Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?

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Feel some nostalgia:
upchucky.org/TimeMachine.htm
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Origin of "nostalgia" links:
minnesota.publicradio.org/proj...
nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newslette...
www.acrwebsite.org/search/view...
"reminiscence bump": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminisc...
Lincoln poetry: www.potw.org/archive/potw325.html
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [VIDEO]: • Video
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [NEWS ARTICLE]: bit.ly/TypCh5
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [WIKI]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J...
Shall We Dance video with Lawrence Parsons: www.sciencenetworks.org/1524/s...
Other music+moving links:
www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/2...
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2...
www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/sci...
www.scientificamerican.com/art...
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainm...)
Earworm links:
www.exploratorium.edu/music/qu...
science.howstuffworks.com/life...
Ironic Process Theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_p...
False memory paper: cdp.sagepub.com/content/14/6/3...
Longplayer: longplayer.org/what/overview.php
Compression wave .gif: dev.physicslab.org/img/a271d8b...
Great Alan Watts video animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: • Alan Watts - On Applin...

[@All_i_want_is_a_slammed_Mk4R32]

“But what IS nostalgia?” **Vsauce music starts and makes us all nostalgic**

[@dolandumb2867]

Freddie Goodchild yup.

[@lucschrav]

Freddie Goodchild so true !!

[@tomkocian6710]

Do you know the name of that specific song?

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

Tom Kocian Just look up “vsauce music” If u want to listen to other BGM Search up “Vsauce soundtrack” and check out the playlist with like 12 songs its his most common BGM

[@tomkocian6710]

@@deadpirateroberts9937, thank you mate. I have already found some of these masterpieces on Jakes channel. (the guy, who makes music for Vsauce)

[@williamharmon6854]

nostalgia is a hell of a drug

[@thegoldyeti3192]

william harmon he'll

[@theclanfiction]

he'll yeah

[@CHEESYhairyGASH]

he'll billy

[@shilohschwartz8671]

I told my dog to he'll

[@sg2massive]

william harmon how ironic I went to see my doctor and he is off work he'll .

[@FoxGoalie]

"Why don't you feel nostalgia for when the video started?" 8 years later: "I do."

[@ScrubLordJenkins]

😔

[@TheUnderscore_]

This video's a lot like that one in Mind Field.

[@vittoriapagliardini1937]

This comment

[@HarmanPremiumYT]

wow that hit hard!

[@metallic4888]

been binge rewatching a bunch of his videos. i’m 24 now, first came across his channel when i was 16.

[@solomonthegrundit8737]

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.

[@SaiSunday]

This is a good idea, thank you, I hope I don't forget this

[@codyhuffman2265]

Hey, kid, you want nostalgia?

[@Layththelion21]

I do this as well, It's a great way to remember the times you were first listening to them.

[@countryoffelines]

Im not going anywhere for a few days so this is useless but thanks i guess

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

as someone who's wasting their teen years being stuck inside the house every day, I see this as an absolute lose!

[@dave34]

Last seen online: 5 years

[@christofear]

So sad

[@thejay8963]

8 months?

[@hyperkun]

😭

[@binnebambaronn5047]

😖

[@Cat-kv6mv]

(╯︵╰,)

[@valksasss]

Isn’t it weird that day by day, nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different

[@FinleyUwU]

or. . is it? *vsauce music plays*

[@RAWRzooted]

5,000 subscribers with no videos? THATS EXACTLY HOW 2017 WAS 😭😭

[@RAWRzooted]

R.I.P Etika 2019 I’m not 10, I’m 14 But all my friends left me in 2018 Thank you though

[@okbasto9541]

When we look back, we look at the events that are important which they are different of the actual time

[@annielester]

@R.I.P Etika 2019 years are different for everyone. Everyone experiences different things every year. Maybe he had a good year i 2017. I had a good year in 2013 and 2016

[@MrAlli67]

Nostalgia makes you happy that something existed, but sad that it ended

[@lombridious]

nice explaination

[@disolux]

deep😔😔😔😔😔😔

[@trislele349]

Or is it?

[@SLamarHarry]

Perfect

[@codyhuffman2265]

Be HaPpY tHaT iT sTaRtEd!!!11!11! - Corny people

[@IlBenso]

there's an effect called anemoia, nostalgia of something you haven't even experienced

[@joemo1921]

Me watching The Last Dance

[@fatemehk.1094]

I have this kind of nostalgia about japan. I've never been to japan.

