Anemoia: Nostalgia For A Time You’ve Never Known

[@FlashakaViolet]

"Some days you will feel sad without knowing why. Like you lost something very precious but forgot what it was, or like you miss someone you never met."

[@dwightschrute3712]

That's how I feel after watching this video.

[@hunterwilliams5061]

FlashakaViolet what is that from?

[@forcedtohaveahandle]

FlashakaViolet ”Miss someone you’ve never met”, that’s how I feel about Tupac. The best rapper of all time.

[@Onesmo]

.. or like you lost something you never had. That's how i feel all the time.

[@RYANFERNS19]

It's steins gate, we lose people very important to us however we don't remember them.

[@W3UnIT3]

i get anemoia when listening to certain songs for the first time.

[@francispena2818]

I get it when I think about comics from the 90s P.s if you know anything about 90s comics, there not that bad!

[@ashleycasey2093]

I get it when I'm listening to songs and music from the '80s and '70s and well, pretty much anything before the 2000s.

[@francispena2818]

Psycho Flash are y'all still talking to each other...?

[@nattasarocks]

+Aahli 17 I get it trying to watch old films and than I start to feel anemoially (lol?) and than I just cannot finish the film.

[@lando2051]

Boards of Canada

[@unknowinglyawesome9316]

I have Anemoia so bad that I'll end up crying myself to sleep, but it's not for a time in history on this earth. I'm already home, yet I feel a strong yearning for another home, a home I can't remember, one that must have been better than the one I have, one that feels like it doesn't exist on earth. I'm yearning for a time before I was born, either in my mothers womb or even beyond. A time that holds no pictures, a time even memories don't recall, just a sense of detachment from where you were before you came to earth. That's how I experience it, anyhow.

[@George-ie1si]

Gabriela Billini Secure a home in heaven and you will be satisfied

[@lost-for-me]

Hiraeth - homesickness for a home that never was, or a home you can't go back to

[@krizellemercado7609]

Unknowingly awesome omf youve just described what i always feel

[@carolinakeeper8798]

take dmt, and you'll find that exact home you're looking for

[@unique_mushroom]

in fact, what you're describing is "sehnsucht" which is a yearning or longing for a vague alternative. anemoia is nostalgia for a specific instance you did not experience, sehnsucht is a deeper, more subtle craving for something else, sometimes involving a feeling of nostalgia as well.

[@ADirtyScrub]

Is there a word that describes the feeling you get from watching these videos? That "soul-searchy" "emptiness" "wanting more from life" feeling?

[@leas5365]

You described it actually very well. I would add "goosebumps" and "strong desire to do something, just what?"

[@Mowgli602]

+Michael Hagood took a stab at it. Magis Vitae (Latin for More Life) n. The desire to want more from your life. A bit literal, but I'm no John Koenig

[@ADirtyScrub]

Mark I like that, Magis Vitae...

[@vip451]

+Michael Hagood this feeling we have is when part of our cognitive function is been touched, in these videos john ignite the intuition part of our cognition, usually we think about these things , that's why we relate very fast with them (maybe not as clear as he mentioned them anyway) but not speak it out loud, so when we hear it that part of ours get activated just by seeing a video and it's completely new input for us because we used to have input from our own thinking from inside only.

[@DurzoBlunts]

+vip451 It's like finding the missing jigsaw puzzle piece to complete the picture.

[@icton]

I get this feeling every time I listen to older music especially classical music. Sound and Visuals really do travel in time. That connection you get for listening to someone's music by a person who has out lived you by 100's of years really makes you feel.

[@supergirlysofia3054]

True, its like a tunnel that briefly connects you with them for a limited amount of time.

[@Tensho_C]

@@supergirlysofia3054 unless you set the song on replay ;)

[@supergirlysofia3054]

@@Tensho_C Then you'd be stuck in that connection for all time and eternity until a black hole vaccum sucks you up and dumps you into another realm of time, only for you to wish you were born in a later time where technology is more advanced. And then you see the tunnel again... You are reincarnated into 1998. In 2018 you are 20 years old, when you discover a song with nostalgia that you, for some strange reason, oddly remember. *_The cycle begins again_*

[@marin909.]

Wow didn’t expect you here

[@Dream-zx5jc]

This is beautifully put. The song that really gets me is Charlie Brown Christmas Intro, by Vince gerialdi. I feel a certain longing to go to Chicago, and have a older life, one filled with snow and Charlie Brown vibes. Close friends and never growing up, feelings of close community and love. It’s something you can’t get anymore, because everyone is stuck in this rat race for money and fame. Sometimes we just have to appreciate life and our community.

[@Destroyer120296]

I dont exactly want to go back in time and live there. But i wish i could just travel back and look around etc. See what everyone looked like, how they lived and what they talked about. How they saw the world around them.

[@Danilo85868]

+Destroyer120296 That was exactly what i wanted to do.

[@Destroyer120296]

Danilo Arruda Nice to see i am not alone. When i look at old weapons, tools or whatever i just get this big urge to see how it used to be. I am generally obsessed with wanting to see what the world used to look like. Not just Earth. But the universe or beyond. Of course going back in time and living there would probably not be a nice life.

[@memedealer6702]

Yeah like looking in at 3rd person or being a ghost

[@mooncherryboo]

Samee

[@sentosaco]

I'm the 100th person to like your comment and I 100% agree what you said. I'm grateful for the life I have in my generation, but I'm still curious for and concerned with the past.

[@BD-jy1pn]

Sometimes I feel this so intensely that my heart aches and I weep for a reason difficult to explain.

[@EmeraldEyesGrl]

What about a nostalgia for a love you've never had? I feel like these feelings are similar because they're both a nostalgic longing for something you cannot or will not have. It's like this sadness that comes with knowing you'll never be able to know what it's like to be loved back by a certain person. I feel that a lot...

