Do you ever get "vibes"?

[Andropov]

This is sort of difficult to explain. Whenever I think of a time period in history or a time period in my own life, or even a location, I get a sort of "vibe". It's not really comparable to anything else. Each vibe is distinctly different from other vibes. It's not like colors where they're combinations of other colors; these vibes are very discrete. Whenever I think about the Soviet Union in the 1980s, or Latin America in the '90s, or rural England today and in the past 50 years, or Northern Ireland during the Troubles in the '70s, etc, I get these weird feelings that aren't just combinations of music, video, or pictures from that time period. I also get them when I think of period from my own life, although they're not as jarring as the former. I don't really know how to explain this better. Whenever I view footage from those time eras that feeling comes again. Has anyone ever experienced a similar thing?

 

[Bird]

I think you're recalling your past lives.

Learn from them.

 

[gephura]

isn't that called synesthesia? But I have that too. It's amazing. I have that with history, but also have that with other things. Like a CD I got for Christmas, that reminds me of carols and christmas meals whenever I listen to it. The memories are really lively.

I love those moments.

 

[Bird]

I thought my joke was funny.

 

[Jesse]

I have these to. I don't there that uncommon. Without being able to quantify them there a bit hard to talk about though.

 

[CoryJames]

Could be associative memories. Not to burst the supernatural phenomenon bubble.

 

[Jesse]

I didn't think it had anything to do with the supernatural. I assume it's an extra sense that comes from having memories connected to each other so it's easy to sort out and place a memory without having the full context.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Nostalgia, and no you don't have to have experienced it first hand to have the feeling.

 

[JarNew]

Yea I used to get vibes pretty frequently but then I began dissolving karmic obligations through understanding of other's emotional projections onto me, and their own immature ignorant purposes. Talking about family members here.

If you get in touch with your body through the Chakra System you'd be able to literally feel these "vibes" as subtle secretions of adrenaline, or fight vrs flight bullshit in your stomache or other parts of your body.

This puts you in touch with your intuition on a primal level over time.

 

[Dormouse]

Yes. Words are colours, people are animals, places are seasons.

 

[CoryJames]

Yea I used to get vibes pretty frequently but then I began dissolving karmic obligations through understanding of other's emotional projections onto me, and their own immature ignorant purposes. Talking about family members here.

If you get in touch with your body through the Chakra System you'd be able to literally feel these "vibes" as subtle secretions of adrenaline, or fight vrs flight bullshit in your stomache or other parts of your body.

This puts you in touch with your intuition on a primal level over time.

secretions of adrenaline or fight vs flight?


hmm

 

[Stoic Beverage]

I get "vibes", but I only get them in relation to ideas or objects. Democracy has a vibe, as does a manila folder. I always figured I was just a bit off my rocker...

 

[warryer]

Yea, I know what you mean Andropov. I was actually trying to figure out what these were this past weekend.

For me, it usually happens while I am doing some mundane task particularly driving and most especially while I'm driving at night.

I'm going along paying attention to the road but also thinking. Then all of a sudden BOOM! I get hit with a strong feeling accompanied by some kind of scene. Sometimes its of people in a city trying to get warm around a garbage can fire. Then I get a body shock because I am trying to figure out what the heck is this? When I consciously try to think of it; I can picture the scene but, I can never recreate the feeling.

The only way I can describe the feeling is "immersing-grandeur-happiness", but that doesn't do it full justice. It permeates through your whole body.

I wish I could recreate the feeling because its the best kind I've experienced.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

isn't that called synesthesia? But I have that too. It's amazing. I have that with history, but also have that with other things. Like a CD I got for Christmas, that reminds me of carols and christmas meals whenever I listen to it. The memories are really lively.

I love those moments.

This answers the whole thread pretty much.

 

[stig]

I think you're recalling your past lives.

Learn from them.

At this point, since I don't know you, I was caught between laughing, and taking you seriously.

I thought my joke was funny.

At this point, I was relieved. In this context, I can now say in retrospect it was funny.


As to the OP, yes periods of history evoke a feeling for me as well, my own history or otherwise. I don't think it's necessarily synesthesia. I recognize that my perspective on events are colored by this "feeling", and I tend to try to fight it. I desire to see things as if I'm there, uncolored by the mystical nature past events tend to take on in our minds. I suspect if we were to somehow manage to travel back in time to live in the moment of the historical event, we'd find it's much less colorful or different than our minds originally believed.

 

[Cavallier]

Bird's joke was funny.
Bird's need to point out that she thought her joke was funny was not funny.

I don't think nostalgia is quite the right word since it involves missing something or longing for something. I'd say what the OP is describing is more like atmosphere or ambiance.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I don't think nostalgia is quite the right word since it involves missing something or longing for something. I'd say what the OP is describing is more like atmosphere or ambiance.

I retract my earlier statement. This seems more reasonable.

