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Deep inside our brains is an ocean of memories, emotions, and feelings that can be unlocked by the correct application of sights, smells, and sounds. Without warning, the theme song of a childhood cartoon or the smell of that one aisle in the corner store by your house can teleport you to another time. It might feel like magic, but nostalgia is a very real phenomenon.
The “Nostalgia” Instagram account is pretty self-explanatory, showcasing content that should be like a healthy blast from the past, both funny and relatable. So prepare for a little trip in time, upvote the images that unlocked some memories, and share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Because nostalgia focuses so much on memories of how things used to be, both real and imagined, it’s important to keep track of what is a cherished memory and what is a specific, focused-tested set of concepts put together to evoke a specific memory. As cynical as it might seem, politicians, movements and advertisers are all wise to the idea of nostalgia as a method to manipulate people.
The “return to the good, old days” is a common promise for many politicians, and many products will try to associate themselves with potential consumers’ childhoods. Little reminders of childhood do often come with a comforting wave of emotions, just make sure that you don’t let people hijack it to sell you anything.
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That being said, it is a real and verifiable fact that nostalgia can provide a good amount of comfort through times of sadness and uncertainty. Psychologists believe that in certain “doses,” it’s actually pretty important to our mental health. Think of it this way, when current circumstances don’t provide joy, your brain has this nifty little ability to just reach into the past and scoop up things that made you happy before. There might be diminishing returns, but hey, it’s a start.
To maintain the metaphor of nostalgia-as-medication, it is possible to “take” too much. After all, if you feel the past was too good, you might end up longing just to return instead of focusing on the present. The Germans, as always, have a term for this, called “Sehnsucht,” which you can now use as a complicated and pretentious way to talk about longing, desire, yearning, and craving.
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Canadian Cobra Chickens 1 year ago
I'm convinced that if you didn't, you didn't have a childhood. Change my mind.
The origin of “Sehnsucht” (capitalized because the Germans capitalize every noun) is “suffering,” which is ultimately what someone would probably feel if they have trapped themselves in the thought that things will never be as good as they used to be. However, some psychologists believe that over time, this emotion can help a person start to develop and plan out the steps to actually improve things.
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Lady Snowfall 1 year ago
Ah yes, the shin shredders. If your foot slipped off of one of those puppies, it was immediate blood and pain and bandaids and getting your leg doused in hydrogen peroxide and triple bac.
Once you realize the potential of tapping into the past to draft people’s emotions, you might start to see how it’s used everywhere. You might notice that the Instagram logo is, in fact, a drawing of a Polaroid, despite the fact that 99% of the userbase are probably using a smartphone. But somehow, an old camera seems more special and emotional than the many, smaller and often more powerful cameras we carry in our pockets every day.
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And speaking of social media, you have probably seen how, for example, Meta products like Facebook and the aforementioned Instagram have “memory” functions that will randomly show you images from the past, normally on their one-year anniversary. This could of course be a bit misguided, as many people have documented randomly getting images from an illness or a breakup a year ago.
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Heleen the Feline Panda 1 year ago
I still do this when I forget to bring along my cellphone to the toilet 😬
Other companies do their best to tap into this feeling as well. The Nokia 3310 phone was legendary for a variety of reasons, but it seems its reputation for being indestructible goes beyond the physical, as the company relaunched it in 2017. The phone seems like stone-age technology compared to any random smartphone from the last few years, but people do want to relive that two-tone snake game and the feeling of pressing some buttons.
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Tuesday's child 1 year ago
Not a 90s kid, but I still had to learn this. I barely know my times tabels but I do know how to play 'hot cross buns' on the recorder 😁
V V 1 year ago
I was a child of the 80s. My elementary school music teacher taught us "Living On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi, and then made us perform it at a spring concert for our parents. It... wasn't a pleasant sound
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Still a good gift for your brother's/sister's kids. I know I've bought 5 of them at least.
Mir Adwari 1 year ago
I bought one as a joke gift for Secret Santa one year!
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James016 1 year ago
My school taught us how to play. Almost a shame they never taught us how to play it in tune.
MurderMittens 1 year ago
I actually took a recorder ensembles to a competition and we won in the woodwind category. We actually tuned before we played.
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jellsworthjr 1 year ago
I quote this all the time. I was a 70's kid and this was standard curriculum.
