What makes you feel nostalgic?

[jameslikespie]

As the title says, what makes you feel nostalgic?

 

[Fresh Baked]

the 90's



='(

 

[Aramea]

Smells, tastes, sounds and physical objects tied to a memory. Music. Foods. Sometimes the nostalia and recalled memories are stronger than the original experience.

 

[lucky12]

workshops, tools, cars, bikes, sunny days, music

 

[PhoenixofVindemiatrix]

I find that trying to recount experiences from my past or remember past thoughts makes me nostalgic, but sensory inputs don't.

 

[SilentRobert23]

The 90's before 94. No, just kidding.

Anything that I regard as a high point of times past, like a good song that was my favorite at the time or something. Thinking of friends I miss and the friendships I've ruined by being a jerkass. Shit like that.

 

[Aramea]

I find that trying to recount experiences from my past or remember past thoughts makes me nostalgic, but sensory inputs don't.

That is interesting. I have been working on the assumption that Si is the "nostalgia" function. I only have vague memories of many important events, but a scent or song can call them up in an instant with much more clarity than just the memory alone.

Interesting thread ...

 

[pjoa09]

my old house. the thought of school. the thought of that freedom. the thought of driving on the highway when I was first learning how to drive.

 

[Nocturne]

Silence, music, odd observations bring nostalgia.

Sometimes the nostalia and recalled memories are stronger than the original experience.

How true.

 

[Agent Intellect]

Two TV shows often get me thinking about my childhood: The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Putting on my old Nirvana or Wu-Tang Clan albums does, too (the music that got me into music).

I guess being that I grew up in the 90's I have the most nostalgia for the 90's. Oddly enough, I occasionally have a sense of nostalgia for the 60's (is it even possible to have nostalgia for a time when you weren't alive?).

I think a lot of it tends to be a graduation goggles type phenomenon, though. When I actually think about what it was like for me in the 90's, most of the time I was miserable.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Little kids, mocassins, bad color combinations, playful monstery things, boats, beaches, raspberries, lemonade, plastic lemonade-ice cream molds, ants, gardens, colored pencils, horror movies, drawing, the colors beige and light-blue, the smell of sand, poop, snot and lunch boxes combined, bloody noses, nose-picking, running after people with a stick with poop on it...

Lots and lots of things.

 

[mke2686]

movies like batteries not included, land before time, beatlejuice, and the dark crystal...

 

[Dimensional Transition]

movies like batteries not included, land before time, beatlejuice, and the dark crystal...

 

[Lobstrich]

The only time I remember where I felt 'truly' nostalgic is when I was looking online at an old Magic card. I used to collect them when I was younger. And somehow I stumbled across this card that I had just always remembered (visually) but couldn't remember the name of.

 

[Auburn]

Oddly enough, I occasionally have a sense of nostalgia for the 60's (is it even possible to have nostalgia for a time when you weren't alive?).

I second that.

I've gotten nostalgic looking at old paintings of ancient places, as if they're of a place I know or belong to. Bizarre.

But um.. so would it qualify as nostalgia if it hasn't occurred to you before? Perhaps that depends on if we're defining nostalgia as an emotional experience, not related to events, or as an emotion occurring within certain circumstances?

Methinks nostalgia is an emotion.

 

[Roran]

A game and it's soundtrack, Final Fantasy XII. The most epic game on Playstation 2 of all time. I wasted many an hour grinding for exp in it.....

 

[mke2686]

anyone?

 

[SpaceYeti]

A game and it's soundtrack, Final Fantasy XII. The most epic game on Playstation 2 of all time. I wasted many an hour grinding for exp in it.....

FF3!

Or, rather, FF6. The one I could play on SNES in the US when I was a teenager and was the third we got, numbered in the order we got them, but the sixth to be mnade in Japan.

Anyway, it's one of the greatest games EVER.

 

[Aramea]

Not too long ago I saw some chess pieces in a shoebox at a garage sale. We had this same set when I learned to play chess (circa age 6?). I asked the price and the guy said $3. I would have paid much more for it. I rooted around the junk in my house and found a good wooden box to store them in. I would say that is a good representation of nostalgia for me.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

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anyone?

Flippos!

I only experienced those for the first 5 years of my life or so though. In my 'fad-age' of 5-10 Pokémon cards were more popular. I never really knew how they worked though, I just focused on collecting the prettiest and coolest cards. (OH MY GOD A GLITTERY ONE!?)

 

[Jordan~]

Pokemon theme tunes.

 

[FuntionalUniverse]

Ah pogs. Who knew someone could make so much money from holes punched out of cardboard. They were everywhere.

 

[Auburn]

- empty rooms

- swings

- legos

- black curtains

- old coins

- old trees

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[crippli]

‪Jon English - Six Ribbons‬‏ - YouTube

 

[EyeSeeCold]

the 90's



='(

Yeah, and life in general.

 

[Jordan~]

There's this parkland on the edge of Dundee called Camperdown Woods where there's a zoo and a big adventure playground. When I was only a wee bairn I used to go down there every week. It had a nautical theme - there were these skeletal wooden ships that you could climb and play in, and concrete dolphins and an octopus, and a water feature maze and stuff. Naturally they were totally unsafe, every kid in Dundee broke their first bone on those things. I found out today that they're gone now, the council took them away. Those were the best things about Dundee, my childhood has been gutted.

 

[Bluehalite]

Hoppy Taw for Hopscotch Games
Jump rope songs
Tadpoles and frogs
Grape slushies and scents of Summer Pools and Bain de Soleil lotion mixed together in a soft breeze
The smell of new red rubber rain boots
Puppy dog breath
Star of Bethlehem flowers, Hyacinth flowers, Pikake flowers, Honeysuckle,
Biting into the sour stems of Wood Sorrel
Crawdad fishing in a streams with a string and hotdog
Looking at some photographs
Remembering parts of younger self that I've forgotten
Deep and Long and warm simple hugs or cuddles
Good massages
The smell of Avon peach soap on a string
Looking at the rainbows of colors of oil in rain puddles
Walking or Jogging in the soft rain
Mountain hiking
Crickets on night walks
Old ceramic fountains and wishing fountains with pennies in the water
The taste of dried abalone, so chewy and soft and good
A fine clam or fish chowder, warm and comforting
Garlic Cod simmered in wine, garlic, butter and onions, served on hot buttered rice
The combination of smelling fresh Gardenia flowers, while eating hot buttered rice, fresh grated ginger either in chicken soup or Ginger Tea
Tiki lamps in backyard with grilled terriyaki, grilled corn, banjo music
Canoes
Redwood tree scents, and pinching a redwood frond between my fingers and taking a deep whiff
Wafts of Juniper shrubs in the Sun
Smells of peanut butter cookies baking and eating them with milk
Some Danny Kaye movies, Bing and Hope movies, Ma and Pa Kettle movies, The Caddy with Lewis and Martin, Meet me in St Louis movie, Yours Mine and Ours movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, the big house and large family feels nostalgic.
Putting my face deep into an antique butter churn and smelling the wonderful walnutty woody memories it holds. I used to climb and pick both ripe and unripe green walnuts and store them in it and they would ripen in the butter churn. It still smells of it.