Flashbacks or not, since I use this board as a bit of a journal to keep track of this type of thing, I'll make note of the following: an increasing number of dreams with themes from the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Just to be clear, I never dream historically, but symbolically. Also, clothing has never been a feature of my dreams. As a matter of fact, it is never something I have ever even noticed in prior dreams.
However, I have been having dreams lately that seem to be more like memories of ordinary day-to-day events in a different time with people wearing noticeably different period clothing (rather than symbolic excursions). Coupled with this I keep having images pop into my head as dream left-overs and/or part of my waking-up process, mostly images of females in period clothing, though today these images also included a young man dressed as a WWI soldier. I am supposing that these folks will eventually be people I knew at one time, but the curtains come down when I wake-up and its hard to remember particulars after that.
So, a possible new corner turned. Nothing of great interest to anyone else, but (as noted above) I like to keep track of these things as they develop and this board provides a way to do so. Not coincidentally, I also recently had one of my "someone is breaking in" dreams, where I prepared to repel someone who was trying to break-in during the dark of night while a storm raged outside. Interesting symbolism--and more typical than the other matters mentioned. So, this--more adverse--part of me is apparently still there and hard at work.
S&S