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Nostalgia: Bad Habit or Biological Fact?

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Suichoy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada397 Posts
July 04 2011 00:46 GMT
#1
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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Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 01:07:29
July 04 2011 01:07 GMT
#2
I remember back when I could feel nostalgic, man those were the days.
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JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
July 04 2011 01:24 GMT
#3
I think nostalgia is our brains attempt to counteract regrets, which are much worse for your mental health.
Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
July 04 2011 01:25 GMT
#4
Why do you hate nostalgia so much?
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
July 04 2011 02:14 GMT
#5
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
thezergk
Profile Joined October 2009
United States492 Posts
July 04 2011 02:43 GMT
#6
On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:
Show nested quote +
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


lol nice
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Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
July 04 2011 02:50 GMT
#7
On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:
Show nested quote +
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

Hahaha, well played.
danmooj1
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1855 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 02:53:29
July 04 2011 02:51 GMT
#8
On July 04 2011 11:14 Bibbit wrote:
Show nested quote +
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


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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Mothra
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1448 Posts
July 04 2011 03:47 GMT
#9
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?
Pasado
Profile Joined December 2010
United States142 Posts
July 04 2011 04:21 GMT
#10
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.

esla_sol
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States756 Posts
July 04 2011 04:37 GMT
#11
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.
sl0t
Profile Joined August 2010
United States73 Posts
July 04 2011 09:18 GMT
#12
I think it could be bad if dwelled on too much, especially with a negative or bad experience.
Geordie
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom653 Posts
July 04 2011 10:51 GMT
#13
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.
naranja
Profile Joined February 2011
United States27 Posts
July 04 2011 13:26 GMT
#14
"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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