Flashbacks Of Things Which Never Happened

[EmmaOwl]

"Intrusive thoughts" is (also)!the terminology for what certain kinds of OCD sufferers face when projecting the disasters that can befall if they don't do their rituals properly.

Oh, this one I get! At times I experience a vague feeling of impending doom if I don't follow through with certain rituals, but from what you've written, I can absolutely see a person thinking up a specific disaster, that 'might' happen if they don't do things in the 'correct' way.

Thanks for posting this, JoeyLittle! It gave me some new understanding of what an intrusive thought might encompass - i.e., a lot more than I had realized.

 

[Ronin]

It is possible to flash back to the memory of having a nightmare. Memories of nightmares can be absolutely terrifying!

That's a different question though, and not contradicting a thing of what Friday said.

It would be a flashback to a nightmare, and the real thing in that is a nightmare, but it's not the same thing as a lived life flashback, as it was still a dream state. The 'back' in then is a dream, 'not real'. Or rather, different quality of real, not the same level, different type of an experience, if I left the real / not real confusing terminology & talked more them states themselves.

If it's lived, it's different than dreamt. Than imagined. Than wished for. Not less confusing, granted, but different.

 

[Binkie]

Thank you. They're not flashbacks to nightmares but I appreciate your ideas.

 

[EmmaOwl]

That's a different question though, and not contradicting a thing of what Friday said.

Fair enough.

I take your and Friday's points as-is.

I'm left feeling like something is missing, out of my grasp at the moment -but it is surely a side-point, anyway.

Thank you. They're not flashbacks to nightmares but I appreciate your ideas.

Thanks for asking in the first place, Binkie... I'm sorry you didn't find more direct help with this one.

 

[Anonymous42]

I am experiencing the exact same thing one of my old friends was missing and was found in a river a bit across from my house I walked across the bridge she jumped off the night she went missing and I keep seeing things and freeze staring at the wall but the ‘flashbacks’ I’ve been seeing are extreamly vivid like I was invisible so the other people there couldn’t see me and it felt so real but they have never happed.