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How do I recapture my sense of childhood wonder? You know that amazing feeling that anything was possible when reading?

What books do that?

>> No.4926727

stop reading the same books you did when you were a child

>> No.4926731

>>4926713
read tolstoy

>> No.4926736

>>4926727
This guy's lying, pick up some Verne, Milne and Kipling.

>> No.4926747

>>4926736
None. You peak at ten and it's all downhill from there. Later on when your mind deteriorates you'll be able to lie to yourself and think you're happy, and other people might fall for the lie if they weren't lying to themselves too.

It never comes back.

>> No.4926755

>>4926747
You know when you were a child, and any shitty fantasy book was good because it was as real as reality? I want that. It turns out reading shitty fantasy does not get me there.

>> No.4926762

>>4926736
This guy's old as fuck and doesn't realize that OP read Goosebumps as a child

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>>4926762
OP here.
I read pic related as a child.

>> No.4926775

>>4926768
Holy shit, wow, way to make recollect my childhood. I remember wanting to read this because the cover piqued my interest as a child. I forget what it is about, though.

>> No.4926788

>>4926775
it's about the forests of silence m8

>> No.4926794

>>4926775
>>4926788
That, and it was actually a whole series.

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Read this whole series. Have never revisited them as adult. Maybe one day.

>> No.4927079

Grow the fuck up and stop romanticizing ignorance

>> No.4927090

>>4926747
This is true yet sad. That childhood feeling never comes back. I remember going to Busch gardens theme park and feeling like I was in another world, like seriously. Now I go and its clearly just like concrete and decoration. And music used to make me jizz myself. When I first found pink Floyd I would cry, now. Weed helps but still not the same.

>> No.4927109

>>4926713
OP, you are looking for Perdido Street Station.

This is what you want. I understand your desire.

>> No.4927115

>>4927090
I have that exact same Busch Gardens feel.

I just want shit to be magical again. All pot does is make me miss it even more because I feel like it's right there but I'll never feel it again anyway.

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>> No.4927121

>>4927115
I've been getting that feeling everytime i smoke pot recently. Nostalgia is such a shitty feeling.

>> No.4927123

>>4927109
This is the correct answer.
>tfw can't wait to get home to my book

>> No.4927140

>>4926713
100 Years of Solitude my nigga

>> No.4927147

>>4927115
>>4927090
>>4927121
psychedelics

>> No.4927149

It's a choice.

It's also something you must practice.

See the beauty in yourself. When you do this, then you must learn to see it in every person. When you see the beauty in every person then you will see it in all things.

You get to experience brand new things every moment of your life. Nothing is ever old or stale, muted or obscure. See how vivid everything around you is, friend. So much is going on and you are a part of it.

>> No.4927153

>>4926713
"The Ocean at the end of the lane"

Recently finished it, reminded me what it was like to be a child again. Recaptured that sense of wonder, when the world was large and magical.

>> No.4927157

>>4926713
>How do I recapture my sense of childhood wonder?

Forget about the concept of "smart", "intelligent", "patrician", etc.

>> No.4927162

>>4926713
Lobotomy?

Otherwise, pretty hard to forget who you are now.

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>>4927149
I like this

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>>4927149
This

>> No.4927282

>>4926713
What I like to call "the will to innocence" is pretty pathetic in my opinion. It's just a desire to escape the burdens of the day rather than learning to develop the strength to deal with them. It is fatal mischaracterization of reality in which childhood is the god and everything that comes after is just a bad aftertaste. Grow the fuck up OP.

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>>4927282

>> No.4927303

>Meditate
>Meditate the fuck out of yourself
>Seriously, start doing it now

>> No.4927309

redread some of your favorite books from grade school

>> No.4927315

>>4927286
>without any milk
Well I'm impressed.

>> No.4927327

>>4926713
But your conceptual understanding of things was probably plain bad when you are a kid, you probably don't even know what you were reading. Why woudn't you want to go back to that? You developed an attention disorder because of the Internet?

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>>4927147
This
Nothing has helped bring back that sense of wonder back into my daily life life shrooms and acid.
Weed just made me apathetic

>> No.4927351

>>4927286
This, OP.

>> No.4927368

>>4926713
Read something you identify your childhood with. I don't know, reread the Harry Potter saga, Artemis Fowl, Beagle's Last Unicorn or even the Little Prince and try to feel the same you felt the first time you read those.

>> No.4927376

>>4926713
Definitly Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I dont know how good the traduction is, as read it in french, but its a great book.

>> No.4927413

>>4927149
Yes, you need to get into the right mindset.

Just take the time to appreciate whats around you and let it fascinate you.

Example : when you go outside, look at the sky and appreciate the immensity.

Also, consume a lot of art. Especially stuff that is new to you.

>> No.4928443

>>4927303
teach me how to meditate. Im not flexible enough so I'm always uncomfortable on the floor.

>> No.4928464

you should try this great book called shrooms OP

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>>4926747
>>4926755
>>4927079
>>4927162


children are godtier metaphorical thinkers who are encouraged :(sadly enough): to become descriptive thinkers waaay to early

It (metaphorical thinking and sense of curiosity/ignorance) came back for newton descartes freud einstein joyce vico plato godel escher bach cage jung mcluhan pynchon stravinsky messiaen dante siddartha nash michelangelo gould shakespeare lucretius horowitz ovid (and everyone else that didn't deny the power of curiosity, i.e., anyone who embodies the spirit of ignorance and creates to discover)

Pokemon always reminds us of childhood not simply because it gave us a fantasy; it was because it gave us an environment in which we felt freedom and in which we felt like we ourselves were creating our own lifes: that's why finally catching all pokémons is both the dream and the biggest disillusionment. It's the means to that end (the journey, playtime) that matters and not the end itself
What we call "play" is not merely creating fantasies: it's when "kids" are able to recreate their perception of reality through objects (this case toys), That's genius and that's what those we call "scientifical/artistical/spiritual/anythingal geniuses" do. they play.