What's your internet "white whale", something you've been searching for years to find with no luck?

When I was really young I had a few movies that I would watch all of the time, sometimes all in a row. Among them were Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Nightmare Before Christmas, and there was at least one more. That last movie was the scary one. I remember it being really scary.

For whatever reason I forgot about this movie. I really can't possibly understand why.

The main thing I remembered about the movie was that there was smoke, smoking, and smoke that like, killed people. And that the movie was like a dream, and had good music.

Later on in life, I fell in love with another movie, about a fish that gets lost. Really great movie.

Little did I know they shared the same name.

For one reason or another I realized that Little Nemo was the movie I had forgotten. To this day I haven't actually gone back and watched the movie, but I remember the entire movie now after finding the title.

Looking up the movie now online it seems to have a very small presence, but because I forgot this movie it holds some odd place in my life. It's one of the only things that I can remember having forgotten, in my entire life (though I guess, I couldn't know everything I've forgotten, right? lol) and it just happened to be one of the few movies I held most dear. The movie, the forgetting, the feelings the movie left in me that I couldn't quite process or realize, and then later finding the movie.

It's an experience that I hopefully won't forget. I know it's not the best post for this thread, because I did end up finding it, but I really hope that everyone asking about things they've lost in this thread feel similarly about their experiences.

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