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Your brain pressing rewind without asking, often at the worst possible moment.
means A sudden vivid memory or narrative jump to an earlier time, in fiction or in a traumatized mind.
from Coined in early-1900s film editing, where a literal flash of light once cued a cut to the past.
Trauma medicineClinical flashbacks feel present, not remembered.
Storytelling toolCinema's oldest legal time machine.
Drug loreLSD flashbacks have a real diagnosis: HPPD.