In a regression session, scenes of power do come up. People describe themselves as rulers, generals, healers consulted by many, priests, advisers to the powerful. The setting allows for it: a relaxed, inwardly focused state, an open invitation to let images form, and no requirement that anything be verifiable. So the simple answer is that yes, a person can have an experience of revisiting a life of power or influence. What that experience is, and what it is not, is the more useful part of the answer.
There is no scientific evidence that these scenes are memories of actual past lives, lives of power or any other kind. The mind in a suggestible, relaxed state is good at generating vivid, coherent imagery from memory, imagination, expectation, and absorbed cultural material. A scene of standing before a crowd or commanding a hall can feel utterly real and still be a construction of the present moment rather than a retrieved record.
It is also worth noticing a pattern that regression practitioners themselves often remark on: dramatic and elevated lives turn up more readily than ordinary ones. There are more reported past lives as nobility and notable figures than the actual distribution of history would ever allow. That skew is a clue. It suggests these images are shaped, at least in part, by what feels meaningful or appealing to the person, not by sober historical fact.
None of this makes the experience worthless. People sometimes draw something useful from a scene of power, a sense of latent confidence, a reminder of capacities they have set aside, a feeling of dignity they want to reclaim. Read as a kind of waking dream or personal metaphor, that can be genuinely encouraging. The meaning a person makes from the image can be real even when the literal claim cannot be supported.
The caution is mostly about how the experience is held. A regression scene is not evidence that someone was a particular historical figure, and treating it as fact, or building identity and decisions around it, gives a piece of imagery more authority than it has earned. A grounded approach enjoys the vividness, takes any insight on its own merits, and leaves the literal claim unproven.
And as with any regression work, this is reflective exploration, not treatment. For someone working through self-worth, grief, or distress, a session of imagined grandeur is at most a comforting side path. The steadier sources of confidence and meaning tend to come from the present life, and from support by people trained to help with it.