[@memedealer6702]

Snowtella exactly. And it’s also like that certain person you want to love you doesn’t exist and will never exist. You feel homesick for a home you’ve never lived in

[@confetti_kisses427]

Ah this happens to me sometimes.

[@bakuprek]

i'm feeling this one kind.

[@ircensko7324]

@@memedealer6702 Hiraeth

[@Kaleii08]

I think anemoia is more just nostalgia for something you haven't known, and this is a common example of it.

[@Seeker]

Best channel on KZbin? We think so!

[@robynn144]

It is truly great, And I've just subscribed today, but these poems take my breath away. Thank you

[@jetty1680]

4. FREAKING. MILLION. SUBS

[@PlutoniumSlums]

Hi seeker

[@PlutoniumSlums]

Noah Fluegel yup

[@Sam-tz7cd]

I’m so jealous of my parents. They tell me stories of their past and I experience anemoia. I definitely feel that I was born at the wrong time. It feels like being homesick.

[@CCCP-bw4ui]

That is exactly what I am feeling, but when I feel jealous, I feel jealous in a good way not in a cruel way.

[@sophieminter0]

Same. When they tell me they posted notes on their schools bulletin board to communicate after class, or passed handwritten notes, or wrote down directions to navigate to houses, had to fight over the phone, used travel guides on road trips and had to call hotels...

[@CCCP-tb8wm]

It’s like they have a childhood to remember, and what do we remember, when grow up.

[@ThisChannelIsAlsoInactive]

No way, this is exactly what I feel.

[@Boomshakalaka1008]

Exactly!

[@DawidKov]

A few days ago I found a book my mom used in college. I was reading her side notes when I realized that I would've loved to just watch as that happened. To be an invisible observer, looking at the past and what she was like back then.

[@AlbornozVEVO]

I get this from 1980/90s for some reason...

[@lucasrhys0363]

KawaiiJoaco i was born in 2003 but fireflies and mr brightside give me STRONG nostalgia and i dont know why

[@summermyrick1099]

KawaiiJoaco me too

[@bluegamer2486]

I get nostalgic feelings for 19th century

[@memedealer6702]

I get it for a time that never happened. Like I feel strong nostalgia for something that Hasn’t and won’t ever happen

[@quinthatman3343]

I get it for the 80's for some reason and I was born in 97.

[@avedic]

_Definitely_ know this feeling. Felt it recently while watching a video(that's on YT) of a cable-car going down San Fransisco's Market St. in 1905. It was utterly _mesmerizing_ watching all the random people pass by. A messenger boy riding by on a bike in 1905, a flapper having a night out on the town with friends in 1925, an industrious businessman passing by the camera in 1955. All these faces....strangers...living their lives, unaware that people would be mesmerized by watching them on glowing rectangles connected to a global brain decades later. It's insanely humbling to think about...and it gives you a good dose of perspective on the pointlessness _and_ importance of your own life, right now. One thought I get while watching this is....just how *_beautiful_* every single one of these people are....and they don't even know it. I feel like I'm seeing through the veneer of complacency, to the achingly poignant humanity of everyday life, and it's beautiful enough to damn near make me cry. Imagine travelling back in time and being there _in person_. I'd probably weep like a baby at the beauty of every minor insignificant detail. But...............what about our time, our era, here & now? Will people 100 years from now look back on us now, with all our humanity and joys and failings and creativity and struggle....and empathize the same way? Will people in 2085 feel nostalgia for 2015? Will they watch old videos and wonder about the strangers passing by? Would they be as fascinated by us...as we are by the eras previous to ourselves? What I wonder is.....why can't we see that poignant aching beauty in ourselves *_now?_* No doubt, the people in some random 1906 film didn't see themselves as anything special; to them, this was simply their reality...boring, average, the routine of daily life, nothing special. But...if only they knew how beautiful they all were. If only WE could see that in ourselves NOW. I'm an atheist...but Jesus has a great line in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: _"His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" Jesus said, "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the kingdom of heaven is spread out upon the earth, _*_and people do not see it_*_."_

[@theexchipmunk]

I really like living today. For some time I completely got lost to boredom. But the first Rocket landing like something from a jetsons cartoon pretty much shock me awake. Nowadays I can appreciate a lot off stuff in wonder. To think were we got. We can build city that span the horizons from metal and glass. Something that was for the most time so precious only the riches could afford more than a little. We can recreate the very fire of the sun and a small facsimile from the beginning of time using machines so complex the seem like magic even to modern people. And we are finally starting to become capable of going were no one has gone before. And I really hope to see that new age that is dawning on us right now.

[@allielee]

I'm reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and I think it really puts into perspective the present moment. In the past, that was their now, they weren't living in the "past" and people in the far future won't be living in the "future," they're all in their own present moments. I agree that we underestimate the beauty of our life situation as it is right now, and it's not something many realize.

[@zxccxz164]

why? because things are unraveling at warp speed? non stop divisiveness and hate projection. Polarization, building together, proud is torn asunder. Orwellian? It was not always like this

[@Boomshakalaka1008]

Wow. I just came from the exact same video 7 years later. What a great universe we live in. All connected.

[@barrybena1336]

Shit. That definitely hit me right in the feels. Wells said.

[@Christine.Baraka]

My life has been defined by this feeling, ever since I could remember I've yearned to experience past eras first hand. Thank you for the beautiful video, and all the wonderful words you've created to describe the complexities of being human. PS: Vsauce sent me :)

[@Boomshakalaka1008]

Me too!! 7 years later wow

[@fr7s]

@@Boomshakalaka1008 hi bro mee too

[@kagi95]

When we think of the "past" early 20th century comes to most people's minds, because it's the easiest to relate to. But imagine all the heroes, cowards, liars, kings, common-folk that have ever lived and died. All the things they have experienced (tens of) thousands of years ago. They all had mothers, fathers, relationships, perhaps never setting foot more than 100 km from where they were born their whole lives. Can you imagine living and dying sometime between 8000BC, if that same exact person was born today, he could have been the best programmer or military pilot in the world, but all he could do was survive . . .

