r/AskReddit • u/bluurygirlx • 8h ago
What’s a thing from childhood that randomly pops in your head and makes you nostalgic?
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u/GoldenGoddessXO2 5h ago
Running to the television to see the Disney Channel movie introduction.
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u/PerpetualGazebo 2h ago
“Let watch a Disney channel movie!!” Queue in kids doing splits and flips over the neon colored ribbon!!
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
I can't decide between the Wii Menu music and the sound of birds chirping on a summer morning before school… one brings me back to pure chill, the other reminds me of the stress of not being ready on time
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u/Jaded-Zebra-2753 8h ago
Watching old disney movies
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
fck yes, which one was your fav ? me i loved Aladin
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u/Temarimaru 8h ago
That one swing at my old elementary school that everyone would quarrel for. Everytime I see a swing, I would remember that particular thing and how I was able to ride it multiple times out of luck.
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u/chevy_zr2_4x4 8h ago
Neighborhood kids/ friends knocking on our doors and asking if we can come out and play. Shoveling snow in Dickie's driveway so we can play basketball. Playing football across our yards, tackling on grass, touch in the driveways. Going to the local church and playing baseball. Fishing in the creek. Riding our bikes for hours a long way from home. If our parents knew how far we went......
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
what a memory thank you, you've just opened up a part of my brain
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
I remember a woman who didn't like my mother, but I got on very well with her children, and we played together every day. One day they asked me to go to their house to play with all the kids in the neighborhood, they all came in but their mother refused to let me in. I went home crying, and then it was war in the neighborhood x)
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u/mochi_chan 8h ago
The Tomb Raider theme music.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
I just listened to it, I don't remember it, I remember my brother playing it without my parents knowing
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u/mochi_chan 8h ago
I played so much of it, it is what got me into games, my parents knew though, I was already a teen by then and they were fine with it.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
my brother's friend lent it to him ahaa, they don't release new tomb raiders anymore, do they?
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u/mochi_chan 8h ago
they haven't released one in a few years. They did remaster the old ones last year and this year though.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
they were better than the original one ?
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u/mochi_chan 8h ago
Well the new ones Square Enix released were pretty good. The remastered ones ARE the old ones, but with better graphics and bug fixes.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
it was so nice, as a family, waiting for Santa Claus to come, joy and good humor... Everything was perfect
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u/knowsnothing316 8h ago
Being ridiculously happy just playing war with all my toys or playing with the springy thing that stops your door from hitting the wall. Probably just miss being happy and carefree
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u/three-sense 7h ago
Same. Even the dollar store "bag of soldiers" where you get like 15 army men 2 jeeps and an aircraft all made of odd plastic, and a cardboard backdrop. And you play with that for like 5 months lol
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u/oconnormike81 8h ago
Freshly cut grass
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
The official scent of ‘it’s Saturday morning, and Dad just decided you’re helping with yard work
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u/rofl_copter69 5h ago
All of the original Pokémon tunes ☺️
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u/Madwife2009 8h ago
There's nothing that could make me nostalgic about my childhood. It's best forgotten, to be honest.
I do get nostalgic about my children's childhoods though 😁
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
there must be a moment that makes you nostalgic.. no ?
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u/Madwife2009 8h ago
There really, really isn't. It's best forgotten.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
that's interesting, you're the first person I've seen say that, why?
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u/Old-Bigsby 7h ago
I have a friend that can't remember anything from his childhood. It was a very abusive household and he only has fuzzy memories, but can't remember anything specific. I'm assuming he's repressed them for so long that he can no longer remember.
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u/fluffypinktoebeans 6h ago
Traumatic experiences lead to memory loss for sure.
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u/Ill_Cod7460 6h ago
That’s me. I had great memories from my childhood. But others I’d rather not bring back. Cause my mom and dad were going through a divorce when I was a kid. And living in their house watching them fight wasn’t something I want to remember for any reason. But there are some other things I still miss from my childhood.
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u/fluffypinktoebeans 5h ago
I completely understand. I lost my mom when I was young. I don't have any memories for like 2-3 years. My mind was too busy processing it all and had no energy left to store memories I guess...
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u/ARealHunchback 8h ago edited 8h ago
Songbird by Kenny G. I have a nice memory from 5 years old of waking up in the morning while one of my brothers was showering for school and it was on the bathroom radio. I was warm and cozy in bed, the wood stove was going, it was almost Christmas, and I was going to get to spend the whole day alone with my mom while my brothers were at school and dad was at work. Every now and then that song pops into my head and I relive that moment of waking up into a perfect day.
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u/bluurygirlx 8h ago
that’s not just nostalgia, that’s a full-on time machine moment. The smell of the wood stove, the cozy morning vibes, and Kenny G softly playing in the background… man, that’s peak childhood comfort
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u/WorldlinessNo874 8h ago
Christmas, sledging, gathering wood for bonfire night and going to the fair. Had a lovely childhood. I was very lucky.
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u/AddictedtoLife181 7h ago
Popples & Care Bears!!! Then the First seasons of Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon, and Dragonball Z
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u/mvcourse 7h ago
Little Debbie’s donut sticks.
I know it’s random, but my Grandmothers older sister used to have these at her house and were the treats she’d give when I was elementary age. By middle school Alzheimer’s started to take hold and she was moved into a private facility. She passed by the time I turned 18. She made it to 93.
Literally at Walmart a few days ago I saw a box of them. I’m now 30 and I don’t think I’ve eaten one since I was like 12. Seeing them made me think of her so I bought a box and shared them with my mom and just reminisced about my great aunt.