[@IlBenso]

@@fatemehk.1094 i have this feeling when listening to vaporwave music

[@s0urkandies67]

I feel nostalgic for a lot of early 2000's aesthetics even though I was born in the tail end of what would be considered the 2000's

[@martiananomaly]

@@IlBenso damn dude same. Listening to vaporwave music reminds me of the memories of when I was driving a car down the highway at night or sunset. The thing is, I have never driven a car and neither are any of those memories real. Still love em though!

[@dawnslayer]

"Why do we feel nostalgia?" **shows James May**

[@inyoface5456]

Relatable

[@mmunch4519]

Lol

[@mcfcok1683]

made me feel nostalgic from watching top gear 😂

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

How true. Also completely unexpected.

[@GraemeLechner]

*Cheese.*

[@augustrush7400]

P.T.S.D is just spicy nostalgia.

[@iggyplayz4170]

I got ptsd homie. Its weird

[@abhinavprajapati5962]

@@iggyplayz4170 yeah an I am depressed hey 1 yr later: I am fucking amazing...improved a lot found amazing friends and been focusing on my studies for past months... i forgot i commented this thanks to the person who decided to reply to me today

[@ivomihailov370]

Alexei

[@velvaete2688]

@@ivomihailov370 oh shit

[@abril443]

fatass did you know PTSD can happen to anyone who has gone through trauma? Does not need to be a war veteran.

[@soulassassin0g]

Ironically I have nostalgia watching this since I watched it 8 years ago. Time flies, man.

[@MelGibsonFan]

Shit makes me feel old.

[@BF1_enthusiast]

I've watched it like 6 years ago or so

[@PremiFi]

al of ulu are adulteys! popy ones am uhh 46 and uh half life, hotlin mami, crim, elec state tribloz anndnndnd yhhh, yhh stufs and zartan maye @ZARTANISGONE maaaatttte😊

[@PremiFi]

youre right, youre right. i think i have alzheimer's. i think i have alzheimer's.

[@ehhhhhh1885]

"returning home" and "pain" really does sum up nostalgia for me

[@da3musceteers]

Yeah. Must be related to homesickness too

[@imverycreative5819]

"James May..." from Top Gear? "...from the youtube channel Headsqueeze"

[@nathanielgrey4091]

*visible confusion*

[@nathanielpillar8012]

and from shitloads of documentaries.

[@bpollitt3491]

I was thinking the same thing “Its captain slow!!!”

[@secretgames1906]

I'm confused now

[@bioast]

No-*burst into tears*-t any more

[@aliwithamiddlepart985]

So we learned what nostalgia IS, but how much does nostalgia WEIGH?

[@queenbiscuit311]

aaLeafx uhhhhhhhhhhh 793,000,000,000,000 exagrams

[@js0683]

LMAO

[@hw_yozoraVODS]

Everyone asks what is nostalgia, but nobody wants to know, how is nostalgia.

[@iwalktoburgerkingandwalkba4800]

Our heart

[@StarSpawnMusic]

*Vsauce music plays*

[@RWclippy]

This had to have been my new personal record on the game. Thanks Michael (yes I’m watching for the first time in 2022)

[@callmeimpure]

When I heard him mention the game, I audibly yelled out loud " SON OF B****" lmao.

[@bruce_08]

he will continue to get us for years to come

[@jaffa3717]

He made me lose the game!!!!!

[@maltlickey]

It’s been 10 years. This video is now giving me nostalgia.

[@KiritoYager]

It's weird knowing that future me will probably be nostalgic about this current time period in the future

[@HazyHaydn]

Kirito Yager Right??? That’s what I was thinking

[@KiritoYager]

@@HazyHaydn Haha originally thought this was a comment of another video. But you never know when you're in the good old days until they're gone

[@msMuffet.]

YAS ikr

[@ramade9040]

Your future self is watching you through memories.

[@hayleyscomet3447]

Kirito Yager ya. I find myself remembering and wanting to relive the 2000s. More so the early 2000s. I, however, also feel a type of nostalgia for a time i never really knew. The 1980s. Im asusming its because my mother was a young adult in the 1980s so it influenced me but idk. Anemoia is interesting.

[@sanskartiwari2996]

The fact that this video is 7 years old makes this nostalgic too 😭😭

[@SeemsLikeSomething]

Or DOES it...?

[@fwamey]

Micheal here.

[@redbullman1675]

Ikr

[@lessthan3714]

the fact that this comment is 8 months old makes me nostalgic

[@b_f_d_d]

Nostalgic but True.