[@roidroid]

kagi95 it's these sorts of thoughts which make me feel better when i fail at something. I just think, well if i were born a thousand years ago nothing i did would have had much hope of mattering in the longrun anyway, whereas everything i do accomplish in this modern life is a comparative miracle. i wield incredible powers and can accomplish wonderous feats with just a few button presses. In the old days it would take multiple generations to build a structure like a church or university. But in our modern day i can do it myself as a hobby, with a jackhammer and a crane.With great power comes great responsibility, so all failures seem like great failures, but think of those lucky SOBs of the past who even never had the opportunity to try :P

[@kagi95]

roidroid Indeed. We have the most important human invention of all time in our hands, the collective intelligence of humanity, along with the power to reach 40% of humans on earth and we regularly use it to look at pictures of cats :)

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

kagi95 I actually wonder what life was like in medieval western Europe.

[@robynn144]

Yes, it is true. But then again even 5000 BC I'm sure they thought cats and kittens were cute, Some things remain :)

[@ZOMAG_DJ]

I often think that some people must have been born with specific talents but were born in the wrong era for them. Imagine if someone born pre-computers had a desperate longing for /something more/ and they could never figure out what it was because computers had not been invented yet, and their special talents lay in computer-related things (I'd give specific examples but I know nothing about technology, so). Yeah. I feel like there might be this longing for something you never had in the past, but also that you should have in the future.

[@Danielblco0]

30 seconds in, pauses, subscribes.

[@robynn144]

Me too!

[@furionn]

me too

[@NoahesFrio]

I subscribed before the video even started.

[@auroramatngu3790]

Same

[@chasidahL]

My thoughts, exactly! ❤

[@BeefJerkyGirl]

this makes me think more about reincarnation. is this anemoia? or is this just nostalgia, deja vu for and from our past lives?

[@carl8adey4]

what.a.phantasy jamais vu is our opposite (armyy)

[@TheVenge111]

Same

[@nikolatims8916]

yes, I think you are on the right track here

[@joemcfarban1127]

This is what I've thought ever since I was little

[@lllaurazz]

i've been feeling that kind of 'feel' with the baroque architecture also a specific song. i do believe in reincarnation and past life tho. life is such a mystery.

[@kwitseo]

And what's sad are things forgotten and lost thru time.

[@punkseth1]

+Xhyanghwa Chai chills man chills

[@kwitseo]

+Seth Hicks Just saying dude.

[@punkseth1]

I was saying that reading your comment gave me chills. haha(:

[@kwitseo]

Oh in that case, spooky ain't it?

[@barrybena1336]

Like we'll be in just 100 years, or just two more generations

[@lowerclassbrats77]

I feel like a ghost amongst the living, pining away for a time I've never known. Glad to know there's a word for this feeling.

[@filevich]

I have been searching for SO LONG to this word/definition... or someone who would have had this same feeling. I really though that I was the only one with this feeling. I have a huge Anemoia of old caos/crisis eras. dunno why.

[@blazedeck5914]

Same

[@blazedeck5914]

I was my whole life trying to discover what this is

[@needcookies8295]

I even thought that i was reincarnation before i came here and know that it called Anemoia

[@cyrex5974]

we're same bro.

[@Leen95M]

this video needed to be longer. Repeated it twice because I very much love these "old times" and love to see such footage. Though I'm still pretty young, I have always been fond of those times. The way they lived, behaved, dressed, spoke, and even grieved. Whenever I read a book or see a picture or even watch a period-drama film, I get anemoia-tic 'if you will'. Sometimes I just wish I was born in the past.

[@SWLinPHX]

1xXxIceGirlxXx1 If I were a part of the Millennial Generation I would feel the same. There's no comparison to what we got to live and experience in previous generations before the world became so digital, impersonal and more self-focused.

[@zxccxz164]

watch Ozzie and Harriet....not only is it funny you will be overwhelmed with anemoia kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJmXlHqlnsqmfqc

[@Dirtnap12]

I first felt this feeling at a very young age, when I was taken to a natural history museum, and it's stuck with me ever since. Wandering a museum has always given me this feeling of quiet, peaceful reflection, but also a deep sadness. Thousands of millions of different stories, different lives, only remembered from fragments of the magnificence that once was. It struck me as deeply tragic that so many beautiful things have left the world unmourned, unappreciated, ages literally lost to the sands of time, that will never be seen again.

[@avaabloom7273]

I get this from the 40’s-70’s....my room is covered in old photos and random knickknacks found at antique shops.

[@odietamo9376]

Thank you. This is a condition I have often experienced for much of my life, and still to this day. Until now I never knew there was a word for it. I knew “nostalgia” didn’t quite fit, because how could you feel nostalgia for a time or place you never knew? Anemoia. This is one of the most moving videos I’ve ever seen on KZbin.

[@anExplodingLemon]

I get this feeling when I see my Gran. I always wonder, was it better then? Were we happier? Back when priorities were different and the struggles didn't seem so difficult to overcome. It's moments like that, which make me want to write to my Grandchildren that are yet to come to tell the how I feel and just to show them that I felt the same emotions and saw the world the way they do.

[@custommediacreations]

I have that feeling about the 1980s and I was born in the 2000s. The 1980s is my favourite decade.

