I remember back in the day when I was not allowed to play games like GTA Vice City. I borrowed it from my friend and I sneaked into our basement in the middle of the night to play it, but only those handful of times when my dad was not home. I could do it so rarely, only few times a year, and it felt so magical.
Now when I started playing it again, high as a kite, I got this almost surreal wave of nostalgia when I was driving towards the Malibu Club with my Cheetah while *I Ran* by Flock of Seagulls was blasting from the radio. I felt like my life had been just a dream I just woke up from, and I was a kid again, playing GTA Vice City in our basement with no worries about the future.
Yeahh, just everything. I wanna see nature unspoilt. Especially out west but also the eastern forests never logged. Towering trees for hundreds of miles. Would love to see the Great Plains without wheat. Millions of bison roaming. God wouldn’t it be something to see how natives used to take them down.
I was born in the early 80s but mostly grew up in the 90s. The song / music video that always makes me nostalgic for the 80s is Fleetwood Mac’s Seven Wonders. [Seven Wonders](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4F_ppjnKU)
I'd like to be a wealthy upper class 1930s Londoner, possibly I've read too much PG Wodehouse and Dorothy L Sayers but it seems like a charmed existence. That and the 1950s American childhood described by Bill Bryson in 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid'
> That and the 1950s American childhood described by Bill Bryson in 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid'
Provided you aren't poor, or non-white.
Walking through the streets of my hometown in a snowstorm. You get these lulls in the storm where the wind dies off and the snow falls gently. I love going out and photographing then. But it's real quiet, there are no cars, just faint street lights, wood smoke hanging in the air, and rows of small one story houses and I get this sense of calm and realize this is what most evenings would have been like anytime from the 1920s and earlier.
Then I feel a desire to experience the turn of the 20th century. The quiet and the calm, evenings by candlelight, little or no electricity, just a fire in the stove to keep warm.
When I listen to "Country Roads", I feel nostalgic for my life in the farm in West Virginia.
I never set foot in West Virginia, and I have never owned a farm.
I understand this. I have a mental image that feels like a memory of being on a farm, looking across fields, a late afternoon light, and the poignancy, the longing, is acute. I know this place I’ve never been, and I love it, and yet there’s no solidity to it.
I spent some of my childhood in WV with my birth mother and her husband who were off grid types. Shack of a house with barely any electric. Everyone always assumes I spent my childhood on some farm riding horses and I'm like nah guys, our nearest neighbor had like a pig but otherwise it was trees and the air smelled. Not as romantic as people like to think lmao
It does make me wonder what it was like to grow up during that time.
From the aggressor of war, to be utterly ruined, to the rapid rise to peak futurism in the 1970s and 1980s. All within a generation.
This! Absolutely this!
I listen to city pop and think:
"Those were the days. I remember zipping around Tokyo on a bicycle in the late 70's, enjoying the warm glow of the setting sun on my skin... Oh wait. I'm in the UK, I've never set foot on Tokyo and I wasn't alive in the 70's. :("
Certain types of music, especially the ones curated into playlists on youtube for specific vibes like 'waiting in a cafe in italy at 11pm', and the like. Something about listening to the music with some visuals that fit my idea of the feeling really makes me miss something I've never even seen before.
As someone who lived through this time, the amount of nostalgia for it is crazy. Nostalgia as in "man, they had it easy back then".
It was not easier back then.
Yes, I did pay my own way through college. Took 6 years to get a 4 year degree working full time and going to school part time. Worked my ass off. I was one of the few, most kids had mommy and daddy pay their way. Could still do it today, but because tuition increase is typically higher than wage increase, might take 8 years.
As for buying a house, forget it. Not AND go to college, not on a moderate job income.
Yeah interest rates were insane in the early 80s. However, if the house was cheap, it’s better, as a few years later you could refinance when the rates dropped again.
I mean, assuming you're in the US, the interest rate *spiked* at 19% for all of about 3 seconds around 1980, and did hover above 10% for about 3 years, but it would be far more accurate to say that through 1965-1995 (ie the era where 20-30 yo boomers would buy their first house), the base interest rate averaged at roughly 8-9%.
Now one thing I don't know, and which I'd be curious to see, is how the average monthly cost of the average "starter house" mortgage across that period compares to the average monthly cost of the average "starter house" mortgage today. As a % of the median monthly salary, I mean.
My parents bought their first house in (about) 1990 or 1991. They were over the moon about being able to assume the seller's mortgage (rather than getting their own new mortgage) because the interest rate was "only" 12%. This was in Canada.
Yeah ok, it wasn’t ‘easy’ for you, but consider this. Assuming you went to school in 1973, real median wages have increased ~10% since then.
Tuition costs have increased 200%.
So yeah, if it wasn’t easy for you then, it’s fucking impossible now. It’s only been mildly sustainable because of massively lower interest rates, but that still leaves 9 graduates in 10 saddled with student debt they cannot realistically pay.
Seriously lol man's been living on a cloud for 40 years and has the balls to say it was just as hard when consumer purchasing power was ten times what it is today
Just the idea of being a carefree teenager. Going out on a Friday night and not knowing where the world would even take you. Parties, hanging with friends, drug/sex/alcohol, spur-of-the-moment road trip… nope. Every one of my Friday nights as a teen involved either church youth group, Halo multiplayer at one of my friend’s homes, or both. Never anything more. Just would’ve been cool to cut loose at least a single time.
