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Your earliest memory....or is it !!!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Apparently there's a thing called infantile amnesia.. whereby adults rarely recall events before age 3-4 years...
Even after that they can be 'screenshot memories' of memories !
Me earliest about age 11..even that's fading fast.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My earliest memory is from when I was about 3/4 it was playing at the bed of my grandad in his hospice. It's my only memory of him as he passed away after that. I don't remember much more until 5 but that memory stuck with me. |
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Earliest memory.. always trying to beat the crap out of my older brother .. until I got punched back lol. Prior to that apparently I climbed everything in the house much to the constant distress of my mother .. wish I could remember ! |
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"First Gulf War. Images on TV.
That makes me feel old. My stepdad was out there 
J x"
Oh goodness I'm sorry.
I remember strange images which, reconstructing now, that's all they could have been.
I mentioned it in passing to my parents and they were horrified. They'd tried to shield me from it. I would have been four. |
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"First Gulf War. Images on TV.
That makes me feel old. My stepdad was out there
J x
Oh goodness I'm sorry.
I remember strange images which, reconstructing now, that's all they could have been.
I mentioned it in passing to my parents and they were horrified. They'd tried to shield me from it. I would have been four."
It’s ok. My younger brother fought out there too in 2006/7. He lost a lot of his regiment though & we nearly lost him too on Boxing Day 2006 but (thankfully!!) his tank broke down. He put his notice in when he came back just after his 21st birthday as they wanted to send him back out there. |
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I can remember a few bits from around the age of 3 or 4 I guess. Mainly because they where more likely to be bad experiences possibly?
Like I can remember when I nearly drowned at the age of 4ish.
I can remember being told off for trying on heels from the dress up box in reception lol
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I can remember details from family holidays when I was 3-5 years old, plus some other memories from that time.
Admittedly, they are just snippets or blocks of experience in detail....not long recollections. |
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My earliest memory is from between when I was 12 and 18 months old. I was laying on the floor at my grandparents house watching a huge animal walk across the room. I realised years later it was their cat.
People have told me I can't possibly remember this but I do. |
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I remember what I believe was my birth. I can remember it being dark, then light and I remember hearing voices but it sounded like it would under water. I remember 3 blurry blobs which I believe now to be faces, my Mum confirmed there were two Midwives and my Dad in the room. I also remember a dark square, I guess it was a window.
I remember being sat in my buggy and I had a toy I kept dropping for him to pick up and I remember laughing at the victory of him reacting to my action 
I have lots of childhood memories tbh. |
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Our memories are open to influence and can be modified each time that we access them consciously as well as anything that may happen behind the scenes of our awareness.
We are primarily meaning-making organisms, absorbing information from around us, ascribing meaning to it, referencing, collating, stockpiling, interconnecting experiences and having periodic efficiency drives and decluttering. It's a lot of work, hence our brains using so much energy.
It's often impossible to know the accuracy levels of older memories - new ones can be wrong too, as we know - but those experiences will have been initially processed and filtered through a naive, less mature mind and partially matured brain. If we access them today, we risk active contamination from our mature self and extensive experience.
I remember experiences when I was 2 and 3. I try not to recall them much, due to that risk of extra contamination. Obviously they may fade or alter over time, without being recalled, as recall helps to restrengthen their neural basis but that partly just risks them becoming fully new memories.
Human memory is a fascinating topic. |
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I have some very early memories in my life but some of them are probably screenshots of memories as the OP described.
One of my earliest memories is of me being at the bottom of a slide looking up at an older boy on the top and I was to sacred to go up. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I remember what I believe was my birth. I can remember it being dark, then light and I remember hearing voices but it sounded like it would under water. I remember 3 blurry blobs which I believe now to be faces, my Mum confirmed there were two Midwives and my Dad in the room. I also remember a dark square, I guess it was a window.
I remember being sat in my buggy and I had a toy I kept dropping for him to pick up and I remember laughing at the victory of him reacting to my action
I have lots of childhood memories tbh."
Or were you in a car wash as a smaller child !! |
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