Why I Am Homesick For A Place I've Never Been?

[Irishjack]

I find that sometimes I think about a place that's feels like home but never been there.

[Quintessence]

I know the feeling. For me, that place is Egypt. I've never been there, but I've always been drawn there for some reason. I can't explain it--even before I knew anything of Egyptian history and culture--I've always felt this urge to go there. The thought of going there and walking amongst the sands just fills me with this bittersweet sense of longing, stronger than the feelings evoked by my fondest childhood memories. I'd call it nostalgia, but how can you be nostalgic for something you've never experienced before?

[Irishjack]

Yeah I wonder too.. It's a feeling sometimes I can't put into words... on a lighter note I have been to Egypt and visited the pyramids it's a place that your mind blowing. I hope you make that trip for yourself someday. When things are more peaceful.

[Quintessence]

I bet it is. So much of human history has been enveloped in those sands, not the least of which is the rise and fall of one of the oldest and most mysterious civilizations known to us. Just thinking about it makes me so... homesick, as you put it.
What place is it for you that makes you feel this way, if you don't mind me asking?

[Irishjack]

Not at all ask away😁 My place is Plitvice lakes in Croatia, it's a place where lakes formed after the last ice age. It shows how pure the earth was. They say it's a sensory wonderland. Would love swim in the healing waters of the lakes. Look it up it's breath taking like when you see the pryramids and launches you to another time.

[Quintessence]

Ah, yes, I've heard of those lakes. That place looks like a slice of paradise... so pure and lush. The best of nature.
I think you might also like the Seven Rila Lakes in Bulgaria. I've been there a couple of times, and every time I've gone there, it's like a sensory overload... but in a cool, calming way, if that makes sense. It's called a holy place, and if you go there you can see (and feel) why. It's very serene. You can almost taste how clean the air is.

[Irishjack]

It's like Tír na nÓg. It's great to be able to visit a place like that. Between nature and early man things are at there purest form. It's funny when you said about almost taste how clean the air is, when I first went to jump school the air at 16,000ft is so clean and the blue sky seems to be endless.

[Quintessence]

Whoa. That's quite the fall... you would've been in the air for quite some time (assuming you were with a parachute, otherwise it's less than a minute XD)... Wasn't it a bit difficult to breathe, though? I've always wanted to go skydiving at high altitudes, but I'm scared that I'll end up suffocating in that thin air.

[Irishjack]

At that height it's still okay, it's when you move to the 35,000ft, we spend about 20-30 mins rapid breathing to raise the oxygen level in the blood and have a O2 bottle and mask to assist with breathing with the fall. But you would be fine at the normal height of 11,000 for a civilian jump. It's quite a rush to feel but I think you would really enjoy it.

[amel23]

I'm home sick for space I have always dreamt of going there at night I look at the stars and I know I belong there but the closest I can get to it on this planet is the north pole I would spend a whole night watching stars and get a glimpse of aurora borealis

[ccfighta76]

Its ur soul searching for answers

[ccfighta76]

Thanks for the mhg!

[Gypsy_x]

There's a word for it in German: fernweh.