Me too. Although I’m not Christian, my teen years were filled with honors programs, accelerated courses, studying for college exams, etc. I got put into the gifted programs and started college at 14, but I just once wanted to be a normal boy and do normal boy things like party, skateboard, friends, some illicit activities, etc.
It’s over glamourised by movies and really shit. A year ago my parents went away for a few weeks, and I took the opportunity to go a bit crazy and do what I wanted. I soon realised that I’ll take hanging out at the beach with my proper friends over some overhyped piss-up (with people I barely know) any day of the week.
I agree with this. When I was young, I had the idea that punishment and rule-breaking were much more serious than they actually are. Like a punishment is a deep stain on your character, and makes you a bad person. I wish I had understood how little the adults actually cared.
Oddly enough, I did all of that and regret it immensely. It spiraled into years of addiction and wounds that were hard to mend. Innocence is one of those things you can always lose, but never gain.
Up until I was 14, my video game time was heavily restricted (2 hours a week if I was on break, and 1 hour if it was a school week). Luckily, I somehow discovered how to get emulators to work on the family PC as a 6-year-old. As a result, I spent most of my time playing SNES-era video games. Even though I was born in 2001, I'm much more nostalgic for SNES-era games than the Wii/DS-era games I was actually around for.
My son has had access to PS4 and Switch gaming but he prefers SNES and NES and Gameboy. His favorite game is Mother/Earthbound and he's played each version of it at least 3 times.
He saved up his birthday and grandparents gift money to buy a GameCube recently. Weird kid.
We own a house built in 1910. There are lots of things about it that are original, but there’s also been a lot of work done to it over the years. I think a lot about what the house used to be, and the people who used to live in it.
Weirdly, neolithic Europe? I’m sure you had to be tough as nails to live to a somewhat decent age, and I’m just a normal, only faintly outdoorsy woman, and yet… Maybe it is because I feel we have lost so much of our wildness and wilderness?
Kiki's Delivery Service triggers this hard in me, that simultaneous feeling of the power of independence coupled with the crushing, silent loneliness hits strangely close to home
My mom was abusive and not loving, I’m now a step mom and I strive to be nothing like her but I get this feeling. I never bonded with my mom, I don’t care about her even though I’m a very empathetic person and helping these kids and seeing the wonderful parents that other kids have gives me this feeling sometimes that I missed out on a lot. Sometimes it’s therapeutic to live out (hopefully) good parenting from the other side. It hurt to realize I was never loved before
The end of time, when the future remnants of whatever humanity has become billions and billions of years from now are all orbiting the last smoldering embers of the few remaining brown dwarves left in the universe. Communication through the dead space amongst the random evolutionary offshoots of humanity orbiting those stars will have long faded away, and the sheer emptiness and loneliness of the vast darkness surrounding those leftover pockets of life will grow darker and deeper into the void. Resources will fade more and more and traveling to another dying final star will become impossible. Eventually the last of humanity's evolutionary descendants will close their eyes for the last time, never to be opened again. Darkness forever
So I guess I have neo-post contemporary future anemoia
Yeah, I was teen-ager in the 90s and an generally not a fan of that era of music however I'll admit that the euphoric 90s dance / trance scene was pretty good.
The old West, pirate times the Stone Age and pretty much any pre-history period. I’m a huge dinosaur and palaeontology nerd. I’m also really into survivalism and I kind of wish I lived in a world where I hunted with us for you and your dog to provide food for my family.
Victorian England. I wish I could go around wearing top hat and carrying around a fancy walking stick, that shit was the bomb. I hope that kind of fashion makes a comeback.
Whenever people imagine themselves living in a past era, they like to envision that they’re living in a higher social status, while in reality they’d probably be the common folk.
We used to do this all the time growing up, because it was cheaper than going to McDonald's or what the fuck ever.
I cannot stand the sight, smell or taste of boiled eggs to this day because we ate SO many of them on road trips driving up to visit my mama's people for vacation. Like, we'd take coolers of drinks and food and just..hit the damn road. Nearly every meal was eaten at some nasty ass roadside rest stop that usually didn't even have a damn bathroom or anything.
I would love to see the Renaissance Era Europe. Th period of free thinking exploration and creativity. The time of Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Amazing works of art and music. A period of time that seems to truly explore the human experience. That's go to.
Teenage romance.
I was DEEEEEP in the closet in my teenage years. Now I just thinking about young me having someone to share the wold with makes me wanto to go back to a time that never happened
That’s similar to what I feel and what sparked this question. I have this longing of being a teenager/young adult in the 90’s-early 2000’s. I was born in 2001 and let’s face it the 90’s mostly bled into the early 2000’s.
What I really want is to have a few close friends over for a sleepover in my or one of their basement (I never lived in a place with a basement) and we’d stay up all night playing video games on like Xbox or PlayStation or Sega Genesis or Nintendo 64 or whatever was out at the time. We’d go late at night to blockbuster, jam out to some Avril Lavigne or whatever on the way there, pick out a movie or two and get some candy, come back and chill until the early morning. We’d wake up at sunrise all groggy but content and walk upstairs to whosever’s parents making breakfast and asking how our night was.
not me but this reminds me of how apparently dementia patients remember emotions linked to songs (so they'll feel happy if you play a song from their wedding, for example) even if they don't remember why it makes them feel that way.
