Being in my grandma Renee's house (which I just visited today, for the first time in years, oddly enough), listening to someone yelling. Think I was about two or so.
What is your earliest memory?
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Giant walls. I was 3 and in preschool or something, whatever they do in France, and I just remember these seemingly massive walls rising all around me.
I don't remember much of when I was a kid, and I can't be sure about how old I was in the memories I do have. I did have an awesome dream when I was around five or six where I was on the run from a "bad man" and the world was kinda Dickenesque but with certain steampunky - something I had no idea existed then - elements. I especially remember hiding in a rubbish bin for some reason. It was scary but I remember waking up thinking it was super cool.
From further back, there's another dream that felt so real that when I woke up I didn't know why I was in my room and not at my Swedish grandparents. Oh and the dream where I thought the Jesus statue at the top of the stairs at my Irish grandparents house was coming to get me! I woke up crying from that one.
Man I had some awesome dreams as a kid... Real memories, not so much.
From further back, there's another dream that felt so real that when I woke up I didn't know why I was in my room and not at my Swedish grandparents. Oh and the dream where I thought the Jesus statue at the top of the stairs at my Irish grandparents house was coming to get me! I woke up crying from that one.
Man I had some awesome dreams as a kid... Real memories, not so much.
Learning how to walk, no seriously. I can actually remember it very vividly too. I can't really remember much else from back then though.
around two for me know i was shipped off to my grandparents at like 2 1/2 or 3 ish. cant tell you but i guess my earliest memories was waking up in my crib at night, something i did frequently, and various things that happened on those nights.
have memories of nursery school or daycare whatever it was called back then, different baby sitters, things that happened in school.
my friend insists it is impossible for people to recall things before they are 3 or 4 that our brains are not developed enough, but hell i guess i was advanced for my age or he is flat wrong and i see many other people in here that seem to recall back to around 2, so i am guessing he assumes or read wrong.
have memories of nursery school or daycare whatever it was called back then, different baby sitters, things that happened in school.
my friend insists it is impossible for people to recall things before they are 3 or 4 that our brains are not developed enough, but hell i guess i was advanced for my age or he is flat wrong and i see many other people in here that seem to recall back to around 2, so i am guessing he assumes or read wrong.
I remember walking through a forest with my grandparents, and I also remember the back garden of the first house I ever lived in. We moved out when I was 4, so it's from before then.
The earliest one was must've been where I was one or two and lasted an entire two seconds. I found a pacifier on my wooden floor of my room, and decided to try it. I quickly spat it out, hating the taste. Though I can't remember what. That's about all I remember
My earliest memory is one where I was walking down a maternity ward hallway with my dad. The only time I would have done this as a child was when my sister was being born, meaning that my earliest memory comes from when I was only 21 months old.
When I was about two, I was walking along, minding my own business when I stepped on the back of my toy dump truck, one of those kind of big Tonka ones. I fell and hit my head. I essentially slammed my memory into record mode for the first time like a broken TV that you hit to start working.
I remember my early moments, just not the order they occured. So it would either be playing Pacman/Alex the Kid/Sonic, making a tiny garden out of cake icing and chocolate chips, asking my parents if they had names (somehow that was an alien concept to me) or feeding my goldfish who later turned out to be a cannibalistic murmaider.
It was before I went to nursery/kindergarten so I would be 3-4 maybe younger.
It was before I went to nursery/kindergarten so I would be 3-4 maybe younger.
My first memory was of my first day at preschool. Good times, good times. I guess that day sparked a change in me to be the silent self that I am...
I was somewhere between the ages of seven and ten when I initially thought I first saw Jurassic Park. Having loved dinosaurs for as long as I could remember (I'd even decided several years prior that I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up), I was enjoying the experience immensely. But as the film went on, something kept bugging me: an oddly vivid memory of my two-year-old self watching a movie scene of several raptors stalking people in a big, dark kitchen. Finally, I reached the point where the movie felt like it was going to begin wrapping things up, and I dejectedly told myself that this must not be the same film, and I might just have to go on with the rest of my life without ever seeing that scene again or even knowing what movie it was from. Which, of course, just increased my joy all the more when the kids were followed into the kitchen by a pack of raptors in the very next scene, quenching my curiosity of my earliest memory and explaining why I loved dinosaurs so much simultaneously. First memories don't get a whole lot better than that in my book.
When my mom first gave me my favourite childhood toy, a tiny grey rabbit named Honey Bunny. I remember very specifically that she came wrapped in a ball of tin foil. I must have been about four at the time.
My oldest memory would be when I was about five, and it was also very unusual because at the time of said memory, I seemed to have had a small black out. I was outside, playing with some kids, and it seemed as if everything I previously ever remembered had vanished. There was no injury or anything, I was just running and I looked around like "where the hell am I? What the hell happened?"
I still seemed to remember everyone's name, where I lived, etc. but I couldn't remember anything before that. It was as if that was the first moment I was ever alive, in context of my ability to remember things.
I still seemed to remember everyone's name, where I lived, etc. but I couldn't remember anything before that. It was as if that was the first moment I was ever alive, in context of my ability to remember things.