Dire Dire Docks But you're listening to it underwater 

Now do the Lethal Lava Land theme but you're listening to it while burning alive.

This is the most comforting thing I have ever heard, it’s like the cold side of a pillow

Jolly Roger Bay but you're the eel.

Damn, this guy survived 4 minutes underwater to record the song underwater? I can't even hold my breath for 20 seconds.

Why do I find this oddly unsettling and comforting at the same time?

Id want to hear this in a aquarium with literally nobody other then you and the fishes inside the building

If the earth had a soundtrack this would be the underwater theme

It's... hard to listen to this song sometimes. On one hand, its tune holds pleasant memories of my childhood, where I would see both grandparents and my grand uncle regularly, I had lots of friends that I saw every day in school and out, and I felt disconnected from the many problems of the world. However, it also reminds me of how long gone those days are. How many of my old friends have moved away after college, how my grandparents and grand uncle aren't with us anymore, and every time I turn on the TV or open my web browser there's just more depressing stories of how cruel the world can be. I listen to this and wonder if I'll ever know that kind of joy and peace again.

Not sure if people will understand me, but this kinda reminds me of being on that obscure side of the mall. A lonely, yet comforting place

This is so much more relaxing than the 10 hour long Sonic drowning countdown video I just listened to.

Don't worry this'll get millions of views eventually

This video kinda holds a core memory, one time i left this playing for my girlfriend to sleep, i went to take a shower and about 15 mins i come back and she’s knocked out cold snuggling a pillow and it was just the sweetest thing ever, nice to see my own partner enjoying what is the essence of relaxing music as much as i do :)

There's something so wholesome about the fact this guy decided to mess around in arguably the most accessible audio editing software and create something that evokes so many feelings for all of us. Never miss out on trying to be creative guys. Someone out there appreciates it.

This sounds like someone going around to places from their childhood and remembering old friends who are no longer there with all the good and bad times before moving on by either going to college, moving away, or accepting what little time they have left and being happy with their life full of joy

This is the type of song that would be playing in the background of a video titled " Oddly familiar Places That You've Never Been to"

It sounds like how a hazy but good memory feels. It's comforting.

The description is a lie this is a masterpiece.

It’s like...mario drowned but he can still hear the music during the transitioning period of him dying and finally being thrown back out of the painting...

Imagine hearing this as you’re dying underwater

I can’t tell you enough how much this song is a life saver. My daughter falls asleep within minutes when she hear ONLY this song. If you could please make a 5 or 10 hour version . We what to play it all though the night but we have to Literally keep rewinding it after the four minutes. Thank you for this again

*POV:* You are about to get eaten by a giant moray eel.

This sounds like the kind of music you hear in aquariums. Makes me miss going to them as a little kid in the late 90’s and early 2000’s 😭😭😭

As a child I was deathly afraid of underwater levels in video games, especially Mario 64. Hearing this.. makes me uneasy. I remember dreaming of being dropped into DDD and getting sucked into the bottom with the sharks circling around me, as a small child, traumatizing.

I like how the "super Mario" is in this wacky font and the "64" is completely normal

This is amazing. As someone who grew up with the DS version, this helps being 17 in a pretty rough household, about to become an adult.

my grandfather died this morning. To sum up an extraordinary life in one sentence, he was a fisherman. found this on my recommended after hopping on youtube whilst trying to process my emotions. thanks for the upload. I played this game a lot as a little kid in my living room, cross-legged in front of the CRT. This reminds me of that time, long ago. I miss you, Grandpa.

If the world ended in the 90’s and early 00’s this would’ve been the credits theme.

The Super Mario 64 soundtrack isn't just a soundtrack; it's a whole institution and state of mind. Bravo to you, Mr. Kondo.

This actually sounds like walking through the mall you used to go to with your friends long after that mall was demolished. But the mall is just how you remember it, except you're alone and no on else is there; you're only companion are the wealth of memories and feelings you have not just for that mall, but for the carefree simplicity of your youth. All while Dire Dire Docks plays quietly over the mall speakers.

Imagine going diving underwater and you suddenly start hearing this.

POV: You just got electrocuted because you didn’t remember the order of the chests in the current

This gives me a feeling of loneliness, but also comfort, and peace. I can't quite describe it. It gives me memories of a more simpler time, before my brother and my mother died. When things were innocent and pure.

These edibles ain't shit 3min into Mario 64

Fun fact: sound waves move faster underwater so it makes it harder to tell where a sound is coming from because our brain is calibrated in such a particular way to pick up on locations of a sound traveling through air.

I don't know if the algorithm will bring this to anyone else but I really enjoyed this. I think it sounds wonderful.

As a scuba diver, I can confirm that sound really does travel far and sound muffled like this. It's remarkable.

You cannot tell me that this is not the most relaxing music

I have never drowned so peacefully in my entire life Edit: thanks for all the likes

Love this song way too much, amazing work.