 

[valiums]

This makes me think of something, which I guess could be related to synesthesia, but is probably not.


I can walk past a building or down a hall, and I get this strong, strong feeling. I used to get it a lot looking at the city, when I actually got to visit a big one, so I named it "city", which I renamed "sittie" to disambiguate.

For instance, there's a certain alley between two buildings in town, with a little tree and some dirt and grass, and I just know that this place is sittie.
It's usually a mixture of natural and man-made things that triggers it, and the lighting/sunlight seems important, and is very memorable.


Finding a sittie brings some kind of nostalgia, but without the longing/sadness (I thought this up days before reading this thread, oddly enough). Although, any want I feel later is usually for the feeling, and not for the sittie itself. It's a really awesome feeling, like the sittie and me and everything are just perfect, absolutely perfect.


It's both the feeling of pseudo-nostalgia and the knowing, knowing 100%, without a doubt, with unbelievable conviction, that this place, this spot, this is sittie.

I can not stress how much I know that the place is sittie. I know it better, and more strongly, than 2+2=4, or 2=2, or I am me, or that blue is a color, or how to look up or down.


Oops, I messed up. I never really get this for periods of time. I can only find sitties with my own two eyes.

 

[warryer]

I think you an I are on the same page valiums.

I tend to also get this while looking up at the sky scrapers from street level, when I am down in the subway tunnels waiting for a train, when I am at the airport amongst other things.

I wonder if there is a way that this can be explored further. It's the feeling I wish to capture.

 

[Wolfpine]

Celtic music. Ireland itself. Full moon. Apples.

Oh, and pagan rituals.

 

[FearDunn]

I also experience "vibes"; never analyzing it until reading through this thread.(Of course, I felt compelled to offer my insight as a means of clarification. Having endured the arduous registration process)
We, or at least, I subconsciously assign a individual resonant frequency to everything. When I recall, I experience the total sum frequency of all variables. When I hypothesize, I instinctively start with and filter through a constructed baseline frequency. The frequency for post-war CCCP filtered through the current state of Russia offers a unique frequency, yet each maintains the original value. It is a means of accurately quantifying infinite possibilities and reducing it to the logical/probable solution at a terrifying pace.

It took so much longer to write this than to tune to it's frequency.

 

[drugsandpizza]

I think you're recalling your past lives.

Learn from them.

^

 

[CoryJames]

Oh goodness. Another member, making my youthful mistake of using an avatar of themselves. Almost similar mistake of including their name too.

Jess, I would advise you change your avatar before people begin to develop opinions of you based on physical appearance and, possibly, notions of a perceived arrogance.

 

[Andropov]

This makes me think of something, which I guess could be related to synesthesia, but is probably not.


I can walk past a building or down a hall, and I get this strong, strong feeling. I used to get it a lot looking at the city, when I actually got to visit a big one, so I named it "city", which I renamed "sittie" to disambiguate.

For instance, there's a certain alley between two buildings in town, with a little tree and some dirt and grass, and I just know that this place is sittie.
It's usually a mixture of natural and man-made things that triggers it, and the lighting/sunlight seems important, and is very memorable.


Finding a sittie brings some kind of nostalgia, but without the longing/sadness (I thought this up days before reading this thread, oddly enough). Although, any want I feel later is usually for the feeling, and not for the sittie itself. It's a really awesome feeling, like the sittie and me and everything are just perfect, absolutely perfect.


It's both the feeling of pseudo-nostalgia and the knowing, knowing 100%, without a doubt, with unbelievable conviction, that this place, this spot, this is sittie.

I can not stress how much I know that the place is sittie. I know it better, and more strongly, than 2+2=4, or 2=2, or I am me, or that blue is a color, or how to look up or down.


Oops, I messed up. I never really get this for periods of time. I can only find sitties with my own two eyes.

I think I sort of get what you're talking about. Would this be "sittie"?

Taken from this thread, which is interesting enough by itself: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

 

[tziporah]

*cough* hey, i'm new.
I get vibes about my own life span, mostly. For example, i knew 17 would be a really great age for me--i knew before 17, probably since 6. And i can "look into" other ages also. I get vibes about 20, 24, 34--any age, really, that i want to know about. And so far, it's proven to be true.

i don't think that really qualifies as synesthesia.

As for other kinds of vibes, i definitely get vibes about places--mostly homes, like what goes on there. It's like i'm breathing in a different tasting oxygen for each place i go.

 

[knightofni]

zeitgeist... and it's likely intensely nuanced for the INTP

 

[Stoic Beverage]

Oh goodness. Another member, making my youthful mistake of using an avatar of themselves. Almost similar mistake of including their name too.

Jess, I would advise you change your avatar before people begin to develop opinions of you based on physical appearance and, possibly, notions of a perceived arrogance.

Heh, that one made me chuckle.

 

[CoryJames]

Glad I could bring happiness to your day.

