I’ll be in the middle of something, either thought or action,  and suddenly will have a very quick flashback of memory to a time or place that lasts all of a couple of seconds.  Today I was playing an online game and suddenly remembered the basement at my grandparents’ house. My grandfather died 25 years ago and my grandmother hasn’t lived there for several years. I haven’t been there in over fifteen years and probably didn’t even see the basement. I never really spent all that much time there in the years I was growing up either since we visited once or twice a year.  So I wonder how such a seemingly trivial memory of a place was suddenly triggered.

That’s just one of  a great many flashbacks I’ve had over the past few weeks. I don’t think it’s a new phenomenon but it must be happening more often than in the past. Is it something that happens more as you grow older?  Or is it just me? I guess now I have a real understanding of the term flashback.