"Flashbacks"

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I sometimes have random flashes of memories. Sometimes it happens when I'm sitting and letting my mind wander, but sometimes they spring up from nowhere in the middle of classes or during conversations. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're painful, sometimes they're just odd tidbits from Christmas past.

Does anyone else have these?

i could be walking out and about, and suddenly find myself in a reverie from which i emerge several minutes later, someplace else i don't remember journeying to, sometimes a mile away from where i was before. i guess maybe these might be termed "fugue states."

These happen to me, though not for long and I've never wandered away (or did I?). Often, I can't remember what the flashback is.. and often, they are flashbacks into dreams.. I think they're dreams.. it's harder to remember anymore

I have them, but I also have a diagnosis of PTSD, so no idea if any are related to the Asperger's.

I get these all the time. Sometimes negative, sometimes not. It doesn't last for long, its brief recollections of memories coming back into my head.

Yeah I do get them, I think they're pretty common, as I've seen threads before about "grunting out loud" at some shameful memory that just popped uninvited into your head....
I also have "flashforwards" of the worst case scenarios , mainly about my kids, for instance if they're going down the stairs a bit too fast, I'll picture them tripping...
Overactive mind is overactive.

Sometimes I flash back to conversations and start responding out loud. I've also done what auntblabby does - zone out and come back several minutes later, after walking on autopilot.

Yes, I get them too. If the memory is painful, embarrassing or near miss (I mean like when my daughter got her fingers caught in a door, she was fine but she could have lost them), I will often have a physical reaction to it, like a sharp intake of breath, a moaning sound or throwing my arms out.

I do this sometimes when driving to and/or from work.


But mostly when I'm alone with nothing to think about, my mind kinda wanders & I slip into these daydreams and/or flashbacks.


Also, sometimes I have conversations with myself....dunno if that's related or not.....but it's similar, or at least I'm in a similar state when it happens.



I never really noticed I did this.....although I've been doing it for as long as I can remember. It was one of those "ah ha" moments when I snapped out of my lull one day & realized what I was doing. Then I realized this is what "daydreaming" meant. I never realized how much my mind wanders until that "ah ha" moment.

i constantly have flashbacks - almost anything can trigger them

i also have PTSD - they are likely linked, but i have had these memory things for as long as i can remember (my chronologically ordered memory starts the day i turned 3)

i used to be unable to sleep because everything i had ever done wrong in my life would replay and i would be too humiliated and embarrassed to be able to sleep

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i also have the "flashforwards" and grunting with pain and embarrassment that ediself mentioned above

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i have constant "fear" models of terrible futures

i am constantly planning for failure and worst case scenarios - not obsessed, but i am totally safety conscious/freaky

as a consequence i am always prepared when things go wrong because i have planned, modelled, and resourced myself for when things do go wrong - whether it is extra shirts on a hot day, or having 4 sets of clothes in my kids' diaper bags when they were little, or having a full survival and emergency kit in the car - or having alternate routes and flights already picked when travelling and i get bumped from a flight or there is a weather delay

some people misinterpret my planning as being a control freak - i am not - i am a total go with the flow guy - i have just modelled and planned for all likely (and many unlikely) scenarios to allow myself to be comfortable with going with the flow...

This happens to me every so often and it always makes me wonder what caused that specific memory to come rushing in. Sometimes I can find how my mind associated something that just happened with something from the past and that's why the memory came up. More often than not, though, the memory is completely unrelated to anything going on at the moment.

I do find the flashbacks to be from dreams at times. Sometimes they're recent dreams and some are from my childhood.

I have quite a few random flashbacks about my past. They seem to happen the most when I'm out in public with my friends at a mall or Wal-Mart. Generally at places where there are likely to be parents with their children. I have to keep myself in check so that I'll be able to stop a flashback.

I have them. The memory flashes with more force and overrides what is front you, so to speak.

So does the mind/brain have a bit more influence or energy greater than what is outside of you, or is the brain at a normal baseline on one end, but "abnormal" in a bias or preference choice, to make one a priority and the other a backburner choice?

I always thought my internal state was biased more than the incoming from the outside. It could more thinking energy or an executive issue or both.


Verdandi:

I get them.

Especially with music - music I recognise I have an "attached" image/memory of the place I was when I heard it first.

I don't know if anyone else gets it ? it can be annoying sometimes as if I'm in a shop or somewhere I get strong overwhelming flashbacks.

Always, and deja vu too.

That's interesting. I also get that music 'flashback' thing but in addition to the memories/images it also brings back whatever my dominant mood was at the time. I.e. Since I found high school to be extremely depressing and horrible I can't stand to hear 80's music. I have to shut it off or immediately leave the area (or put earbuds in and crank up the iPod volume).

There are also other times where the mood isn't bad but I don't feel like I want to feel so "moved" at the time. It's sort of emotionally exhausting.