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re: What's your earliest memory in life?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:33 pm to MasCervezas
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:33 pm to MasCervezas
Getting a big rocking horse for my 2nd birthday.
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Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:33 pm to gaetti15
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For some reason I thought it was 3 that you couldn't remember anything before hand.
It varies. For a full grown adult, it's probably closer to 4.5. Young children can remember stuff from 2.5 to 3, but those memories fade into adolescence.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:34 pm to gaetti15
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Psychologists will tell you that anything earlier than 5-6 is simply a memory of a memory
no offense but i call bullshite on that.
i have a ton of memories from before preschool..i remember being in a crib with my cousin at my grandmother's house and getting into a fight with her.
my parents didnt tell me about that. i remember it happening.
also remember crawling around on the floor and putting something metal in an outlet and getting a good 'goosing'.
yes sir, i have a VERY strong memory of that.
all that happened well before i was 5 or 6 which is when you're in kindergarten.
same with my son..he remembers lots of stuff from before he started preschool and he's 17 now.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:35 pm to MasCervezas
Remember going to a picnic with my dad then coming home with my mom.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:35 pm to MasCervezas
I remember riding in on my mom's lap when she was in the wheel chair going to her room for my sister's birth. I'm 2 1/2 years older than my sister. I also remember wanting to get in the "tent" they had around my sister in the hospital when she had pneumonia as an infant. I definitely have very short images in my head of those events. It's not like I remember the whole thing, but I have flashes of it. And I 100% remember preschool. So I know I have memories before 5 years old.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:37 pm to KG6
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KG6
agree. that psychologist is spouting nonsense
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:38 pm to MasCervezas
I was about three and my brother was an infant. He was born a month early and would stop breathing on a regular basis and everybody would freak out. This was 40 years ago so medical care was a lot less sophisticated. Very tramatic for me. My mother would hand me off to whoever was there while they went to hospital.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:39 pm to MasCervezas
I was about three and my brother was an infant. He was born a month early and would stop breathing on a regular basis and everybody would freak out. This was 40 years ago so medical care was a lot less sophisticated. Very tramatic for me. My mother would hand me off to whoever was there while they went to hospital.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:39 pm to CAD703X
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i have a ton of memories from before preschool..i remember being in a crib with my cousin at my grandmother's house and getting into a fight with her.
If you're old enough to have a 17yo, there's is almost no chance that you have any memory of being in any crib. No chance.
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he remembers lots of stuff from before he started preschool and he's 17 now.
Doubtful, but a 17yo have some recollections before 4 or so is more plausible than a 40-something have recollections of his infancy.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:40 pm to KG6
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So I know I have memories before 5 years old
Same here, remember breaking my arm and stepping on a red hot coal.
Also, remember my first days of kindergarten and I was 4, the other events happened before I entered school.
Wearing a bread bag over my cast to take a bath is a vivid memory.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:44 pm to MasCervezas
at 5, driving big wheels jeep around a garage
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:45 pm to MasCervezas
swimming with floaties...probably between 2-3 yrs old
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:45 pm to CAD703X
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agree. that psychologist is spouting nonsense
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.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:45 pm to MasCervezas
Looking up in the sky and seeing an airplane. I was around two, maybe three.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:46 pm to MasCervezas
Mine was the challenger explosion. I just remember seeing the shuttle launch and explode over and over on tv. Incidentally, today is the 29th anniversary of that.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:46 pm to Navytiger74
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i have a ton of memories from before preschool..i remember being in a crib with my cousin at my grandmother's house and getting into a fight with her.
If you're old enough to have a 17yo, there's is almost no chance that you have any memory of being in any crib. No chance.
i'm 48.
why do you think that? i remember i was in the corner of my grandmother's bedroom in a white metal crib and i distinctly remember her setting my cousin down in front of me and snippets of the ensuing tussle.
its not like i have a videotape of the experience but its one of the earliest memories i can reliably recall.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:48 pm to Navytiger74
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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.
i dont know if i was 1, 2 or 3. not sure my exact age but old enough that i was sitting in the crib playing with some type of toy and remember being happy until my cousin arrived.
could be we were both 4 and my grandmother had no idea what to do with 2 of us in her house so she put us in a pen
eta it was white and metal..its possible it wasn't a CRIB and more of a fenced pen now that i think about it.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:51 pm to CAD703X
I'm only 28, but I told my mom I remembered riding in a wheel chair with her in the hospital. She was stunned I recalled that. She had to let me know that it was from when my sister was born. I didn't know that, but that's the last time my mom was in a wheelchair in the hospital. So the memory is there. You can't throw out a blanket statement like "no one can remember before a certain age". Everyone's brain works differently.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:52 pm to redneck
3 and 4
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:53 pm to CAD703X
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it was white and metal..its possible it wasn't a CRIB and more of a fenced pen now that i think about it.
Yeah, I think you can have memories, but not complete. Vivid things that stand out as a picture, but not a video per se.
Say, when I stepped on a coal I have no memory of the funny parts that always get retold, but I can tell you about the paths we made with the coals and how we were walkinh through them.
I could go back and show where I fell on the root, where my dads truck was at with my parents in it, and really remember them holding my arm down to take an xray in a dark room with that scary machine. I remember being scared to death it was going to crush my arm.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 12:55 pm
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