Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?

James and I talk more about music HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zU7PyUrdU
And EXTRAS here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzq_AFXxc4
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MUSIC BY:
James May (on piano on screen)
&
Jake Chudnow (not on screen): https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow
Feel some nostalgia:
http://upchucky.org/TimeMachine.htm
http://www.youtube.com/user/thepeterson
Origin of “nostalgia” links:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2010/02/beyond-deployment/ptsd-timeline/index.shtml
http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2010/12_10_2010/story4.htm
http://www.acrwebsite.org/search/view-conference-proceedings.aspx?Id=7580
“reminiscence bump”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence_bump
Lincoln poetry: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw325.html
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [NEWS ARTICLE]: http://bit.ly/TypCh5
Lincoln assassination eye-witness [WIKI]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour
Shall We Dance video with Lawrence Parsons: http://www.sciencenetworks.org/1524/shall-we-dance/
Other music+moving links:
http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071115/news_lz1c15brain.html
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/03.22/04-music.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/science/we-got-rhythm-the-mystery-is-how-and-why.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-dance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/dec/15/research-why-people-dance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(biomusicology)
Earworm links:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/questions/earworm.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/songs-stuck-in-head.htm
Ironic Process Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory
False memory paper: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/14/6/321.short
Longplayer: http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php
Compression wave .gif: http://dev.physicslab.org/img/a271d8b5-4233-40fe-8623-8c873664996d.gif
Great Alan Watts video animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbThJg6ehU
@gameplaybin4739
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I never realized James May was in this video. Bonkers
@JosefWhite
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
JAMES MAY I LOVE YOU
@KingKqvin
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I speak greek and i can confirm that it says nostalgos
@ryanpowell1428
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
When did James may get on vsauce what the heck 😂
@VanBourner
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
This is fucking weird. I am nostalgic for this video and Key of Awesome now. It's just… can I enjoy now as it happens and not reminisce about it in like 20 years ffs. What pains me the most is that teenage myself would hate me today but I do not even feel like I changed at all… but here I am, thinking about "the good old days" (when I was full of vigor and dedicated to make a difference) while working a corporate job (something I really dreaded as a teen I'll end up as – a corporate drone). I thought I'd be sad living this life but I am not. I am just sad that… I am probably no longer me. Or that definiton of me changed. I am dad now. I have to provide. I have to be a rolemodel, to rebel against or to follow, I don't really care as long as I am a good one. And I failed so many times trying to make a change that I ended up… content and happy. My younger self would call me a sell out and that "they got me". But I think I got myself finally. I think my younger self was a combination of naivety, main character syndrome and denial. And who would want to live changed by someone like that? Not me certainly.
@SunoGuy
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
JAMES MAY??!
@jesseseyebrow1968
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I'm 11 years late to a Michael and James may collab. I'm ashamed.
@aidenyt9747
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Because without it, this video wouldn’t feel 11 years old.
@RobinLyndon-h1u
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Davis Gary Jackson Sandra Anderson Carol
@PiersYves-k2z
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Walker Steven Taylor Gary Miller Brenda
@Phosphorescent-fox
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
This video is so nostalgic
@abelseguraalegria8930
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I always feel weird when someone tells me that they have a song stuck to their head, because I have never had a song stuck in my head. However, once I really really liked a song that was calming and not too loud so I played for like 2 days straight, every waking moment hearing that song. So when I finally stopped the song I began to hear the song even when it wasn't played and I remember that the weirdest thing was that I wasn't hearing the song inside my mind, I actually could hear the song outside of my mind, far from where I was, since I liked the song it was okay but it was creepy to experience
@STTP69
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
When he said James may I was like there is only one James may it couldn’t but be but holy crap it is
@Azslin
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
No way bro just reminded me of the game 11 years in the past
@sammymcsamerson2865
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I was NOT expecting Micheal to make me lose the game😮💨
@johnbiknobarrington1403
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
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@SmedleyRudolf-w4k
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
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@jocelyncharlson8844
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Lopez Linda Miller Donald Garcia Maria
@NeginMousavi-f3b
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
This video is so chaotic and brings random subjects
@jacquelineflatcher1148
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Lewis Joseph Taylor Brian Gonzalez Paul
@MaudBoyd-p8y
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Hernandez Sandra Hernandez Shirley Miller Susan
@FastGunner2040
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
"If you grew up in the 80s, and by that I mean the 1680s"
@stainfulsteel
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
thanks micheal, you made me lose the game. and now i'll lose it again because i'll think about when i lost the game.
@SophyHarlan-l6s
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
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@Samantha-vlly
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
Currently, I’m in a state when thinking about the past where it feels like a ear worm for me, I’m not hating nor rejecting it.
@Samantha-vlly
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
10:20
All music used in TikTok.
@ethanrutherford8412
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 am
I was NOT expecting James may to appear lol