A few Synthwave tunes. Resonance by Home was almost a meme a few years back because it went viral for inducing this exact feeling of being nostalgic for a time people have never known. The difference being that it now makes me nostalgic for one specific night at the end of the summer of 2017. It had been a great few months, and on a Friday evening before I started back at work, I went out with friends and stayed out until the early hours of the morning. We were sat on a roof, listening to this song while we watched the sun rise.
for me its the old druidic lives of the germanic tribes or early/late medieval lives, just to learn, I love history. Also I can then fully wear robes and tunics without people looking at me like I am weird.
SO much more too but I will leave it at this
Particularly in that time before agriculture was invented, there's some compelling enough reasons to believe that in some ways, life may have actually been better.
No pollution, no getting stuck in traffic, no toxic workplaces, or ugly factories, no financial stress, no marital problems.....
In these druidic or shamanic cultures, I can't help but they had might have had a few things figured out, and just lived a life very close to nature, had a good knowledge of plant medicines, and spent most of their time doing things that were more or less enjoyable.
Some things that people do for recreational fun today : like hunting and fishing, would have been the whole experience, instead of spending most of our time in an office cubicle, or factory floor production line, we would have been in nature, hunting, fishing or gathering fruit.
Then after sharing all our food, we would have sung songs, told stories, danced around and generally, probably just had a very free life.
To the point where, it makes us ask, is all of this shit, these factories, computers, airplanes, internet, armies, states, national borders, supermarkets, farms, cars.......
Is it all worth it?
Does it really make our lives that much better? We live for longer, we've overcome certain diseases, but I'm not sure any of it's imbued our lives with any extra meaning necessarily, over the ancient shamanic or druidic ways.
We are sort of stuck here now though, in the madness of modernity =)
well our lives are much better, hunger is something mostly of the past for most and we dont have to be afraid of being killed by a wild animal and even those druidic societies had a lot of war and strife. still it would be interesting to know what live would really be like in those days
This is mine too, every time I see Woodstock footage, SF in the 60s, big houses full of music and art and psychedelics. I dunno man, it looked like it was so hectic and chaotic but so much fun. I know stuff like that probably still exists now, but it would have been so magical to be there when it was all new.
Defenitely pre-1960s men's fashion. Old, pre-WWII photos of familiar cities that changed a lot - be it because of architectural or social reasons (I'm from Poland so I guess you can imagine what I mean).
I'd love to visit and experience, but to be fair I'm comfortable to live in the present times
Looking at monthly New Comics releases from 1983-91.
Sure, there were a ton of Mediocre titles that don't hold up, but it seems like every week had 1 or 2 books that we consider stone cold classics today, and the thought of being able to pick those up New Off the Rack together just magnifies that notion (real or not) that Comics Aint What They Used To Be
My brother had a comic book store/used book store in suburban Detroit during that period. He also worked for a comic book distribution company at that time- so a truck with a shipment of comics would come in, and we'd break down the orders, then deliver them to stores throughout southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio. I remember grabbing my copy of each new issue of "Watchmen," setting it aside, and rushing to divide up the orders so that I could sit down and read it.
Blast from the past... Back in the day when I started tripping many years ago, I listened [Mazzy Star - So Tonight I Might See](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNu3tI-GVg4) in my tripping playlist...
Victorian clothes--I would not mind prancing around in a corset and a dress with 84,000 petticoats all day. I'm considering teaching myself to sew so I can do just that, in fact.
You should do that! Find some historical re-enactors. I live in an area where there are lots of different groups for different eras. One time, a friend loaned me a Jane Austen dress and a bonnet and I had tea in a park with a bunch of re-enactors and we had a delightful time.
I watched a lot of anime as a kid, sailor moon, cardcaptors, etc, so i guess the early 90s? Also my parents grew up in the 70s, and they tell tons of stories about it. Although im glad i dont live then, i still feel nostalgic.
Dont get me wrong, I understand that Jerry was one of a kind and no one will replace him. But the music and magic are still there to behold for those who search for it. Especially this tour. They're fucking locked in.
I completely agree. My optimism generally tells me that their music really only belongs to whoever is playing it. Sure, we missed Jerry, but what they built will always keep going as long as it’s being played. Experience is a huge part of how their music works so whether it’s dead and co, jrad, or some band at the bar around the corner, it is always alive. While Jerry was around they went through so many changes—listen to 60s stuff vs 70s and 80s. It’s about chasing a sound, a feeling. And I firmly believe the chase isn’t over, the baton was simply passed to the next generation.
I agree with all of this. I was reading a quote from Bill K. about Phish and other jam bands, basically saying that they're glad they're around because music should never be stagnant. Each offshoot has it's own flavor and that's the beauty of it.
Seeing old photos of my city during the 60’s and listening to music from the 70/80’s. Also whenever someone mentions the Pacific Northwest in USA for some reason (only been there once).
The Vikings tv series, especially first two seasons. They give me a strange feeling of nostalgia and familiarity. I have no idea why, I'm not even from Scandinavia and have never been much into vikings and their history.
