a berth below the deck. The thing that's so vivid about that is that there were large hand-hewn beams overhead and I could smell a creosote scent coming from them. In other dreams, I am in America, rent a room in a little white cottage from a sea captain's wife and work at the docks. In another dream, there is a fire in a house down around the corner, a bucket brigade was formed but the house burned to the ground. In another, I have left there and work for a man taking care of his horses. In another, I am working at a race course where I started at stall cleaning but got a better job because I got in a fist fight with a man who was injecting drugs into a horse with a bad ankle so he could run a race. The owner fired the guy and gave me the job at which point, I used herbal soaks on the horse. There are many more details to these dreams and many more dreams, always the same guy. I used to try to lucid dream or something to maybe catch a name, but never could. My friend said this is something like an ancestral memory buried in my genes. I'm not sure what it is, but I could probably write a book about most of this guys past life. Any comments?? Tweet