Is it possible to have a sentence as a fragment suddenly in your mind after being triggered?

[Calmdown]

I know that memories can get fragmented. However I never read anything about someone suddenly having a sentence "pop up".
When I was triggered there suddenly was a sentence, something I would not think of myself. It was clear that it was early childhood related and it was unrelated to that current situation. I question that but I also can't think of why I should make it up. It doesn't make sense to me. I don't think I heard the sentence, so it wasn't really a flashback or something like that.

I am interested in facts or cases related to this.

 

[Friday]

I’ve had whole conversations ringing in my ears, in languages I don’t speak, after being triggered. That’s what flashbacks do, they take fragments of the past and make them present.

Intrusive thoughts, do much the same thing; if infinitely warped, & in an entirely different manor; which doesn’t mean lesser, often far worse.

The thing about triggers and stressors? They don’t have a single consequence… unless one looks at a symptom spike as “single” when it’s really every single possible symptom. So whether it’s a true flashback, or an intrusive thought, or something else? Yep. Most of us have experienced a symptom spike in response to a trigger or stressor. Because that’s what triggers & stressors do.

 

[Rose White]

In a nutshell, yes

 

[arfie]

i've had particular phrases trigger me so hard that i was unable to hear, much less follow the rest of the sentence/conversation. i am especially vulnerable to light/dark metaphors. your proverbial light only blinds me, my metaphorical friend. your proverbial darkness gets me singing along with paul simon. "hello darkness, my old friend. i've come to talk with you again."

 

[Freida]

Yep - happens to me all the time. Sentences, voices, intrusive thoughts, the whole gamut

 

[Calmdown]

I thought trauma memory is emotional or sensory because of how it is stored in the brain, so it doesn't make sense to me that I had this sentence in my mind after I was triggered. The trigger lead to a stressful and overwhelming state and then my brain made something up, like that sentence, to explain the emotions. I don't know, it really is difficult for me to come to a conclusion. I also was under stress the whole week and the moment before I was triggered.
To know that there are other people who experienced this helps a bit. I already question a lot anyway and recently I had a bad experience with a therapist that makes things worse in that regard.

 

[Rose White]

thought trauma memory is emotional or sensory because of how it is stored in the brain,

It is a combination of memories and emotions. Sometimes the memories are accessible without the emotional attachment and sometimes the emotions rise without access to the memory. The somatic experiences are maybe a type of memory?

 

[shimmerz]

Where do you go when there is no place to go?

25 months of hard core foster care from the ages of 0-24 months. 20 homes during that time. Took me a long time to catch up on the fact that those who were meant to take care of me post adoption lied to me about my past situation which led to no end of grief the rest of my life. More than 10 years homelessness in my late 40's to 50's. When taking the somatic 'clues' I was given and converting them to verbal this is what kept popping up for me. The more this sentence came to mind, the less I suffered somatically.