This is most distinct (to myself) while listening to video game music (outside of the gaming context), and I always end up reminiscing about how I felt once. I still enjoy listening to them, but I'm not sure I'm feeling the same sort of feelings that I felt originally, even though reminiscence has developed its own gradual feelings (there was once a point when I could barely feel anything while listening to them (due to a breakdown), even though a few months before that I could still fully indulge in video games like I had done for a few years, at that point... so, over the years it did obviously change, and the line while listening to music specifically is becoming blurred now, but I still have this doubt).
I also get these spontaneous recollections somehow (that are obviously related to memory), which I think arise out of some similar element present during these other instances, and I end up 'feeling' like I felt at that point in the past (although, as these are recollections it is indeed much more likely that I'm simply remembering how I felt in those instances, along with the specific environment; memory is, after all, linked deeply with emotions).
28 Dec 2012, 8:59 am
