2.1.5: What's up with Mat and his memories? --Updated  [Don
Harlow, Joe Shaw, Pam Korda, Leigh Butler, Jennifer Liang]  When
Mat went into the Red Door of Rhuidean, he asked for the holes
in his memory to be filled [TSR: 24, Rhuidean, 281]. He ended up
with more than he bargained for. The holes were filled with
"historical" memories, memories from people who lived between
the time of the Trolloc Wars and the time of Hawkwing. In every
memory, he is a military man, and most of his memories are of
fighting and battles:   Where did they come from?  There were
essentially two theories offered for this:    1. The memories
are the memories of Mat's own past lives, i.e. Mat is one of the
heroes that the Pattern spins out every so often, and he is
remembering his previous incarnations. This seems to be
supported by the way the Snakes address Mat when he asks his
questions. They talk to him as if to some sort of archetypal
figure: "Go to Rhuidean, son of battles! Go to Rhuidean,
trickster! Go, gambler! Go!"     2. Mat