[@amg9163]

In 1980, I was 14, and at the time did not understand how special the decade would be. Only in retrospect (and stronger with every passing year), my appreciation for the 1980s grows exponentially. I've seen people write that they wish there were a time machine to go back to the 80s. If there was, I'd go immediately and take everyone else who'd wish to go, including you 😊

[@custommediacreations]

@@amg9163 thanks, I’m a huge fan of the 80s it’s played a big part of who I am. It all started when I was five and my dad showed me the 1986 Transformers movie, been my favourite movie for 15 years now and still is, but it didn’t stop there. My Dad also showed me 80s music, Dio and Bruce Dickinson are some of my favourites. I don’t think I’d be the same person if it wasn’t for that key moment and I’m so glad I was taught about the 80s at a young age. My Dad also showed me 80s cartoons, like He Man and Thundercats. I love them all.

[@amg9163]

@@custommediacreations You are so fortunate to have a wonderful dad who introduced you and create that connection with him at the same time. Personally, I am intrigued and heartened when I find people who adore the 80s. Now, I'm off to find out about that time machine 😁

[@AudaciousAmber]

one of the best channels i have ever had the pleasure of subscribing to!

[@ericpa06]

Totally agree! This channel will be/is a success! And I'm so happy to being one of the "first" subscribes LOL

[@CoalMyn1382]

Agreed. When I discovered it,I immediately shared it to anyone and everyone I know who would embrace the knowledge it has to offer. I hope they do hundred of these. They are very beautiful.

[@woopar305]

I hope he just starts cranking these out this channel has so much potential

[@Shakibosss]

Couldn't have put it better! Though it always surprises me how little subscribers/views he gets compared to other nonsense out there but all in due time.. this channel will be big!

[@AudaciousAmber]

well lets keep enjoying and share the beauty far and wide!

[@d.ag.b1135]

I feel like this feeling is endemic to my generation, so many people seem to have lost hope in the now and turn to a past they don't know for comfort.

[@toma6068]

Slightly worrying if you ask me

[@Jtangel27]

I, along with many of us, have felt anemoia, of a yearning of familiarity, for many different time periods. The affluence of the 50s and backyard barbeques. The progress, socially, politically, musically, of the 60s and 70s. The culture of the 80s and 90s. The one time period though, that I truly want to believe that I have any faint memory of, the time that I really wish that I could have been a true part of, the time that connects every time period previous to it, and that splits it from then and now, is September 10th, 2001.

[@old-school-rigs9378]

Honestly I have felt this as well, the whole world shifted after that fateful day, I was a young lad of eight years old, the world we were born into...no longer exist, a mere husk of life is all that I feel now, we shift many different times,each version of the universe seemingly worse than the last

[@p.o694]

@@old-school-rigs9378 The whole world? Of course it was very, VERY tragic, but the world has had tradegies on a much larger scale, and that event has been inflated because it happened in America.

[@Joy6168]

I just now discovered this video. I have that same longing for the 1980’s. If it helps y’all, I grew up in the 1990’s, so I can answer any questions you have about that decade.

[@ntnima]

you are articulating the melancholy of modernity

[@laddttt6808]

English please?

[@rkit6707]

@@laddttt6808 ?

[@MirekFe]

@@laddttt6808 You are putting in a given form, the sadness of current-day.

[@crowviking]

@@MirekFe We are actually in 'Post-Modernity'. Modernity ended with 'globalization' around 1989. Internet has changed the world dramatically- email was a mind-blower!

[@MirekFe]

@@crowviking I was translating the first comment for _@Ladd Ttt_ to simple English

[@user-dw4yr3je8m]

I was born in 2003 and I feel major nostalgia for the 90s/early 00s. All the music and TV shows that I listen to and watch from that era make me wish I was growing up in that time. Sometimes it even makes me cry 😢

[@cccrrr450]

I feel the same as you...I thought I was the only one!

[@magicduckman5568]

I was born mid 90s I usually wonder how was it to be an adult in the 90s/00s. When i was a kid i wanted to be an adult, go to raves and dress like eveyone on tv.

[@andrejg4136]

As someone born in 1985, trust me... you missed a lot, but also didn't miss much. Like what you are describing is literally my childhood, and there are many things that I loved (Having what I consider good cartoons on TV all day, when you include cable, the rise of anime being a true market, video games finding a stride) and many things I hated (media preservation was completely trash, so a lot of niche shows from the 80s and late 70s were lost unless someone dug them up out of a corporate vault; the internet was barely a thing, so good luck trying to find real information that was verifiable; video games were super jank programming wise, best practices still wasn't a good solid thing and tech was limited even for the developers)

[@UncleAL86]

It was a good time to grow up, I won't lie. I was born in 1986, so I remember a lot of the 90s - if I could I think I would go back.

[@nowherek5757]

i’m crying. this is the feeling that i always experience together with dés vu. i get this feeling by just listening to old piano music. especially gymnopedie no.1

[@l337z0r]

If I could go back to the time captured in this video, what would I feel? A sense of detachment, probably, knowing that all of these people are dead in my own time. I would walk among these living-ghosts with a sad smile, a happy melancholy. In crossing the gulf of time, a new gulf would have opened between us, one that no machine could bridge.

[@zxccxz164]

probably happier than walking down a street today in an unknown city, alone.....???

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

This was the biggest emotional problem I had as a kid. Whenever I looked at photos snapped before I was born I would feel so sad that I couldn't have been there. I would even cry sometimes because it was unbearable the truth that I could have lived as much as possible but I would never be there to understand why everybody was happy there. This was when I was around 6 y.o. Now I am a classical musician. In a way I think I owe it to this feeling. Everytime I see the manuscripts of Mozart, Bach or anybody, I can't help myself but to think about the hand that was writing them and how their useless little daily routines were going, outside of the vastly remembered works.

[@gracenicolej]

Do you still experience anemoia?