It's amazing how consistently nostalgic these things feel for so many of us, early nights out in shopping centers, excited about the small stuff, there's a purity in these feelings that is so distant and yet so close, comfortable and welcoming, like a memory in which you just barely can't quite get the details right. I remember playing Wii and Ps2 games at my grandma's house, things like even being in high-school seemed like ages into the future, I could look at teenagers and think of them as fully grown adults, RU-vid was so simple and so much easier to enjoy, overall I could just live and not worry about what the future holds. I was truly in the moment, and so now my life becomes all a big chase to have this feeling once again. Maybe I'm wrong in trying to chase it, maybe the only way to achieve this again is to just let go, but it's hard to tell. Who knows.

This is going to be one of those vids that will pop up in people's recommended randomly years down the road.

Man this is such a good track. I remember calling Nintendo's service number back in the day. I dont remember for what. But the hold music was this track. Man, way to keep you calm and relaxed while on hold!

It feels like I'm having an out of body experience everytime I listen to this

When I was a kid I would wish to be able to breathe underwater the sun doesn't burn you there, everything sounds calmer, including the otherwise loud people talking near the pool or the sea, everything feels lighter, you're not bound to walk or jump, you can go wherever you want, and it's nice and soothing feeling the currents all around you almost like an escape from the real world, one where you can be one with the void and get a break from the noisy exterior we've made for ourselves

It's 1997, you and your buddy swore you'd stay up all night. You're 2 large bags of Skittles, 3 bags of chips, and 1 gallon of ice cream deep. Its 3am, you're on the air mattress, you're fading in and out of sleep. Just straight vibing

Bruh if I was ever drowning I’d want this playing

POV: you are sleeping and then falling in your dream and this song plays

I get a strange sensation listening to this. It takes me back to childhood. But in both a safe and melancholy way. Something of loneliness, but also that of full company. I am told I was a pretty wild kid, but when I dream about moments from my youth. It feels like they're materialized as this very song. In those flashbacks, it seems I don't have a voice, only perspective. If that makes sense. Veiweing my family and environments in silence from my younger pov. Despite the actuality of those times not being silent. The feeling is so hard to describe with words, but this perfectly encapsulates what I feel. It's almost as if im longing to go back to simpler times and never grow up. Though that feeling of inescable fate as time moves forward still lingers. It all feels so somber yet it brings me an eerie joy. Of course it's all familiar. It happened to me, but it feels warmer, or as if I'm experiencing it all for the first time. The good and bad things. When I was a toddler I played Mario 64. My dad had introduced it to me. While I wasn't very good at the game, I had lots of fun. I'll never forget the level where you collect red coins underwater while this plays in the background. I remember loving the song so much that I spent a good while just swimming through over and over again. I remember my step-mom sitting beside me watching quietly with her hand on my back. I felt so happy. This song brings that memory back to me. Fast forward years later to high school. I had a swimming unit. I wasn't a good swimmer so I stayed in the beginners section for the entirety of the unit. My teacher told me I was a fine swimmer, but I was too scared and anxious about going to the deep side of this large pool. Until one Friday when we had freetime, I decided to join some friends who were diving. It was only allowed on the far end of the pool where it was 20ft or so deep. Somehow I mustered up the courage to swim there and then try a dive. I'll never forget my first jump into the deep water. A loud entry of splashes until I went to the bottom and then... silence. My eyes were closed when I jumped in and I never open my eyes underwater, but I'm glad I did this time. As I'm swimming up to the surface, it's quiet. Nothing and no one in sight due to the depth. Except for the dark blue of the water and the light at the top. Almost exactly like the picture in the thumbnail. No sounds of the other students or teachers. Only the muffled water and my faint heartbeat. Me slowly drifting to the top with calm strokes. Until I eventually get closer to the light and emerge to do it all again. It was so peaceful. I felt so much grace. And I don't know why. But I love the way it felt in the moment. Just floating in a gelatin of water feeling weightless, yet being heavy was so surreal. I recall that moment often. This song and thumbnail adds to that nostalgia. Honestly that moment underwater was as if I had died without actually physically dying. Incredible experience. I know I spewed a bunch of words, but I find it so fascinating how this unintentionally brings me so much bliss, joy, sadness and comfort. Everything under the happy and sad spectrums wrapped in one. Like going to sleep and dreaming nothing. A liminal space in audio form.

"I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario" Luigi wish, super mario rpg

The irony being, as comforting as I find this song the idea of being this deep under water scares the living shit out of me, lol.

Bro I have never felt more chill in my life, I listened to this with headphones, 10/10 would recommend.

The eel in this level felt so much scarier than it actually is when I was a kid that it made me afraid of underwater levels till I was 12 or so. I remember a underwater level in Super Mario Galaxy and asking my brother to get through it for me cause I was scared some shit was gonna get me underwater. Eventually got over it and now I find these levels and music eerily relaxing.

this through headphones is an EXPERIENCE

I'm lying here defeated by the purple coin levels in galaxy.

POV: You are Mario swimming underwater.

This is the song that plays through your head as a slide show slowly scrolls through pictures of your fond and cherished childhood memories.

if it was just you messing around as you say, this has got to be one of the greatest accidental pieces ive ever heard, dire dire docks gave me nostalgia but this rendition only amplified my memories thank you, kind person

This is simultanieously one of the most relaxing yet incredibly unnerving things I've ever heard

this is one of those videos, the kind that is only recommended to you if you're the main protagonist of your story

Whenever I need to relax, I throw my headphones on, open up this video, loop it, and close my eyes. Never fails to help me calm down and wash all my stress away.

