Do you think you're drawn here because of past life memories....

[AtomicEraTom]

My dad's has been the same since about 15 or 16 lol

Does he need the 3500 for work? That's a lotta truck. I wouldn't even have a 4x4 truck if it wasn't for the snow!

My dad's hair has been the same since he was 13 years old lol Sounds like a great family atmosphere!

What's funny is my parent's influence barely extended to my brother: The most vintage thing he loves is the original Star Trek. Needless to say, we don't share any of the same tastes, especially in cars... He drives a massive Dodge Ram 3500 :eusa_doh:

 

[Viola]

Which leads to an interesting question: of the folks here who have felt a Golden Era affinity since early childhood, how many were raised with no Golden Era influence at all? How many grew up in strictly-modern-contemporary families where there were no lingering ties to the Era or its culture?

I go back and forth on how vintage my family is. My parents were and are fairly resolutely '70s in terms of aesthetic, but in the back-to-the-land way that was both fashionable and old-fashioned back then. My mom loves organic gardening. My dad DIY's pine furniture. They both have huge respect for canning, thrift-stores, and self-sufficiency. If I talk about frugal old-fashioned cooking or raising hens they'll tune in - if I talk about bakelite anything or Sinatra or whatever, they can't hide their disgust.

The only design style my mom can admire from the '50s is the Early American/Shaker stuff, oak furniture with braided rugs. That she'll like. Because "its real, and its simple." Mid-C modern, though, is "the ugly stuff my aunts liked... candy coloured and fake."

She's very Little Boxes about stuff like that.

Going back earlier, she does like Craftsman style.

But before we write my family off for the period, my maternal grandmother, who was a huge influence in my life, was more Golden Era. Makeup done to go outside. Snappy dresser. Strong sense of style. My mom had no time for any of that, but I soaked it up.

My mom said "I rebelled against all that, and you're rebelling against my rebellion. I hope you have barefoot, hippie children."

As far as where we grew up, Philadelphia is a pretty vintage town. A lot of the most MODERN neighbourhoods went up in the fifties. It's very much a pedestrian-friendly, old-style walking city with the brick rowhouses and the commercial blocks of brick stores with apartments above.

I didn't have a Nintendo as a kid, and I did play outside (unsupervised!), but that was less Golden Era and more our economic tier.

So I don't know what the verdict on my family's vintageness would be.

 

[rue]

*bump

 

[LoveMyHats2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-lHrDPjGfQ&feature=related


Just a kiss to build a dream on....

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... I think I must've died of aggravation ... on August 27, 1962.

Did this do you in?

August 27, 1962 : The American space agency NASA launched the Mariner II space probe from Cape Canaveral. Mariner II flew past Venus 3½ months later, collecting radiometric temperature measurements and Interplanetary Magnetic Field measurements.

 

[Treetopflyer]

Not sure how I feel on the subject, but I was always told by people that I had an "old soul" when I was growing up. I am pretty sure I was the only ten year old watching Marx Brothers movies at my school. I saw this story a while back and thought that it was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCUjx4nI98

 

[rue]

Wow.... amazing story!

 

[Undertow]

What about people? Has anyone met someone for the first time and felt like you've known them for years? Have you met someone that you DON'T like for absolutely no logical reason. A lot of folks believe your drawn to past loves and friends who help you in life. I know I've run into people that I instantly know I will have a relationship with, now that is beyond strange to me.

Let me tell you - I've never felt like I was drawn to a past love until recently. It's a strange feeling; the kind that gives you tingles and causes you to look over your shoulder. You're instantly comfortable with them, instantly satisfied, instantly at home. Sure, there are the difficulties of the moment - life doesn't simply cease around you. Yet, you find yourself resuming a conversation with an old friend you'd just met.

Perhaps it's something a psychologist could attribute to some mania; or perhaps it's the Eternal Multiverse swinging two lives back together in harmony once more. I'd just as soon not go into details of my personal belief system on this forum, but suffice to say I've recently met someone who most definitely seems familiar.

 

[Tomasso]

Wow.... amazing story!

I'll say!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Very interesting indeed, the young man may have enough to write a book!