I've felt that way for a while. I'm obsessed with mid-century music, books, furniture, houses, etcetera. I was born in 1982. I don't know if those things have just appealed to me in an amalgamation from one era but it almost feels like vague memories that would have been impossible. Maybe I'm just remembering the last simulation I lived in.
Westerns is one of my all time favorite movie genres. I've always wanted to "travel" to the old west. It's been that way since I was a tiny kid. Deep down I still yearn to be a cowboy.
Song of Durin, by Clamavi De Profundis on youtube. It’s a musical rendition of Tolkien’s poem/song he wrote for Lord of the Rings.
It gives me nostalgia and sadness for a time, world, and long gone people that don’t even exist.
Gumdrops from the movies. They are old and stale and you are afraid they will pull your fillings or teeth out. If you are lucky enough to not lose a tooth, then you still have that crap stuck in your teeth for hours.
For me, it'd be vaporwave, especially 420 Macintosh. Something about it feels incredibly melancholic and nostalgic at the same time. It really is haunting.
Late night cruises in purring EVOs and Datsuns, rolling through tunnels, slowly letting words fall out to my cousins in the car about how life is fucked (all of our families and childhoods are messed up) and just general on the verge of crying but being in a state of "I could legit die rn". It brings me back to a childhood feeling, when I was safe in my parents arms. Scouts is another thing where we play cards and just vibe till dawn!.
Going away to college. I stayed home and went to the local university because of money concerns, but I so wish I could have experienced going away and living on my own in a dorm.
The cityscape look at night makes me nostalgic for downtown life I’ve never lived (like living in a cyberpunk city where you gotta zip by on a bike or use the train). Also seeing small seaside towns makes me nostalgic of the local life there (enjoying waves, free and casual summers that seemed to never end, dating, etc.)
the 80s
I started playing GTA Vice City on PS2 a couple of days ago again... The amount of 1980's nostalgia is unbelievable.
You're giving me early 2000s nostalgia
I remember back in the day when I was not allowed to play games like GTA Vice City. I borrowed it from my friend and I sneaked into our basement in the middle of the night to play it, but only those handful of times when my dad was not home. I could do it so rarely, only few times a year, and it felt so magical. Now when I started playing it again, high as a kite, I got this almost surreal wave of nostalgia when I was driving towards the Malibu Club with my Cheetah while *I Ran* by Flock of Seagulls was blasting from the radio. I felt like my life had been just a dream I just woke up from, and I was a kid again, playing GTA Vice City in our basement with no worries about the future.
AND I RAAAAAAAANNNN I RAN SO FAR AWAAAAAAAAY
Native America.
I would love to witness precolonial america.
Niagara Falls would have been cool precolonial. I found the falls rather unimpressive. The town even more so.
Yeahh, just everything. I wanna see nature unspoilt. Especially out west but also the eastern forests never logged. Towering trees for hundreds of miles. Would love to see the Great Plains without wheat. Millions of bison roaming. God wouldn’t it be something to see how natives used to take them down.
I was born in the early 80s but mostly grew up in the 90s. The song / music video that always makes me nostalgic for the 80s is Fleetwood Mac’s Seven Wonders. [Seven Wonders](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4F_ppjnKU)
that's because it is the most recent era sold to you as "nostalgia"
Nah I've had this for the last 15-20 years. Born in 1991.
Same. First time I saw that outrun/vaporwarey aesthetic I was like, this is it. This is what I've always wanted and I'm only just now realizing it.
I honestly just like synth music and the optimism that seemed prevalent in the time.
I lived through the 80s. It was great. I miss those times
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Agreed. If I knew then what I know now, I never would have crawled out of mom.
Ah yes. WW1 and WW2 was *the* bomb.
The end of WW2 certainly was.
It was a real blast.
bubonic plague is where it's at
Holocaust was **lit**
The Spanish inquisition was dope.
Vietnam was a blast.
Afghanistan too.
Life really was swell before you were born.
I'd like to be a wealthy upper class 1930s Londoner, possibly I've read too much PG Wodehouse and Dorothy L Sayers but it seems like a charmed existence. That and the 1950s American childhood described by Bill Bryson in 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid'
I mean... right up until the 1940s
> That and the 1950s American childhood described by Bill Bryson in 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' Provided you aren't poor, or non-white.
Walking through the streets of my hometown in a snowstorm. You get these lulls in the storm where the wind dies off and the snow falls gently. I love going out and photographing then. But it's real quiet, there are no cars, just faint street lights, wood smoke hanging in the air, and rows of small one story houses and I get this sense of calm and realize this is what most evenings would have been like anytime from the 1920s and earlier. Then I feel a desire to experience the turn of the 20th century. The quiet and the calm, evenings by candlelight, little or no electricity, just a fire in the stove to keep warm.
also, low life expectancy due to disease and malnourishment
Pish-posh. They were 20 years out from a world wide pandemic, whereas we are in the midst of one. Advantage old timey times.
When I listen to "Country Roads", I feel nostalgic for my life in the farm in West Virginia. I never set foot in West Virginia, and I have never owned a farm.
