Examples of flashback

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Memories were recovered through flashbacks that brought with them a return of the original experience, to curative or revelatory effect.
The flashback's limitations as a way of conveying memory have been noted by contemporary film scholars.
They may only become apparent because of physical symptoms such as muscle tension and pain, or perhaps as disturbances of behaviour, or flashbacks.
Such techniques are used to signal when the camera adopts the look of a specific character, as in dreams, hallucinations or flashbacks.
The flashbacks nearer the beginning of the narrative have revealed that both the boy and his aunt have secrets.
The act committed at knifepoint and her remaining thirty years on earth are filled with vivid flashbacks of the night of the atrocity.
The action could therefore proceed as a series of judgmental flashbacks.
Weaker effects were observed for memories, flashbacks, avoiding feelings, amnesia, insomnia and startle.
The account of the expedition is more or less chronological, but the writer introduces unnecessary complication and confusion by the use of flashbacks in several places.
During their voyage a narrative is assembled through a series of flashbacks which reveal a proliferation of connections between the protagonists' families and contemporary political events.
The intrusive memories and especially dissociative flashbacks may be rich in perceptual detail and include not only visual images but also sounds or smells associated with the trauma.
The evidence to support this possibility is simply that this was a time when flashbacks, themselves likened to films, had become such a familiar trope of trauma and intense experience.
The two devices - flashback and foreshadowing - provide both the reader and the writer of diaries with a long-term vision and with a sense of perspective.
The scene cuts from his bedside to what is evidently a flashback - some kind of traumatic memory is returning to his (altered) consciousness.
Radio historians, too, note that radio dramas employed flashback devices to a striking extent during these decades.
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