Earliest memory

[John-Boy]

Random question - how far back can you recall ? In what detail - sights, sounds etc ?
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[Prenj]

Maybe 2 years, some of the situation, some colors (probably wrong), and some sense of how it felt, no sounds

[Muso]

My earliest memory was from before I turned 1. I remember this kitchen well, the colors and shapes and a tall brown haired woman.

I asked my parents about the memory years ago and I was describing our next door neighbor's house and the neighbor herself. We moved from there before I turned 1.
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[energyman76b]

for memories that can be put in a certain timeframe: as far as I can remember, I always had at least one sister, being able to walk. So 2.5 years.
but there are other memories that might be before that. There is just no way to tell when it happened. Like listening to some music on my fathers kickass hifi system. Waving my father good bye. Watching some animal documentary.
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[kernelOfTruth]

around 1 year, remember sitting on that high chair in the kitchen watching my mom washing dishes

I moved around (not sure anymore how exactly) and fell down on my head - everything turned black & I heard a loud noise (my head !) - next thing I did (what every baby does) was crying


that's probably the thing I can recall the furtest


how about you, John-Boy ?
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[pjp]

Once upon a time, something <4, but now I'm not certain if they are actual memories, or remembering from pictures or discussions.
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[juniper]

People talk about memories at 1 or 2. I don't really remember stuff from before 3 or 4.

[sikpuppy]

About 3, in a pushchair being taken to the local shops by my paternal grandmother.

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[BoneKracker]

I have quite a few memories from around 3 and 4 years of age, but I have one vivid memory from age 2: being charged by a brutal, noisy, monstrous goose (as tall as I, faster-moving, and probably heavier) that wanted the whole slide of bread in my hand rather than the little pieces I was throwing to it.

It was like a velociraptor with a truck horn, at the time.

I have an earlier one of enjoying riding around bundled in blankets in a wooden box mounted on the back of a sled being pulled over the snow by my mother or father. Edit: I just called my mother, and she said that was when I was six months old. I don't see how that's possible. I must have a manufactured memory, from a photograph or something.
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[John-Boy]

[John-Boy]

[notageek]

I think one remembers everything and that forms part (or is completely) ones personality. So... you probably remember everything.
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[ratmonkey]

Probably around 3... shitting my pants while eating breakfast and suddenly having the epiphany that I should have headed to the bathroom when I felt the load queuing up rather than just sitting there. I think i was in diapers, but who knows. Other than this one oddball memory, most of my earliest memories start early on in my 4th year.

Most super early memories (before 3 or 4) are implants learned later in life, through stories or pictures. There's plenty of studies on this.
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[Boris27]

Almost 4 years old, kindergarten.
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[juniper]

[big dave]

i was coming out of my mother's womb, and i was all like "YAY CAPITALISM!" and the healthcare workers were all happy. now i'm 3 kids deep and the healthcare workers are sad. now obama is taking my babies so he can redistribute them to other parents as part of his newest "baby-care law." WOULD NOT VOTE FOR AGAIN F----

[Bigun]

Maybe 1 year old, I was getting my picture taken. I even remember at a young age (4 or so) pointing to that picture and telling my parents I remember getting it taken.

They were a little shocked.
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[energyman76b]

I remember when I was transfered from the 'small' to the 'big kids group' at my first kindergarten. Which happened around your 4th birthday. I also remember the winter before that pretty clearly, because my little sister was pretty sick back then. I even remember her medication. I was sooo jealous. It tasted great and it was coloured in some toxic pink shade.
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[mcgruff]

You guys are rubbish. I remember sweeping across the steppes in a Mongol horde, and before that inventing farming by the Tigris, and before that leading my people out of Africa. But before even that, my oldest memory, is watching BK chipping away at stone slabs, engraving a diatribe which blamed Obama for the decline in mammoths.

Good times.
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