Rikki Kay 1 year ago
I have 3 kids who all had the same music teacher. She complained when I wouldn't let my kids "practice" in the house, and it was too cold outside. I told her if she could name just one famous recorder artist, I would let them practice as long as they wanted, when they wanted. They never played that damn thing in the house once!!!
D'Michelle Ferrier 1 year ago
you went to the wrong school. I learned that in Life Science class.
Nicky Shrimps 1 year ago
The year is 1993. The entire class is patiently waiting for Mr. Pike to press record so we can play A Whole New World on our recorders. I still have the cassette tape. We nailed it.
AGGA Films 1 year ago
Key stage one of schooling involved the recorder as a cost-effective musical instrument a poorly funded school could buy in bulk and wasn’t easily broken. My high school taught me how to do my taxes. It’s possible to learn more than one thing in twelve years of schooling…
Claire Armstrong 1 year ago
I loved my recorder at school! I don't know what happened to it! I've seriously been considering buying one lately! I don't know why though 🤔
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
You think third graders should have been learning about taxes? Don’t your parents teach you anything?
village idiot 1 year ago
i hate recorders, my school forced all of us to play this and all you could hear in the music room was squeaking
Ashley Merrill 1 year ago
Being able to play "Hot Cross Buns" sure comes in handy when tax season rolls around!
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
oddly I can play twinkle twinkle lil star on ANY Instrument, even if I don't know the name or how to really play it, if its like one I never seen before and the handed ill play it perfectly if the song is "twinkle twinkle lil star" and I just learned the first two lines of "jingle bells" as well so now I can play that on anything too, but I cant read music at all
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 1 year ago
If only you had parents so didn't have to rely on school to teach you everything about life
Emily Tennant-Sheen 1 year ago
I never could learn to play the recorder! I suck at reading music notes
Aitsuki Kitsune 1 year ago
Ah, the abject horror that was the recorder recital. About 100 ten years olds blowing into a demon whistle with all their might for nearly two hours....
Landithy 1 year ago
The primary school attached to my high school had a marching band that was all recorders except one kid who had a drum. They used to practice every Friday outside the classroom where I had double maths, and I still get slightly triggered whenever I hear the Marine Corps Hymn. WHY DID THEY PLAY THE MARINE CORPS HYMN ANYWAY? I WENT TO SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA!
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
The school I attended was pretty good about incorporating finance education in math class. In 1st grade balancing a checkbook ( remember those? ) was part of basic math class
Diamond Jōvan 1 year ago
All I can hear in my head is “My heart will go on” in that awfully off tune rendition whenever I see a recorder
Karen Startz Richardson 1 year ago
Cue my oldest son, telling his music teacher ( mid-90's)..." My Mom wonders why y'all are still teaching kids to play this thing"!! 😳/ 😆
MurderMittens 1 year ago
To prepare you for playing the sax, clarinet, flute, oboe, or bassoon later!!!
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Dan Flo 1 year ago
In Sweden it was mandatory to play the flute if we wanted to play any other instrument the next grade. I had to suffer through this instrument of torture just to finally be able to become a guitar-hero, but only after another whole year of only aucustic guitarr before finally being allowed to plug in the axe and start shredding. Makes me wonder how many promising musicians that piece of pipe have ruined.
PHOENIX 1 year ago
Not the recorder? The flute is so much fun if you have the right lungs for it!
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Mel The Axolotl 1 year ago
In 5th grade I was the only kid in my entire school to master all the songs they had available for us to learn
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Born in '83 and never had to do this. Guess our music teachers didn't think it important.
John Harrison 1 year ago
Go down to the post office, pick up a 1040EZ, and follow the chimp-simple directions. There, now your education is complete.
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Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago
The metal one at my elementary school had a 2 foot drop at the end. It was very dangerous, but so much fun! (Very few burns because of catholic school dress code)
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Those plastic jugs of brightly colored sugar water! I never saw them in anyone's home - they only showed up at school or parties.
“Stranger Things” is another case-in-point, where much of the appeal is an idealized image of the 80s, alongside many of the tropes and cliches of 80s children's movies, such as the iconic “ET.” The show was a brilliant move by Netflix, as it managed to both attract gen x viewers who wanted to relive a past era while simultaneously creating nostalgia among younger viewers, a sort of self-perpetuating false memory of the past.
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Some specialists have started to develop a concept of “forestalgia,” which is a sort of hopeful belief that in some imagined future, many things will be better. While an idealized future has existed for centuries, the advent of science fiction has created multiple generations who actively think about what the next few decades will bring.
