In contrast to those who experience past-life memories in the waking state or dreams, subjects under hypnosis commonly name the persons they used to be and may say precisely when they lived (e.g., 1863 BC: B. L. Weiss, 1988, p. 27). These facts ought to make their cases easier to solve, but they seldom do. When regression cases are solved, moreover, key elements sometimes turn out to be wrong. In the celebrated case of Indianapolis police detective Robert Snow (Snow, 1999), who was able to solve his own case by identifying a painting he saw himself working on, the names he gave under hypnosis
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