[@MarkWilliams-oi5wu]

Ironically I’ve not watched this nostalgic video since 2014. Takes me back to being a depressed 18 year old at uni. Now I own a home, have a family and a career. Where the hell did 9 years go??

[@doodle2763]

Now I’m the depressed 18 year old going to uni 😂

[@rainofrest7778]

its a cycle @@doodle2763

[@pewienczlowiekag3111]

​@@doodle2763same

[@saltyshirmp6536]

​@@doodle2763and then you'll be nostalgic about this particular time line where u read this comment😂

[@JoryStultz1234]

To me it feels quite similar to mourning for a lost loved one, but instead of a person it's a certain period of your life.

[@TheArtificeer]

"James May, from the youtube channel Headsqueeze" Top Gear does not exist

[@LetoDK]

More like "I'm more than a single television show".

[@jahoyden]

@@LetoDK exactly, i think the trio are famous enough to be addressed by simply their name, not "the guy from top gear"

[@janejanebobanebananafannaf2522]

Lol

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

@@jahoyden Yea pretty sure none of them need an introduction. It was just a plug for the channel.

[@NavyNukerz1337]

I think the purpose of that was to advertise James May's youtube channel he was trying to do. No need for a youtuber to advertise an already well established show.

[@12luiguti]

Realizing you were happy and didn't notice

[@daspicybirb9356]

luis gutierrez That hit me hard

[@diabolus9466]

@Hydreigon_Polarzz Nostalgia is a minor emotion. It won't hit anyone hard.

[@MR-zk3fy]

There are a lot of people who will disagree with you here. I think your assessment is narrow. Nostalgia itself may be minor, but it leads to possibly massive emotions related to the memory.

[@queenbiscuit311]

Diabolus you’ve clearly never felt it because it hits you like a truck

[@diabolus9466]

@@queenbiscuit311 I've felt it before of course and know it's a minor thing. People just blow it out of proportion.

[@YourBoyDonald]

When I'm 60, I'm probably gonna rewatch this video and cry in pure happiness.

[@TGangGaming]

I often go to certain videos and be like damn that was that long ago. Instantly start to feel nostalgia This is a prime example of it. 2013 😔 😢

[@minhyuksssmile]

Me too

[@themanman2885]

Minecraft on a cool summers night

[@henryvelasco3278]

The Manman playing Minecraft 2am alone in ur room lights are off and all u have us the Minecraft music and your headphones

[@giancarlo_music]

I missed does days

[@gangstasteve5753]

I play Minecraft and cheat on it.

[@saferehman8234]

Just think about your dog, waiting in your minecraft world for you to come back ... but you never did

[@presto0194]

it’s been 6 years since I last played..... I’ve only now realized how great Minecraft was “Let’s go to the river then come back to the house to go build a town in Minecraft” - my old friend Riley 2013

[@a_bear]

nostalagia... makes me always sad. Am I the only one?

[@Chris-dr8xw]

+a Bear It makes me sad sometimes.

[@felipeoyarzun5424]

+a Bear It's a comfortable sadness for me, it's weird tbh I actually enjoy it

[@ukkomies100]

Me too. I wish i could live those times once again and knowing that i cant depresses me.

[@Cropod]

Me too, glad I'm not the only one.

[@jakeballou5147]

+a Bear dude same hear

[@LendriMujina]

Three years ago, I coined a term for the opposite feeling: Fugratia, the feeling of disdain at the past, being glad it's behind you, wanting to *forget* instead of remember. The etymology of this is Latin instead of Greek, but I picked opposing words: Fugere, meaning "to flee", and Gratus, meaning "thankful" or "pleasing". I feel nostalgic for the 2000s, but fugratic for the 2010s.

[@DawstheYTBoss]

This just shows that if I press random notes on a keyboard wait 50 years later… and play the exact same notes… it’s nostalgic…

[@ollieg4169]

The biggest hit of nostalgia is when you leave high school and the realisation that nothing will be the same ever again.

[@jakefunaki5635]

LilVurte3N I’m starting high school should I be excited?

[@lufetm]

Just finished it this year... For 4 years in high school I felt like it was boring, I was just waiting for it to finish but the closer I got to an end of it I felt more and more nostalgic about all things that happened and I realised it was actually better than collage will ever be and I want to go back in it already

[@andrewmattson1101]

Jake Funaki I’m just starting as a junior In high school so it’s best to enjoy it as much as possible

[@bendistraw111]

Luka Vukovic Kinda reminds me of the Tik Tok memes where it says they hated high school and then they show all the amazing memories

[@dp_upperscore8119]

I just finished Highschool and this is already making me sad😢

[@juliakirsten3485]

nostalgia is like a happy heartbreak

[@lachiebosman8511]

but you get sad when you think about it

[@tz6706]

madison green u good

[@ayazmomin]

@madison green why not?

