dream induced nostalgia

November 13th, 2026

I was born in 2006. I never had a DS or DSi growing up. Only a 3DS, which I got for Christmas in 2011, when I was 5. 

I had a dream that retconned this fact of my childhood, in which I found an old DSi my mom got for me. It’s weird because all the games I had on it weren’t DS games? Pokémon Crystal, Mother 3 (yes, in this dream it’d been released in the US. It was extremely rare though and my mom had made a note of it being a special game.) The one actual DS game I had was Kirby Super Star Ultra, which I do actually have. 

It was a nice dream which invoked this feeling of nostalgia for a time most people would argue I’m too young to remember. 

I’m really not, though. I grew up with both VHS tapes and DVDs. In terms of music it was mainly CDs, but I also remember cassettes and iTunes and stuff. A couple years ago my mom gave me her old iPod, and I can’t remember exactly how this story goes but from how I remember it she bought it the same day she learned was pregnant with me. I don’t know if she bought an iPod and a pregnancy test in the same shopping trip but that’s one hell of a combo. But yeah, all those things were all prevalent in my early childhood. I remember burning CD-Rs of my favorite songs and my parents playing them on my way to kindergarten. 

The first console I owned myself was the aforementioned 3DS but I remember as a young kid playing on a GameCube, Wii, PS3, and a GameBoy. 

It’s funny because when I got my 3DS for Christmas I got a pretty equal balance of DS and 3DS games. A lot of the DS games were weird licensed games, though. Puss in Boots, Thor, I think I got a Transformers one too. They don’t really make games like that anymore but it was fascinating how common movie tie-in games were in the 2000s. 

This brings me to another point; I hate when millennials and older Gen Z folk act like I’m not old enough to remember Blockbuster because I was born in 2006! My first Pokémon game was Pokémon Pearl, which I got in January 2012, I still have the Blockbuster sticker on it. I think my dad had bought it right as they were starting to go out of business, though. I do remember getting a lot of games from Blockbuster, so we were doing our best to keep them afloat even in their last days. 

This conversation reminds me. The Beatles’ compilation album “1” is 26 years old today. I wrote this comment on a post about it:

One of the CDs I have in my car, which used to be my mom's old car. She would play that CD all the time. I remember being like 12 or 13 hearing Eleanor Rigby and thinking "Holy crap this is the best thing l've ever heard." That made me fall in love with them and it's still my favorite Beatles song to this very day. Come Together and Ticket to Ride also stuck out to me as a kid. For some reason I hated the song Help though.

I also liked The Ballad of John and Yoko. I know that’s considered one of their weaker songs but I really don’t care, it holds a special place in my heart. 

I don’t care, I love all the “bad” Beatles songs.

I love you Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

I love you Revolution 9

I love you Yellow Submarine

I love you The Ballad of John and Yoko

I love you Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Much Love!!

Nora Meadow <3

Song of the Day: The Beatles - Get Back

This one is just great there's no two ways around it. Billy Preston is a goddamn genius.

14 days until Shinola Vol. 2