[@alexdesforges6377]

I remember first experiencing this sensation when I looked through my Mum's photo albums from the 70s. I noticed the faded warmth that photos from that era seem to turn, ( which Instagram would later do a good job of mimicking )... I noticed how people wore cool interesting clothing and seemed to have a care-free happiness... I remember wishing, as an 11 year old, that I could've experience that time and was aware that it is only going to become more and more historic.

[@LLAAPPSSEE]

I need a word for the way these videos make me feel. . . It's this vague mix of somber happiness. I've felt these feelings before and never really thought too heavily about them. Lovely videos.

[@CCCP-bw4ui]

Yea. It’s a blessing that we feel those feelings. That means that our minds think deeper that other’s minds. That feeling can sometimes cause happiness and sometimes sadness.

[@crypnoss19]

I get this feeling when I listen to certain low-fi songs. Just this empty and lonely feeling that's also peaceful and comforting. Might be the most out of body experience I've ever felt without hallucinogens lol

[@sibalsekya]

We need medicine but we don't need drug, cz we are already high enough

[@celesteextenebris4822]

Wow. As someone who has felt they belong in the past, since my earliest childhood, I can relate to this painfully. The longing for the old times is what I am, what makes me happy and rips me apart at the same time. History is the source of my bliss and my doom, the past is where my heart lies. One day the sepia tinted photos and early silent films make me feel a happiness that I guess not many people have felt before, the other day it suffocates me and brings tears to my eyes, because in all its beauty, it is unreachable.

[@Mk7adxm]

try this kzbin.info/www/bejne/moKonpSgbqhpodE and Blondie-Heart Of Glass because whenever I listen to these I keep thinking about a memory that hasn’t happened

[@limnami2417]

why do i feel this. while looking at old people it makes me think how the world was in their time. how they lived their lives, and how the people acted i missed the old times, even when i didn’t live on it. i really wanted to see the past with the eyes of people who have seen it.

[@UltimateGamer-sl2kx]

Not sure bro, but since all these things didn't happened in our current life, i bet it has something to do with our past life, i have some places in my head for a long time that i sometimes even cry about them, some people too, i really wish we could know more about this, and i hope we find our answers one day bro ❤️.

[@Seeker_903]

I have Anemoia from the 80’s. I was born in the 2000’s, and whenever I hear a synthesizer or keyboard in a song, I get Anemoia. I have been searching for a word for so long now and I am finally satisfied. Thanks.

[@Rogue849]

Today, at an antiques store, I bought a postcard that according to the picture in it, I presume must be from the late 40s or early 50s. The text goes something like: ever since you left me, I only live in tears. Our baby has mumps and I have no money, and if you doon't send me some, I will make a scandal with your noble family. I'll go and see you when the weather is better. Love, (a lady's name). There's no address, city, picture of her or him (the picture is just a generic postal card one), last names, name of the child or of the guy, nothing else. After some research online, that only (of course) proved fruitless, I know this will stay on my mind as I create diverse scenarios for the outcome or find an answer

[@MasterArt7]

I get this hardest for the 40's and 50's, living through WWII must have been quite a ride.

[@CCCP-bw4ui]

I have this feeling for Soveit Union era and 19 century. My grandparents tell me stories about their childhoods, which gives me a pleasant nostalgia even though I have never experienced the same memories as they did. To be honest, I love this so called anemoia.

[@KauanyB]

I've lived with this feeling for years. I miss a house I never lived in, a family I never had, a person I never was. It's difficult to explain, but it's a painful feeling, knowing that I will never experience what I miss. I know it's in the past because I only feel this when thinking about the past, and thinking about the future makes me sad. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to try to find these faceless people and experience it all. I know it's impossible and I'm afraid I will have to live with this for the rest of my life

[@marinusjohn7690]

"change da world. my final message. goodb ye." conveys this exact feeling tbh

[@Laiser]

I came here because the memes was making feel this

[@SourRobo8364]

I've had this ever since I graduated from college. I thought my school experience would be different. Now all I want is to live that life over but different.

[@Araanor]

i feel this when i watch old movies or read old books. i read the thaughts of long gone people.

[@IdunnoYoutellme-cz3th]

I feel this all the time when researching ancient civilizations and listening to music and watching videos from the late 1800s and early 1900s, just never found the word for it.

[@lockheed123]

I simply cannot understand why this video does not have more views. It's beautiful.

[@propha-c]

I have this so often

[@rico8068]

I feel anemoia when listening to “vocal songs” and seeing old house structures

[@ElyOtto]

THIS IS TERRIFYING BECAUSE I FEEL THIS ALL THE TIME BUT I NEVER KNEW IT WAS COMMON

[@dea_dly1780]

Unlike most other of these videos where they just made me wonder, this one is a feeling that I experience all the time.

[@rheasafana4547]

Have you all ever experienced a strong urge within yourselves that tell that you belong to another place. Like another country amd culture? And whenever u see vintage photos or hear to classical music you resonate with it.. It gives u goosebumps 💯

[@marina80s]

I have anemoia since I can remember.. I'm now 25 and I'm still convinced that I belong in the 1980s.

[@TacticalCaveman997]

It's such a beautiful feeling.

[@MRYVPRWV]

I often feel this going down my town. It's an old town but not where I was born, but I'll get anemoia from the old buildings. I was looking out the window in the car once, and anemoia came over me. It was the first time looking at the certain position, but it felt as though I had looked at it a million times before.

[@harmonylux1408]

I don't think I've ever connected with something so deeply before. I feel this squeeze in my chest that makes me want to cry. To live in a completely different world in the past and relive the things those people did whether it be good or bad. It's something I can only see in my dreams. I tried searching for this wig everywhere but I just can't find it and it sucks because this song is so beautiful

[@GeraltofRivia22]

I've never believed in reincarnation, but this feeling of longing for a time and place I've never experienced has really made me think.

[@Zuzuzazazizi]

I experience this alot when i see a picture or video from 80’s, very strange. I am glad i found a word for it.