[@unnot5706]

Bruh ur actually right omg

[@a_judge9960]

@Ray George I miss past holidays.

[@TheDennys21]

And now this video is a perfect example of nostalgia. 2013 was my last year in highschool, i can't believe it's been 10 years already.

[@user-oq2cj3oh1x]

11

[@Plasmabro]

This video just gave me nostalgia for the era of KZbin when creators would colab by having one video on each channel

[@growleen4782]

Nostalgia from the old windows startup sound

[@FluufyPvPTM]

Im sorry

[@Aquatarix789]

😂 😂 😂 but fr

[@SarcasticDragonGaming]

Growleen AJ dude holy f*ck you read my god damn mind.

[@saltiestsalt6326]

drrrrumdumdumdumduuum

[@SarcasticDragonGaming]

Saltiest Salt well said

[@trulyinfamous]

nostalgia sometimes makes me sad that the future wasn't as good as the past.

[@OMagnatinho]

I thought i was the only one

[@KidJames81]

True

[@PrototypeFTW]

Same I miss the days were me and my sister played outside all day. Watching Pixar movies and living in the world without a worry. Writing and thinking about it tears me up because I miss the days we got along like two peas in a pod! Also the days life wasn't as hard as before. Now my nostalgia makes me feel like I'm home......

[@mmmagus1]

+Elijah Lockwood Happens to me all the time.

[@emioljowosimi6452]

+Elijah Lockwood well time is an illusion so it's happeng right now:3

[@jelicaandric8962]

This was so much more then I expected. Been binging your videos and love I em.

[@malindrome9055]

I feel nostalgic after watching this video 10 years later, time sure flies by!

[@theallmemeingeye5927]

I bet in twenty years time I'll get nostalgia from hearing the vsauce music.

[@wumbosaurus9121]

Don't you already?

[@goofyahhuncleproductions42069]

Dude we almost have the same profile XD btw u posted this comment 9 months ago... feeling any nostalgia yet? Lol

[@user-mt5dk6dg8b]

@@goofyahhuncleproductions42069 😂😂😂

[@zookawooka5897]

I already do.

[@cannonfodder4507]

I already do

[@jacobely6826]

James may and Michael was the crossover i never knew i wanted.

[@jaelpikner9872]

Agreed

[@t.theadoreeggsquirelogginb528]

TOTES SO MUCH😘

[@peksn]

I really wasn't expecting it when James showed up

[@cool_username07]

beans

[@ringoferrer2343]

tonoight on bum gea we meat vsauze as guest tonoight jams plays pano amd what iz nostlgia

[@jonathanmcclintock7431]

This channel gives me nostalgia

[@TonyMontanaXx]

Fact

[@Paramithiakaibangers]

i really love the relaxing way you explain your knowledge and your thoughts . Your videos are very interesting and they help me with the anxiety thank you michael

[@ChrisS1mp]

Seeing James May in this makes me pretty nostalgic for Top Gear

[@3ds12Game]

Chris Simpkins So true XD

[@Sushiman118]

RIP hilarity RIP Jeremy

[@titleguy1]

Too soon, too true.

[@ethownzbh]

Chris Simpkins I have hope that the 3 of them will get back together and make the same top gear but with a greater focus on ripping the BBC and political correctness a new one. It. Could. Be. Better. Than. Ever.

[@RetroRhythmRepeat]

Chris Simpkins too soon

[@Josheuwah]

I remember first watching this video on my old futon in my old bedroom in my old house, none of which exist anymore. This video brings such a wave of nostalgia. Congratulations Michael, your video about nostalgia gave me nostalgia.

[@riskyridge1177]

bruh the cues, rhythm, and even the lines from these videos are all locked in my neural pathways from when i was 13 binge watching this. this shit feels so meta-nostalgic now a decade later, it's kinda unreal dude while i'm at it, i have to credit this channel for playing a big part in my life. it taught me how fascinating this world is and how to think about it more critically. i was raised in a cult, and if i didn't learn how to think critically and for myself, i never would have learned the fallacies to f their logic. thank you for being a beacon of knowledge in this world

[@gavin4916]

Me: Why do we feel nostalgia? vsauce: good dancers are more desirable as mates

[@weezor9578]

I legit saw this comment RIGHT AFTER hearing that

[@zerosabs3603]

Dude I fucking hate dancing. Guess I’m a loner forever

[@DamianSzajnowski]

@@zerosabs3603 That's not how correlation and causation works! :d

[@raynel1000]

Ironic there's a vsauce recomendation after this video xd

[@mrsackboyfreak]

@@weezor9578 same dude!!

