I've been having sort of "flashes" of images and feelings for years of things that i do not remember, sometimes eventually these develop into full memories which are backed up by external evidence and sometimes they deelop into things which look like memories but are blatently not real as there are bits in them that dont make sense or they involve people who could not have been about at thee time or they just don#t feel like memories (if that makes sense).

But recsently this has been getting more intense. I've started having nightmares every night which appear to refer to a period of tme from which I have very few memories, these nightmares are seriously terrifying I will not go into the cntent as I don't want to trigger anyone but seriously they are scaring me. I've started getting "flashes" along similar themes too... and it sort of feels like there is someting there, like when someone asks you a question and you know that you know the answer but you can't quiet access it...


Basically how do I know if these things are refering to real events, or are symbolic, or are just random rubbish with no basis? I've been trying to find out about my childhood by contacting people who I used to live near and things, but none of these sources seem to be able to comfirm nor deny if anything happened, they all seemed suspiious about certain events but these were normally periods of time when I would essentially go missing and my mum would seemingly not care, so none of the people I've spoken to actually know where I was or if anything happened, all they know is that I vanished and that I wasn't where my mum claimed that I was.

Anyway I'm getting side tracked here, basicall how can I know if any part of this refers to real things?