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Nostalgia is one of the most powerful psychological sensations
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: "in real life" It is a beautiful thing but can also be very dark and dangerous. The older I get the more I realize this and the more wary of it I become
Some of the most powerful emotions I have ever felt have been when I physically visited places from earlier in my life and have seen what they have become since then. "Bittersweet" does not even come close to capturing the full breadth of the emotion that is elicited. I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It is probably not possible, at least not for me. It is a powerful enough force that it causes physiological effects on me that I cannot consciously control, which is rare for me
Even now I struggle to come up with "analysis" to describe my feelings surrounding nostalgia. Pangs of joy, warmth, regret, confusion, resentment, fear. It is the only Nietzschean abyss that I am too afraid to fully look into. Because I don't believe that I could handle what is in there if I was to confront it with the entirety of my Being |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:24 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081622) |
Date: February 27th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: lemon bat shit crazy principal's office Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you return to your home after a long absence and feel pain.
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: cerise garrison In Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700585) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: "in real life" I don't know I'm 69 IQ and don't know much ancient Greek etymology. But that sounds right
No one warns you about just how powerful nostalgia is. Everyone is always like haha yeah wow nostalgia, everyone remembers the good ol days you know. But it's not like that. It's an unbelievably powerful biochemical sensation, like sharing a passionate kiss in a whirlwind romance or embracing a friend after making it through trials and tribulations together
When I see what has been done to the places that were once such an important part of my life and the lives of others I loved, it fills me with such an overwhelming sense of love but also overwhelming loss. Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly as my heart can be pulled
It is a psychic assault that I am helpless against. Like a form of rape |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: chocolate pozpig Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly as my heart can be pulled
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: lemon bat shit crazy principal's office A lot of growing up is losing your innocence, which is why as a parent, you protect your children's innocence. So when you go back to these places and remember back to a different time, it's like you realize you're dealing with the loss of a child, not so much that the child literally died, but that the child/teen/young adult/whatever is gone and never coming back. (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700607) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700613) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: "in real life" Yes. But it's worse than Death. There is closure with real Death. It's not like the death of a loved one, who really is gone and never coming back, and who you can always remember as who they really were
That place of nostalgia is *still there* - a twisted, mutated form of it still exists, in the world that you live in today. And when you are physically in the midst of it, you can feel the arms of the place you once loved reaching out to embrace you, and the sinister tentacles of its new mutated form trying to ensnare you as well |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700629) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:50 PM Author: lemon bat shit crazy principal's office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pYtoWL6c&start_radio=1 (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700799) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: "in real life" Music makes it even worse. Never, ever play a song from the era or that's associated with a place that you're visiting from your past. It's like a drug cocktail that will be too powerful for you to handle. I did this once at a place that I used to go with a high school girlfriend and I ended up curled up in a ball and crying in the back seat of my vehicle (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700811) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:54 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700904) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:35 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700571) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: vibrant insecure heaven doctorate It’s definitely powerful (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700587) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:41 PM Author: Marvelous generalized bond (don diaper) (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700595) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: chocolate pozpig 180 (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700611) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: chocolate pozpig >I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It is probably not possible, at least not for me.
I think you'd unironically like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly if you haven't read it, my brother in poasting and soul searching - it's short and sweet and easily read in one sitting. (I also love the movie FWIW)
For some reason that's always what I think of when it comes to experiencing things that go far beyond words, even internal unspoken words, yet are also far more real than words can describe in any context - as in, not just real in terms of deeply felt and experienced, but real in the sense of the ultimate reality we're living in and seeing / sensing through a glass darkly |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: "in real life" Ty I will look it up❤️ (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700633) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: chocolate pozpig :-) (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700634) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: blue kitchen Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700612) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: White Zombie-like Set cr, thoo dark (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700728) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: chocolate pozpig tp <3 (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700731) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM Author: White Zombie-like Set (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700759) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700763) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Metaphysics Is solved Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49700881) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 7:46 PM Author: galvanic coiffed pisswyrm karate Saudade The Portuguese word "saudade" is often considered not directly translateable into English due to its complex emotional connotations. It denotes a deep, melancholic longing for something or someone that is absent, often carrying a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. While it captures feelings of loss and longing, it does not have a straightforward equivalent in English, as it encompasses nuances of love and memory that are uniquely tied to Portuguese culture. |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:11 PM Author: electric love of her life the unique thing about this word is that it originally referred to the feelings of loss and uncertainty about sailors who never returned. it's darker and more complicated than nostalgia. it's like an endless state of "i still love him, he's probably dead, but maybe he'll come back?" like something the parent of a disappeared child must feel. (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49703464) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:14 PM Author: "in real life" (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49703470) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: cerise garrison My first job— I was in house at a fur company with this old pro copywriter–Greek– named Teddy. And Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is ‘new.’ Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion. But he also talked about a deeper bond with the product—nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent.
Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:01 PM Author: cerise garrison (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49703426) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:05 PM Author: "in real life" Yeah I've watched that scene. People think it's "really good" but I don't think it's good at all. It's just dumb and cynical and Jewish (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49703439) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:07 PM Author: Lake gaming laptop "remember when" is the lowest form of conversation. (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#49703449) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:38 PM Author: Canary arousing useless brakes Hey T, remember when… (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081656) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: chocolate pozpig Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a 1955 spiritual memoir by C. S. Lewis that chronicles his journey from a traditional childhood in Belfast through youthful atheism and back to Christianity.
Definition of Joy (Sehnsucht): Lewis defines "joy" not as a simple emotion or happiness, but as an intense, bittersweet longing or ache-an unsatisfied desire that is more desirable than any satisfaction. |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: "in real life" wow (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081632) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: chocolate pozpig (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081644) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: 180 volcanic crater coldplay fan (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081642) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:35 PM Author: Ebony main people corner nostalgia is just remembrance of things and places that never actually existed. (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081645) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: "in real life" i don't think this is accurate. in fact i am 100% sure it isn't (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081805) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved i believe it is literally the opposite (https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2#50081806) |
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