[@jan.mmmmmmm]

I feel nostalgic when I think of me when i was a small child when my parents actually paid attention and affection, and I felt so innocent, not knowing much about life. Man it just makes me want to cry 😞

[@-tetrachloro-dibenzo-para-diox]

You're not alone

[@rahulbicholkar9621]

I feel u😓

[@Sirawesomej904]

You know I’m really glad I found this video. Because every so often I just get nostalgic about the first month after I was born I can remember everything from back then. I lived in my aunts house while my mom went training for something with EHR or something. I remember playing connect four in the kitchen of my aunts house. Eating the wax fruits thinking that they were actually edible. Playing with the light bright in the hallway but best of all snack wise, eating a honeycomb cereal straight from the box. Playing with the ceiling fans and the pump organ. (which I have in my house now). Boy I could just go on and on and on and on about this but my little fingers can only type so much. When I got that old pump organ back all those memories are flooding in and there was a song that kind of started to represent that it’s called the chill piano guy is ambient by MK and the song abruptly ends just like those memories in my aunts house she no longer lives there anymore so I’m really sad about that. Before we continue if you’re reading all of this you’ve got a great reading skills! And I’ve got great typing skills. Anyways, just like the memories ending seemingly abrupt. That song ends abruptly. I really get really sad about it sometimes because things were crazy after I was born and when I was in that house the first time I ever felt at peace. I’m kind of starting to tear up a little bit. But of course you can’t hear me through this. thank you for your time. 😢 ❤ also please consider subscribing to my KZbin channel actually posted a couple videos about that organ I talked about.

[@mustbefamousjr4888]

He maid me think of a movie or anime scene. I wish I could remember. It was a beautiful quote about living on in the hearts of the people we've touched

[@nukacolacompany2534]

Everyone else gets happy I just get depressed and miss it so much and remember that it's never coming back

[@addictedtoskiing27]

Nuka Cola Company I’m with you on that. It’s so hard to live in the present when the past brings you much more happiness. And you get that horrible gut feeling and it just brings you more down. Your not alone remember that

[@water1966]

Me 2 holy shet especially that never coming back part fk me man

[@matthewshivel635]

Nuka Cola Company fr its very saddening... just the thought of it’s never ever coming back .

[@HyperCriticalCommentator]

Nuka Cola Company nah, same here

[@grgbstankichannel5384]

Same

[@teclinsoro4523]

Seeing James May made me nostalgic for the good old days watching top gear with my brother

[@isabelle_4207]

Teclinsoro me too

[@-kp3]

Bro yes the good ol days

[@loui__hounsell]

Yes yes good times

[@putinsplayground]

I fucking swear this could have been me commenting. I too have a brother and we would also watch Top Gear back then together

[@alvarohernani6645]

Clarksoooooon

[@masongovender9231]

Watching this after Mindfield series and that episode of False memories. Michael has come so far. Nothing but Respect.👏👏👏

[@arielbazan9425]

i remember learning about the concept of nostalgia with this very videos 9 years ago. crazy how time flies.

[@servez_2build67]

What is nostalgia? Talks about atoms

[@snipezz_4]

season 2 fortnite

[@Flqwlessly]

Rainbow gamerNL get that shit outta here

[@brandono_s]

The Enchanted Creeper Fortnite isn’t a bad game but it is out of place of what we are talking about.

[@Flqwlessly]

Brandon Ortega hey thx for responding to my comment in a calm matter, I knew someone would reply with something stupid but I appreciate what you did instead.

[@josemine8863]

Lol

[@Nathan-ty4vf]

The smell of a summer night gives me HARDCORE nostalgia

[@devin8057]

christmas nights and halloween nights are the most nostalgic

[@dakshs9528]

Nostalgic songs...............fucking hell man

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

@@devin8057 Halloween 💯

[@GC_-mu3he]

Macintosh plus... just look it up, it’s litteraly nostalgia in a song.

