Psychotic symptom or something else?

[Calmdown]

Today I had a very unnerving experience.
First what really happened: I was waiting on the platform and an older man walked passed me and looked several times at me.
An everyday experience. But my thoughts and feelings were strange.
Short backstory: There is something in my past that is either completly broken (psychotic?) or traumatic or both. Anything about it makes me feel crazy. It is related to a name.
Today I was in the city that "name" lived in. He is dead since many years.
That man on the train platform barely even reminded me of him. When he looked at me I felt like it was him, that this looks had a meaning. That feeling was absolutely real. For that moment I was struggling. If it had been any worse, I don’t think I could have stayed on my feet. I already felt dizzy.
I wasn't even alone, my mother was there but she didn't notice anything. It was only short and for a very short moment I had the thought he is still alive and found me by chance. I know that it is impossible, but as I said for that moment I felt that way.
The whole day i felt normal, it was just that moment. In general I barely have any symptoms, I'm focused on other things currently. I even had some good days the last weeks, but this topic seems to haunt me.
I just fear that it sounds more like a psychosis.

 

[Friday]

I just fear that it sounds more like a psychosis.

Sounds like a fairly mild trigger/stressor, & completely normal (for PTSD) flashback, to me.

That feeling was absolutely real. For that moment I was struggling.

Just in that MOMENT you were mixing up the past & present. Relived, instead of remembered. That’s a flashback.

 

[Rose White]

Over the past two days I had some experiences like that. I walk my dog at night. The first time someone on a bike with a black hoodie rode by and as he rode past he pulled down his hood and was wearing a white mask and he turned his head to look at me and it felt like he was trying to scare me. I sort of froze and my daughter noticed and asked what’s wrong and for some reason I always say nothing but then I told her and she said I was overreacting. Then the next day I was walking alone and past this dumpster where sometimes homeless sit and it looked like there was a shirtless man kneeling and facing the wall and I didn’t look too hard because I didn’t want it to be true but there’s lots of people on fentanyl in my town who assume all kinds of odd positions. So not psychosis but just two instances of being out and feeling scared of people in my near vicinity.

 

[user27357]

i saw a scene on television in which police were searching with flashlights in a wooded area right before i had to shut it off to go finish a task. in the sudden silence i heard sirens maybe 4/5 miles out, just barely. I finished my chores, walked back through the house and thought i saw flashlights in the yard. I checked, nope.
Did i see flashlights? I thought i did. Its a bad memory from long ago but i get a jolt everytime i pick one up and go looking, especially in a wooded area. Sirens probably pushed mea little too.
Psychotic? naahh. Just a strong memory kicked awake by a slight suggestion, the tv, the sirens, and maybe a car turning around at the far end of the driveway or a white and gray cat running in the yard or who knows what.
I would be concerned if i spent the next five minutes searching with a flashlight in the woods when i was sitting in my recliner in my living room but that didn’t happen. Not psychotic or disassociation really.
just a thing, sounds like you had a thing, whats next?