flashbacking
Mentally time-traveling backward
Flashbacking is experiencing or depicting a flashback—a sudden vivid memory of a past event, or a narrative device that shifts to an earlier time.
Someone flashbacking might be reliving a trauma or recalling a moment triggered by a smell or sound: I was flashbacking to my time overseas.
In storytelling, a scene flashbacking to childhood reveals backstory.
Enjoyably recalling the past
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalExcessively emotional about memories
- bittersweetWistful yet warm
longing · sepia-toned · rose-colored · halcyon · vintage · retro · homesickness · retrospective
Chronic reaction to horrific events
- triggerWhat initiates action
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- retraumatizationRenewed experience of past trauma
nightmare · panic · hypervigilance · flashbulb · survivor · anxiety · shock · fear
Recalled mental image
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- recallMemory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
- episodicOccurring in distinct segments
autobiographical · vivid · involuntary · spontaneous · unbidden · resurfacing · reliving · past
View with exterior removed
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- backstoryCharacter's past narrative
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- retrospectiveReviewing what came before
scene · sequence · intercut · dissolve · segue · transition · voiceover · recounting
reminiscing
Enjoyably recalling the past
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalExcessively emotional about memories
bittersweet · longing · sepia-toned · rose-colored · halcyon · vintage · retro · homesickness · retrospective · bygone
PTSD
Chronic reaction to horrific events
- triggerWhat initiates action
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
retraumatization · nightmare · panic · hypervigilance · flashbulb · survivor · anxiety · shock · fear · coping
recollection
Recalled mental image
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- recallMemory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
episodic · autobiographical · vivid · involuntary · spontaneous · unbidden · resurfacing · reliving · past · remembering
cutaway
View with exterior removed
retrospective · scene · sequence · intercut · dissolve · segue · transition · voiceover · recounting · storytelling
flashbackingflashforwarding
Narrative leap to later
anticipating · foreseeing · forecasting · looking ahead · prophesying
flashbackingstaying present
living in the moment · mindfulness · being here now · grounding · centering
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