flashback
- Noun. a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
- Noun. (psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs.
- Noun. a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
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