flashback

IPA: fɫˈæʃbæk

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.

(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

Examples of "flashback" in Sentences

So I wrote the story as a mystery, partially in flashback, to provide context.
The pace here isnt as rapid as usual, and much of the story is told in flashback or as discourse.
Although we only see Charlie, Tom's wife, in flashback, she seems to share Lillian's love of essential ingredients.
You could do so in flashback, or by recounting journalistic coverage of the fight as it ended, or by having characters narrate what happened, or whatever.
Viggo Mortensen plays the unnamed father, Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee plays the son, while Charlize Theron appears in flashback as their deceased wife and mother.
Something of a cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes, we see him in flashback film footage at the Stark World Expo 1974, set on the site of the real world New York World's Fair.
But as the story comes out - and we see in flashback - Ted, who is about a decade younger than Rhonda, had his first fling with her in the 1950s, when he was a young assistant at a magazine where Rhonda was an editor.