Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?

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Origin of "nostalgia" links:
minnesota.publicradio.org/proj...
nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newslette...
www.acrwebsite.org/search/view...
"reminiscence bump": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminisc...
Lincoln poetry: www.potw.org/archive/potw325.html
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [VIDEO]: • Video
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [NEWS ARTICLE]: bit.ly/TypCh5
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [WIKI]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J...
Shall We Dance video with Lawrence Parsons: www.sciencenetworks.org/1524/s...
Other music+moving links:
www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/2...
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2...
www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/sci...
www.scientificamerican.com/art...
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainm...)
Earworm links:
www.exploratorium.edu/music/qu...
science.howstuffworks.com/life...
Ironic Process Theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_p...
False memory paper: cdp.sagepub.com/content/14/6/3...
Longplayer: longplayer.org/what/overview.php
Compression wave .gif: dev.physicslab.org/img/a271d8b...
Great Alan Watts video animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: • Alan Watts - On Applin...

[@augustrush7400]

P.T.S.D is just spicy nostalgia.

[@KiritoYager]

It's weird knowing that future me will probably be nostalgic about this current time period in the future

[@valksasss]

Isn’t it weird that day by day, nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different

[@dave34]

Last seen online: 5 years

[@aliwithamiddlepart985]

So we learned what nostalgia IS, but how much does nostalgia WEIGH?

[@12luiguti]

Realizing you were happy and didn't notice

[@sanskartiwari2996]

The fact that this video is 7 years old makes this nostalgic too 😭😭

[@williamharmon6854]

nostalgia is a hell of a drug

[@ollieg4169]

The biggest hit of nostalgia is when you leave high school and the realisation that nothing will be the same ever again.

[@a_bear]

nostalagia... makes me always sad. Am I the only one?

[@All_i_want_is_a_slammed_Mk4R32]

“But what IS nostalgia?”

[@FoxGoalie]

"Why don't you feel nostalgia for when the video started?"

[@solomonthegrundit8737]

I’m 23, and for all you teens out there, I have one piece of advice. When you go somewhere for a few days that you know is gonna be one of the best things you’ll do for a while, (for example, for me, it was a school football tour with my mates, and a trip to Germany with my best friends), listen to 4 or 5 songs only, whenever you have the time in that trip. They don’t have to be songs that u love, and u can do other things while you’re listening.

[@MrAlli67]

Nostalgia makes you happy that something existed, but sad that it ended

[@IlBenso]

there's an effect called anemoia, nostalgia of something you haven't even experienced

[@dawnslayer]

"Why do we feel nostalgia?"

[@soulassassin0g]

Ironically I have nostalgia watching this since I watched it 8 years ago. Time flies, man.

[@ehhhhhh1885]

"returning home" and "pain" really does sum up nostalgia for me

[@RWclippy]

This had to have been my new personal record on the game. Thanks Michael (yes I’m watching for the first time in 2022)

[@maltlickey]

It’s been 10 years. This video is now giving me nostalgia.