While listening to him, my life flashed before me.

"My life flashed ahead," she said in a telephone interview last week.

Just as they always said it would, my life flashed before my eyes.

As I tried to work it out, the drowning man's life flashed before me.

He wondered if, as they always say, his life would flash before his eyes.

My life had not flashed before my eyes when the guns came out.

"I feel like I can see their whole lives flash before me."

You've read the phrase and heard it many times: "His whole life flashed before him."

I mean, my whole life is just flashing in front of my eyes.

His life had flashed before him yesterday, and that changed things.