What's your earliest memory?

[Dion_Iggy_Kipper!!!]

Ya, so I'm bored, what's your earliest memory in life, how old were you.

Mine, I was 3 1/2 and I remember the Montreal Canadiens winning the Cup in 1993, I specifically remember the team picture with their white jerseys. I believe I actually knew what the Stanley Cup was then too, or at least the name of it.

[HotHotHeat]

Went to hawaii when I was just about 3 years old. I remember seeing the turtles in the water from the glass bottom boat. The vividness of the memory amazes my parents to this day. I even remember the colour of the boat!

[Canada 02]

the womb

[Sainters7]

Me and my dad having a snowball fight with some neighbourhood kids when we were living in Winnipeg, when I was 3 or 4.

I also have a memory of sitting in a high chair and calling broccoli "tree" and everyone looking at me and smiling. I asked my mom when that would've been and she said I was still in diapers. I don't know if its physically possible to remember something that young so maybe I just remember hearing the story about it or something.

[Komskies]

My first memory is from when I was probably 2 years old or so. I was having a bath in the kiddie pool on the deck at my cabin. The pool was light blue.

[troutman]

Apollo Moon Landing.

[REDVAN]

I remember the day my brother was born... I was 8 days shy of my third birthday.

I remember playing on the carpet in the dining room and asking my dad when mommy was coming home. I also remember visiting mom and new bro in the hospital the next day.

[Jayems]

I was born and spent the first 6 years of my life in England.

My earliest memory, or at least what I perceive to be, was walking uphill on a sidewalk on the right hand side of the road. There was a big stone wall with a hedge overtop that was on the right and it made a C curve up the road to the left. I must have been around 3 or 4. My sister was in a stroller.

[GoinAllTheWay]

I remember being in my crib. In fairness, that was only last night.

[mykalberta]

The strongest memory I have is before grade 1 moving from a smaller farm town to a slightly larger one and seeing the Golden Arches for the first time and thought, wow this city is awesome.

I was wrong.

As soon as I move away the city gets a Taco Bell, that city hates me.

[burn_baby_burn]

I remember sitting in my little brown rocking chair watching Sesame Street. I would have been about 2 and a half years old. We moved out of that house shortly after that and I haven't been back since. I always wonder why I couldn't remember anything before that moment in time.

[yads]

I remember being in a stroller and it being very bright, must have been 2 or so.

[Netskot]

I remember as early as 3, vacation. bits and pieces. I also have a memory at 1, where I'm being photographed with a big foam dog.

[TheSutterDynasty]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I don't know if its physically possible to remember something that young so maybe I just remember hearing the story about it or something.

Apparently you can't start remembering things until you've developed your sense of "self". You can't have an episodic memory of you if you don't know who you are. I believe that occurs somewhere after the age of 2.

Edit: and also, "false" memories may be created, which is why clinical psychologists have guidelines about questions they can ask so they don't steer a patient into remembering something that didn't happen.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia!

The development of self-awareness at around two years of age has also been proposed as an explanation, where memories are inherently associated with one's sense of self, such that memories encoded before self-awareness develops are not comprehensible to the individual even though some information is stored in the brain.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia

[CaptainCrunch]

My dad beating my ass for punching my older sister in the mouth.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty

Apparently you can't start remembering things until you've developed your sense of "self". You can't have an episodic memory of you if you don't know who you are. I believe that occurs somewhere after the age of 2.

Edit: and also, "false" memories may be created, which is why clinical psychologists have guidelines about questions they can ask so they don't steer a patient into remembering something that didn't happen.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia

You can't form long term memories until your nephrons are mylenated.

[Devils'Advocate]

Fourth birthday. I was the ring bearer at my aunt's wedding. I don't remember bringing the ring, I don't remember dancing with the flower girl at the reception... I remember my uncle Barry thinking it would be good to give me a pickle to go with my potato salad. My uncle Barry became my least favorite uncle for that day... I HATE pickles.

[Machiavelli]

I think it was just before I turned 3.

I remember falling down the stairs in my toddler walker and I relayed this memory to my parents a few years ago and they said it happened at that age.

[kirant]

I was about 2, and I remember my mother feeding me in their bedroom while my dad was coming out of the bathroom.

[Peanut]

I used to be really scared of trains, and one of my first memories is lying in my bed at night and hearing trains screeching and worrying that they were going to come crashing into our house. I would've been about 2 1/2 or 3.