[@popsitheclown3588]

Whenever I smell something that is being cooked on a grill I get severe nostalgia

[@ruasi]

one of the best talks ive ever heard! this is a great video :)

[@Hitman-li1hg]

Seeing May anywhere is always a happy surprise

[@mariamhany1533]

Nostalgia is the painful beauty

[@effecteyvee864]

A lot of my friends cry and hate it when they feel nostalgic, but I actually enjoy reliving in it. Seeing my past and longing for it brings sad yet joyful feelings to me

[@Benjamin-S]

Wisdom that’s exactly how I feel. I love feeling nostalgic. It’s the best feeling. Just thinking about happy past memories that I miss so much it hurts brings me a joyful, sad and happy experience. I’m so happy I have those amazing memories.

[@ryanl.1085]

I feel extremely sad when I feel it knowing I’ll never get those times back but I still enjoy feeling it for some reason...

[@raptorm8242]

How about shut the fuck down your ass

[@patrikoreb6722]

Nostalgia just makes me feel sad

[@HoneyBee-bi8fy]

Same i thought that was only me

[@fireredorange4910]

Makes me cry, especially songs from movies that I had watched in my childhood (life is a highway) I HATE IT

[@t6amygdala]

It hurts my stomach

[@Shadowsdeity]

Same. It's really bizarre

[@user-xi6ff8pp2p]

I feel nostalgia for past stuff from like 2010-2014 that I missed out on in my early 20s. If I missed out does that count as nostalgia? Or is that just "past FOMO."

[@azmingthecybercat7280]

i follow you is the song that is stuck in my head for 6 years and i dont know how to stop it anymore

[@natty7959]

the way you connect certain things to make them reciprocate the other is amazing

[@LuigiCotocea]

Ahh i remember my old molecules Such nostalgia😥

[@williamreid6255]

Much memories

[@Equa11ysurl]

I miss all of them, wish I could go back :(

[@bigmanimation]

* cries *

[@LilXancheX]

@@Equa11ysurl then do it

[@Equa11ysurl]

@@LilXancheX Well, time to time travel I suppose!

[@francescomassaro546]

He got off-topic at 00:01. That's got to be a world record.

[@randomstudios4775]

Francesco Massaro TRUEEEEEE!!!!!!

[@DoubleBread]

Francesco Massaro Also, where are your fingers?

[@kameradimran2163]

Or did he?

[@TheOlav0509]

He did, but he also came right back into the subject mintues later >:)

[@traingameiacs]

James may is in this video

[@mario_64]

I had watched this as a child who never experienced nostalgia at that time. Now, I feel it watching this video again.

[@ladyalicent705]

Micheal: Why don’t you feel nostalgia for how this video started? Me who would literally sell my left kidney to experience these videos for the first time again: I do, Micheal, I do…

[@alesta2212]

"Why do we feel nostalgia?" *turns over to James May* Yeah that seems about right I miss old Top Gear.

[@goose5200]

Who doesn’t?

[@Cockalicious]

@DarthAnonymous not as good as top gear

[@Olo_f]

@@Cockalicious true but its still better than todays top gear

[@tom_.h7]

@DarthAnonymous not any more 😢

[@yanromano33]

I lost

[@KLAX06]

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." -Andy Bernard

[@notyourdamnbusiness5974]

Also The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. -Bob Marley

[@saeransimp189]

There is a way just live in the present

[@Izaac1337]

the past always seems better than it actually was

[@vittoriapagliardini1937]

@@Izaac1337 so make the present good, so when you look back all you see is greatness

[@lostinthewoods3918]

That’s why they say live in the moment

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

I’m having nostalgia watching this

[@united_abominations4472]

I love music so much that when I get an ear worm or a song stuck in my head it’s almost always a positive experience

[@perhapscabbage1743]

Vsauce: the game Me: I was going on like 2 years and now it’s all ruined

[@destinykrypt1395]

Same never thought v sause would make me lose

[@patrick__swayze]

I don’t understand, I didn’t understand in the video, and I continue to not understand.

[@patrick__swayze]

Jonathan Ashby thank you!

[@Acaladon]

Honestly didn't even see it coming. I lost.

[@zkmarkov2984]

I read this before he said it -_-

[@jinjunliu2401]

In a few years watching a vsauce video will give me nostalgia

[@wumbosaurus9121]

Doesn't it already?

[@Worldhistory_urdu_hindi]

vsauce music gives me nostalgia

[@Jordan_Dossou]

Darth Tashfeen lol saaaame

[@nowonmetube]

McOinky it already does to me 😒

[@MuhammadSaad-bq5vv]

Now I get nostalgia by watching his videos that I watched years ago.