[@user-fw3vv4id5z]

So this is the name of what I feel when I hear music or see movies/photos from the 80s and 90s.... Interesting!

[@totalcrash5006]

this made me weep.

[@peetey897]

I live in this feeling. For me this feeling is not simply there, it is overwhelming, crushing, almost unbearable. The awareness that I will never see these times is devastating. All I want in life is a TARDIS: teleportation and time travel. Take me to London, 1811. Or New York City, 1988. Leave me, with no phone, no computer, no lifeline out, no way to claw my way back up to modern times. Just leave me. I'd never want out.

[@rolandothomas9521]

I come back to these videos every few months..... almost 5 years now.....

[@deadpoettt]

I get anemoia when I listen to music from the 60’s and when I listen to older Christmas songs. I think it’s because I live with my grandparents who played a lot of 60’s music when I was younger but it still makes me sad for some reason

[@deadlyfemboy4289]

i get this feeling but not for like distant times but for like 60s-80s you know, as well as many people have pointed out it includes music, like i would imagine driving a convertible, down a road, the sunny breeze washing over me and a feeling of freedom, i feel as if id had no dime in my pocket but that wouldnt bother me.. i feel very light, and carefree... many of my country songs of the 80s even sound like that, couple of young friends in their teens going to see the sea... which is in impossible task now.. with all the paperwork, worry, stress, everybodys on edge , i mean as soon as i get to the present a heavy weight gets on my chest... guilt for not living up to my parents expectations of being a doctor or whatever of that level, not being able to find a soulmate, now i feel lf i accept im a cog in a machine, im a failure, so i battle against it, id rather be a nobody than try to be somebody and fail, i stick to routine cause thats what ive always done, but time is moving, people are leaving our lives, one way or another, so the routine includes less and less "things" and really leaving me more lonely.. i guess the good part of nostalgia or "anemoia" (i used to describe that feeling as melancholy) is that you can think of an abstract time where you can escape all the stress and problems of life and just enjoy seeing smiling faces, laughter, music... just wanted to lay down my own experience and not generalize

[@ericpa06]

Hi John, I translate your video to Portuguese, here is the subtitle: 1 00:00:00,405 --> 00:00:03,077 Há um velho ditado: 2 00:00:03,112 --> 00:00:07,927 “O passado é um país estrangeiro: as coisas são feitas de modo diferente lá.” 3 00:00:09,976 --> 00:00:14,820 Anemonia: Nostalgia Por um Tempo que Você Nunca Conheceu. 4 00:00:14,855 --> 00:00:18,573 Olhando as fotos antigas é difícil não sentir um certo desejo de viajar 5 00:00:18,608 --> 00:00:22,220 -a dor da nostalgia, por tempos que você nunca presenciou. 6 00:00:23,644 --> 00:00:27,356 O sentar na beira da calçada e observar os nativos passarem. 7 00:00:28,516 --> 00:00:31,742 Quem viveu e morreu antes de qualquer de um de nós chegar aqui, 8 00:00:31,777 --> 00:00:34,830 quem dormiu nas mesmas casas que nós, 9 00:00:36,045 --> 00:00:37,407 quem olhou para mesma lua, 10 00:00:38,437 --> 00:00:40,485 quem respirou o mesmo ar, 11 00:00:40,732 --> 00:00:43,141 o mesmo sangue nas veias, 12 00:00:43,917 --> 00:00:47,436 e viveu num mundo completamente diferente. 13 00:00:49,093 --> 00:00:51,749 É um mundo ainda coberto de poeira da fronteira. 14 00:00:52,877 --> 00:00:56,692 Um mundo de adultos, dos quais a vida foi martelada a mão. 15 00:00:57,079 --> 00:00:59,245 Um mundo de alpendres, 16 00:00:59,904 --> 00:01:02,118 de fogos para se acender ao anoitecer, 17 00:01:02,318 --> 00:01:03,837 de conversas em cima de cercas. 18 00:01:05,453 --> 00:01:07,617 Você observa enquanto eles continuam vivendo suas vidas, 19 00:01:07,652 --> 00:01:09,304 que pareciam tão importantes. 20 00:01:10,219 --> 00:01:12,464 Mesmo se suas histórias já foram contadas, 21 00:01:13,185 --> 00:01:16,713 mesmo se nenhum dos riscos aconteceu de outra maneira além da maneira que aconteceu. 22 00:01:17,505 --> 00:01:19,314 Mas eles continuaram mesmo assim. 23 00:01:19,865 --> 00:01:24,650 O passado é um país estrangeiro, e nós somos apenas turistas. 24 00:01:24,685 --> 00:01:28,041 Nós não podemos esperar que entendamos os nativos, 25 00:01:28,076 --> 00:01:30,217 ou porque eles fazem o que fazem. 26 00:01:30,345 --> 00:01:32,753 Nós apenas podemos pedir a eles para parar por segundo, 27 00:01:32,788 --> 00:01:34,858 para que nós possamos tirar uma foto para levar para casa conosco. 28 00:01:35,914 --> 00:01:38,937 Para que nós possamos sentar num de mundo preto e branco por alguns minutos, 29 00:01:39,555 --> 00:01:42,849 com claras fronteiras que nos protegem da pressa do tempo, 30 00:01:44,025 --> 00:01:47,143 como uma piscina de maré, bem fora do alcance das ondas, 31 00:01:47,178 --> 00:01:49,600 que deixa você permanecer no momento- 32 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,064 tão claro e parado 33 00:01:52,256 --> 00:01:54,243 que você consegue ver seu próprio reflexo.

[@ericpa06]

Ah, mas dá pro meu amigos portugueses entenderem ahah :)

[@obscuresorrows]

Obrigado once again! I'll add them today

[@obscuresorrows]

Portuguese subtitles added!

