Imagine waking up in the 80s

Hey everyone imagine you woke up in 1986 in summer. You wake up and a nice relaxing 80s song is playing through your Sony radio cassette player. The beautiful yellow sun has filled the room. And you wake realising you live in the 80s a golden age for western civilization you realise that all the crazy stuff happening in 2025 was all a big crazy dream. So you wake up joyful ready to go for a walk. You leave your apartment and walk down the stairs which are clean and fresh smelling. Out on the street there are children playing with a ball. There is 2 men standing on a street corner smoking reefer. And a couple sit on a bench and talk. Interestingly every one looks very healthy and fit. There isn't an obese person or a drug addict in sight. The roads are newly paved and well maintained. Tower blocks built in the 60s and 70s litter the skyline. Pubs are busy and crowded and people are socialising and smiling. You walk down the street and a young man greets you and asks how you are? It's a lovely day! You wonder if you are dreaming as everything seems so alien.

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  • Strikes me as a rather romantic view of the 80s. I was in Durham in the early 80s – the mines were closing, unemployment in the pit villages was soaring, the roads near me were a mess, drug addicts could be spotted if you kept your eyes open. Oh and the Falklands War – and one of my (British) students had cousins in the Argentinian army, which made for some fairly intense counselling sessions!

  • Well well that's a smashing account of events there WHSmith! I'm talking about the 80s that lives in my head. We are like entering cyberpunk times now in 2025 I hate to think what world will be like in 2035 haha

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