flashback

created 2020-10-01 · edited 2020-10-01 · open in Roam

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For example a war vet who hears fireworks might have a PTSD flashback to being shot at.
- The response is inappropriate, but it makes sense given the veteran's life experience.
- It wouldn't make sense for a random 8 year old middle-class girl who has never seen or heard a gun to experience being shot at when fireworks go off, and we observe that she does not in fact experience this thing that would not make sense. In fact, if she did, then it would make sense (even if we don't know why).

Say I'm in a relationship conflict scene, and someone says something like "I'm afraid you are (or are about to be) doing <this awful thing>" then even if I'm confident that's not what I'm doing, and even if I don't know why they're afraid, I can still embody a stance that says "that makes sense that you're afraid". It might be that their fear is about a past version of me or it might be a flashback to some totally different time of their life. The details can be sorted out later, but step zero is just orienting from a place of "of course you feel afraid".

is Self an additional item here? or is it actually covered under McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model + flashback/blindspot stuff?