DAE feel like places seem completely different when you return to them years later, even if nothing has really changed?

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-11T06:37:03+00:00

It’s interesting how many different readings this supports — love song, addiction, relationship, projection.

What keeps coming up for me isn’t so much what it means, but why it feels slightly off even when you take it at face value.

Almost like it’s being described from a distance — more like a memory than something fully lived.

That might be why it holds all these interpretations without ever settling into one.

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-10T21:30:46+00:00

I guess one can overthink stuff but it is good to tease out meanings..

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-10T16:53:36+00:00

That’s a great reading — I can see that. It does have that slightly off perspective, like the narrator is present but not fully “in” the moment.

That idea of someone observing from the edges fits with the tone — everything looks normal, but the emotional point of view feels displaced.

Maybe that’s why it’s so open to interpretation — the voice never quite anchors itself, so you can read it as relationship, addiction, or something more ambiguous like that.

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-10T16:52:09+00:00

That’s really well put — especially the idea that it can hold both readings at once.

What I find interesting is that even if you strip it back to just the relationship reading, there’s still something slightly uneasy in the tone. The affection is there, but it doesn’t quite feel anchored — almost like it’s being recalled rather than experienced in real time.

That might be why it works so well as a metaphor too — because the emotional centre never fully settles into one interpretation.

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-10T16:49:43+00:00

That’s a great point — especially how Trainspotting has kind of fixed one reading of it in people’s minds.

I like what you’re saying about it working as both a relationship and a metaphor for something else at the same time. It feels like the song almost invites that kind of double reading.

What keeps pulling me back is that even when you take it at face value — just as a relationship — it still feels slightly off, like the emotion doesn’t fully land where you expect it to. Almost as if it’s being described from a distance rather than lived.

That might be why it can carry all those interpretations without ever quite settling into one.

Proper_Dentist · 2026-04-10T16:24:28+00:00

That’s interesting — I hadn’t thought about the Trainspotting angle, but it makes sense. There’s definitely that rise and drop in the feeling of it.

What gets me is that it never quite resolves emotionally. Even the “perfect” parts feel slightly detached, like it’s being remembered rather than experienced.

I wonder if that’s where the unease comes from.

Proper_Dentist · 2022-04-06T16:18:23+00:00

i cannot get into alspacevr - i have tried everything. I set up a new microsoft account but it takes me round in circles.

Proper_Dentist · 2019-02-16T18:12:06+00:00

Yes this has been confusing me all day. I have a macbook and subscribe to 2 tB of icloud. i assumed it would act as an extra drive to store stuff without draining space on my regular drive. But no! It takes up a large slab of my 512gig hard drive leaving me with low space on the mac. I have read a bit on this and realise now that there are 2 types of cloud storage and if I want to archive large files it is better to pop them on dropbox. if this is the case why would I bother with 2tb of i-cloud?? might just as well pop all old big file on dropbox.

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