Do you ever feel nostalgic for a time and place you never existed in? I feel a strong nostalgia for 1980s Tokyo. I can almost smell and feel what it was like then, having random little flashes of things, not memories or anything specific, just the feeling of being in a room with an old TV and smelling cigarette smoke, and other things like that.I feel like it's important to say I'm not really into anime or Japanese stuff like some people are. I don't know if I believe in reincarnation but it does feel like mashed up memories in a way that's similar to memories from childhood, recognizing smells and feelings from years ago, etc. any other /x/philes understand this feeling?
>>41653038isnt it very similar to late 70s, 80s US and europe?also vaporwave similarities which can trigger 90s kids into being nostalgic.
>>41653038I miss the 70s>t.90s kid
>>41653038>I can almost smell what it was like then>someone farting in a supermarket :(>someone farting in a supermarket (Japan) :O
>>41653038I was born in the Midwest US (1989) and grew up in NY. Ever since I was a child I've had hyper realistic flash back memories of my life as a surgeon in southern California in the 50s and 60s. My houses, my wife, my children, vacations, work, hobbies, mundane things like buying groceries or trying to repair rotted window molding... It hasn't ever seemed strange to me. They just seem like any other memory but from a different life. I actually traveled to La jolla area for the first time in my early 30s, and the entire area, the roads, the geography, the light, the "feel"... seemed as familiar to me as my home area in NY.
>>41653038I've had this feeling about multiple places that I've visited that I was suddenly "home". I'm from Tennessee but the only place I've visited where I felt instantly at home was the Salt Lake City, Utah suburbs. I also have a mild stutter/ speed impediment while speaking english but when I tried learning German in highschool it felt far more natural to me. Not much beyond that.
>>41653038I've always had an affinity for certain things, like being by water, eating seafood, big cities, large crowds of people, which, having grown up in a boring landlocked suburb eating mostly fast food, never made that much sense to me. I was actually born in another country but I was there for so little time before I moved that I never bothered to learn much about it. Turns out that it was a large, highly populated city right on the ocean with a big fishing industry. I guess this isn't quite what OP meant because I did exist there however briefly as an infant. Maybe a bit closer to this is whenever I've watched anything on the hippie movement in the 60s I feel like I was there, like if I concentrated enough and saw enough footage I would eventually find me.
>>41653038>Do you ever feel nostalgic for a time and place you never existed in?Yes>I feel a strong nostalgia for 1980s Tokyo.I do not feel something strong but I would be prone to say the life has been better at this time. However, the American public at this period feared a Japanese take-over. Just look at the scfi-media of this time.We millenials and zommer has been rised with media from the 1980 to 1990s and their depiction of Japan and Tokio. As a result, we see them as something like brilliant past.>anything specific, just the feeling of being in a room with an old TV and smelling cigarette smoke, and other things like that.Because you have been there in a figurative sense. By watching Anime, playing video games etc.>any other /x/philes understand this feeling?When I try to remember back and go to a time before my birth, e.g. try to remember the 60s, something strange happend. Like a fleeting shade of a memory wants to pop up, very vaguelly and not from a persons point of view. More a general idea about what was living back then. It doesn't work for the 1950s or the 18 century, even if I'm obessed with the later.Btw, by looking on the pic of this Japanese idole you posted, I feel deep "nostalgic", too. Anyway, will never feel the sweat, innocent cherry-blossom.>>41653174You need to draw a picture or map BEFORE and wrote about your "memories" before... Then, go to the places and try to find any sigh of your "memories". On this way, you will know whether this is a fantasy or something else. Something, maybe, paranormal.>>41654706Okay, so alte Häuser und Burgen fühlen sich schon seltsam vertraut an, aber nicht übersinnlich vertraut.
Bump because I like this thread tho I am going to sleep and can't contribute
>>41653038Bosnia in the 90's was kino... I think my soul is serbian
>>41653038I don't think I'm out of place for my time per say (maybe I used to), but I really would have liked to have been a Roman Legionary in the 1st Century, BC.
