Born at the wrong time?

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Strangely I have always felt, that I had experienced growing up in a different decade. When I was younger, I would sometimes experience some type of a flash back every now and then. I have asked my parents if certain recounted events have actually happened to me and they have dismissed most of them.

But if this is the case, it is great to know this part of my former life has been integrated into my current one.

I know plenty of people probably will roll their eyes at this whole thing, and I can understand the skepticism surely.....but man I know precisely what you're talking about, because I've encountered the same thing personally! I've had certain "flashbacks" and memories of things that were before my time and I've asked my parents about it, if there's any way these were things I'd seen or heard at an extremely early age and just don't remember, and they have no idea. I've never bothered to put too much thought into the whole thing because it seems crazy but really, who the heck knows??

I think it's pretty cool that you're interested in the 1960s/1970s, it's not a bad thing to be able to appreciate what came before and find inspiration and fun in it all. Welcome aboard!

[Mark]

No. I was thinking younger, like 6 or 7.

Strangely I have always felt, that I had experienced growing up in a different decade. When I was younger, I would sometimes experience some type of a flash back every now and then. I have asked my parents if certain recounted events have actually happened to me and they have dismissed most of them.

But if this is the case, it is great to know this part of my former life has been integrated into my current one.

[Joe90]

Overdose at the Disco?

No. I was thinking younger, like 6 or 7.

[Mark]

Welcome Mark. The 70's and early 80's even were a great time to be kid. I was born in '71 so I got best of both was just the right age bracket when original trilogy merchandise was first released. That said enjoy being 22 and and the good years ahead. As many here will testify it seems to end all too soon.

I would do anything to be able to have grown up in the 70's. It's to great to be young, but as you said it doesn't last for too long.

[VintageMike]

Welcome Mark. The 70's and early 80's even were a great time to be kid. I was born in '71 so I got best of both was just the right age bracket when original trilogy merchandise was first released. That said enjoy being 22 and and the good years ahead. As many here will testify it seems to end all too soon.

[Mark]

Welcome aboard Mark, glad to hear that you are so attracted to this time, the 70s. I was extremely lucky to have grown up in this time and I do go back there mentally on a daily basis. Things were different then, we spent a lot of time outdoors building forts, riding our bikes without helmets, burning models with lighter fluid(not sure why but fun nonetheless) burning things with a magnifying glass, playing in the park, playing tag.......I can go on and on with smile writing everything.

As for your fascination with the 60s and 70s, I do understand as I am extremely fascinated with 60s movement, hippies, the Vietnam war, the corrupted President Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King and everything that made the 60s what it was. Although I only spent 2 years in the 60s the thing I was most fascinated with was Woodstock and felt the strongest attraction at a very early age, to this magical weekend that changed many lives. I went to the original site in Bethel New York last year when they celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock festival, there were many people there, many had not been back since 1969. They shared their stories with me, we sang old songs together at the monument, I heard stories from people that weekend that unless you were there, you could not have known, it was very touching. Some people were crying and sharing their stories about that weekend on how that weekend changed their lives. I was so at home with this place and these people, I am very glad I went.

I was born, raised and reside in Canada, why at such a young age was I fascinated with issues in the United States?

If I was alive, I would have been there. One of the greatest concerts ever staged in my personal opinion.

[Mark]

Maybe you're a transmigrated soul who died prematurely in the 1970's.
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Just throwing it out there...

I have always had a feeling like that.

[Gorn Captain]

This is a good time for 70s collectors.
I mean, as a kid, I would have given my right arm for Star Trek phasers, a 12inch BSG Cylon,....
Now all of that is here!

[littlewink]

Welcome aboard Mark, glad to hear that you are so attracted to this time, the 70s. I was extremely lucky to have grown up in this time and I do go back there mentally on a daily basis. Things were different then, we spent a lot of time outdoors building forts, riding our bikes without helmets, burning models with lighter fluid(not sure why but fun nonetheless) burning things with a magnifying glass, playing in the park, playing tag.......I can go on and on with smile writing everything.

As for your fascination with the 60s and 70s, I do understand as I am extremely fascinated with 60s movement, hippies, the Vietnam war, the corrupted President Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King and everything that made the 60s what it was. Although I only spent 2 years in the 60s the thing I was most fascinated with was Woodstock and felt the strongest attraction at a very early age, to this magical weekend that changed many lives. I went to the original site in Bethel New York last year when they celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock festival, there were many people there, many had not been back since 1969. They shared their stories with me, we sang old songs together at the monument, I heard stories from people that weekend that unless you were there, you could not have known, it was very touching. Some people were crying and sharing their stories about that weekend on how that weekend changed their lives. I was so at home with this place and these people, I am very glad I went.

I was born, raised and reside in Canada, why at such a young age was I fascinated with issues in the United States?

[david_b]

Welcome, welcome, welcome..!!

I would have liked to have been born a few years earlier, just to have experienced more of the Beatles and the Apollo program (I remember the MLK and RFK funerals as my earliest recollections), and more of the Captain Action line when it was active, but I consider my life very fortunate.

david_b

david_b

[mazinz]

Maybe you're a transmigrated soul who died prematurely in the 1970's.
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Just throwing it out there...

Overdose at the Disco?

Welcome aboard and do not be afraid to ask about non Mego items from this time (or any time really)

[Joe90]

Wee67,

I am not really sure? I have just been like this my whole life, I have always just had a strong attraction to this decade.

Maybe you're a transmigrated soul who died prematurely in the 1970's.
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Just throwing it out there...

[Mark]

Wee67,

I am not really sure? I have just been like this my whole life, I have always just had a strong attraction to this decade.

[Wee67]

Oh, and welcome aboard. 22, huh? You really are time-shifted. Can you say what is it about the 70's you find attractive?

[Meule]

Welcome aboard Mark