Weird flashbacks that i can't explain...

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Ok so for the past month I've been having these strange memories (I'm guessing they're flashbacks) of another time period. It's weird I know and maybe its something psychologically wrong with me, but let me describe this better.

I can be walking or doing anything and find myself lost in a gaze a particular spot or person and all of a sudden having images of things that have a past time feel to them. Like when you look at a picture of a prairie in 1800's you get the feeling of an old long past time, that's what I get from these images.

I've seen open fields with old houses, I have seen landscapes of places I don't recognize like large mountains or rivers. It's so weird when it happens cause at the same time during these flashes I feel like I'm in a better place but if I try to focus more on the image in order to observe it and less on my real life surroundings then I lose the image and my head feels woozy afterward.

So is this something I need to check in with a doctor about or is it something that I'm overly imagining? I need to know, it's bothering me so bad. Isit normal?

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  • tubbs_rules
    7 years ago

    See a doctor. I don't think it normal...

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    • Sandyjeanie
      6 years ago

      Normal to me. I have memories of a past life and death that I lived through back in the 1800s. I've had these memories and flashbacks since I was a young child. What used to scare me as a child though, was that the woman from the 1800s died very young, like 18 or 19 yrs old; so, I used to think that I was going to die at that age too. My mistake....I'm almost 63 now....LOL!!!!

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    It could be that you were reincarnated. (Look up reincarnation)
    I doubt that you are capable of time traveling. If its not reincarnation related it might be paranormally related. I strongly suggest against seeing a medical doctor. Go see a psychic or someone that specialises in reincarnation.

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  • samalander
    11 years ago

    Trust me your not alone!! I get it from my dreams too, it's just suddenly there even if there is nothing in common with the atmosphere. And the whole dizzy think is crazy you just feel knocked out of your mind....I always try to write them down right when it happens.....

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  • Invictus
    12 years ago

    Deja fucking vu, my friend. Gotta love em.

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  • hotmama50
    13 years ago

    find a hypnotist that can do past life regressions....my aunt did it she found it comforting

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  • Veinless
    13 years ago

    Well see I want to stray from saying past life, cause lets face it. That would be extraordinary and something everyone would love to say happens to them, but really I wander if it's like something in my personal life that's affecting me in my nervous system and causing me to fabricate places I'd rather be. But I really don't know, since I've always thought how dreaded it'd be to live like the time periods I see.

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    • deepthought33
      13 years ago

      Funny thing about your statement is that if past lives were somehow real then every single one of us would likely have an uncountable amount. I mean think about it. Look at the tips of your fingers--matter borrowed and reused The matter that makes up the screen you're reading this on now--again, been here since the beginning of time. Why not your soul as well?

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      • Veinless
        13 years ago

        You know deepthought33 that's a really good point.

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  • luicyyou
    13 years ago

    A past life maybe ?

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  • Mastersash
    13 years ago

    story of my life..

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    thats so interesting! seriously, i envy you. id try to give you advice, but im afraid it would be a bit self-destructive xD

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    you could of been there before. born, live, die, live again. it could be your past life flooding in. it's not normal by any means. but special. a doctor wouldn't understand, like said above they would tell you something scientific, over active imagination, tumor. it could be much more, bigger than you.

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  • brkb
    13 years ago

    I have flashbacks of fighting Vietnam though I'm only 18.
    P.S.: Google the name: James Leininger. It's this 5 year old kid who knows all about WW-II era planes, everything about the pacific theater, and knows about basic pre-flight checks. Despite his parents never having talked to him about WW-II and never leaving the history channel on. He knows the life story(including names) of a non-famous of WW-II fighter pilot.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    hmmm i think you just think of the thing and see the imagine in your head alot of people do it and say its flash backs of things theyve never done but reality is the flash back nothing in it is real or happened

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  • deepthought33
    13 years ago

    It sounds different...but I think it has been happening to me too recently. I cracked open a door to some part of my mind and now I want to open it all the way. My experience seems a little different but still related. I get serious sensations in my body of experiencing very feral things--it is kinda hard to explain without sounding like I'm totally making it up(or crazy). Things like open fields, dark jungles, running, hunting, claws in the ground kind of sensations. I can't imagine a doctor would tell you it was anything more than an overactive imagination. The brain is very powerful. But jeez, it could be a tumor for all I know :P

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    • Myhorsetencopper
      8 years ago

      I have been experiencing the same. I would be doing nothing but I'd have to look at something. Like a lighting or color then a flashback of some random house. I don't know but I try my best to keep thinking about that. But I guess to go see a doctor.

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  • soccer2
    13 years ago

    Yes I think u should see a doctor or specialist. This doesn't sound very bad but the mind is a tricky thing. I don't thinku should wore too much unless it gets serious r scary. But this is not normal at all. I suggest u go get this checked soon just in case

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