List: Things That Very Specifically Blew My Mind (Slightly Redacted)

1. Concept of Asteroids
2. Concept of Heaven
4. "Star Wars" (in theater)
5. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (VHS)
6. Hyperspace
7. The Neutron Bomb
8. Concept of Nothing
9. Concept of Infinity
10. DNA (understood as instructions for growth of the body)
11. Mutual Funds
12. "Cosmos" (specific episode unknown)
13. The Molecule
14. "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" (specifically "A Day in the Life")
15. 1986 World Series (specifically game 6)
16. Adventure Construction Set
17. Flatland (concept, not the novella)
19. Time Expressed as a Dimension
21. "A Clockwork Orange" (film)
22. QuickTime
23. NCSA Mosaic
25. The Evolutionary Origin of Whales
27. DNA (again, but more generally organic chemistry this time)
28. "An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding"
30. September 11th
31. The Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Presented in order of occurrence.