"Memories are a vision. You keep that vision, you remember that vision, and as long as you remember it, it will stay with you for life." - Mike Richards
Hello,
Have you ever had a vision of the years past? I always see the visions of my times at my old homes and also Christmases of the past.
Eldone Road was the first home I remember. I can still remember going downstairs into the basement to go play with toys or the Nintendo on the sony trinitron television. My brother hogged the television a lot with his game play.
Before my mom was primary enrichment director for the mornings, I always remembered her watching the afternoon news and Young and the Restless. I will never forget the day in 1991 when she got freaked out over what happened to Jack Abbot going through the trash compactor with his bloodied hand sticking out and she immediately called her mother about it.
I followed my mom around because she was freaking out about the ending. It was actually quite funny to be honest with you.
It was always fun to alternate days for pre-school and pre-kindergarten back in the day. My mom having on 98Rock or a CD playing in the CD player in the Vista (WBH 257) or the Oldsmobile (WSZ 001) that had the strangest dashboard. It was an interesting time nonetheless.
I mostly remember the times when we spent time with our neighbors' kids and also friends across the street from us. I remember going to my friend's house across the way and I remember the smell: Buttermilk. That's exactly what it smelled like. He did have some interesting toys nonetheless and odd friends.
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In 1991, I remember we were all eating calzones, and we wanted to go to our grandmother's pool... dad and mom agreed and we did just that...
I remember the water balloons we dropped from the deck on those hot summer days... 1990 and 1991 were warm, not really hot years.
The sights of the night sky...
The playground that my parents would never let me, sister, or brother go to because she had a fear that'd we fall and hurt ourselves...
That red... gummy like insect... on the ground... whatever it was...
The alleyway you could traverse down and nobody would really bother you.
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Then came the day we moved... our last day in the house was cereal on a box... we said our final good byes... it turned into a big party to be honest... never a time when there wasn't people around for a bit...
The day we built the deck..
The day we met the neighbors...
It was like yesterday...
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Do you people SEE where I am getting at?
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Christmases were always fun whether it was at our house.... or at my grandmother's... or stopping by everyone's house and saying hello.
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I remember the 7:30pm and 10:00pm Christmas Eve services that were had at St. Paul. Always fun.
After the 7:30pm service, there'd always be a nice little party with drinks, desserts, cookies, whatever your little heart desired.
At 10:00pm, it was always the ultimate candlelight service and always a time to listen to a rare humorous sermon from Pastor Morthole or Schafer. I won't forget the year that Pastor Schafer said: "Jesus, Mary, Joseph had the best lodgings and it wasn't even a Marriott!" Everyone laughed for a good 15-20 seconds.
At the end of night, it was time to light the candles and sing "Silent Night."
By the end of the service, we were spent, we went home, and it was time to go to bed.
With Christmas quietly approaching for the year 2022 and slowly but surely we are getting back to normal and that's one thing I can be really happy about.
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How do I still have these visions? I don't get it. It is just a thing or total recall? How do I still see these things that happened in the past? I'm still trying to figure that all out. It's pretty valuable to say the least and my mom always says: "HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THESE THINGS!?"
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Well here's something else I remember...
The first time my Uncle Jeff played Enya for my mother, it was 1993... I remember us watching the Enya music video tape... he wouldn't go any further than Caribbean Blue.
I also remember my dad, pop pop, and uncle watched this movie called, "The Abyss" and I always asked about it but my dad said that... it was a bit too scary for me and my siblings... My brother actually watched it once I believe.. not sure though.
I've been looking for this movie for quite sometime and I thought it was on Tubi at one point... apparently not...
I checked Netflix... Not there.
I think 29 years of waiting to watch this movie isn't an awful long wait. I remember the opening but Dad sent me out because he didn't think it was a good movie for me to watch. Yeah, them good ol' days of being young...
Metroid Dread actually took cues from the movie to develop the music for the area of Burenia (the water zone of the game).
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I know this is a strange blog but... I think this is how I developed the total recall process that I have. The visions just come back... as long as you possess that gift, you will never forget anything for as long as you live.
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