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How strong is nostalgia for you?
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| Joss Weatherby |
How strong of a feeling is nostalgia for you?
In terms of evoking happy emotions nostalgia is the strongest for me. I'd have to say though it is always sort of melancholic sort of happiness though, but I don't imagine that is uncommon. |
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| Vector A |
Way too strong.
It's a constant fight to beat down the stupid romantic melancholic side of me. But a fight I'm up for.
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| OrangestO |
^ What he said.
I fantasize way too much about the future, too. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing - yet. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Yea, there is definitely a strong sense of romanticism in my nostalgia, very much a gilded memory of youth.
I was looking on Google Maps at the little town on the Oregon coast I used to go to with my family when I was little, the beaches I used to play on, the Sea Lion caves, the sand dunes. It is odd how much you can remember, but you question the validity of it. How much was really what you remember.
All I know is that is where I first saw Blade Runner, when I was like seven or eight years old, which, like OrangestO said, makes me think of the future (though that future is not far off, at least date wise) and I would read the new Tom Swift books about all sorts of crazy technology.
Past and future, no time for the present. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Past and future, no time like the present. |
fixed. |
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| Trance-M |
| It's getting stronger over the years for several reasons. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
You would think nostalgia and idealisation of the unobtainable past would be spurred by unhappiness with the present, but I've actually found the opposite. When I was extremely unhappy with my life I tended to look back on the past with bitterness, accentuating only the bad decisions, misfortunes and wasted time in my memory. Now I'm very happy with my current life but that has also meant I look back on earlier periods of my life with much more nostalgia, because (clichéd as it might be) those moments were all stepping stones towards my current position.
It creates quite an odd sensation when I experience longing for a past that I know perfectly well was nowhere near as good as the present. It just shows that it's an inevitable human tendency to romanticise the past, particularly in the face of an uncertain future. |
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| bamski |
Like sand through the boardshorts, so are the days of our lives.
edit: dammit, guy why'd you delete. lame. |
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| citric_acid |
| im not very nostalgic... i guess i dont really think about the past at all. I dont even remember my childhood honestly... Too much exciting stuff going on now and in the future! |
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| Intellekshual |
I don't spend much time wallowing in the past. My life is pretty damn great at the moment.
That being said, songs and scents always bring me right back to the first moment I listened to said song or smelled said scent. It's instant.
From what I've read, the olfactory bulb, which is the biological structure that acts as sort of a hub for information about incoming scents has a lot of different outputs, one of which is to the amygdala. The amygdala is highly responsible for emotional memory, which is why smells are so good at reminding us of certain events. I always thought this was really cool. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
I don't think nostalgia is wallowing, but more so appreciating. I mean I like to go back and visit places I have been because I associate good memories with those places. Same with music. It isn't so much you are not happy with the present so you are living in the past, it is just that you enjoy bring back the feelings of even better times.
*shrug*
Like I'll drive roads I used to drive a lot but I don't have to take anymore because I enjoy the drive and it reminds me of the things I used to do when I drove those roads. It isn't out of depression or anything, it is just fun. |
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