[john70t]

When I was a teen I slipped off the side of a low diving board and missed cracking my skull open on the edge of the pool by inches.

The strange thing was that last year I began getting random memories of that event.
Day or night, the same fall would randomly flash before my eyes.
Except this time it was from the high dive.

Those memories absolutely terrified me and would not stop...
I tried tp intentionally fall on the other side of the diving board instead every time that memory occurred.
Cancel it all out by overloading and accepting it.

I then had to do a sketchy outside window screen repair at the rental using a sketchy ladder. That went okay. Barely. It was not safe.
And those flashbacks stopped completely.

I'm guessing the fear mechanism is the brain's way of preparing or recovering from an event.