Has anyone ever experienced flashback of memory they don't remember??

[MrsSeptember]

This sounds really weird and I'm freaking out a little. I really hope it's my mind playing tricks on me.

I had a flashback of what feels like a memory. I remember the place, the people and most of the details really well from a previous memory. The problem is a really disturbing addition to this 'memory' came into the flashback.

I don't want to say what it was and I don't know why I'm posting really.

Has anyone ever unearthed a suppressed memory or has their mind played tricks on them and misrememebred things?

Yes. When i was 21 i started to remember some traumatic tgings that had happened to me when I was small. My life circumstances had changed and it became safe for me to remember them. Ive had the memories corroborated by someone who was also there at the time.

"And this is why I have always felt very uneasy about the 1970's and 1980's tv stars and DJ's etc being charged (and convicted) of sexual assault/sexual harassment in the past when it has exceeded 25 years."

Ffs. So you think the hundreds of people who were sexually assaulted by Jimmy Saville all made it up, do you?

Its been proven beyond reasonable doubt over and over that there was a prevailing culture which enavled and normalised sexual assault in the 1970s

@Whiteman

False memory syndrome is made up by child abusers who wanted to deny they had abused their child.

Utter drivel.

Of COURSE it exists.

@limon

Ffs. So you think the hundreds of people who were sexually assaulted by Jimmy Saville all made it up, do you?

Ffs, I never said that.

Quit putting words in my mouth!

Having a false memory or more commonly where your imagination makes up the parts you don't remember from a memory. But false memory syndrom doesn't exist. There is no such syndrom.

Agreed whitemain

There is a statute of limitations in many other countries for people who claim something happened many, many years ago.

There is a strong, valid reason for that!

@whitemane

Having a false memory or more commonly where your imagination makes up the parts you don't remember from a memory. But false memory syndrome doesn't exist. There is no such syndrome.

Yes there is.

user no there isnt! Look up the psychology.

Accusing "False memory syndrome" is a method of trying to keep people quiet about what happened to them. Its like gaslighting.

False memory syndrom has repeatedly refused entry to the dsm & icd and the peadophiles who made it up were discredited and had their licences revoked. Every psychological & psychiatric society in western world doesn't believe it and recovered memories have been used in numerous court proceedings. They even by pass America's statute of limitations if abuse is only remembered later.

Look up jennifer fryeds research. She's considered very credible and her research is ground breaking.

You keep believing what you want to believe if it makes you feel better.

I had something similar happen but I never remembered it myself until I was reminded.

When I was about six I fell off my bike and another child who was biking with me accidentally drove over my chest and left a friction huge burn from his tyre vertically down my chest and stomach.

I was talking about this at a family gathering about ten years later when my brother pipes up (he was there when it happened) and said you really don't have to lie about what happened anymore.

And then it all came back. I was actually pinned down whilst he span the wheel as fast as he could over me before lowering it onto my stomach to leave a nasty burn.

I lied to protect him and ended up believing the lie.

Thank you everyone for your replies. Last night was very strange and has made me feel uneasy all day.

The memory is a familiar one to me but with something else added in. The flashback like I was 'back there' and experiencing it. It was like in my head I'd released a locked scene of the memory.

I'm hoping to god it was just my head making things up as I can't consider the alternative.

Thank you to everyone who has linked articles. I'll go back and have a read.

I'm so sorry to anyone who has found out their memories were real

When I was about 6 or 7 I was at a beach resort and queuing at a fish and chip van. One of the staff members was a young guy. I'd say early twenties but given how much older everyone seems when you're little he could have been late teens. He smiled at me and I had a sudden very strong image/thought. Basically what I could see was what I knew to be internal fake wood caravan panelling. My face was very close to the panelling and pushed into a sofa type cushion. I was in my front, I could smell sweat and I was scared. I remember feeling really freaked out and couldn't look at the guy again. At the time Secret Smile by Semisonic was playing and I still feel weird when I hear the song.

I assume he reminded me of someone I'd seen on a TV show or film or something? It wasn't nice.

Autobiographical memory is a dynamic construct that changes every time an episode is recalled. This topic is currently the subject of my Masters dissertation and is very interesting.

For many years I had a sort of recurrent memory flashback that I couldn't tell whether it was real or a dream. It was a disturbing thing that happened when I was about 5. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that my mother confirmed it had indeed happened. I wish she had told me before.

False memory syndrome may not exist but nobody can really deny that individual false memories exist. I hear it often when my daughter tells a story thst she wasn't there for as if she was, or at least her own altered version of it. And I have remembered things really clearly which have turned out to be inaccurate. I clearly remember my uncle's hoisr from when i was a kid... I remember the road it was on and all sorts. Only what I remember is completely wrong and i only discovered this recently talking to my aunt and uncle about the old house!

I also have had memories of things which have turned out to be actual dreams I've had.

All this to say that OK it is quite possible that the memory is false. Is there any way you can find out?

I hear it often when my daughter tells a story thst she wasn't there for as if she was, or at least her own altered version of it.

When I was nursery school age I used to make up stories quite a lot. My mother was sufficiently concerned that she spoke to the nursery school staff about it - or so she tells me. The nursery school staff said that this is not concerning.

The concept of statute of limitations does not exist to in order to protect the defendant from false memory syndrome on the part of the accuser. The concept of statute of limitations exists for several reasons. An accusation based on a memory, absent corroborating evidence, would be insufficient evidence to prosecute in general, I would have thought. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

I thought it was normal to have false memories. I do. Luckily nothing unpleasant but mementoes that are so real I can picture every detail even though I know I've made them up.

I also get strong de ja vue. ( sorry can't spell). I'm aware if it when it's happening. I love it even though it's a bit freaky. It just your brain playing 'tricks'

Suppressing memories to protect yourself is a whole other matter.

Apologies for resurrecting this old thread.

False memories are of special interest to me as I was in therapy with a psychologist who tried, unsuccessfully, to get me to believe that I had been a victim of satanic ritual abuse but could not remember it because of dissociative amnesia.

I am 100% certain that I have never been a victim of a satanic cult and I find it extremely disturbing that NHS mental health professionals try to persuade people that they have experienced such things.

The psychologist who abused me is a colleague and close associate of the NHS "professionals" described in this awful true account of the abuse of a vulnerable adult and her family.

I am posting this as there are many psychologists, psychiatrists , psychologists and life coaches who are abusing vulnerable people in this way.