Do you have flashbacks to your life memories?

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Victor

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For the past few years, especially now, I get constant mini flashbacks to my past
seemingly for no reason. All day long every day. Weird. Is this a sign of aging?
Most flashbacks are unpleasant, rather forget them. Or a side effect of a mental
health medicine? And lots of bad dreams.
Do you?
 

Do you have flashbacks to your life memories?​


Not often, but I have had them, mainly at night in bed.
I always just get up, go downstairs and make a pot of tea and by the second cup all those thoughts have disappeared, however, if those thoughts have Marilyn Monroe in them, I forgo the tea and stay in bed. :)
 
cdestroyer said:
I get flashbacks all the time during the day. I will come across something that triggers a certain memory, a smell, a musical tune, or perhaps somethng in a conversation or even something I see that triggers one memory event and leads to another
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I hope they are mainly positive and pleasant memories.
 
cdestroyer said:
I get flashbacks all the time during the day. I will come across something that triggers a certain memory, a smell, a musical tune, or perhaps somethng in a conversation or even something I see that triggers one memory event and leads to another
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I get weird and wonderful flashbacks day and night with anything and everything triggering them off...more so now that I am in my eighties.
 
Victor said:
For the past few years, especially now, I get constant mini flashbacks to my past
seemingly for no reason. All day long every day. Weird. Is this a sign of aging?
Most flashbacks are unpleasant, rather forget them. Or a side effect of a mental
health medicine? And lots of bad dreams.
Do you?
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Well, not sure about daytime flashbacks, but psych meds can cause nightmares. So can PTSD.
"Mini flashbacks", I'm trying to relate to that phrase, I have remembrances of the past all the time, they are usually related to what I'm thinking or talking about in the present.
 
For a few months it has been happening more and more. Just little tiny memories of nothing significant. The thoughts late at night are more upsetting and have no logic to them and they just refuse to disappear. When I have a very stressful dream, the feeling doesn’t go away though I can’t recall anything about the dream.
 
Murrmurr said:
Also No.

I rely mostly on memories while I'm meditating, and while I do ask for memories congruent to deep relaxation, I'm open to whatever happens to flow in. Sometimes it's not a memory, it's just unfamiliar sounds and voices, kind of like listening to a radio.
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I sort of agree with this. Guided meditation and visualization can help you to overcome the unpleasant memories and replace them with happier thoughts. No I don't have bad memories all day long. That must be exhausting.
 
Just to to warn you, this is a faith-based response. It's who I am. Some don't mind it but if you do please don't hate me for it or say I'm proselytizing

I used to occasionally have very disturbing dreams. Mostly fear-based like being lost, or chased, or falling to my near death.

I finally prayed, in tears, before going to bed and asked God's Holy Spirit to wash my mind of these thoughts and images. To create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me and restore in me the joy of my salvation (Psalm 51 10:19)

I prayed about 3 times before they were totally gone...over a short period of time (like a week or 2). I have been without any bad dreams now for at least a year. I can't think of a one. And my prayers are now those of gratitude.
 
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