Alright so I developed PTSD from a school lockdown situation where a student was killed. So understandably I can be inside and maybe a tree branch or something knocks on a window so my mind might go to watching the windows during that lockdown since no one in that room really knew where the person with the gun was. Or being in a school type environment can freak me out and make me very anxious because in my mind i might be triggered to relive all that.

That makes sense...but now its like somehow my mind has associated things vaugly associated with that trauma with the trauma itself. So I might sort of lose touch or reality for a minute and think something I read about, heard of or watched will happen that I did not directly experience...pretty much just like the typical flashback but it will be nothing to do with my specific trauma.

Like the other day I was sitting outside in this spot sort of near my house with lots of tall grass and when I got up to go home for a minute i was being all careful looking around in the grass worried about who might be hiding getting ready to pop out and shoot or attack me and it took me a minute to remember where i even was...and I have never been in any situation where anything like that happened but I'm sure I've seen, read or heard of such situations....or maybe it was just hyper-vigilance and my mind was trying to rationalize what there possibly was to be hyper-vigilant about. So I don't know I think perhaps its some sort of PTSD issue but I don't understand it, does anyone else experience anything like that...like feeling like you're 're-living' something you never experienced. Kind of hard to explain so hopefully I am making some sense.