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I'm getting tired of being nostalgic whenever I hear a piece of music, see a picture, or recall a scent from some past time. I feel like I'm almost always thinking in the past or the future, and I almost never feel completely satisfied with the present.
An experiment I like to do is write down current problems on a piece of paper and store it away for a couple months. Later on, I should be able to read that paper and counteract the nostalgia. By reminding myself of all the bad things, I should be able to recreate a more accurate (not falsely optimistic) memory. But it doesn't work. It doesn't make a difference. Logic seems to be separate from emotions. You can know what happened and feel the same.
I think the time it takes a memory of mine to turn from emotionless recent past into a happy remembrance is about 4-6 months, which is amazingly short. It's frustrating because it's false emotion, it serves no purpose. I (we?) lack an accurate emotional memory.
Now do I recognize this as a personal problem? Or is it something humans just tend to do? Another kink in the human mental system, a negative tendency that never got weeded out? It's a big question for me as of late and I don't have any answers.
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I remember back when I could feel nostalgic, man those were the days.
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I think nostalgia is our brains attempt to counteract regrets, which are much worse for your mental health.
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Why do you hate nostalgia so much?
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On July 04 2011 10:25 Suc wrote:
Why do you hate nostalgia so much?
Not having a gas in the natural was really brutal.
+ Show Spoiler +Did that make anybody nostalgic? :D
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On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:Not having a gas in the natural was really brutal. + Show Spoiler +Did that make anybody nostalgic? :D
lol nice
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On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:Not having a gas in the natural was really brutal. + Show Spoiler +Did that make anybody nostalgic? :D
Hahaha, well played.
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On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:Not having a Gas in the Natural was Really brutal. + Show Spoiler +Did that make anybody nostalgic? :D
yes!
+ Show Spoiler +XellOs vs YellOw OSL finals was the set that got me into progaming
I used to get overly nostalgic as well but I don't as much anymore. Don't know why.
A friend of mine told me if you're reminiscing too much, you aren't doing enough right now. (I don't COMPLETELY agree but it does make sense).
edit: everytime I hear a music piece it reminds me of a certain period in my life. I think everyone feels this way tho...no?
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I don't think nostalgia is particularly harmful. For a real challenge, try not feeling any lust or anger. Also what do you mean by it's a false emotion... what is a true emotion?
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On July 04 2011 09:46 Suichoy wrote:
I'm getting tired of being nostalgic whenever I hear a piece of music, see a picture, or recall a scent from some past time. I feel like I'm almost always thinking in the past or the future, and I almost never feel completely satisfied with the present.
An experiment I like to do is write down current problems on a piece of paper and store it away for a couple months. Later on, I should be able to read that paper and counteract the nostalgia. By reminding myself of all the bad things, I should be able to recreate a more accurate (not falsely optimistic) memory. But it doesn't work. It doesn't make a difference. Logic seems to be separate from emotions. You can know what happened and feel the same.
I think the time it takes a memory of mine to turn from emotionless recent past into a happy remembrance is about 4-6 months, which is amazingly short. It's frustrating because it's false emotion, it serves no purpose. I (we?) lack an accurate emotional memory.
Now do I recognize this as a personal problem? Or is it something humans just tend to do? Another kink in the human mental system, a negative tendency that never got weeded out? It's a big question for me as of late and I don't have any answers.
I don't feel that way at all.
I experience nostalgia, but it doesn't drown out any negative recollections. I recall the good and the bad.
You say you aren't completely satisfied with the present. Should you be? Are you doing everything you think you should? Is there anything you could be doing better? I don't expect you to respond, these questions are rhetorical.
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why do you need answers? maybe it is the search for answers that are the problem, not the questions themselves.
it has been my experience that trying to figure things out usually makes things worse.
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I think it could be bad if dwelled on too much, especially with a negative or bad experience.
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Yeah I used to always drink a certain soda at school and today I just found it in a shop and had a sip and I felt nostaligc as fuck. To be honest I would rather we had nostalgia rather than not having it at all, its a bittersweet feeling and it reminds me of old times.
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"It's frustrating because it's false emotion, it serves no purpose. I (we?) lack an accurate emotional memory."
Research suggests that we engage in nostalgia because it has psychological benefits. It makes us happy and improves our state of mind, especially when we need that kind of mental pick-me-up.’
We seem to engage in nostalgia specifically to make us feel better suggests that we may be unconsciously biased towards remembering things that make us happy and against remembering the things that don’t. We have a remarkable propensity towards that kind of thing.
An additional wrinkle in memory’s landscape is that the emotional footprints of positive memories tend to fade more slowly than those of negative ones
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