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Earliest coherent memory is my third birthday, of the gifts i got and me playing with people

I do have fragments from a vacation i took at age two. Everything before age 11 is really spotty, though.



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@ a few of the responses so far: stop doing drugs.

On topic: I remember being like 2 or 3 or maybe 4 idk, watching Toy Story. I didn't have many memorable memories in my earlier days, so nothing really exciting.



Being honest I dont recall pretty much anything before I turned 9 or 10... We used to live in the downtown for 6 years and then we moved to outside of the city, I was 6 when we moved, but I dont remember anything. Sometimes when I see pictures of those days, my brain kind of brings some mental pictures, but I think it is just my mind playing with my thoughts... The first thing I remember...I guess playing power Rangers in school, I was a trooper, with some friends I was 9...



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My first memory is being on the plane when I was 2 and 2 months. I short while after that, I realize I was alive and can remember most things after that.

You guys are pretty amazing - remembering things when you were so young. Most males IME don't remember stuff that early. One of my college roommates said he couldn't remember anything before he was 12. It made him susceptible to all the BS people say about kids, causes couldn't remember anything grade school. He was a great roommate but had some issues. I don't know if they are connected.

I also remember being finally able to get Ice out of the freeze for myself. We didn't have it coming through the door.



 

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The earliest memory is of being brought into a building or place, everything seems distorted or very large. I was put on a table with a bright light shining on me. I can't remember being able to move effectively. I do remember an elongated figure standing over me sticking something in my arm.
Kinda like an alien abduction story, except it was one of my early inoculations at the doctor.

2-3 years old is about where my non distorted memory starts, although it is polluted by the pictures and home videos my parents took. Memories that I'm sure are not from those are from around 4 years and up. And the same as the earliest it is of negative experiences, being told of in preschool, dreading to let mommie go at swimming lessons, testing if my aunt's dog was really blind by steering him into a metal post. Kids are cruel.
Happy 'standalone' memories start at 5-6ish.



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Viper1 said:
I have a very unusual ability to recall my younger days. I remember helping come up with names for my brother who was born before I turned 2 years old. I even remember the names I suggested: Giraffe or Sunshine. Once an adult, childhood amnesia usually limits our memories earlier than 4 or 5 years old.


Is that even possible? I mean I'm not calling you a liar but I have a really difficult time believing that people can recall memories from when they were 2. Maybe it's possible but it just doesn't sink my brain on a personal level.

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My earliest memory is from when I was four. In my dad's car, it was brown. Very foggy memory of the car breaking down and me seat belted in the back seat. That's all, a 10 second memory.

I asked my dad many years later if he ever owned a brown car and sure enough he did. He said it was 1990, 4 years after I was born.



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okay... too many people are claiming they remember stuff from when they were two for my liking. Which also tells me it's too much to be a coincidence.

I'm doing google research immediately on the topic.

My memories began to consistently stick around at the age of 5. Maybe my personal experience is what's making this so hard to believe. Actually my strongest memories are between the ages of 5 and 10.



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hatmoza said:
Viper1 said:
I have a very unusual ability to recall my younger days. I remember helping come up with names for my brother who was born before I turned 2 years old. I even remember the names I suggested: Giraffe or Sunshine. Once an adult, childhood amnesia usually limits our memories earlier than 4 or 5 years old.


Is that even possible? I mean I'm not calling you a liar but I have a really difficult time believing that people can recall memories from when they were 2. Maybe it's possible but it just doesn't sink my brain on a personal level.

OP

My earliest memory is from when I was four. In my dad's car, it was brown. Very foggy memory of the car breaking down and me seat belted in the back seat. That's all, a 10 second memory.

I asked my dad many years later if he ever owned a brown car and sure enough he did. He said it was 1990, 4 years after I was born.

Same here, apart from an early traumatic memory, I can't find any memory before the age of 4 that is not part of a story that my parents told me later over a photo album or home video. (8mm footage, ugh I'm getting old)

It's not that difficult to figure out if something is a primary memory or secondary. Perspective in imagery in recollections gives it away. The world transforms rather drastically as your eye level moves up with age. Revisiting those places you used to live in as a child is always pretty jarring. The once immense schoolyard, now a tiny space jammed in between buildings. The heavy door handle you had to reach for above your head. Dogs that you could not look over. A world full of pant legs to navigate through. That huge climb up the slide.

All my 'memories' pre 4'ish are more in a adult perspective. I'm probably going to contaminate my children's early memories even more by mosty filming them at their eye level :/



2 years old, sitting on the shoulders of my father. We had a vacation with family on the Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgystan. Remember my father and my older brother fishing and me crying like a baby. It was sunset, what a beautiful place that was.



hatmoza said:
Viper1 said:
I have a very unusual ability to recall my younger days. I remember helping come up with names for my brother who was born before I turned 2 years old. I even remember the names I suggested: Giraffe or Sunshine. Once an adult, childhood amnesia usually limits our memories earlier than 4 or 5 years old.


Is that even possible? I mean I'm not calling you a liar but I have a really difficult time believing that people can recall memories from when they were 2. Maybe it's possible but it just doesn't sink my brain on a personal level.

I developed very quickly at an early age.  When I was 2, I was giving my grandparents driving directions to places they didn't know how to get to.   This part I don't remember actually doing but have been told by different family members.  

Most of my good recall was when I was 3.   I remember a lot of that more vividly than what I had for dinner all last week.   I didn't know my early recall was unusual until I got older.  I'd ask a family member about something I remebered and they'd look at me all funny and ask, 'You remember that?"  And the I'd be puzzled that they'd wonder why I rememberd it.



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