It's so beautiful. Really brings out the sonority of Koji Kondo's music.

if this wasn't slightly slowed down, it wouldn't be so unsettling yet comforting at the same time. The quietness along with it being slowed down slightly gives it the comforting factor, yet at the same time, knowing that its supposed to be heard, '"underwater" it gives that unsettling feeling that you, (the person listening) is drowning, or has drowened and taking our final breaths. What makes it even more unsettling is that the drum beat somewhat sounds like a heatbeat. Great job! You've made a song that for me, was comforting already, to having mixed feelings. I like it! A+

This is extremely comforting to listen to. It also just makes me want to cry. I've never played even Super Mario 64, but it's this soundtrack that I feel lost nostalgia for. I was born years after it came out and yet it still feels like it was a part of my childhood.

When I first heard this, it was like I was hit with a bout of almost paralyzing nostalgia. I think I figured out why this feels so nostalgic. It isn't just the pleasant music that I have liked since I played the game in 1997. The echoey sound quality you gave it seems to put it in a space- like I am listening to it at an aquarium, water park, or mall. I just can't get enough of this.

I like to imagine I'm dying when hearing this, it's so strange, this song evokes such strange emotions within me. Love this so much!

Why does this song sound so so so nostalgic even if i didnt live in the 90s

I feel like I’m constantly falling deeper and deeper into the ocean but I’m at peace at the same time. Wild

*_Myths tell that this is what one hears in their final seconds of undisturbed drowning.._*

this actually helped me fall asleep _thanks_

when i laid back at night and listened to this i felt at peace as i slowly hear my heart beating into the silence of the room normally i live a hard life i get bullied at school i have family issues and a whole lot more but when i listen to this i feel at peace like floating in a pool at night without a care in the world this is mostly my only get away from life when i listen to this

I started crying? I think this music has an unexplainable power behind it.

Dire dire docks but it's 1995/07/29 build music

THIS IS AMAZING

If they ever made waterproof headphones, I'd listen to this a my local swimming pool :)

Mario: So you see Luigi, the best way to fix a leak is to tighten the lugnut with a pipe wrench. Some plumbers like to use a monkey wrench, but personally, I don’t like to use that one for my spaghetti noodle......... Luigi: *looks into the bathtub and daydreams about him and Mario*

I've almost drowned in a pool three times. This literally sounds like my final moments after I given up struggling to live. Not the music, the aura it brings.

This is so calm, and yet, I feel desperate by this overwhelming slow tone. Kinda like drowning, actually.

This is what the freezer sounds like.

To this, I imagine myself sinking into pitch, endless depths as I behold my last glimpse of sunlight glimmer through the shimmery veil of the water's surface. In this moment, my descent is just as endless as the sea - my unraveling spool of time just as eternal.

I want to cry, but at same time I'm smiling like an idiot. The memories...💙

'' I know it's shit'' = I know it will make it easier for an enormous amount of adults to fall asleep while their most nostalgic memories come back to them

"You can rest now Mario..."

This is what you hear when entering the heaven.

That feelings of a time before I was born. When everything was better and peace had been restored. There weren't many fires or chanting in the streets. Just friendly meetings, eerie vibes, and joy inducing beats. A feeling of nostalgia I don't think I was alive for, that's what this reminds me of.

it's like you're listening to this in a 1990s movie.

1:57 is beautiful like *DAMN*

Don't sell yourself short, this is epic.

I can almost feel myself being gently pushed around by water listening to this. This is a powerful soundscape.

This sounds like something you'd hear late at night in a mall.

I replied this to someone else’s comment, but I wanted to get it out to everyone else just to see what other people think. It feels like your at the park, or at the top of the bleachers at the high school field, and you just look up and imagine all your friends there with you. You feel at complete ease, but you know it’s far from reality, but you know it can happen. Friends online, friends in real life, just all together as one. You feel like there’s no pressure on you. It feels like you are the happiest person in the world. Also, I wish this was on Pandora

gonna be honest i came home after a long day of work, went to lay in bed and scroll through youtube, found this and fell asleep instantly this is so calming

This sounds like something a church would unironically play when entering

for some reason i think this would be good as a game over theme in a video game

I feel like I’m floating inside a warm, cozy dream-like world with all my best friends.

Imagine if depending on how deep you are, the louder the song is, if you're deep underwater, near the bottom of the ocean, this will play very clearly. But if you're at the shallow part and just a little bit underwater, it will play very quietly.

I remember listening to this a lot when I was feeling deeply sad.

This is like, the Leyland Kirby version of Dire, Dire Docks

So, this is what peace and tranquility sounds like...

I listened to this for about 30 seconds before passing out due to lack of oxygen. 10/10 calm and serene

This hits differently when you’re holding your dead Nintendo DS that you lost the charger to ages ago. But that doesn’t really matter, because you still remember what it was like when you used to play it every day. The memories are essentially latched onto that DS.