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Flashbulb memories is defined as memories created at times of high emotion that seem especially vivid; one's vivid memory for hearing the news of a surprising event.

It is a phenomenon in which people recall their personal circumstances (for example, where they were, whom they were with, what they were doing) at the time they heard of or witnessed an unexpected and very significant event (for example, an assassination, a natural disaster). Moreover, Flasbulb memory is defined as a memory of an event so powerful that the person remembers the event as vividly as if it were indelibly preserved on film.