[@HaramColucci]

Obrigado Eric! :)

[@lucasarean8997]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Thanks from Brazil.

[@ilivemylifeforthestarsthat3140]

I get nostalgic about stories that my granny or mum or dad would tell me and I get nostalgic from books/films like coming of age films

[@kranker114]

Wow, this puts a tear in my eye.

[@galaxxy_step]

When the little girl started to smile, I smiled too and my tears came...😢😍

[@melgazargalvan4075]

I get that feeling whenever our grandparents talk about their childhood life, bfore world war 2 happens. And whenever i saw the old things they treasured such as dresses and antique furniture and photographs. And asking myself "what kind of life do they on those times"..

[@L.Coupss]

I feel like I will teared up whenever I saw old photos or videos. I dont know why.. It's just.

[@TheReviewSpace]

I get this with the ancient times, like Genghis Khan's era and the Native Americans before Europeans ever invaded North America. Even the dinosaur era, from millions of years ago. That shit makes me feel longing to SEE those days of a younger Earth.

[@confetti_kisses427]

The furthest back I go is the 18th century.

[@dejanmarkovic3040]

You know they didn't have plumbing back then? You know Genghis Khan shat in his armour and would just carry that shit around for days, right? You knew they qent hungry and thirsty for days, too? We romantisizd the past too much because of a few people that have done historic shit and we overlook how fkn complicated everything was...we wanna think everything was simple back then....yeah, simple, but not easy...we had to do everything ourselves to maintain that simple life. You wanna glimpse of the sinpler life? Stop using yohr washing mashine and just handwash all your laundry. Stop buying meat in the supermarket. Stop ordering fast food; just make yoyr every meal on your own...possibly on a fire, rather than a stove. I Could go on, but you get hte picture...

[@valskraacapo720]

@@dejanmarkovic3040 calm down man

[@dejanmarkovic3040]

@@valskraacapo720 What do you mean?

[@Wingding7562]

growing up as a military kid i feel this when i see friends who grew up together, while i was never anywhere for more than 2-3 years till i was 18. i miss a part of my childhood i never had

[@barrybena1336]

As tough and resilient kids are it definitely takes a toll. I can't imagine it as I lived in the same neighborhood growing up, but it's probably traumatic to kids who form great friendships to have to break these connections every 2-4 years. Hopefully I didn't mess up my kids too bad having to do these moves for the past 20 years...

[@CanadianAviation12]

I always get this anemoia if I listen to 80s types songs and 50s type songs

[@andrejg4136]

Look I was born in 1985 (so I'm the leading edge 90s kid everyone has and still is pandering too when it comes to early-mid adulthood nostalgia bait), and I get this forever. And I think the closer you are to a certain era being pined over, the harder it hits. Like I'm so close to the 80s era in terms of my living memory, but it's JUST out of reach, like I BARELY have any real solid memories of 1989. And its likely all blurred with memories from 1990 and 1991 at this point, and I've had to come to accept that.

[@NeziesStories]

I was just looking for a video that pronounces this word. Instead, I found one that explains my life. I’m so happy I discovered this channel! It’s a perfect way to explain the many mysteries of the human condition.

[@sneekyshotter5358]

I absolutely love the early 60's - late 80's enough to envy older adults who grew up in that era. I sometimes get sad about it too.

[@katr_i_na]

I'm the same, but more often with times from the 20s-60s (any Jazz brings it on, usually, or an old film/programme set in that time period). But it's never the feeling of 'I wish I grew up in that era' or feel like I'm from the wrong era, it's more the fact that I don't have an opportunity to just experience it, for a few days/weeks.

[@andrejg4136]

@@katr_i_na I think this is me as well. I wouldn't give up my adult agency or modern convenience, such that it is. But at the same time, I would love to take a day trip to say, A random Saturday in say September 1985. Watch the cartoons, watch the football, roam around outside, see the world as it was before I had any real memory of it. How did the world truly exist before I had a chance to experience it personally? (I picked that particular month because I was born Sept 1985)

[@missmistyeyedd]

I get anemoia when I see city lights. Or little towns with a bunch of little shops connected to each other. I’ve seen that.. The city lights I’ve never ever seen. But it feels like I’ve been there and the way I feel inside is crazy when I see them.

[@MobiusCoin]

I have this recurring "feeling". It is tangentially related to this feeling. It is accompanied by flashes of memories, scenery, no narrative. It is laced with a splash of modernism, designs by Eames, Neimeyer, and Wright. It is usually blue and it is always raining there. There's a sense of the most beautiful yet melancholic isolation. It is a sense of the modern world, right before the internet age of connectivity when being alone was still somewhat possible. This is indeed a past that probably never was. A modernist upscale 90's that I imagined in my head. The movie that inspires this feeling the most is Lost in Translation. Does anyone else get this feeling?! I've had it for years, I experience it from time to time, usually inspired by modern and post-modern architecture. If so, can we create a word for it?

[@aileenp3235]

I feel this way eveytime I listen to the songs my mom used to listen to back in her day and then I would end up crying so much because I feel a deep connection to her past memories when I listen to those songs and know I can never understand or experience the life she did when she was young or the stories she told me about.

[@RoryRose_]

I've always missed living in the pacific northeastern country, despite never having as much as visited the place before

[@vintxsxsh881]

As someone who has a liking for history, I get anemoia all the time, especially when I study my favorite war: World War 2. I get this feeling as if I experienced it and I was there, but yet, I’m only 14, theres no way. It draws me to that war, wanting to experience the feeling, leaving me longing to hear a new fact after i learn another one. It’s truly a wonderful feeling and the reason why history is so dear to my heart

[@Abel_Makkonen_Tesfaye-0]

bro, are we like... the same PERSON..?

[@FiniteAtticus]

Beautiful piece of work and excellent writing. Thank you for this.

