Dic: take back// take someone back

─. take (someone) back: to cause (someone) to remember a time or event - usu. + to.

• This meal takes me back to [= it makes me remember] our vacation in Mexico.
• a song that takes you back to your childhood.

─. If you say that something takes you back, you mean that it reminds you of a period of your past life and makes you think about it again.

• I enjoyed experimenting with colours─it took me back to being five years old.
• This takes me back.

─. to remind one of the past; cause one to reminisce

• That tune really takes me back.

─. to make you remember a time in the past.

• Having the grandchildren around takes me back to days when my own children were small.

........ Merriam-Webster Learner's, Cobuild, Collins, LDOCE