Anyone else feel a strong affinity with a certain time/period?

[Teddy1970]

I know it sounds odd/woo but ever since I've been a child I've felt really at home in Georgian properties, I don't live in one mores the pity but when I enter one I have such a strong feeling of being at home if that makes sense? I don't get it with any other period of house, Victorian, Tudor etc, sometimes I think I'm a bit odd, but the pull towards the Georgian era is very strong. We went to a Georgian stately home last summer and I didn't want to leave, I almost felt relieved to be there. Ok I'm probably mad I know!

Yes! I feel so at home in small towns. Ugly little towns. And bakeries. But not the artisan trendy hippy ones, more like the working bakeries, where they make the dough and bake bread. So yeah, I was a baker in a ugly town somewhere cold& ugly

Yes I've always felt as though I belonged more to the 18th or 19th century but couldn't really pin point an era. I always feel very at home in really old parts of towns, or old properties, as though the style is very familiar.

1930s almost an obsession with ww2, weird I know.

Victorian times for me!

Sometimes I think I would have loved the twenties and thirties but then i remember there were no antibiotics, contraception was poor and houses were cold, never mind WW2 looming.

Yep. I fell in front of a steam train as a little girl and died. I even know what I was wearing. I'm about 6/7 years old.

I still have to stand at the back of the platform on tube/train platforms in case I fall and die.

(I don't even believe in reincarnation 🤷‍♀️)

The French Revolution, and late 20s/ early 30s England. I've been fascinated by the French Revolution since I was very young. My first job involved working spending time in France and it felt very natural to be there and very natural to speak French. I didn't go to Paris until my son was 7 and I found myself sitting near the Place de la Concorde and telling him about what it was like when it was the Place de la Revolution. He still says it's the only history lesson he ever remembered because the description was so vivid. The 20s/30s thing is more recent and it seems to be centered around the South Downs (not an area I know) Despite that I feel I "know" it somehow

San Francisco 1960s for me. The clothes, the music, the city

I realise this is a zombie thread but found it very interesting. Early 1970s for me, and before that, a big ocean liner in a very cold place.

Hawaii for me. Never been. Know very little about it but I have a very strong feeling of belonging

Yes it’s fascinating.. and early 1970s for me too! I feel like I have dreams set in the 1970s too occasionally.

Tudors here… particularly Boleyn sisters.

@beltanelove I have the same (dreams)!!!

Tudor period. Still rooms harpsichords and man y facets of this era hold a fascination.

Not so much a time period but New York - and especially South Street Seaport area. I'd never seen photos of it and when I went for the first time at 16 to stay with family friends I got a distinct feeling I'd been there before, it had been in my dreams etc.

I had no idea New York was a harbour/surrounded by water etc.

Tudor for me too, but specifically the city of London, Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark. Other Tudor hotspots just don't do it but I feel like I've come home as soon as I set foot in that part of London. Really weird.

Has anyone done past life regression?

@spacefrog35 - I've worked and socialised (went clubbing) around all those places you state including Southwark but not really felt an affinity with any of them! I do have strange vibes/feelings in Fleet Street (one particular pub) but that's probably because the pub is so old and I was also on a ghost walk!

@thesunwillout

Early 1960's. I've always thought I was in the wrong era. I want to be my parents age, so born just after the war.

I was the same as a teenager - I listened mostly to 60s music, had Beatles posters on my wall, black and white geometric dresses, old copies of 60s teen magazines, a record player, a bobbed haircut, watched 60s TV shows and films whenever they were on - my parents, who actually were teenagers in that time, must have thought I was mad. I even had a 1963 calendar on my shelf.

I am not so into the 60s now!

@spacefrog35

Tudor for me too, but specifically the city of London, Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark. Other Tudor hotspots just don't do it but I feel like I've come home as soon as I set foot in that part of London. Really weird.

I could have written this. Exactly the same. It's the only place I ever feel properly myself and at home.

What is this to do with the unexplained? So what if people like Georgian houses or 50s or 60s music?

New York, I feel strangely homesick when I see it on films and tv but I've never been there (in this life anyway!)

C17th for me, but not for any woo reason, I grew up doing English civil war reenactment so it's always been a big part of my life!

Not a time period but a different country for me. It’s a country that I have no known connection with at all, and had no real interest in visiting before I had to for work. I’ve been back a few times out of choice since my first visit, and it feels like going home every time with a strong sense of belonging. It’s like a weight I didn’t know existed is lifted off my shoulders. Weird, but I like it.

As well as Beamish, there are immersive museums in Dudley at the Black Country Living Museum ( peaky blinders) and Blists Hill at Ironbridge. They are all different eras but all brilliant

The turn of the 20th century/Edwardian era. Whenever I watch period dramas set in that period, or I visit somewhere that's set up like that, I get a physical twinge of pain and such strong nostalgia/deja vu.