The Nostalgia Effect 

Nostalgia really is just weird. We’re so nostalgic about the past, that we dont realize the present. Because in another 15 years, we’re gonna be nostalgic about right now.

One day I'll nostalgically look back on this video

60% of my nostalgia is when I play old vid games

Man why is this guys view count decreasing, he really deserves more attention

“You don’t know you’re in the good old days until they’re gone”

when you’re a kid all you want is to be older but when you’re older you just want to be a kid again 😕

Loved this video, it provides a lot of perspective!

“You’re alarm rings, it’s 9 am.” I WISH

"Nostalgia is the illusion that the past was better than it actually was" - not sure who

I'm writing a research paper on music. It's really broad. My teacher is going to hate me for using RU-vid as one of my sources, but this video goes along with one of the paragraphs in the essay, so I'm going to use it as a source.

"the pigeons don't even group up anymore, because there's no one to feed them" idk why that got me

I’m so blindsided by nostalgia and childhood that I am missing out on my current life wanting to live my old life. It’s making me very upset and I’m not too sure what to do about it lol.

"I feel sad. I want to go back, when it was a simpler time. This is nostalgia? This sadness or excitement feeling. It teaches me to learn life to the fullest." This video in a nutshell

Music is a strong stimulator of nostalgia.

I have never been in a relationship but I miss the early 2010s so much, I feel a deep connection with them.

love this

Listening to music from when I was younger makes me so nostalgic (and I'm not even that old haha). It's nice to feel, but most of the time I wish I wasn't feeling it tbh

I just miss being a kid again. I miss the 90s so much.

In my case, the nostalgia robs me of living my current life. I'm stuck replaying my life until I ended high school, before I lost my home, before mental problems, before losing all friends I had. It's not so much that I don't remember how terrible things also were back then, but I remember how I lived to my fullest, even with depression I was going to the forest, exploring abandoned places, driving a bicycle around the city, having people to hang out, having passion and ambition to change the world... Then the adult life hit and showed me how much I was wrong, how the world is just broken and you can no longer be the teenager in your mind. I miss my old self, even though I was toxic and sometimes crazy. The mental problems - they came from the realization of how nothing I thought about my future was coming true. I'm apathic, I don't have any desires, I don't even have the strength to learn and do hobbies. My whole life right now is just seeing my girlfriend, sleeping, going to college and working when there is a task to do to earn some money. I don't have any plans or ideas about my future, I don't know what to do with myself. Even my girlfriend told me it's hurting her that I don't have any plans for summer with her. I have a lot of abilities, I'm smart, yet I never found a good job for myself, my town doesn't have any offers for me other than physical jobs, yet with college I don't have time to work, at the same time I don't have courage to move away anywhere else. I'm afraid of the next year, of what will come. I don't want to spend my whole life just working to have enough money for bills. I don't live in the US, I live in Poland, if you wished to write a suggestion/hint. Sorry for the long message, and probably nobody really cares about this, don't take this as a cry for help. It's my means of defining nostalgia - inability to live today because of how much I miss the old times, school days in this example. If only time travel ever existed, I would just go back to watch my dead relatives once again, even if I can't talk with them or interact, I just want to see my past life again and maybe finally move on. Nostalgia is the curse of being a sentient being.

I’m 23, and for all you teens out there, I have one piece of advice. When you go somewhere for a few days that you know is gonna be one of the best things you’ll do for a while, (for example, for me, it was a school football tour with my mates, and a trip to Germany with my best friends), listen to 4 or 5 songs only, whenever you have the time in that trip. They don’t have to be songs that u love, and u can do other things while you’re listening. What that did for me was, whenever I listened to those songs in the future, I had such nostalgia. Please, just try it.

Nostalgia is good and bad. It's good because you're remembering all the good times, and bad because of the longing to go back to the good times.

I wish I relived all my favorite moments from a kid without me taking it for granted...

"Nostalgia is our brain grabbing hold of who we were even as we're learning who we are and discovering who we want to be" Holy cow that's actually such a interesting way of looking at it though

I love nostalgia. For me, it's an undescribable feeling that gives me warmth.

This guy should make stuff for Netflix at this point 🔥

Sometimes whenever I rewatch a movie or tv show that I liked watching as a kid I feel so nostalgic that I feel like I’ve jumped into a time machine and gone back in time to when I was a kid. Nostalgia is honestly the best feeling that a human could feel.

i've moved so many times with my family and i get connected to every single place we live in. after we move, i start to miss the smell of the house, the music i listened to in that period of time, the atmosphere of it, everything. i've become so attached to so many places that nostalgia has become a struggle for me.

Being an 7-9 y/o in 2012 sitting on the couch in the living room playing minecraft all day with your best friend while your moms mopping the floor and talking on the phone in the other room...

I always felt nestolgic when I remember my childhood memories. My parents always took me out on road trips every month and the world wasn't as toxic as of today. Sometimes when I look back I just wish I could relive those moments but I grew up and my parents doesn't treat me like that anymore.