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Audra Sisler 1 year ago
I was ALWAYS taking pictures in high school with camera like this! Such good times! 🥺
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Almarako94 1 year ago
I loved how the series got better with every episode. Not like most shows today
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TheReader19 1 year ago
I'm going to buy BGT Malakai Bayho's new CD tomorrow; still love CD's and records. Tapes are to much faff.
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TheReader19 1 year ago
Gen X from UK here could relate to a lot of that stuff; the rest reminded me of my kids childhood. Ps 1980 was 25 years ago OKAY
Janet Howe 1 year ago
I haven't had this much fun reading BP in a long time. Laughed my butt off at the comments. This nostalgia is great stuff! After a while, I get sick of all the retaliation, boo-hoo and in-law stories.
the quickening 1 year ago (edited)
Fanta or Jaffa (orange soda) for Finns. ✌️
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I knew most of these (South Africa). We had (have) a lot of american cultural influence.
Eva 1 year ago
I'm a late ish gen z kid and I understand a majority of this stuff, half of it because I went to a poorish, small, private Catholic school for 2-5, now 6-12 I'm in a richer public school, which was a culture shock on its own from the shared Chromebooks and the computer lab to having our own frickin frackin MacBooks.
Broncordelia 1 year ago
I am not a 90s kid, I was born in 2001 but I still related to a bunch of these
Michelle M 1 year ago
At the end of the thread, you’ll find a very tiny “Note: this post originally had 137 images blah blah blah.” Click on the 137 and that’s it. It’s in every shortened post. Hope this gets upvoted so that many people can see it.
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Michelle McCarson 1 year ago
This was one of the best meme feeds I have seen in a very long time. This made me very very happy although making me feel quite old. I will be sharing most of these photos
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 1 year ago
There’s an Alec Benjamin song, called 1994 (when he was born), that describes some of these things! (Also the early 2000s)
the quickening 1 year ago
So 90s is now what 80s was when I was growing up; the cool period of time children wished they'd been born in. lmao
William Neal 1 year ago
HA! I recall ACTUALLY threading the 16 mm Birns and Sawyer projectors in grade school. Absolutely LOVED it. (No, I wasn't a teacher's pet otherwise.) But am ever indebted and grateful for being able to do this.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
They should make a „57 glorious 30’s memes that you might be too young for” list.
TheReader19 1 year ago
I'm going to buy BGT Malakai Bayho's new CD tomorrow; still love CD's and records. Tapes are to much faff.
Load More Replies... TheReader19 1 year ago
Gen X from UK here could relate to a lot of that stuff; the rest reminded me of my kids childhood. Ps 1980 was 25 years ago OKAY
Janet Howe 1 year ago
I haven't had this much fun reading BP in a long time. Laughed my butt off at the comments. This nostalgia is great stuff! After a while, I get sick of all the retaliation, boo-hoo and in-law stories.
the quickening 1 year ago (edited)
Fanta or Jaffa (orange soda) for Finns. ✌️
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I knew most of these (South Africa). We had (have) a lot of american cultural influence.
Eva 1 year ago
I'm a late ish gen z kid and I understand a majority of this stuff, half of it because I went to a poorish, small, private Catholic school for 2-5, now 6-12 I'm in a richer public school, which was a culture shock on its own from the shared Chromebooks and the computer lab to having our own frickin frackin MacBooks.
Broncordelia 1 year ago
I am not a 90s kid, I was born in 2001 but I still related to a bunch of these
Michelle M 1 year ago
At the end of the thread, you’ll find a very tiny “Note: this post originally had 137 images blah blah blah.” Click on the 137 and that’s it. It’s in every shortened post. Hope this gets upvoted so that many people can see it.
Load More Replies... Michelle McCarson 1 year ago
This was one of the best meme feeds I have seen in a very long time. This made me very very happy although making me feel quite old. I will be sharing most of these photos
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 1 year ago
There’s an Alec Benjamin song, called 1994 (when he was born), that describes some of these things! (Also the early 2000s)
the quickening 1 year ago
So 90s is now what 80s was when I was growing up; the cool period of time children wished they'd been born in. lmao
William Neal 1 year ago
HA! I recall ACTUALLY threading the 16 mm Birns and Sawyer projectors in grade school. Absolutely LOVED it. (No, I wasn't a teacher's pet otherwise.) But am ever indebted and grateful for being able to do this.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
They should make a „57 glorious 30’s memes that you might be too young for” list.
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