re: What's your earliest memory in life?

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agree. that psychologist is spouting nonsense

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I'm not a psychologist. I'm just talking about the phenomenom of childhood amnesia. It's well documented. The numbers aren't exact (I should have said 4.5-6 from the start) but the main point is that at any age in early childhood devleopment before that, your brain really isn't tooled to catelogue and store long-term memories.

And it seems you guys missed the point. I'm 32 and I "remember" when my parents moved from the home of my birth to the house I grew up in in 1985 (at two). I remember how exciting it was, and how my brother and I got to ride down the ramp of the moving van on our little scooters. In reality, though, I only remember remembering that. I remember having it relayed to me at some other date. At that date my mind did, in fact, connect with the information and form something that felt like an experience. That's what I remember. I don't actually remember riding down that ramp at two years old. That's almost impossible.