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How Sensory Memories Can Collapse Time After Trauma

I have been fine for months and then suddenly I smell something or hear a song and I am right back there like it just happened

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traumatic imprints bypass the mind's temporal organizing function, causing past events to feel immediately present through sensory activation.

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