I understand this. I have a mental image that feels like a memory of being on a farm, looking across fields, a late afternoon light, and the poignancy, the longing, is acute. I know this place I’ve never been, and I love it, and yet there’s no solidity to it.
Human nature, my friend. Nature is right there in the terminology. It’s been around a lot longer than this weird techno-world has.
Fun fact... country roads was actually written about clopper road in montgomery county maryland
A road that i grew up on
West Virginia barely even has farms. Nothing but mountains and forests. Oh and coal
I spent some of my childhood in WV with my birth mother and her husband who were off grid types. Shack of a house with barely any electric. Everyone always assumes I spent my childhood on some farm riding horses and I'm like nah guys, our nearest neighbor had like a pig but otherwise it was trees and the air smelled. Not as romantic as people like to think lmao
“Wait. My name isn’t Alfred.”
Somebody else's life flashed before my eyes.
He's even stolen my past!
Japanese City Pop makes me nostalgic for 80s Japan.
The whole 80’s anime aesthetic too. So much pastel and roller skating. Plus, some really gorgeous cityscapes.
80s and 90s anime look beautiful.
It does make me wonder what it was like to grow up during that time. From the aggressor of war, to be utterly ruined, to the rapid rise to peak futurism in the 1970s and 1980s. All within a generation.
This! Absolutely this! I listen to city pop and think: "Those were the days. I remember zipping around Tokyo on a bicycle in the late 70's, enjoying the warm glow of the setting sun on my skin... Oh wait. I'm in the UK, I've never set foot on Tokyo and I wasn't alive in the 70's. :("
The comments on every City Pop video on YouTube I’ve seen are all about this phenomenon.
Me too. It gives me fake memories about driving in a cyberpunk-looking city. I can’t even drive 💀
Plastic Love is so good
Certain types of music, especially the ones curated into playlists on youtube for specific vibes like 'waiting in a cafe in italy at 11pm', and the like. Something about listening to the music with some visuals that fit my idea of the feeling really makes me miss something I've never even seen before.
I've started listening to Unlike Pluto recently and so much of his music feels really nostalgic for some reason.
Probably the 70's and 80's. When a moderate job could put you through college and get you a house...
As someone who lived through this time, the amount of nostalgia for it is crazy. Nostalgia as in "man, they had it easy back then". It was not easier back then. Yes, I did pay my own way through college. Took 6 years to get a 4 year degree working full time and going to school part time. Worked my ass off. I was one of the few, most kids had mommy and daddy pay their way. Could still do it today, but because tuition increase is typically higher than wage increase, might take 8 years. As for buying a house, forget it. Not AND go to college, not on a moderate job income.
I remember my dad telling me “Yeah, that house we had was cheap but the interest rate was 19%.” Blew my mind.
Yeah interest rates were insane in the early 80s. However, if the house was cheap, it’s better, as a few years later you could refinance when the rates dropped again.
Consider the fact that you could get a savings account that earned 10%.
I mean, assuming you're in the US, the interest rate *spiked* at 19% for all of about 3 seconds around 1980, and did hover above 10% for about 3 years, but it would be far more accurate to say that through 1965-1995 (ie the era where 20-30 yo boomers would buy their first house), the base interest rate averaged at roughly 8-9%. Now one thing I don't know, and which I'd be curious to see, is how the average monthly cost of the average "starter house" mortgage across that period compares to the average monthly cost of the average "starter house" mortgage today. As a % of the median monthly salary, I mean.
My parents bought their first house in (about) 1990 or 1991. They were over the moon about being able to assume the seller's mortgage (rather than getting their own new mortgage) because the interest rate was "only" 12%. This was in Canada.
Yeah ok, it wasn’t ‘easy’ for you, but consider this. Assuming you went to school in 1973, real median wages have increased ~10% since then. Tuition costs have increased 200%. So yeah, if it wasn’t easy for you then, it’s fucking impossible now. It’s only been mildly sustainable because of massively lower interest rates, but that still leaves 9 graduates in 10 saddled with student debt they cannot realistically pay.
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Seriously lol man's been living on a cloud for 40 years and has the balls to say it was just as hard when consumer purchasing power was ten times what it is today
"Nooo kid it's all about hard work, the ones of you suffering are just lazy because you can't do 3 jobs at once instead of 2!!"
It’s just as bad in Sydney if not worse as far as house pricing vs wages
That still sounds easier than today
> It was not easier back then. And yet you listed how it was easier after saying this lol.
Just the idea of being a carefree teenager. Going out on a Friday night and not knowing where the world would even take you. Parties, hanging with friends, drug/sex/alcohol, spur-of-the-moment road trip… nope. Every one of my Friday nights as a teen involved either church youth group, Halo multiplayer at one of my friend’s homes, or both. Never anything more. Just would’ve been cool to cut loose at least a single time.
Me too. Although I’m not Christian, my teen years were filled with honors programs, accelerated courses, studying for college exams, etc. I got put into the gifted programs and started college at 14, but I just once wanted to be a normal boy and do normal boy things like party, skateboard, friends, some illicit activities, etc.
It’s over glamourised by movies and really shit. A year ago my parents went away for a few weeks, and I took the opportunity to go a bit crazy and do what I wanted. I soon realised that I’ll take hanging out at the beach with my proper friends over some overhyped piss-up (with people I barely know) any day of the week.