>>41653038try watching bullet man
>>41653038I feel oddly nostalgic for 1962-1963. I was born in 1994. It's especially strange because I feel like I have no connection to the type of media that was coming out at that time. I prefer the music of the late 60's-70's and the 90's-early 2010's. It a strangely personal connection I have to those years. If I hear music from 1962 or '63 - even music I don't like - I just feel this weird personal sense of nostalgia. I don't know how to describe it.
>>41653038>Do you ever feel nostalgic for a time and place you never existed in?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDNfbIqXKRg
>>41653174I have memories of being high ranking commie in soviet union.
>>41653140The rancid air was much cleaner due to the quality of fish from lack of heightened pollution in the water and overfishing The farts really were high tier grass fed Japanese farts made with artisan precision
>>41653038CubaLiterally my whole life
>>41658072kek>>41653038I get feeling of Japanese beach maybe a lot lol not sureur brain is mayonnaise, an emulsification of hardwares and also processes and stuff so you know idk you know. Like, sometimes I think I have slight tourette's bc I will accidentally create a path in my brain that I can't stop. One time I thought about my dad dripping ice cream onto his shirt, I don't think he even did but the thought just kept coming back for years lol and this past life stuff is like deja vu, or it is deja vu, but it seems like it's slightly separate but still similar. I get real deja vu like premonitions really, I'll be dreaming and that thing will happen and those dreams come with a feeling so I know when it's a premonition. Now I'm kinda thinking about the movie AS Yule LogSometimes it's like things are resonating sympathetically from afar. Just a look in someone's eyes as you pass may, even if they are a different person entirely, strike a chord you're not sure why, and when you come to a point in life where things could fractal out into many different possibilities your brain picks up on it somehow, and you get a feeling that something big just happened and maybe it did in that something didn't happen at all but almost. Or you're creeping on a similar life in a way and trying to apply your previous thoughts to their life to come up with hallucinations. I know as a basic fact I could've grown up in a few different places and I could be a different person right now. Maybe I'm misthinking things and I'm thinking about being in Japan in the 90s.As for past lives/reincarnating idk what if like lots of people get moved around similarly like, everyone who died in 1969 Japan or maybe only those who died a certain person, popped up in midwest america around 1990. (or somewhere else too if you moved or even some other time but there's still a connection if you figure it out)
>>41657179Maybe Japan resonates with people who have had idk maybe a tough life, brought on simply by the lack of focussing on the plan like Japan is insulated and people have proper expectations, you got ur cubicle and ur in control. That lack of control makes you beg for a place where your internal world stands a chance at being in harmony with the external world. I don't think it's necessarily being uptight or conformist, there's just a freedom in repetition bc there's stability which gives you some sort of platform to do what you want
>>41653038It's called anemoia. Not necessarily reincarnation related. There's other possible evidence for that.
>>41658252structure, routine, no uncertainty really
>>41653038Yes, for Japan.
>>41657665>I have memories of being high ranking commie in soviet union.I believe you. Some of our girls have holes in them. At least that's what my experience is. Never a full, comprehensive picture of a life, but the isolated flashbacks are just exactly the same as any other memory from my current life. And I have none from any other life at any other time. Just now and then. Just two. I am normal and boring. No history of mental illness. No drugs. I drink a beer or two every now and then but no issues with alcohol. I told my mom about these memories when I was a young child maybe 7 or 8. She made it very clear that I should never tell anyone else about them ever. So I pretty much haven't. They haven't disrupted my current life in any way whatsoever. They just are. Again, just like any other memory. I've always thought that there have to be others who have experienced this.
>>41657665>I have memories of being high ranking commie in soviet union.I believe you. Some of our veils have holes in them. At least that's what my experience is. Never a full, comprehensive picture of a life, but the isolated flashbacks are just exactly the same as any other memory from my current life. And I have none from any other life at any other time. Just now and then. Just two. I am normal and boring. No history of mental illness. No drugs. I drink a beer or two every now and then but no issues with alcohol. I told my mom about these memories when I was a young child maybe 7 or 8. She made it very clear that I should never tell anyone else about them ever. So I pretty much haven't. They haven't disrupted my current life in any way whatsoever. They just are. Again, just like any other memory. I've always thought that there have to be others who have experienced this.
