This reminds me of you vs This reminded me of you

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "This reminds me of you" is used in the present tense to express that something currently evokes thoughts of the person. On the other hand, "This reminded me of you" is used in the past tense to indicate that something in the past brought the person to mind.

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This reminds me of you

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use this phrase in the present tense when something currently evokes thoughts of the person.

Examples:

Seeing the sunset reminds me of you.
This song reminds me of you.
Your smile reminds me of you.
The smell of coffee reminds me of you.
This place reminds me of you.

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This reminds me of you
This reminds me of that movie Capricorn One.
This reminds me of a very specific part of the tape.
This reminds me of our senior prom.
This reminds me of the old days.
This reminds me of the book.
This reminds me of when we got married.
This reminds me of the fifth day of Kwanzaa.
This reminds me of... the highlight of my first military experience.
This reminds me of the summers of my youth.
Wait. This reminds me of something.
This reminds me of my grandmother's apartment.
This reminds me of north Korea.
This reminds me of north Korea.
This reminds me of my African sisters dancing around that fire.
This reminds me of Cinderella when the prince gave her his glass slipper.
This reminds me of a golden moment with my beloved, ruthless papa.
This reminds me of life on Earth.
This reminds me of what can happen with Lycanthropia.
This reminds me of the story of Cinderella.
This reminds me of freshman year.

Alternatives:

this makes me think of you
this brings you to mind
this makes me remember you
this is reminiscent of you
this is like you

This reminded me of you

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use this phrase in the past tense when something in the past brought the person to mind.

Examples:

That movie reminded me of you.
Her old letters reminded me of you.
The taste of that dish reminded me of you.
The sound of the waves reminded me of you.
The sight of the mountains reminded me of you.

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This reminded me of you
This reminded me of the scout.
This reminded me of another crochet story from another Italian earthquake, so it caught my attention.
This reminded me of clustering that we'd seen also in infectious epidemics, for example cholera.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with Alexander Ruperti at a British Astrological Association Conference around 1985.
This reminded me of sneaky reading after "lights out" when I was a kid.
This reminded me of our friend Austin
This reminded me of a blog post I did over two years ago that I thought might be worth re-visiting.
This reminded me of Oceana saying that the best way to help fish is to eat fish.
This reminded me of the warm embrace of the Lord when I had accepted the revelation of the secret at the price of persecutions.
This reminded me of the "reversed remediation", an artistic strategy that, in Saskia Korsten's words, "creates a state of critical awareness about how media shape one's perception of the world".
This reminded me of something I wrote about in an early interview about the project that was done over on the Moogly blog. I wanted to share that excerpt again here today.
This reminded me of one of the fundamental aspects of Mr Millán Mon's report, in which he recalled President Obama saying in Berlin that Europe was the most important strategic ally of the United States.
Intervention: This reminded me of the people in the Assembly; when we put agents of satan who harm us outside, after some time, they say we have put brothers outside.
A bit disconcerting at first, maybe, but in a nice way, this reminded me of...
Heart Love has a very strange attack, dark and mysterious (this reminded me of something, but I couldn't find it in my memory bank).
This reminded me of clustering that we'd seen also in infectious epidemics, for example cholera.
This reminded me constantly of the reason why I was there.
This newspaper reminded me of the other newspaper.
This valley reminded me of a painting of the Witches' Sabbath.
This woman reminded me of my first girlfriend, Anna-Marie.

Alternatives:

this made me think of you
this brought you to mind
this made me remember you
this was reminiscent of you
this was like you

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