You can't have nostalgia when every memory is PTSD. *Taps head

The summers were brighter, warmer, they even smelt different. My friends were all happy, and those summer days lasted a lifetime. An endless source of laughter, and sharing. Exploring new ideas and discovering how amazing the world was. It's not nostalgia, it was the 80's. Arguably the best era in human history.

I'm only eighteen and I'm consumed by nostalgia. I'm on a downward depressive spiral and the sadder I get, the more I long for my childhood. Even seeing kids makes my heart hurt. There's such beauty in innocence - I can't believe that that Christmas isn't exciting anymore. I feel like I've become a nihilist and turning back time would save me because you automatically find meaning in the simplest things when you're too young to know any better. I wish I could live in the present again.

whenever i get nostalgic it's never positive, it almost always makes me feel terrible and i want to forget and focus on my present and future

0:29 being able to sleep until 9 am would be so nice lmao

This youtube account is criminally underrated

The times I get nostalgic is when I play old video games, watch old tv shows, listen to old songs, eat old food, see old toys, use old devices, read old books, hear old jokes, drink old drinks, look at old pictures, remember old things, go to old places, play old sports, watch old videos, or use old programs. In "old" I mean something that I expirienced long ago.

Literally got hit by a massive amount of nostalgia while watching and started tearing up. Well done, keep up the good work.

"The same things that made us laugh, make us cry" - Big Smoke

I am really going through this, so much that I keep on getting flashbacks of my past that indulges me to waste my time thinking about how good was my past. "i want to go back to my past and live it again" - this feeling leaves me hopeless and aimless for my future and also depressed in my present.

God damn this episode was just waves after waves of "oh shit THAT'S what I was feeling" and "damn maybe I should do things like that too". 14/10. More than perfect ❤

This is nostalgic.

Nostalgia is like a movie. Our past selves are the directors, who cut out all the bad moments while we are the viewers, the ones who are unaware of the cut outs and only know the good every time we rewatch that movie inspired by something i saw on quora once dont remember where

I'm a kinda of person that maybe will always try to be obsessed with nostalgia. Every once and again i remember the good days the childhood days.. movies, series i first watched.. friends we used to always see in colg like 6 years ago but are now in different nations.. damn.. 25 already responsibilites in hand but still way more to learn still clueless about future.. covid outside lockdowns.. 😢 #nostalgia let me live that small essence of life.. God bless everyone. ❤️🇳🇵

A few years back, I had an acid trip that I think saved my life. It was what I could describe as the most powerful feeling of nostalgia that I have ever experienced that lasted 12 hours. It put my current life and the present into perspective while removing all the negativity I have built up until that point. It was a beautiful and life changing experience, and I honestly don't think I'd be here now without it. I am thankful to the person who gave it to me, and was reminded of it by this video.

Dear my existential crisis, take the day off. Today it’s time for happy nostalgia, so come back a different day. Everyone have a great day or good night.

This video finally let me get out the emotions that I had bottled up about my breakup, bro you are a life saver! Your videos are amazing and I hope you have a good life, man. From the bottom of my heart.

Man... This video was so good, I even got a little bit emotional. Every day liking this channel a little bit more

what a nostalgic video!

Music always brings me back to an exact location and what I even thought at times

Nostalgia is the best feeling and the worst feeling at the same time

This is my first time seeing your channel and I instantly subbed. Im only 13 so I havent ever experienced nostolgia but you still had my complete attention by the first word. Your such a great explainer!

Nostalgia... brings a tear to my eye

*Says Southampton and shows a picture of Big Ben*. That’s like saying LA whilst showing a picture of the Statue of Liberty

Some things that cause nostalgia is moving,losing a loved one/friend,growing up,going back to a video game and thinking of all the fun times you’ve had

I always look forward to your videos, I love watching them late at night because they make me question myself.

I've been on the edge of crying the whole video... finally got me

Here's the thing. I constantly have the thought that I did something in the past wrong, which I then blame on some of the things that happen to me today. Its confusing but I wish I could go back and possible change that memory and what I did.

There is nothing bad about loving the great times you had in your life. Nostalgia gives us a sense of direction in life It shows us the places and the way we want to be Without nostalgia we are lost in time and space

"Few of us were ever told about the game of black and white" -Alan Watts

I’m sad suddenly over the most random things, like an airport or a toy, and my favorite tv shows and movies

Such an amazing video

This video makes me even more sad lol. So many things that can't be done anymore so no way to get rid of these "negative feelings"

whenever I become stressed or feeling anything, I just listen to his voice and instantly relax.

I am kinda feeling nostalgic during the whole video

It’s a scary coincidence that they posted this on my 8 year anniversary of my first kiss I was having such nostalgia about it like exactly 8 years ago today I had my first kiss probably one of the biggest memories someone can have along with it comes burning nostalgia

I absolutely love the cyan and orange color scheme going on in this video. The color scheme really adds a lot of artistic value to this video. Good job on making the video on nostalgia mildly nostalgic. You’ve done well.