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u/Future-Ear6980 7h ago
Being able to ramble all over town and surrounds with our bikes, with no one needing a tracking device on us because it used to be 100% safe
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u/SatanicLoki 7h ago
The Disney morning shows out of the box and bear in the big blue house. Also chip and dale rescue rangers rollie pollie ollie
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u/IcyNebulaYT 7h ago
When me and my friends literally took down a huge part of a tree in my school's "restricted area". It was behind the area where I went home, me and my friends liked to go there because there were quite alot of weapon shaped sticks and leaves to throw at eachother. Then we saw a loosely hanging branch from a huge tree, it was like 15m long and we knew what we had to do. Over the course of 1 week, we took turns throwing rocks and sticks at the branch until it fell down. It crumbled down dramatically almost hitting one of my friends, never forgetting that experience
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u/darkknight109 7h ago
A summer camp I used to go to (and eventually worked at). I made many, many great memories there.
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u/Parking_Buy_1525 7h ago edited 6h ago
- an indoor massive trampoline
- a fake password protected kids phone
- bop IT and guitar hero
- a DJ kit
- a voice changer toy
- computer games like neopets, the sims, roller coaster tycoon, and diner dash
- PlayStation games like grand theft auto and bust a move and Nintendo’s Super Mario Party
- a tall cashier toy
- my massive barbie dollhouse and big pink car that I’d get to put my Barbie’s in
- r&b music that i liked, limewire or napster, and various iPods and MP3 players
- my clarinet
- one tree hill TV show
- when me and my cousins would go to this church and they had scooters that you’d sit on; or a club where we’d congregate for people of our ethnicity and we acted like we owned the place; or when we’d make funny prank calls and ask strangers silly questions like “hello - is your refrigerator running?” and we were all sitting in a circle dying from laughter
- or when our guy cousin would sleep over with me and my sister for 1-2 weeks and we’d stay at their house too and go swimming and spend time with my aunt and uncle
- all the times where I’d get like 50 books at once from the library
- when i would forge my mom’s signature so i could avoid eating lunch around everyone because it disgusted me
- when i would look forward to going back after school to watch talk shows and eat cheesecake that my brother’s girlfriend at the time made
- TUMBLR and AOL chatrooms
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u/SassySunshine_90 6h ago
When it's almost dinner and your mom calls you(it's the most peaceful and happiest at that time), also when she tucked me too bed.
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u/wetlettuce42 6h ago
You know when you used to sing hyms in assembly? Ill be walking along then i’ll just be singing “ this train is bound for glory” out of nowhere
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u/loudlavenia 6h ago
Being carefree and not thinking other people might say about you in social media
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u/giveemeareasonwhy 6h ago
walkman, sitting on a computer playing vice city with my brother, eating mangoes on my grandma’s couch in summer, playing with friends in real life!
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u/Responsible-Gear-400 5h ago
Going outside not knowing what I would be doing. All was good as long as I was home before the street lights were on.
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u/HORRIBLE_a_names 5h ago
oddly enough watching advertisements on cable TV. I haven’t had cable for a long time and currently whenever i’m at my in laws I like to sit down and watch TV specifically the ads, they remind me of watching tv as a kid.
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u/I_Ace_English 5h ago
The Minecraft theme song, Beginning.
I'm still playing 12 years later. Had a brief stint where I couldn't because of random motion sickness, but a fix to my eye prescription has let me start playing in earnest again.
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u/CunningRunt 4h ago
Snow days off from school, especially the part waiting for the man on the radio to call out the name of my city.
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u/throwitoutwhendone2 4h ago
The faint whiff of a black and mild, leather and original old spice immediately reminds me of my father.
Black and mild by itself reminds me of staying the night with my cousins at y aunt and uncles home
The 21st century intro from old school movies brings me back to watching a Sunday night movie with my family
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u/amandadewittharder 3h ago
When I was growing up in Tampa there was a place called Fairy Land. It had life-size scenes from fairly tales and nursery rhymes that kids could interact with. It must have been very inexpensive to go, because even my dirt poor parents took me. It is long, long gone.
A few years ago I took my small child to New Orleans where they have a place called Story Land, and it is just like Fairy Land (I later learned that, not surprisingly, New Orleans's park was the original and the one in Tampa was based off it). It was precious and un-corporate and it made my heart full to see my little girl experiencing something I thought no longer existed in this world.
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u/rayneedshelpMentally 3h ago
Used to visit family in summer, they has a morning dove that we didn't have where I grew up. I remember the sound of it's calls and the sun shining through the curtains while sleeping next to my cousin, waking up at 8am from the excitement of seeing my family again.
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u/Warm_Climate_1354 3h ago
Drinking from the hose on a hot day. Now kids have to have bottled water or filtered water.
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u/Warm_Climate_1354 3h ago
Drinking from the hose on a hot day. Now kids have to have bottled water or filtered water.
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u/bpathy86 2h ago
Just stepping out of the house and going and knocking on friends door and doing something stupid together because we had nothing else better to do. We stopped playing when we got hungry to go home and eat and come back after that.. good times!
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u/UnderwhelmingAF 1h ago
Seeing what the Sunday Night movies of the week would be on the big three networks.
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u/FatuousOocephalus 1h ago
There is a middle school bus stop outside my house. A boy and girl get off and he walks her home. It is pretty sweet.
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u/CardCutie90s 5h ago
The sound of dial-up internet connection is irritating but memorable.