Third person

When you have a flashback do you see it in third person? Like a movie you are watching like you are the person thats in the act but you see it as a person watching not a person in the act does that make sense?

Hello! I understand what you're saying here.

Honestly, sometimes I do get memories from my childhood where not-so-nice things happen to me and I see it in the third-person. Almost like it's a movie.

My guess is that it's a way to try and distance yourself from what happened. Your mind may have tried to frame it in a way so it won't hurt as bad. To try and paint it as if you weren't the one in that situation, even though you know for a fact that you were.

Some kind of coping mechanism, I'd think.

I don't.. my flashbacks are mostly sensory... a stab of pain, physical pressure, body flooded with adrenalin and stress hormones, sounds, smells, etc. The things I see are usually visual fragments of what was seen at the time for me. 1st person perspective.
I have had a couple of flashbacks that were from the third person perspective and that was when an alter was "out of body" at the time of the trauma.

Since I got Dissociative Identity Disorder and PTSD, the flashback i look for this to be the constant memory carrier for moments to make a little sense to tell a succinct story. For us, they like absorbed things so other areas are able to carrier oon, putting things together. Some in the third person some on as other experiences.

For anxiety suffers the busyness of the mind constant worry is usually what gives a flashback its credence. I have more on my mind it watches in third person, they will beleive everything you say about it. Sharing it would be a good idea, it normalizes what you are dealing with to get a diagnoses.