Currently having a panic attack trying to comprehend wifi and the internet Just in time. Thanks

3/14/2024 and im nostalgic for that lockdown year... i miss it so much

According to my YT account I’ve never seen this video before but while watching it, it feels so familiar

“Sometimes you never know the value of a memory until it becomes one” -some smart guy.

Today I took my 5-year-old Xbox controller on a walk, he's turning 100 years old today wish him a happy birthday 🎉

I've had a fascination in Nostalgia for about a decade now, and I truly think it's one of the most unique and amazing emotions that makes us human

YOUr VIDEOS ARE FUCKING AMAZING PLEASE NEVER STOP. YOUR VOICE, THE VISUALS, THE NARRATION. ITS ALL SO WELL DONE. I CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO BLOW UP ALL OVER AGAIN 🔥🔥🔥

It's a comfort to have someone understand my feeling, without any critics.

your videos feels like a good dream you can’t remember

Some of us have such a dark past that the only way we can live for is the potential our future's can hold

The bluegreen-orange filter is literally so fitting omg

The most satisfying voice-

4:48 is I am currently experiencing, and the cycle of thought really sucks. Like "hey man I know I regretted so please get this loop out of my head"

Man U just said what’s in my heart and soul. From 2018 I’m missing those good old days. 2012-2016 was the best days of my life. From 2018 everything became worse. I observed this effect long ago and got depressed. Now there is no joy, no excitement anywhere, dark, silence, people making tiktok videos, kids swearing on their parents for mobile phone or something. Darkness around. Not feeling real these days. This is the only video which expressed my true feelings. I thought I’m the only one who have this kinda mindset. I thank you a lot for this awesome video.

Is there a word for future nostalgia. Or is it just daydreaming, anticipation?

I was sitting in my car today at a railroad crossing waiting for time to march on and the train to pass. I was sitting looking straight forward when a Coal car passed on the train . Just for a moment I was brought back to my days when I was younger in the mountains of Virginia near Kentucky when every morning I would wait for the train infront of my house on my way to school or town. There's a smell to it , the tar smell with smokiness to it . These views and smell brought me happiness but when I thought into it I remembered that Coal itself, the building block of the economy of my former region will be gone soon and gone for ever . This brought me joy , sadness , and a feeling of age . I have never been able to put a pin or name on that feeling . Thank you for making this vid and helping me come to close with my past feelings .

It's midnight 12:00 here, and I am here for the most soothing voice😊

If there was a year I could go back to, it would definitely be 2017. It may not seem like that long ago for some people, but it was long enough ago that it’s nostalgic. I remember back then I played Roblox so much. I was obsessed with Roblox games such as Nuclear Plant Tycoon, Tix Factory Tycoon, and Light Bulb. I have so many memories of these games. We all wish we could go back, right?

One day, even the internet will make us feel nostalgic They’ll say “gosh, I wish I had experienced that” (And I’ll tell them that they really don’t want that unless they like pain and people gettting offended at the smallest possible details they can)

I miss the people who were alive, that’s what I noticed about nostalgia, I love nostalgia because it feels like they are still there just for a little bit.

It is tricky to get audience a nostalgic feeling, But this video was successful and made me nostalgic

Year ago I was depressed and miss the old days so I watched this video… A year later feeling the same, reminds me of those times and still all the good things in the past 😕

First of all, i find nostalgia better than SEX. Second, you ALL are eternal infinite beings who will be able to relieve the nostalgic experiences from the past as much as you want in the afterlife. It is beyond any earthly understanding of ecstasy there. Read about near death experiences, it is a fascinating topic. You will have access to any memories you desire. In the words of a near death experiencer, the afterlife is "whatever makes your soul happy and glad".

What I find most intriguing are games that make you feel nostalgic about places you’ve visited a long, long time ago, using the games music or maps.

You know what they say, Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

This kind of subject makes me realize “I’m young and I can appreciate the happy times today”

Another great production! Keep 'em coming.

I personally think that nostalgia is a feeling that makes me live my life to the fullest at every possible moment - because I know that when time passes, future-me is thinking about present-me, it has to be in good spirits.

this comment got the most likes and you'll never know why

i watch one aperture video before going to sleep and it really helps me. doing this for the past 7 days. thank u aperture

Alright. You need to start a second channel reading stories, your voice is so soothing

I'm 29 years old and have dealt with bad depression and anxiety for a decade now. It has prevented me from living life, so I made the decision to get a fresh start by buying a one way ticket to the other side of the country. NY to LA

Smells... for some odd reason they trigger always the strongest nostalgic episodes for me.

Just discovered this by pure chance. This is the prose form of the more succinct n poetic “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows”. Each has its own cathartic charms. Keep up the good work, will you.