Thread 40889981

Is anyone else lately experiencing small moments where it feels like the atmosphere of the world is how it was 20 years ago?

It’s unmistakable when it happens because it’s such a different feeling than the grim dissatisfaction that characterizes the world today.

It’s weird when it happens and I can’t figure out what’s causing it. I wonder if it’s just me being relaxed and absent minded for a moment and somehow reverting to a feeling I experienced long ago, or if there’s actually something changing. It’s grim as fuck out there now but I can’t shake a small feeling in the back of my mind that it’s somehow all smoke and mirrors and that this bad dream will end if you can just make it through it without losing your soul and mind

>>40889981 (OP)
I know dopamine spikes create that feeling.

>>40889981 (OP)
probably just deja vu

Kinda had that experience about a week ago. It's a story, for sure. I should state that I wasn't drunk or on that zaza at the time, atleast for a week when it happened.
>Be me, taking a night walk
>Air is colder in the summer, needed some air
>Go down a dark street and run across a house that had a wooden eagle statue, the same kind from my childhood home
>Note it down in my mind and walk to another street
>See a house with these glowing orange lights
Very bright, but not painful, think Halloween light orange
>Get a really strange feeling that I've been in that house before
>Start to tear up, brain does not like that thought at all
>Walk further down the street, and the houses all look like ones I've been in
>It feels like I went into all of them at some point, but all of the houses were in one place
>Even one that reminded me of a bayou house I was in the south for
>This lasts another around 10 houses on each side until they start to become normal houses again that I haven't been in
>Haven't walked down that street again yet
They all feel like houses I was in when I was a child. One even had a happy family with a dog they were playing with, but it felt alarming to be on that street. I know where the street is, but I'm not sure if I wanna go back yet.

>>40889981 (OP)
Its your consciousness remembering similar situations you had. And it definitely doesnt mean there is something weird going on

>>40889981 (OP)
Yes. I just had it this weekend. I was out and about, and the sky looked like that beautiful blue it used to be, and the sun was giving off that nice yellow it used to give. Then I got a progressively worse headache, and nearly passed out driving on my way home. Lied down for about 40 minutes and it went away. I've noticed this phenomenon creeping in since about 2024. I don't know if you remember, but 2015-2023 was increasingly bleak. NOT due to politics, or Trump being elected. It was just the vibe, or perhaps it extended beyond the political realm. The sun started getting that washed out white look that was harsh and unpleasant, and the sky was not a deep blue like it used to be. People seemed to be acting more and more strange, more disconnected. Hard to really put into words. 2024 summer I noticed it started feeling like what I remember of the year 2000. I actually got an optimistic feeling that felt really tangible. My working theory is that it has something to do with the sun cycles. That, and a large return to belief in God and specifically Jesus Christ. 2023 was seemingly the point of no return, the bleakness was overwhelming. You'd go to something like a walmart and it'd just be a trashed shithole with people in pajamas dragging their crocs across the grey cement floor while they gazed mindlessly at their phones. I went into one the other day, and it was actually clean and people were being polite and not psychotic. Everyone's politeness has increased miraculously. The food quality during Covid took a massive nosedive, and now it seems back to a more stable quality. Still too expensive, but better than it was. Something IS up. America was teetering towards that European hubris against God and I think we were feeling the brunt of that for the better half of the last decade. Something has snapped people out of it, but unfortunately a lot of damage has been done. Time will tell if we can continue this upward trend in spite of our obstacles.

>>40890885
Yeah it's wild, crazy, nuts, how personal decisions can dramatically alter the entirety of creation around us. The rings of Purgatory come to mind. Each decision is either going further down or climbing out.

>>40889981 (OP)
Ive had brief flashes where I feel exactly like I did as a kid. Not in a childish way, just optimistic and hopeful and excited by the world. Seems kind of random.

>>40890885
2023 was when I was briefly in hell for about 6 months. it's definitely related.

>>40891246
I remember wondering why you never hear people wail or sob at night, and I'm the only one. It's all a little baffling to me still but I'm glad people feel better.

>>40889981 (OP)
>Is anyone else lately experiencing small moments where it feels like the atmosphere of the world is how it was 20 years ago?
Wokeness cracked. Libbos don't really believe in cultural marxism any more but they haven't changed much *externally* yet. You drown in cognitive dissonance if you think you were actively wrong for 15 years, so they just don't think about it.

