SvennoJ said:
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 :/
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I was two years old. We went to a new building I never was before, with other kids. My parents told me that it was going to be fun... yeah. The enemy was waiting us inside. They had balloons... it was a massacre. We were so young...
Actually that's the second thing I remember. The first one is playing on the floor with a yellow car near the TV, in an unknown (friends? family?) house. I have no idea about how old I was.