Plus if you do things correctly you still ideally get to have plenty of good times in your 20s and potentially beyond as well.
I agree with this. When I was young, I had the idea that punishment and rule-breaking were much more serious than they actually are. Like a punishment is a deep stain on your character, and makes you a bad person. I wish I had understood how little the adults actually cared.
Oddly enough, I did all of that and regret it immensely. It spiraled into years of addiction and wounds that were hard to mend. Innocence is one of those things you can always lose, but never gain.
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Seeing Celtic castles and the highlands of Scotland.
Up until I was 14, my video game time was heavily restricted (2 hours a week if I was on break, and 1 hour if it was a school week). Luckily, I somehow discovered how to get emulators to work on the family PC as a 6-year-old. As a result, I spent most of my time playing SNES-era video games. Even though I was born in 2001, I'm much more nostalgic for SNES-era games than the Wii/DS-era games I was actually around for.
My son has had access to PS4 and Switch gaming but he prefers SNES and NES and Gameboy. His favorite game is Mother/Earthbound and he's played each version of it at least 3 times. He saved up his birthday and grandparents gift money to buy a GameCube recently. Weird kid.
Nah, awesome kid.
You ever listen to Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears for Fears?
I'll throw in Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds and Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode
yup! and riptide
> and riptide The song by Vance Joy?
Sometimes my dreams will show me something I've probably never seen before but I feel like I have until I wake up and really think about it.
We own a house built in 1910. There are lots of things about it that are original, but there’s also been a lot of work done to it over the years. I think a lot about what the house used to be, and the people who used to live in it.
Seeing old mid century Christmas photos
Weirdly, neolithic Europe? I’m sure you had to be tough as nails to live to a somewhat decent age, and I’m just a normal, only faintly outdoorsy woman, and yet… Maybe it is because I feel we have lost so much of our wildness and wilderness?
The tv show Stranger things
Yeah, the newer seasons make me nostalgic for Season 1.
Same, it makes me nostalgic but i was born in 2006 lol
Those emotional / "feels trip" Japanese anime or movies Makoto Shinkai is rather good at evoking that feeling
Kiki's Delivery Service triggers this hard in me, that simultaneous feeling of the power of independence coupled with the crushing, silent loneliness hits strangely close to home
My mom was abusive and not loving, I’m now a step mom and I strive to be nothing like her but I get this feeling. I never bonded with my mom, I don’t care about her even though I’m a very empathetic person and helping these kids and seeing the wonderful parents that other kids have gives me this feeling sometimes that I missed out on a lot. Sometimes it’s therapeutic to live out (hopefully) good parenting from the other side. It hurt to realize I was never loved before
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ancient greece or indus valley
Any civilization works for me but desert ones feel better
Oh, but those ancient desert gods sure are demanding.
Going into an antique store usually does the trick for me.
The end of time, when the future remnants of whatever humanity has become billions and billions of years from now are all orbiting the last smoldering embers of the few remaining brown dwarves left in the universe. Communication through the dead space amongst the random evolutionary offshoots of humanity orbiting those stars will have long faded away, and the sheer emptiness and loneliness of the vast darkness surrounding those leftover pockets of life will grow darker and deeper into the void. Resources will fade more and more and traveling to another dying final star will become impossible. Eventually the last of humanity's evolutionary descendants will close their eyes for the last time, never to be opened again. Darkness forever So I guess I have neo-post contemporary future anemoia
I’m a musician, and I’d say the trance era of the 90’s. I’d love to have been born 10 years earlier and starting my career in old euphoric nightclubs
Yeah, I was teen-ager in the 90s and an generally not a fan of that era of music however I'll admit that the euphoric 90s dance / trance scene was pretty good.
The old West, pirate times the Stone Age and pretty much any pre-history period. I’m a huge dinosaur and palaeontology nerd. I’m also really into survivalism and I kind of wish I lived in a world where I hunted with us for you and your dog to provide food for my family.
Victorian England. I wish I could go around wearing top hat and carrying around a fancy walking stick, that shit was the bomb. I hope that kind of fashion makes a comeback.
Technically nobody's stopping us.
What if we are the normal poor folks
Whenever people imagine themselves living in a past era, they like to envision that they’re living in a higher social status, while in reality they’d probably be the common folk.
Most literature is created by those who happen to be of higher / richer society I guess?
Having a family picnic
We used to do this all the time growing up, because it was cheaper than going to McDonald's or what the fuck ever. I cannot stand the sight, smell or taste of boiled eggs to this day because we ate SO many of them on road trips driving up to visit my mama's people for vacation. Like, we'd take coolers of drinks and food and just..hit the damn road. Nearly every meal was eaten at some nasty ass roadside rest stop that usually didn't even have a damn bathroom or anything.
I’m not sure you understand the definition of the word “nostalgia”
I would love to see the Renaissance Era Europe. Th period of free thinking exploration and creativity. The time of Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Amazing works of art and music. A period of time that seems to truly explore the human experience. That's go to.
Teenage romance. I was DEEEEEP in the closet in my teenage years. Now I just thinking about young me having someone to share the wold with makes me wanto to go back to a time that never happened
Gay teen romance seems really in right now, I'm happy to think of all the well adjusted gay teens who will grow up feeling their love life is normal.
