Noun
- 1. flashback, transition
- usage: a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- 2. flashback, recurrence, return
- usage: an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
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