What is your earliest memory?

[Eager Snake]

In my case, this kind of things. I'm still working on it, but this is just a teaser:

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[kikie]

Say something valid or gtfo.



Where's the link for this similar thread that you speak of?

Make me.



As I said, I can't find it. I'm not even sure that there is such a thread. It's just a vague memory.


Getting a shot for something. A few memories when I was in pre-school kindergarten. E.g.: smelling at a chair because a very stinky child sat on it moments before I had to sit on this chair. Locking a teacher into a closet.

My very first and I believe my only bloody nose when I ran into a tree during playtime in pre-school kindergarten.

 

[Slash]

Are you talking about things that didn't happen but you thought it did because you imagined/pictured it in your mind when your parents tells you stories about it? I think that's what most people here are remembering when they say they remember stuff from their childhood because I can't remember anything. Even the things I think I remember might just be made up by my imagination from watching movies, playing video games, day dreaming. I think that's also how deja vus happen.

Some things yes, but what I listed was entirely from my memory and had no relation to what they have said.

 

[Doog]

Okay.

I remember when I was but a little wiggly sperm.

Remember being a zygote? Those we the good 'ol days.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Are people really turning such a simple thread into a pissing contest? No, you don't remember being born.

The earliest clear memory I have is my mom trying to feed my sister chocolate cake for her first birthday. It's apparently a tradition, and it'd make me a month away from being three years old. Everything else is likely some stories from parents being mixed with imagination.

 

[Sage Ages]

Do past lives count?

 

[Slash]

No, you don't remember being born.

How can you be so sure though?

 

[kikie]

Do past lives count?

I asked the same question and I was asked very politely, by the TS, to gtfo.

 

[Sage Ages]

Now: I had a toy dump truck when I was 2. I remember playing with it.

Past lives: I can remember certain places for some reason.

 

[Dean]

Eh, I think the earliest memory I've got, is back when I broke smashed a window in kindergarten, with a stone. I don't recall why, but I recall did it. It's either that or some trip to a forest, also in kindergarten.

 

[kikie]

Now: I had a toy dump truck when I was 2. I remember playing with it.

Past lives: I can remember certain places for some reason.

You're not the only one.

But are these memories really past life memories? One can never be 100% sure about that. Reincarnation has never been proven. I personally do believe it's possible or should I say, real.

 

[Sage Ages]

Hey, you'll never know.

Some people can vaguely remember certain things. Others can spontaneously recognize random people they've never met.

 

[NLxAROSA]

I don't exactly believe in that, as I have correct memories (as confirmed by parents) from a young age that the article you linked seems to pass off as childhood amnesia. <snip> This was also before I was a year old. I'd say it's quite possible.

As the article, and others, explain, that is quite possible, because you develop that capability between 3-6 months old. So yes, you can remember things from very young age, but no, you can not remember being born.

 

[Slash]

As the article, and others, explain, that is quite possible, because you develop that capability between 3-6 months old. So yes, you can remember things from very young age, but no, you can not remember being born.

Can you explain why this fake memory is so vivid then? Because I have always been under the impression that is how it happened. I remember wayyyyy too much stuff from when I was little. In extreme detail too. I the point of being able to remember shredding up paper and putting it in some little night light thing I had, playing with matchbox cars on te steps in my house with my baby blankets down etc.

I can't tell you how much I remember. Too much lol

 

[Liquid]

It is possible that seeing old photographs jogs the early memory. Quite vividly.

 

[BobK]

My earliest memory?

I vaguely recall what I had for dinner last night.

LOL, that sounds like me, too often.

 

[Bopop4]

I can't remember.

 

[motortrend]

It's not just photographs, it's memories you've been told by others as well, then you forget that they told you and you didn't actually remember, now you only have a memory through their eyes. The only way to confirm this memory is if no one has reminded you of it in any way before, which is quite hard to confirm. That is why I think that we cannot really know with certainty if these old memories are how we actually recall them being.

 

[photonrider]

Well . . . first there was this warm, cozy feeling, and everything was all tickety boo and stuff . . . and then like a heavy weight pushing, and a lot of screaming, and yelling, and there was this awesome long dark tunnel, and then a huge burst of light - I couldn't see a thing! I couldn't even breathe! Someone slapped me or something and I started yelling, too.
Pretty traumatising experience.
Thankfully the entire memory was wiped, or stashed in some RAM somewhere. I wouldn't be able to live with that thing in my head.