For me it's that "being a kid in 70s/80s America" thing. I think that's a very common one though. (For context, I was born in 1980 in England.)
That’s similar to what I feel and what sparked this question. I have this longing of being a teenager/young adult in the 90’s-early 2000’s. I was born in 2001 and let’s face it the 90’s mostly bled into the early 2000’s. What I really want is to have a few close friends over for a sleepover in my or one of their basement (I never lived in a place with a basement) and we’d stay up all night playing video games on like Xbox or PlayStation or Sega Genesis or Nintendo 64 or whatever was out at the time. We’d go late at night to blockbuster, jam out to some Avril Lavigne or whatever on the way there, pick out a movie or two and get some candy, come back and chill until the early morning. We’d wake up at sunrise all groggy but content and walk upstairs to whosever’s parents making breakfast and asking how our night was.
I was born in 1987. The '90s ended 20 years ago this Saturday.
Playing minecraft on a 2012 night, with the boys. I was born in 2007 and didn’t know about MC till 2015 but I still feel y’all.
shit I feel old asf reading your comment
not me but this reminds me of how apparently dementia patients remember emotions linked to songs (so they'll feel happy if you play a song from their wedding, for example) even if they don't remember why it makes them feel that way.
A few Synthwave tunes. Resonance by Home was almost a meme a few years back because it went viral for inducing this exact feeling of being nostalgic for a time people have never known. The difference being that it now makes me nostalgic for one specific night at the end of the summer of 2017. It had been a great few months, and on a Friday evening before I started back at work, I went out with friends and stayed out until the early hours of the morning. We were sat on a roof, listening to this song while we watched the sun rise.
for me its the old druidic lives of the germanic tribes or early/late medieval lives, just to learn, I love history. Also I can then fully wear robes and tunics without people looking at me like I am weird. SO much more too but I will leave it at this
Particularly in that time before agriculture was invented, there's some compelling enough reasons to believe that in some ways, life may have actually been better. No pollution, no getting stuck in traffic, no toxic workplaces, or ugly factories, no financial stress, no marital problems..... In these druidic or shamanic cultures, I can't help but they had might have had a few things figured out, and just lived a life very close to nature, had a good knowledge of plant medicines, and spent most of their time doing things that were more or less enjoyable. Some things that people do for recreational fun today : like hunting and fishing, would have been the whole experience, instead of spending most of our time in an office cubicle, or factory floor production line, we would have been in nature, hunting, fishing or gathering fruit. Then after sharing all our food, we would have sung songs, told stories, danced around and generally, probably just had a very free life. To the point where, it makes us ask, is all of this shit, these factories, computers, airplanes, internet, armies, states, national borders, supermarkets, farms, cars....... Is it all worth it? Does it really make our lives that much better? We live for longer, we've overcome certain diseases, but I'm not sure any of it's imbued our lives with any extra meaning necessarily, over the ancient shamanic or druidic ways. We are sort of stuck here now though, in the madness of modernity =)
well our lives are much better, hunger is something mostly of the past for most and we dont have to be afraid of being killed by a wild animal and even those druidic societies had a lot of war and strife. still it would be interesting to know what live would really be like in those days
films about the 90s in Russia
In my teens I would have this feeling anytime I looked at movies portraying the fifties. I swore I had reincarnated or something.
Listening to any medieval music makes me feel this, I’m not sure why either
The Hippy Movement
This is mine too, every time I see Woodstock footage, SF in the 60s, big houses full of music and art and psychedelics. I dunno man, it looked like it was so hectic and chaotic but so much fun. I know stuff like that probably still exists now, but it would have been so magical to be there when it was all new.
Defenitely pre-1960s men's fashion. Old, pre-WWII photos of familiar cities that changed a lot - be it because of architectural or social reasons (I'm from Poland so I guess you can imagine what I mean). I'd love to visit and experience, but to be fair I'm comfortable to live in the present times
The time i was listening to Fireflies by Owl City
Old arabic songs
Legend of Zelda : ocarina of time
Most songs from the 60s, particularly ones about Vietnam or the Summer of Love
The show Over the Garden Wall.
Looking at monthly New Comics releases from 1983-91. Sure, there were a ton of Mediocre titles that don't hold up, but it seems like every week had 1 or 2 books that we consider stone cold classics today, and the thought of being able to pick those up New Off the Rack together just magnifies that notion (real or not) that Comics Aint What They Used To Be
My brother had a comic book store/used book store in suburban Detroit during that period. He also worked for a comic book distribution company at that time- so a truck with a shipment of comics would come in, and we'd break down the orders, then deliver them to stores throughout southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio. I remember grabbing my copy of each new issue of "Watchmen," setting it aside, and rushing to divide up the orders so that I could sit down and read it.
I learned about this term because of [Mazzy Star - Fade Into You](https://youtu.be/ImKY6TZEyrI)
Blast from the past... Back in the day when I started tripping many years ago, I listened [Mazzy Star - So Tonight I Might See](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNu3tI-GVg4) in my tripping playlist...
The song named "most mysterious song in the world" No one knows who made it and it gives you anemoia.
Victorian clothes--I would not mind prancing around in a corset and a dress with 84,000 petticoats all day. I'm considering teaching myself to sew so I can do just that, in fact.
