Strange Places

When I meditate, after a few minutes I can feel my mind going into more of a trance - and every time I get a distinct image and feeling of a place I’ve been in the past. I’m not taken back to any particularly significant moment, but the memory of it is always some place I forgot even existed - usually from many years ago. Yesterday, I found myself at a friends house over lunch hour - a memory from 1998! I have not ever thought about this moment since then and it came to me extremely clearly. I could picture the layout of her kitchen and the feeling I had in that moment (nothing remarkable). Other ones I’ve had are from my travels - a store, park, street, standing at lights at an intersection. These memories feel very different to me than other memories I hold. They’re not emotionally charged, and usually just completely random. This started happening to me about 11 years ago while I was pregnant. It would happen very occasionally - now it happens every time I meditate, sometimes multiple times.

Has anyone experienced this? I don’t know what to make of it. Just a distraction of my brain?