[@Azad_ca]

When in an August evening after a hot sunny day it starts raining and I happen to be outside where the ground is dry and starts to absorb the water. It makes a scent that takes 19 years back to my childhood when we were playing soccer in the neighbourhood. Those innocent days of my life oh how I longed to grow old not realizing how blissful childhood is.

[@aLID-sh5xn]

Bro I can't get enough of his videos

[@jackl8349]

Back in 2014 I was nostalgic of around 2007-2012. But now I'm so nostalgic of 2013-2015.... I feel like a make memories seem way better than they actually were.

[@the_boss2194]

Jack L same. Right now, I feel nostalgic for 2010-2014. In about 5-10 years I'm gonna feel nostalgic about this time.

[@jackl8349]

The_Boss yeah same I will look back at now and miss it.. for no apparent reason

[@andrewcarpinella1217]

Jack L To be honest, I can get nostalgic about things that happened only a few months ago. It's such an amazing and bittersweet feeling in the world.

[@augustinius6586]

thats probably because you might be young and life gets harder while getting older

[@danvanthevacumman]

This is true lol i still remember back in 2011 how awesome it was bavk in 2000 2005 lol

[@traumaloop]

old minecraft music is nostalgic for me,

[@knifecrxw]

EdgyX Yes xD

[@darthrevan3315]

Back then....

[@justdont3998]

EdgyX me too!!

[@James-uk8pk]

Same 😭

[@bonzolo2358]

The good old days

[@macbooksinmotion]

Nostalgia makes my skin warm and have bumps on it. Nostali-bumps.

[@sharkbait398]

I'm feeling nostalgia with this video

[@matthewterry8575]

nostalgia about top gear Man I loved that show

[@r0n1n-]

Opens a video about nostalgia, gets nostalgia by the first ten seconds.

[@the_last_raposa3810]

yea but at least they have an amazon sereis

[@samkhodr9975]

Same, it's gone down the drain now tho.

[@tylerhanley1409]

RIP old top gear.

[@neveseos5423]

"You are not that different from music" That is _incredibly_ wholesome...

[@huzzzer6083]

Yeah he always tries to be wholesome/inspirational at the end of his videos and it works very well. I love it.

[@_deletus_]

When does he say that?

[@neveseos5423]

@@_deletus_ He doesn't say that directly

[@t0asteDBunS]

@@huzzzer6083 well Michel is very charismatic

[@someloafofbread2417]

I feel like the most nostalgic thing (for me atleast) is friends and good times. like, I feel the most nostalgia for people I used to know or friends I drifted away from. Or maybe just the memories In the past of all my friends and I together and as time goes on you sort of drift away from them. like sure youi keep some friends but a lot of them you slowly stop interacting with them, thinking about them, and eventually you forget them. Until like 2 or even 10 years later you see them somewhere whether thats online or irl or whatever. And then you talk to them and start hanging out again or literaly never see them again. and your mind creates this ilusion that the old times were much better and you miss the simpler days.

[@thenativemartian5169]

I never thought I'd see captain slow on this channel. Very nice work Michael!

[@fufirex789]

When you listen to the minecraft soundtrack... :c

[@synephobic]

Fufirex thought i was the only one

[@ayo6673]

Yup

[@superfishe]

Minecraft soundtrack ngl make me cry 😫😭

[@idiotsama8255]

It's mostly :')

[@emilydyer8784]

damn I was so obsessed with minecraft back then. sometimes I when I hear the soundtrack, literally no joke bro..

[@MustashBoyeTheOneAndOnly]

Vsauce: "The Game" Me: *starts screaming in the middle of the night*

[@aitotem]

It's been fucking YEEEAAARRRSSS.... Since I thought of a pink elephant

[@tantibusking7095]

Same dude, same.

[@JoeMama-ud2nf]

What is this game?

[@philipwenger1982]

@@JoeMama-ud2nf no don’t ask run away while you can 😭

[@Tyminator502]

@@JoeMama-ud2nf a game where if you think about it, you lose. you're always playing, and you can never win, only lose. to avoid losing again, try not to think about The Game.

