reexperience
Feel it again
To reexperience something is to experience it again—reliving a moment, sensation, or event from the past.
The word often appears in psychological contexts, where trauma survivors may reexperience distressing events through flashbacks or intrusive memories: She reexperienced the accident in vivid detail.
Also spelled re-experience.
Staged reproduction of events
- replayRepeated broadcast segment
- revisitExamine again later
- recreationRefreshment through leisure
- repetitionAct of redoing
simulation · immersion · virtual · roleplay · reconstruction · walkthrough · return · retracing
Involuntary past memory
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- triggerWhat initiates action
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
hypervigilance · nightmares · therapy · healing · processing · coping · survivor · recovery
Memory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- encodingConverting data to format
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
hippocampus · mnemonic · episodic · autobiographical · consolidation · reconsolidation · remembering · resurfacing
Intensely clear and bright
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- smellOlfactory perception
- soundAudible wave phenomenon
texture · sight · synesthesia · evocative · triggering · association · Proustian · madeleine
Recalling past experiences
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
homesickness · bittersweet · memories · childhood · hometown · vintage · retro · sepia
Observing one's own mind
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
processing · insight · understanding · perspective · reframing · meaning · integration · growth
reenactment
Staged reproduction of events
- replayRepeated broadcast segment
- revisitExamine again later
- recreationRefreshment through leisure
repetition · simulation · immersion · virtual · roleplay · reconstruction · walkthrough · return · retracing · pilgrimage
flashback
Involuntary past memory
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- triggerWhat initiates action
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
dissociation · hypervigilance · nightmares · therapy · healing · processing · coping · survivor · recovery · exposure
recall
Memory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- encodingConverting data to format
recognition · hippocampus · mnemonic · episodic · autobiographical · consolidation · reconsolidation · remembering · resurfacing · buried
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
sound · texture · sight · synesthesia · evocative · triggering · association · Proustian · madeleine · aroma
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
sentimentality · homesickness · bittersweet · memories · childhood · hometown · vintage · retro · sepia · bygone
introspection
Observing one's own mind
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
pondering · processing · insight · understanding · perspective · reframing · meaning · integration · growth · wisdom