Existential Dread: Can anyone else relate?

I've recently come across a reddit post that I relate with so hard. Here it is, copy pasted, along with the link if you're curious: Do certain songs/music give you existential dread? Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this question. I've been searching Google and the internet for people who feel the same way as me for a very long time and haven't had much luck. Anyways, you know that very strong feeling of existential dread you get when you think about things such as the universe, reality, existence, infinities, nothingness, death, dreams, etc.? The feeling is sometimes on different levels and sort of varies in feeling sometimes, but the feelings generally feel like they belong in the same category. It's almost like an unnamed emotion. I hope you know what I'm talking about at least. If you didn't, then my question I'm about to ask would be very hard to explain. Do certain songs/music give you this feeling? This feeling of existential dread/depression? I'll give some examples of songs that evoke these emotions to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wdvrykZ0Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRmyMVrx-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esmm5aVydo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNN0HyO3rM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx102NjYwqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNTwYzoFzck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wzmKr-tJx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqor8QXk7y0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3rvUNcueFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJViK0gvq0U It sort of feels like these are sounds that I've heard in a past life, or that I'm dreaming or something and these are sounds I've heard in my "real" life. Idk. It's very hard to describe the emotion. It almost feels like it's a mix of existential dread, depression, and nostalgia. It's a very terrible feeling, just listening to these songs makes me fall into the deepest pits of depression, but at the same time, it's what makes me love these types of songs so much. I also get this feeling from certain movies and anime, such as Neon Genesis Evangelion. It makes me feel an incredible emotional connection to these songs/shows. I wouldn't like them nearly as much if they didn't evoke these feelings from me. EDIT: This feeling is so fluid in the sense that it's sort of like a spectrum of different feelings, that sometimes feels more existential, sometimes feels more nostalgic, sometimes feels more depressing, and sometimes feels more dream-like. At least for me anyway. This is one of the reasons why this feeling is so hard to describe I think. I think that most people feel this emotion in some form or another. I think that everyone who's replied to this post have felt this feeling, but it just differs on the spectrum slightly from person to person and from experience to experience. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/6wxv7r/do_certain_songsmusic_give_you_existential_dread/ This hit way too close to home, so I went the user the following message: I stumbled across your post on "existential dread" on a youtube video actually, titled "5 Deeply Mysterious Reddit Posts That Still Remained Unsolved... (Part 2)". I just wanted to tell you that I relate to this so heavily... I'm a very nostalgic person to begin with, always looking back at the past and how good it felt to be youthful. And I came to a scary realization that I've been like this for a while now... I can honestly say that at 12-13 years old I was feeling nostalgic, and I consider my 12-13 year old self youthful, and I get nostalgic about those times too. So really, in my present time, an 18 year old attending university for the first year, will be considered a youthful time for my future self, so I'll always be nostalgic. And what you said about the feeling of emptiness, I've explored it very much. Rationally, heaven and hell doesn't make much sense, does it? So what happens when you die? What does nothingness feel like? It is an indescribable emotion because there's no way we could feel it. It's a realm that cannot be explored. A few months ago, I was in the saddest state of my life. Away from all my best buds at home, I wasn't in the mood to make newer friends, and I got pretty lonely. I did have friends, but they're incomparable to my older buds. I became friends with myself, I guess. Anyways, I went through the "existential dread" you described countless times. It started with some music, then certain anime. It's funny how you chose Evangelion, I'll admit I haven't watched it yet (I'll start it ASAP, though), but its counterpart, Darling in the Franxx gave me that depressed, empty feeling, SO FUCKING HARD. I couldn't even do my schoolwork. I wasn't myself. Still to this day, I feel a sort of emptiness, although I have been uplifted slightly since I've gotten a new PC. One last thing I want to say is that there's this song that hits me harder than anything else when it comes to those feelings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0MGRxm4VLM&t=1s Please give it a listen. If you ever want to talk about this crazy shit, message me back with your discord. I'm curious to know what kind of person you are. What are your guys' thoughts on this? I feel like as anime fans this could be very relatable.

I happened to listen to a podcast where people talks about existential dread on my way to the post office today...I also read a book about nothingness in Asian philosophy before.I was rather fond of the word nothingness or rather 虚无 in my native language. That feeling is fantastic to me.I feel I'm closest to Truth when I'm in the state of nothingness. Ah.I'm part of the universe, part of the universe is also in me~Peace,enlightenment,time and space.Eternity.Inspirations! "My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”

Not really. All it means is that only meaning from within truely exists and that choosing to wallow in the meaningless is itself meaningless. You are the keeper of your happiness so trying to shove that responsibility onto external factors will only lead to disappointment.