 

[echoplex]

I definitely get this with music, although it's not always related to time, sometimes just the music itself. Pretty much every artist I like has its own color (or colors, but one is usually primary). People also have colors. Some time periods do, but others don't. Colors themselves have vibes, which probably determines which color all things/memories will be. I think this is all (in my case, at least) just a memory device.

 

[NeverSayMyName]

I think I know that feeling.
It's probably your subconscious mind taking over, you'll never know.
I often feel trance-like or like I was high on drugs (even though I never do drugs) for no apparent reason. It's not that uncommon after all..

 

[Omelas]

I tend to make lots of associations between things, yes. It's how I learn. So everything: colors, words, sounds, smells, concepts, formulae, numbers, people, places, animals, plants, languages, pieces of art, dreams, memories, stories, cultures, histories, etc...all have to fit together if I am to remember them. Which causes "vibes" to happen. All. The. Time. But it's nothing supernatural, or drug-induced.

 

[valiums]

I think I sort of get what you're talking about. Would this be "sittie"?

Taken from this thread, which is interesting enough by itself: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

The lighting and colors are perfect for sittie, but I'd have to actually be there to really feel it.
I have to wonder if my sittie isn't just me seeing some aesthetic arrangement I really like. Like if someone especially liked red-headed, green-eyed women; I like scenes with certain colors and lighting somehow matching worn down city and bits of nature.

 

[DrSketchpad]

This is sort of difficult to explain. Whenever I think of a time period in history or a time period in my own life, or even a location, I get a sort of "vibe". It's not really comparable to anything else. Each vibe is distinctly different from other vibes. It's not like colors where they're combinations of other colors; these vibes are very discrete. Whenever I think about the Soviet Union in the 1980s, or Latin America in the '90s, or rural England today and in the past 50 years, or Northern Ireland during the Troubles in the '70s, etc, I get these weird feelings that aren't just combinations of music, video, or pictures from that time period. I also get them when I think of period from my own life, although they're not as jarring as the former. I don't really know how to explain this better. Whenever I view footage from those time eras that feeling comes again. Has anyone ever experienced a similar thing?

I get pretty much a complete similar sensation but it's primarily just when recalling periods of my life time.

 

[Late2theParty]

yes! I'm glad someone brought this up, I know how you feel! I get 'vibes' from everything. Especially art. Like... if I listen to a song I feel like it conjurs certain feelings and vibes. It's not anything visual exactly, and not exactly an emotion per se... it's like an awareness of some sort of energy about it. Almost like everything has it's own frequency.

It's almost like a frequency of different worlds or realities. You know how you feel when you wake up from a dream and you are like "oh yeah NOW I'm in reality" it feels more 'dense', concrete. It feels much different than when you are dreaming (unless you are lucid dreaming I guess) It's kind of that feeling. The dream world has it's own vibe, reality has it's own vibe... and when I look at art, film, or visit locations, or listen to music or I feel like I'm looking into windows into other worlds or vibes.

As a musician it fascinates me because I have lots of 'vibes' that have no correlation in the real world. I can imagine the vibe, but I have no song, or film, or place or anything that reminds me of it in the real world. I try to capture these vibes but it's very difficult.

What I can't tell is if everyone has this or my INTPness makes me hyper-aware of the subtleties of it...allowing me to really analyze and discriminate between the different ones. Perhaps I'm just able to see subconscious process with more clarity that other ppl aren't really picking up on.

I've wondered if it was some sort of synesthesia... and perhaps it might be but I don't actually see or imagine anything in particular. Just a feeling (but not necessarily an emotion) or 'vibe'

 

[head-on-backwards]

This has been on my mind A LOT lately. In general, I get "vibes" about places, people, and events, but they can only form once I’ve had some time away from them. If I'm actively involved somewhere, or with someone, everything feels grey and chaotic...When I’m looking back and thinking things through—that’s when I can make sense of the world… sort of.

With family, it’s been a nuisance. I’ve replaced the details of my past with my impressions of those details. I often feel disconnected from my family, and I generally only rely on my vague "impressions" of them, too... If that makes any sense.

I hope that's not just me.

 

[TriflinThomas]

I get this sort of when I listen to oldies because my mom used to play them a lot when I was little. Whenever I hear an old song I get a mix of smell, taste, and feeling, or I'll get a flashback to a time when I had listened to the song (they're very vivid). I blame it on Si.

 

[intpz]

I get this feeling, though I don't see a particular period of my life. Just feels... Different.

 

[7even]

Developed Ni mixed with Fe...or developed Fi? Someone correct me if I'm wrong?

Vibes - use that word at least once a day. Love 'em.

 

[Thurlor]

I think these experiences can all be explained by associative memories. I know that certain music, smells, tastes, etc all make me recall certain periods of my life.

 

[Ejno]

Yes I get this all the time, especially when considering different decades in history. I do prefer to consider it a manifestation of Nostalgia, which we INTP's are known to be partial to.