Realitivity of Reincarnation.

Ive been told about 2 differnt forms of reincarnation. One is that once you die your spirit/soul/essence finds new birth in a new host animal, insect, human, or plant of some type. Another is you die and your afterlife is you as another human. No animals involved. I thought- which is scary when it happens. "What if-" What if being "Reincarnated" when you die really means not to be physically reborn but to pass on your essence to children. Now im not trying to be New Age, when I say "essence" I mean all your personal thoughts and philosophies, all your experiences and how you deal with them, that kind of thing. Think about where you've learned everything in your life. It's usually from realitives, close friends, parents, mostly all people from generations ahead of you. On some chances we do learn things from children and people younger than us, but most of the time experiences come from people older than us. What if reincarnation was merely just experiencing the life of others and assimilating them into your life and your experiences. In a way your father and your mother are/have put their lives into you. You share memories with them, experiences with them. And when those people have died or left your life they live on inside of you, and when you have children the influences of you, and your parents will go into them as will the influences of your grandparents and so on. Each generation has the life of past generations in it. So people never die. They are constantly reincarnated and reborn. Not physically, but generationally.