retrovision

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RETROVISION — [Noun] The power of mentally seeing events from the past. From retro- ("backward") + vision ("sight"). Unlike "postcognition" (which implies paranormal sight) or "retrospection" (which is merely reflective thought), retrovision is the involuntary cinema of memory—flickering, vivid, and unspooling without consent. It is the scent of rain on hot pavement conjuring a childhood street, the ghost of a lover’s face surfacing in a stranger’s glance, or the way an old song can drag the past into the present with such force it leaves you breathless. The mind is a haunted projector, always replaying what it cannot relive.