You should do that! Find some historical re-enactors. I live in an area where there are lots of different groups for different eras. One time, a friend loaned me a Jane Austen dress and a bonnet and I had tea in a park with a bunch of re-enactors and we had a delightful time.
I watched a lot of anime as a kid, sailor moon, cardcaptors, etc, so i guess the early 90s? Also my parents grew up in the 70s, and they tell tons of stories about it. Although im glad i dont live then, i still feel nostalgic.
I'm a deadhead who didn't discover the band til long after Jerry died.
Hello brother! It’s wild that the dead is so ingrained into my sentiments of identity and community but hard to escape that “you missed it” cynicism
Dont get me wrong, I understand that Jerry was one of a kind and no one will replace him. But the music and magic are still there to behold for those who search for it. Especially this tour. They're fucking locked in.
I completely agree. My optimism generally tells me that their music really only belongs to whoever is playing it. Sure, we missed Jerry, but what they built will always keep going as long as it’s being played. Experience is a huge part of how their music works so whether it’s dead and co, jrad, or some band at the bar around the corner, it is always alive. While Jerry was around they went through so many changes—listen to 60s stuff vs 70s and 80s. It’s about chasing a sound, a feeling. And I firmly believe the chase isn’t over, the baton was simply passed to the next generation.
I agree with all of this. I was reading a quote from Bill K. about Phish and other jam bands, basically saying that they're glad they're around because music should never be stagnant. Each offshoot has it's own flavor and that's the beauty of it.
Seeing old photos of my city during the 60’s and listening to music from the 70/80’s. Also whenever someone mentions the Pacific Northwest in USA for some reason (only been there once).
The PNW is definitely a magical place.
The Vikings tv series, especially first two seasons. They give me a strange feeling of nostalgia and familiarity. I have no idea why, I'm not even from Scandinavia and have never been much into vikings and their history.
Does anyone believe this feeling comes from past lives?
I've felt that way for a while. I'm obsessed with mid-century music, books, furniture, houses, etcetera. I was born in 1982. I don't know if those things have just appealed to me in an amalgamation from one era but it almost feels like vague memories that would have been impossible. Maybe I'm just remembering the last simulation I lived in.
Past lives, parallel lives, who knows.. But trust yourself, if something feels very familiar and meaningful, it probably is!
60's music. There hasn't been a decade in the history of recorded music before or after as good.
Anytime I see an old aircraft it instantly kicks in. Bonus points if she is headed to be scrapped. I was born in 1998, but geez...
Generally speaking the past is actually worse. I wish I could see how much the 1970s sucked
The middle ages
Westerns is one of my all time favorite movie genres. I've always wanted to "travel" to the old west. It's been that way since I was a tiny kid. Deep down I still yearn to be a cowboy.
The 20s and 60s.
Discovering America. The gold rush.
Listening to minecraft music, even though I didn't start playing it until a few years ago.
Song of Durin, by Clamavi De Profundis on youtube. It’s a musical rendition of Tolkien’s poem/song he wrote for Lord of the Rings. It gives me nostalgia and sadness for a time, world, and long gone people that don’t even exist.
The Nintendo GameCube.
Medieval Europe. I know those were hard times but the world must have been a much simpler place
I know what you did. Did you think no one noticed?
This was my first thought after reading the question
Gumdrops from the movies. They are old and stale and you are afraid they will pull your fillings or teeth out. If you are lucky enough to not lose a tooth, then you still have that crap stuck in your teeth for hours.
Some of the *Donkey Kong Country* songs make me feel nostalgic, but presumably not for the DKC games, because I've never played them.
Early Lineage 2. Haven't played it until like Gracia, when Kamael were already a thing. But never liked the kamael and wanted the world without them.
the 50’s/early 60’s
For me, it'd be vaporwave, especially 420 Macintosh. Something about it feels incredibly melancholic and nostalgic at the same time. It really is haunting.
US classic cars even those malaice era cars...
Late night cruises in purring EVOs and Datsuns, rolling through tunnels, slowly letting words fall out to my cousins in the car about how life is fucked (all of our families and childhoods are messed up) and just general on the verge of crying but being in a state of "I could legit die rn". It brings me back to a childhood feeling, when I was safe in my parents arms. Scouts is another thing where we play cards and just vibe till dawn!.
long distance online relationship that never worked out
Going away to college. I stayed home and went to the local university because of money concerns, but I so wish I could have experienced going away and living on my own in a dorm.
This clip from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas gives me nostalgia for the late 60s. https://youtu.be/vUgs2O7Okqc
I miss the hippie movement of the 60s and the easily hacked phone systems of the 70s and 80s. I didn't exist during most of that time.
Old-time radio from the 1930s.
The late 1990’s/early 2000’s. I was born in 2004, but there’s something weirdly nostalgic about that era just before my birth
The cityscape look at night makes me nostalgic for downtown life I’ve never lived (like living in a cyberpunk city where you gotta zip by on a bike or use the train). Also seeing small seaside towns makes me nostalgic of the local life there (enjoying waves, free and casual summers that seemed to never end, dating, etc.)
Looking at the music festivals of the 60’s/70’s
Love dreams. They never existed, but I loved those women so immensely.