"flashes of memory" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe brief, intuitive recollections of a moment from the past. For example, "She closed her eyes and saw flashes of memory from her childhood."
After a day of wandering around the Dollhouse having brief flashes of memory, the principal Dolls fell asleep..
The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview Adriana Johnson & Horacio LegrasPart Three: Flashes of Memory in Paraguay: the Legacies of Stronism9.
There are flashes of memory, as in this: One year So many mushrooms in the wood My mother and father Taught me Which ones were good.
At times, the cyborgs reflect the Marxist concept of "false consciousness," as brainwashed creatures whose desires are programmed into them; sometimes their grisly flashes of memory, which occur after a digital update, feel more like P.T.S.D.
As he follows one disillusioned young man through his day on October 6 , 1981— the day that President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of a militant, underground Islamic group — Mahfouz melds illusion and reality through the eyes of his protagonist, Ilwan, and flashes of memory leap about in time.
He was inspired by snippets of conversation, flashes of memory.
In the next flash of memory I have, I'm back in the kitchen, looking out over the lowland valley, holding the guts of a music box.
I have these days where I have a brief flash of memory after seeing something that 'seems' familiar.
Or should they aim for a timely finish, sending their plates off punctually but bereft of their signature flourish, their crunchy, Velveeta-creamy flash of memory-evoking brilliance, their mystical portal to vanished childhood summers?
Pangs of hunger and waves of tiredness fought with flashes of old memories.