[@ColdLemonJuice]

As someone who has echolalia, any song you play will become an earworm for me, no matter how catchy or uncatchy

[@VICKY0497]

Nostalgia hits hard

[@SunIsLost]

Yea

[@jd2833]

why does christmas not feel the same anymore 😔

[@elyflores2226]

u grew up

[@ty-tysmememarket6665]

‘‘Tis the reason I searched this video

[@totalorganfailure]

Kenneth Palmer haha your father is dead or doesn’t love you

[@paulschlacter2685]

BABY

[@ryanl.1085]

NOOOO DONT PLEASE IM ALREADY CRYING

[@jahoyden]

When James May gives you Nostalgia before they even start talking about nostalgia.

[@ImJonasCortez]

Beautiful how a video about nostalgia ends up becoming nostalgic in and of itself

[@auragameryt]

I will watch this now, and then in a few years, I will see that a video about nostalgia makes me feel nostalgic.

[@oldthug2309]

This video gives me nostalgia. i used to watch michael with my girl.

[@thumpertorque_]

Is she still with you?

[@colbyjensen2806]

+Opposite Lock I would assume not.

[@fgrenvy755]

She gettin pipe from somewhere else now

[@oldthug2309]

Opposite Lock she's not

[@oldthug2309]

FGR Envy probably

[@theMad_Artist]

I'm already heavily nostalgic of happy moments from only six months ago...

[@the3diamonds472]

Literally the exact same thing as me. I was playing TF2 6 months ago and miss it and the friends I made on a community discord. Sad I am.

[@lucienrichardson8027]

Abhik Mazumder That's the worse kind

[@wane5949]

Abhik Mazumder I am nostalgic of only 3 months ago...

[@amertube7654]

Yeaaaaah me too

[@wowieme6350]

Me too, dawg

[@SB-wb8mw]

almost forgot about him until I recalled him the other day. Now I'm back and even experiencing "nostalgia"!

[@F.E.M.T.O]

damn

[@astralmiind]

Us getting nostalgic about a video explaining how we get nostalgia. Oh what I’d do to go back to the time when I first found this channel over a *_decade_* ago. Michael is an absolute treasure to those who are curious.

[@TallMonkee]

Is no-one going to mention James May in a VSause video?

[@theexplodingmothfromhell8012]

Right?

[@ack434]

People know James May as the guy who played the piano on VSauce. Legends know James May as Captain Slow.

[@MazdaRX7007]

@@ack434 well that makes us all legends then..

[@RADZIO895]

Actually, the host, Michael Stevens mentioned it at the beginning of the video

[@vlogsbyrow]

A few years ago I binge watched Vsauce and now I'm doing it again. **Nostalgia intensifies**

[@tyfoodsforthought]

LOL same, actually for me it has been 5-7 years 😆

[@meaghenstandlee6644]

This video (from 9 years ago) is now nostalgic to me 😆

[@Claugustus]

The part about this video not being nostalgic hits different 10 years later. Now this video is nostalgic of my high school years.

[@justacasualguy13]

the ps2 start sound brings me back every time

[@knuxuki1013]

Don't get me started

[@MikkaPower]

For me it’s PS1, that startup is soo powerful and majestic!

[@maxm6986]

The xbox scares me

[@lancer.8046]

Ps2 is meme

[@Hanabi782]

i feel depressed whenever i felt nostalgia...

[@fookermooker8612]

Its because I feel like I miss something from my past, but I have no idea what.

[@XeonGame]

a really unfunny person No kidding. It’s literally a feeling of sadness.

[@clarkg8694]

@TheBlondie it works for now. but find piece within yourself my friend. for that is the only lasting peace.

[@ken3243]

no

[@dockvada]

Watching this 10 years later. This video may be nostalgic

[@Aha5653ch.]

It’s infected bro

[@619xnomo]

this video was coincidentally released on one of the most nostalgic times of my life. end of may and beginning of june 2013 was smth different and i’m glad i know why now

[@foreman_spike]

I feel nostalgic for things like toy story, yoshi, and some songs I know the tune of but not the names... I get depressed sometimes just because I miss seeing these things as a kid. Now, my friends think of me as a nerd when I have Buzz Lightyear on my Apple Watch. But it brings me back. A sad-happy feeling. 😢

[@yw5103]

Michael Dublanko don’t have any friends who don’t appreciate Buzz Lightyear. I still sleep with my Jessie blanket and I’m 19!

[@stevenglare1402]

Y W have you seen toy story 4 yet such a good film I'm not gonna spoil it

[@yw5103]

Steven Glare no but I’m really looking forward to seeing it!!

[@fuckingallthesehoes3295]

Steven Glare toy story 4 was amazing

[@foreman_spike]

Wow it’s weird to come back here all this time later. What a year this has been