 

[Belladonna_dea]

So I've been reading through all of these after the title of the thread caught my eye because I always considered reincarnation as a possibility but never completely bought it. Then I started noticing many of you have the same era's you are magnetized too so too speak... They also happen to be the same times I love. I believe in energy, and vibes. There is a certain oneness a lot of these era's give off so it stands to logical reasoning that a similar person would be attracted to various era's that have something in common and of course find others who feel the same. Am I making sense? I have a similar story, early age I some how knew by heart old doo-wop songs. I feel like I know how it would 'feel' to live back then almost like I am remembering rather than imagining. I love the Victorian era and 20's 30's 40's 50's. (Not so much the 60s and 70s -then again metallic lipstick doesn't suit me) I also like France in the late 1700's. I am attracted to various places and era's but not era's in every place. I'm pretty specific. I've always had some weird thing about the Titanic, Bonnie and Clyde (later found out I was related distantly to Clyde) etc.... I've heard from a very early age we perceive and our sub conscious 'logs' information you sometimes only recall by feeling and some call it a sort of intuition. I think it could be the same for feelings of different era's. But not to come across as too scientific, I believe in spirituality and believe not everything can be explained. We are in a universe we are still discovering. Science is still discovering new types of life etc all the time. Anything is possible.
Hope this made sense. I've been busy thinking too much at school today.

 

[HadleyH]

Old soul, young souls, feel like you lived in the golden era and are just biding your time in the present? There's something to be said for all of this stuff. If you read up on reincarnation and old souls you'll find some interesting facts, facts that apply to many of us here I'm sure. There's a reason people are drawn to certain era's otherwise why wouldn't everyone just live in the present with little or no thought to the past? I've tried many times to break out of the feeling that I'm connected to the 20's-40's era and I keep getting pulled back in. "They" say that if your soul was happy in that time and you were suddenly killed or whatever your soul doesn't want to let go of the time frame you were happiest in. I've never been to Europe, but I also feel a connection there, maybe I died in the war eh? What cha all think?

Who knows, may be.

 

[shazzabanazza]

I believe it could be a possibility, one will never know... Anything is possible right?

 

[HadleyH]

I believe it could be a possibility, one will never know... Anything is possible right?

In one word and to be succinct, right.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

There have been so many researcher and individuals that try to give some rational explanation to things we do not fully understand. The "who" we are has to be some what connected in an energy way, to our thoughts and memories in our brains. How would anyone know if that energy came in part from the past and connected to the present in any one person? Unknown but maybe?

 

[shazzabanazza]

There have been so many researcher and individuals that try to give some rational explanation to things we do not fully understand. The "who" we are has to be some what connected in an energy way, to our thoughts and memories in our brains. How would anyone know if that energy came in part from the past and connected to the present in any one person? Unknown but maybe?

Definately maybe...

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Definately maybe...

I think also, it may explain why when at some points in time of your life, you can meet someone and sort of think or feel you have known them forever, you get along and find so much in common....?

 

[shazzabanazza]

^ could be the reason why we "gel" with certain people.... maybe we met in a past life?

 

[LoveMyHats2]

^ could be the reason why we "gel" with certain people.... maybe we met in a past life?

Could be, but I have also felt maybe we had something before our life as we define life?

It is a very deep thinking sort of thing but we know they say things can not be created or destroyed, (matter wise) but can change form. A basic Physics law. But what if what would be commonly labeled as our soul, existed before we become physical? If that be the case, two souls may have been able to exchange and form a sort of friendship, a "knowing" that would carry in some ways along with us in the course of our existence.

It is said in a few books I have read about how the mind works and why hypnosis works, that a part of our mind did not keep memories until some negative action made it take place. The example given is a new born baby, everything is O.K. with what the new born does, but then as things progress, the episode of "don't touch that pot or pan" starts to create a progress in the part of the brain to recall differently. A new memory starts. So we recall from that time forward. Yet hypnosis (so it is claimed) can reach back into the memory of pre birth. Who is to say what memories could have been from just the "soul" part of an existence?

How our minds can work is a fasinating topic. How we react to things we "feel" we may know, can have so many meanings of truth to it.

 

[shazzabanazza]

A very interesting theory indeed and something I am going to ponder. The mind is indeed a very fasinating topic