Earliest sensual perceptions I can recall would be around maybe two years old, and the picture of a chair, upon whose rattan seat I had placed a large square of chocolate cake; I remember bending under the seat to see the strands and gobs of cake dripping through the holes in the rattan as I mushed the cake down to see whether it would go through the seat.
I also remember how mad I got when I was lifted suddenly and taken away, with the sound of laughter (and that bloody screaming again.)

 

[Jared93]

My earliest memory of this life or from previous lifes? Does that count also?

I really want to hear this

Explain your memories from a past life.

 

[Slash]

It is possible that seeing old photographs jogs the early memory. Quite vividly.

In some cases that has happened. But I can't quite explain at least what I think I saw. Ah well.

 

[Kent]

In order from earliest to latest:

1. About a year old, played my first game. Gran Turismo, of course.

Suddenly I am feeling very old.

My oldest memory...
Too long ago, can't remember.

 

[Pupik]

How can you be so sure though?

The problem is, how would you even form those memories in the first place? You don't see in full color, full focus, are a screaming animal with very basic needs that require constant maintenance, and then you're sleeping. You have no words for anything, and you haven't built a vocabulary yet. Simply put, your mind is a brand new hard drive, and you're a computer without an operating system.

Many of us have seen photographs of the places we lived in, during the times we were first alive (for one, that's when parents take lots of photos/videos). You're blurring the images with how you grew up and retroactively applying them to your memory, which is actually rather natural. Kids are fascinated with their origins and figuring out cause and effect...although that's not to say this interest goes away for most folks!

Usually, there's no real concrete memories of time, space, senses, awareness formed together at an exact moment to form a "memory" until you're about 24 months old (give or take).

I remember a few vague memories of being two years old, this play room, that sandbox, the kitchen, living room, but I couldn't tell you much more about why I was there, other than "it must have been home".

 

[kikie]

I really want to hear this

Explain your memories from a past life.

Maybe I will.

 

[Ridox2JZGTE]

I am pretty sure about the teddy bear as a memory of my own that I retrieve without any visual help, I asked my mother, she was surprised about it, she took quite a while to remember it, I still remember the fabric of the bear, the color and the sofa, my mum couldn't remember what the bear looks like. I asked if we have a picture of it, she said no, so yeah My 1st birthday present, the Lambo police car, what I remember most is the box, and another toy that I have fond recollection is a walking robot with lights and sounds, dark blue in color. Oh, also a Gundam RX78 die cast figure that I held dearly, it was ancient Bandai toy that I got from my aunt when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I lost the Gundam when I stayed at my grandma house I've been searching the net for the same old die cast RX78 from Bandai, no dice It was well articulated with moving legs and arms, complete weapons - hammer, beam saber, and the shield. I can even detached the upper torso

 

[Eks]

I can remember being 3-4 years old coming back from the grocery store, and then eating a can of Pringles some time after.

 

[trackripper123]

First memory was a pretty traumatic one actually, probably explains why I remember it. I was one and a half, wandered out into the middle of the road in China and so nearly got run over by a truck. I escaped with a gash on my wrist, the scar's still there.

 

[dxm8975]

My earliest memory of this life or from previous lifes? Does that count also?

Probably no - rather few of you would vividly recollect the very primitive memories in previous incarnations on the contrary.

First memory was a pretty traumatic one actually, probably explains why I remember it. I was one and a half, wandered out into the middle of the road in China and so nearly got run over by a truck. I escaped with a gash on my wrist, the scar's still there.

The Chinese usually DON'T slow down their car just because they could oversee somebody standing or waddling at the middle of the street bewildered with a vacant sight - unwitting of the approach of vehicles. At any chance the Japanese is the only people who yield priority to on-road pedestrians before passing by themselves.

 

[Joe Ferreira]

The first words I remember hearing "It's a boy"

 

[TB]

Oh, good. This again.

I was at Flatrock Park with my parents in Columbus, Georgia when I was 4. My brothers and sisters were a couple of hundred feet away and I said I wanted to walk over to them. My parents let me but before I got there, they didn't see me coming and left. My parents had also left, assuming that I'd make it over to my siblings. I ended up stopping halfway and crying until a police car came driving through the park. He picked me up and drove me around until I saw my parents.

I had never been back to that park until a year and a half ago for my brothers funeral. The second I got out of the car I asked my mom if this was the place the police had picked me up. Her comment was "You remember that?"