[@michellehouseburg527]

I can get it at any point like driving down the road or wheni would be in class. I fee so much comfort by antique from the 20s that i surround myself with it at my house

[@feelingpetitegood]

I’m so happy I learned about this and am seeing others that feel the same! I have always felt this way (part of why I majored in history). I have watched Mad Men 7 times just to look at all the details in the background and how everything must have looked back then because I’m SO heartbroken I can’t ever time travel. Like someone said below, I don’t necessarily want to live in a different time (knowing and having what I have now) but I just want to be a fly on the wall. It doesn’t matter what I know historically, or how I know it’s not all rose colored like we think now, but I am so sad I can’t go back and then I get sad because I’m not focusing on my time now, and how when this time passes, future me will want to go back then too. I was watching a film that took place in the 1920s and it made me so sad, and I couldn’t understand why, and this is it!

[@thecarnew5334]

I have a strange anemoia for the future, but it’s the past. When something triggers it, it’s addictive.

[@Akron162]

i get that when i listen to Claude Debussy's music.

[@obscuresorrows]

This comment touched me, but I can't explain why.

[@Akron162]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Maybe thats another obscure sorrow.

[@jamesmills7255]

Akron162 Really weird that I just found myself coming to this video after listening to 'The Best of Debussy' on KZbin, then saw your comment! Debussy composed some beautiful pieces.

[@transientwayfarer4472]

Akron162 I was also thinking of Debussy. I suppose that shows us how music can embody emotions in a way that language never could. When I listen to Debussy, I get a sense of a time long past, yet so neatly set before us. It's disorienting. In a lovely way.

[@IsaacPsBCN]

Akron162 I feel exactly the same

[@mahoganyfox9243]

i’ve always felt anemoia so hard and my entire life i’ve always searched for the right word to describe it. Thank you.

[@GassersGhost]

Fernweh - A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places and Hiraeth - a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret.

[@brodyinterian4577]

So many smiles, the world should see this now, it’s beautiful

[@rocketbluegoose]

I feel anemoia just yesterday. It's a fantastic job you are doing here.

[@Vixfor_]

I literally cannot watch this video without tears on my eyes

[@newheadstart]

*"Feels like we only go backwards" song by "tame impala" is the best example of anemoia in my opinion.*

[@UltimateGamer-sl2kx]

I will check it

[@AbhijeetGosavi73]

I saw this video on 4Chan, it's really amazing I'm glad I found the source it feels really surreal looking at all those old and young faces, they lived out their lives and are no more now. The only thing left is this.

[@niklasss]

This channel is great. It describes the feelings i have and why i might have them. Wonderful channel! - Norwegivan Subtitles - 00:01 - Det er et gammelt ordtak: Fortiden er et fremmed land 00:05 - De gjør ting annerledes der 00:10 - Anemoia. 00:14 - Når vi ser på gamle bilder er det vanskelig å ikke føle en slags vandrelyst 0:18 - Et pang av nostalgi, for tider du aldri har opplevd 00:23 - Å sitte på fortauet og se på alle lokalbefolkningene passere 00:28 - Som levde og døde før noen av oss ankom her 00:32 - Som sover i de samme husene vi gjør, 00:36 - Som ser opp på den samme månen, 00:39 - Som puster inn den samme luften, 00:41 - Det samme blodet i deres blodårer 00:44 - Og bor i en helt annen verden. 00:49 - Det er en verden som ennå er dekket av støv fra grensen 00:52 - En verden av voksne, som liv er hamret ut for hånd 00:58 - En verden av front verandaer 00:59 - Av ild til å lyse opp kvelden 1:02 - Av samtaler over gjerdet 1:05 - Du ville se som de fortsatte med livene deres 1:07 - Som virket so viktige 1:10 - Til og med hvis historien deres var allerede fortalt 1:13 - Til og med hvis ingen viste seg å være noen andre måter enn måten det skjedde 1:17 - Men de fortsatte likevel 1:21 - Fortiden er et fremmed land og vi er bare turister¨ 1:25 - Vi kan ikke forvente å forstå lokalbefolkningen 1:28 - Eller hvorfor det gjør det de gjør 1:30 - Vi kan bare spørre dem om å stå stille 1:32 - Så vi kan fange et bilde å ta med oss hjem 1:36 - Så vi kan sitte i et par minutt i en verden av Svart og Hvitt 1:40 - Med rene grenser som beskytter oss fra tidens hastverk 1:43 - Som et tidevanns basseng rett utenfor bølgenes rekkevidde 1:47 - Som lar deg dleve i øyeblikket 1:50 Så klart og rolig 1:52 At du kan se din egen refleksjon

[@obscuresorrows]

Thank you! Norwegian subs now added!

[@banan_9672]

I get this feeling for things much older than this. When watching certain shows like Vikings or Outlander (even though they're fictional), I feel longing to be where they are. And when I look at pictures of ancient Rome or Greece, I feel a sense of connection to places and time periods I have no real connection to. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this 💗

[@tmot6714]

I’ve always wanted to transport my current self to the 70’s.

[@dreadfulrhino8875]

I really get Anemoia when i look at video games that were made in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000's and etc same with music, tv, movies, looking at exibits in museums, technology, art from various cultures and etc.

[@marinaogris8059]

Since I am very little I have a very weird obsession with the 1980s. I talked about things I could've never know when I was like 3 maybe. I am born 1998. When I was a little older like 6 or 7 I started to get "memories" which couldn't be mine at all. I have them still to this day. When I see 1980s clothing's or adds or something like that I get the feeling to cry and it almost feels like I miss it or like when you are "home sick" and it's pretty damn strange.

[@realflow100]

beautiful. i just got some music off my moms phone that i havent been able to listen to on my computer for years. man does it bring back some good memories. brings tears to my eyes.