>>40889981 (OP)
I think I’ve felt something similar. It’s like a comfy nostalgic vibe attached to a specific time and location, but different from ordinary nostalgia felt for something you clearly remember. It makes you just want to sit down for a moment and take it in, but it’s too fleeting to really grab onto. I’ve felt this most strongly under two circumstances. The first was hiking in a forest of pine trees with snow falling down close to evening, pic related. The second was coming across a sort of grove where the bushes and trees were short enough to see over the top. It was on a hill, so if you look around it’s just a pale blue sky, right around noon when there were no shadows. It felt like going back in time, but not to a place I’ve actually been before. Maybe it was calling back memories of a dream. I remember when I got back to civilization, it all felt more shallow, like I glimpsed something more meaningful but now it’s gone

Recently yes. It's been comfy. It means there is still good and comfy out there, it's just a bit clouded in negativity and predictive programming. Enjoy being comfymaxxed.

>>40889981 (OP)
I have had that exact feeling OP.

>>40889981 (OP)
Time Traveler From 2005 DVD & Chills with a Bopper

https://youtu.be/0l9YjDue_18?si=gvhIPW2x3Tzz5O6p

>>40889981 (OP)
I don’t know what all that means but when I lay my head down to rest I feel like I’m going home and that puts us back 20 years so I’m going with BEN

>>40890011
Created some real bad false pride in people who are now experiencing extreme instances of protagonist syndrome Every person I meet who is trying to act like they are part of some "greater change" in the world by just merely existing in it and spouting nonsense they heard from someone else.
Feel bad for them. They are so up their own asses. The kind of person who could have an angel in front of them and they'd preach to it instead.

for some reason I always have this thought in the back of my head we need to go back to the oceans or something, water just feels more natural somehow

>>40889981 (OP)
Yes, i don't know if it's the summer weather, but I've had those moments that felt like the old relaxed positive atmosphere. It is kind of distinct, because the world and people feel strange nowadays.

>>40889981 (OP)
When I stand outside my childhood home on a crisp spring/fall morning I can still remember how it used to feel but then I see a new model car pass and crash back down to reality

Yeah actually. Been having great times with it. Feeling breddy gomfy.

>>40889981 (OP)
No. Every step I take just takes me deeper into the hell realm that is this reality. The ever present despair never ceases. It only grows.

>>40889981 (OP)
this is crazy because i was depressed all weekend about this, feeling how it 'used to be' and just completely drowned in the same mindset/energy from whatever i was reminiscing.

>>40889981 (OP)
YES.
Brief moments of the smell, and looks from years ago.
Many mornings waking up where the sun looks 'off' but reminiscent of late 90s/early 2000s.
The overall smell of outside is more nostalgic.
I've had mornings where I've had to double check the date/year because of this. It's been interesting

>>40889981 (OP)
I have those moments more and more often these days.
I could almost be exactly back in a good moment from years gone by.
It's not even remembering or feeling some momentous occasion. It is usually something mundane like remembering the way the sunlight was and the way the breeze felt in that moment when I was walking the trash bags to the cans outside.
Or it is being able to feel the positive energy surrounding me as I walk my neighbourhood and would see people happily and actively maintaining their homes.
Yesterday I went for a big walk and was struck by the amount of smiling faces and everyone said "hello" or "good morning" as we passed each other.
A weight has been lifted spiritually from many people I believe and the old ways are returning.

>>40889981 (OP)
i think i understand what youre saying, sometimes i think of a specific year and somehow feel like im back there, not just physically, but mental state wise, i can think back to how i felt in a specific year, my interests, and its like im there again. ill watch a movie from a specific year and literally hypnotize myself into thinking im back watching it in its year it came out in, is this just cope and this is how nostalgia works? maybe. but this year is too weird, the energy is too different from all the previous years ive lived, i dont mean to quote christopher moltisanti but it feels like i "Had an Arc" so to say, like my life was going in a very specific direction, and i was ok with it, but i dont know this definitely is cope i feel like trump and all the shit hes doing is really fucking up "my arc" so to say and hes taking us down a route where arcs "stop" so to say

>>40893689
let me try to better explain my feelings so eras are defined by their "aesthetics" right? and i felt like the eras i was living in their aesthetics were sort of having a natural evolution from the previous era, like i was born in 99, 90s aesthetics naturally evolved into 2000s aesthetics, and then into 2010s aesthetics and so on, and as i was living through these eras i felt like the aesthetics were doing their natural thing, evolving from the previous era into their own style, but like i said trump somehow messed up that natural aesthetic flow for some reason for me, i dont know how else to explain it, hes like an aesthetic disruptor, like his feng shui was way off and the natural flow of the Tao is all out of balance because of him

>>40889981 (OP)
This is actually an interesting phenomenon. I'm not experiencing the 20 year thing right now, but every once in a while, perhaps under very specific conditions (possibly weather patterns, illumination, smells, sounds, etc), I'd get into a type of fully conscious "trance" or rather stupor, where everything would feel as if I had gone back to another stage of my life. Last time it happened to me like 17 years ago and when back to my 13's or what have you. It lasted a good 2 days, but I wouldn't know exactly how to trigger it.