That’s why all of those records from high school sound so good. It’s. It that the songs were better- it’s that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now. Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we’ve lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something- survived it, experienced it- is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living though something. Though hard to grasp, nostalgia is elating to bask in- temporarily restoring color to the past. It creates a sense memory that momentarily simulates context. Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited; it doesn’t require the difficult task of negotiation, the heartache and uncertainty that the present does. . Carrie Brownstein
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Nostalgia is the pineal gland. This is an organ in your brain that can bring you back to a time when you were happy and carefree. The pineal gland is located at the base of your brain and it releases melatonin, a hormone that helps us sleep and makes our sleep patterns cyclic. The pineal gland also releases dopamine, which is associated with making memories. The pineal gland can cause panic attacks, anxiety, and depression.

It can also cause hallucinations and night terrors. Some people are born with no pineal gland or have abnormalities of their pineal glands. These people are called blind individuals, because they have no way to see what goes on in their heads.

There are also people who have small pineals, so the melatonin they produce affects only very small parts of their brains. Most people have a normal size pineal gland which produces melatonin that affects all of their brains evenly throughout the day.

Source: Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

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