If you could bring back one experience from your childhood...
 

If you could bring back one experience from your childhood or your teenage years, which experience would you bring back and why?

My answer:

I remember back in the 90's and early 2000's, people didn't have Netflix. People actually went to the video store and they rented movies. It was a very warm experience and it actually brought the community together... Call me old-fashioned but I still prefer holding a physical video or DVD in my hands. I love the smell of a DVD...

The first time I ever stuck my dick in a vacuum cleaner.

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Definitely early sexual experiences same as everyone

Scoring the first goal my team had scored all season in our fourth game.

I was about 9 and it was the first goal I had scored for a real team and I was so proud.

I've still got the newsletter that reported on the game and described my goal.

Have you seen Snowtown Murders?

I remember scoring a goal for my Y team in soccer. The forward took a shot and the goalie knocked it back and it hit my thighs and bounced into the back of the net

I felt like ****ing Pele lol

I was so ecstatic

The dude who took the shot was hugging me and jumping up down screaming about how awesome I played it

Great feeling :cool:

What is this? Reddit?

My answer? Time.

Time when you were younger was a different kind of time. You wake up at maybe nine or ten. I don't know because it was a while ago but it was morning and you put on your clothes and you go eat some f*cking cereal and watch a cartoon or two and you go meet your friends in the f*cking woods and an ETERNITY passes until you see those summer street lights come on and you know you have to go home. I want to bring back the slow acting time that made Halloween last what seemed like forever after the sun went down and you got to cover the entire damn neighborhood and still have time to dig into your pillow case for the good sh*t before you went to bed. I want the slow moving molasses time that allowed for a cross town bike trip to the skate park, a full day of f*cking around, smoking pot, coming back down from being too high as a teenager (which takes a long time), and then making it home for dinner made by Mom only to go back out and get drunk in the woods.

Where's that kind of time gone? I wake up, take a sh*t, drive to work, and all of a sudden it's four PM and I'm already hoping for sleep. Being an adult is fun but you don't have the kind of time you had as a kid and I miss it f*cking terribly.

No

Jesus Exo that was ****ing well-written

I mean damn

Post of the year right there son

I'm drunk.

Nothing. My childhood was okay but right now is the best time of my life.

And the time only seems to go by faster the older you get. Every decade you live after your teens just seems to pass quicker than the previous one.
I often wish that I still had that childhood perception of time as an adult.

There's a perfectly reasonable explanation of this time-dilation feeling having to do with prospective vs retrospective vantage points.
From a prospective point, time nearly always goes by quickly at all ages when you're doing fun or creative stuff.
It only appears that your younger self experienced "eternity" when you look at that time after decades gone by.
The more decades the slower it appears in retrospect because your brain is choosing from all of the earlier new
experiences it encoded in memory and not the familiar ones. As you get older, your brain is fed a smaller number
of new experiences into its memory and you end up re-living older, more novel experiences in the here-and-now
which give the impression that they lasted longer than they really did (or even than they appeared to when you
experienced them at the time). The only way around this dichotomy, is to accept that time has nearly always
appeared fast during the pleasant experiences, then and now, and that the comparisons are moot if you're
always learning and doing new, creative stuff in the here-and-now.

I don't know, years did legit feel like they passed a lot slower back in the day and I don't think it's just hindsight. Perhaps perception of time is affected by brain development or something.

Was growing up drudgery of some sort for you? That might've made things appear slower
(if it really did appear slower then - which could be hard to imagine in the present
by placing yourself outside of your present time).

I think it's the lowering of metabolism over time affecting how quickly our brains can perceive things/how much information that they can take in and process.

Actually part of it was probably waiting for Halloween, waiting for Christmas, waiting for summer, and waiting for my birthday. There was just always something that felt like it was never coming that became less bothersome as I got older.

Well, none of that appears to be fun at all - living life in constant expectation
instead of just getting out on the playground. I don't have kids (that I know of),
but you hear stories all of the time of them saying things like "Awwww, mom,
do I have to come in now?"

You never waited with baited breath for Christmas?

Well, "bated" breath, yes, I may have - don't remember -
but, yes, anticipating something good will appear longer
than the actual event itself. I don't think my life was in
constant anticipation tho.

1. Nerd.
2. I think summer more than anything was what made the year longer since I wanted out of school for 9 months out of the year. Of course me and Frown might be right about physiological reasons playing a part, I don't know.

If youre bored all the time life will go slower. Try it out. Stop having fun, no naps, and 6-8 hours of sleep max.

Late summer days. No school. Up early and the whole neighborhood outside playing. Dinner would include fresh picked COTC and watermelon from a local farm and then back outside until dark and a chorus of parents would start yelling that it was time to get home.

wash * rinse * repeat for the next few weeks until the next school year rolled around. Again.

That feeling of being ten and riding your bike ever farther through your neighborhood because you already knew the rest of it like the back of your hand and you needed adventure. Realizing there was an actual nature trail tucked away in my middle class suburban neighborhood was a top 10 coolest thing of my childhood. Like how the **** is there an honest to god meadow in this place?

100% relate. Actually making it into the next town was like breaking the law or something, i.e; exciting!

I thought time appeared to speed up when you’re older because each segment of time is a smaller piece of your time pie.

It's the VHS tape thing.

I miss those fun little plastic things that used to keep pizzas from sliding around in the boxes

I wasn't a fan of childhood either.

I would go back to the day I was smoking herb with my friends in high school when one of them (who became the other half of WISSK) put on Zappa's Inca Roads and I realized my love for experimental music. The marimba solo made me go cross eyed.

Teenage years count according to the OP but I guess that's a little late.

^ Yep, I was going to mention a similar solution to Psy-Fi's problem. Jean-Paul Sartre recommended that you go sit all day in a dentist's waiting room if you feel time is passing too quickly. I can also recommend playing Ambient 1: On Land and twenty mins will feel like eternity. ;)
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No bikes in my childhood because of the London traffic but I remember hours of aimless walking in agreeable company. Usually I was in a v small group of just one or two others, which was too small for most sports, though we'd often take a tennis ball along in case we felt like playing handball against some suitable wall:

Twenty minutes of either one of those albums would be fine with me.

I think they are meant to keep the cover from crushing down on the cheese.

But what do I know.

They're tables for tiny guests ffs. And they're still around.

^ Sorry, I posted without checking. In fact I thought Ambient 1: Music For Airports was a beautiful album and I have often used it to chill out from work stress. It was Ambient 4: On Land which was too minimal for my liking - that's the one I meant to post about.

I miss powering up a Furbie and hiding it in my sister's room so that it'd keep her up all night

^ah yes, sibling sadism. My sister and I slept in bunk beds and she slept in the upper one, and when her hair hung over the edge I used to wake her up by pulling it

My little siblings better be glad they were never born or I'd make them wish they were dead.

Pervert!