03-05-2005 07:57									#1
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My first memory is of the day in late 1968 when my family moved from Copenhagen to Western Jutland, right across the country. I had just turned 2 years old the month before and I don't remember anything from our life in Copenhagen, but one occurence on the moving day itself made enough of an impression on me to stick in my mind forever after.

We had a large truck with all our things parked maybe 50-100 meters away from the brand new apartment we were moving into, and all the furniture and stuff had to be handlifted piece by piece, so it was pretty much an all-afternoon thing to get it all under roof. Being the little one, I couldn't be of much help with anything, so I kept to the apartment while everyone else were at work to shuttle the things in.

Not the most exciting day for a 2 year-old, but I found out that the front door, all the time opened up against the side wall, had created a nice little triangular-shaped "secret room", where I could slip in and stand, watching all the familiar things being carried in.

Much fun to be had by this, but then it suddenly struck me: All this furniture and things kept arriving, but the one thing I loved more than anything at the time was missing: my little crated bed! My worry grew quickly into full-blown despair, as I realised it had probably been left behind or lost in all the confusion! Tears immediately ensued, until my dad came, found out what was the matter with me and then proceeded to take me by the hand to the room where my little bed had been put as one of the very first things, all nice and ready for a little nap.

I have lots of memories from later on in the new place (we only lived there about a year), while as mentioned, none from the old place in Copenhagen, so it's a little funny to think that such a thing that happened on the moving day itself became the first thing that stuck with me.

What is the first thing you distinctly remember?

	03-05-2005 08:56									#2
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I don't have any memory before I was eight years old.

	03-05-2005 09:06									#3
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That's a normal side effect of being frozen in carbonite

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quote: Originally posted by Asher I don't have any memory before I was eight years old.

did you get hit on the head?

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I remember gnawing on this swing set because it tasted good, and my mom yelling at me not to do that because of head poisoning... what the hell??!!! I bet she meant lead poisoning.

	03-05-2005 12:58									#6
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i remember my right hand was coming closer by and closer and closer....and then i felt something hit my head and i fell back...when i got up again i started over watching my hand come closer....it took me 3 days to find out that i was hitting myself my parents had social service over because of the brouses on my butt from falling on it...

	03-05-2005 13:51									#7
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My first memory is of sitting in a high chair in my grandmother's kitchen at about 1 year of age. My mother and grandmother were talking while I was "eating". Actually I wasn't interested in the food on my tray, but on the contents of the cookie jar on top of the refrigerator. I was at the age where I could understand quite a bit, but could say very little. I pointed at the cookie jar and squawked. My mother came over and looked at my untouched food and told me that I couldn't have a cookie until I ate some of it. Then she went back to talking to my grandmother. I started to play with my food then in order to give it the appearance of having been tried, then made another squawking request for a cookie, which was granted.

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I have some little traces of early memories, but for most of them I can't exactly specify the time (date, or my exact age back then). One thing I remember quite well is the first day in kindergarten....

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How old did you say you were there Winston? 26?

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Most people can't remember early memories because they find them hard to date accurately - as a toddler dates are things that happen to other people

Winston's example is of something that he remembers that he can, in later life, put a date to and so know how young he was then.

The same is true of my 'earliest memory'.

I am adopted and so is my sister - and I can remember going to get her from the foster home, I was sitting in our red Hillman Hunter and my old carry-cot was strapped to the seat next to me.

I remember thinking 'I don't need that cot anymore, I'm a big boy now"
My mum and dad took the carry-cot out of the car and into this bungalow we had parked outside - when they returned it had a baby inside of it!! Life was never the same again

	03-05-2005 15:19									#11
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quote: Your Earliest Memory

Can't remember it.

	03-05-2005 15:37									#12
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Hum, can't remember yesterday...
Me thinks, it's more of a feeling of crass under my feet on summer, at about 2...

Anyone read that comic by Enki Bilal? If you have, you know what I'm talking about. It was... "Monsters Dream" in Finland, if I recall correctly.

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I have quite some memories from the kindergarten time (3-6 years), however chances are, that I have one memory from significantly earlier. I remember a glowing light and that I was scared to death about it. I don't know myself what it was. My parents brought up the assumption, that it might be the candle of my 1st birthday. They told me, that I had made a big fuss about it, kicking and screaming, so that they had to douse it. I don't know whether this is true or not and probably never will be sure, but it sounds logical.

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I'd finished my dinner but was still hungry... I was very upset... so dad gave me the rest of his dinner.

I was a big baby.

	03-05-2005 17:11									#15
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I have one vivid memory of picking up my grandfather and grandmother at a hotel near our house. I described the scene to my mom years later and she confirmed that is was something that actually happened when I was 18 months old. It's my only memory of my grandfather - he died only a month later.

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Mine was basically the same as yours, actually.

	03-05-2005 17:15									#17
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quote: Originally posted by el freako Most people can't remember early memories because they find them hard to date accurately - as a toddler dates are things that happen to other people

It's more than that. Before a certain point, your brain simply does not store long-term memories.

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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse did you get hit on the head?

They had to format and reinstall.

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My mom and dad divoricing when I was 4.

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//memory files are fragmented and disjointed
//possible reformat recommended once suitable storage mechanism for current host program investigated

	03-05-2005 19:43									#22
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JFK, Nov 1963, at age 16 months. (Note avatar. 'Nuff said)

No year sucked more than 1968 (In America as well). A number of close friends died.

	03-05-2005 20:18									#23
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Commies tried to make me poor and hungry and leave me and be cruel, but then they became piss poor and I had my first big laugh. That's my memory, having that big laugh when commies started being poor.

	03-05-2005 20:35									#24
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i was merily climbing a hill in kintergarden(sp) and merily a merry green bee flew above me. and i said what a nice bee but i must be careful lest she stings me. then a sharp pain on my hand. then running and shouting it stung me it stung me. then other kids ushering me to the nursery. then the lady squeezing with her nails the sting out of my hand. then saying to the kids that had gathered around, now go on, go away, it's over. then my mom not believing me that it was a green bee. bees arent green.

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maybe it was the Green Hornet!

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Yeah and you already had a deep black haired cheast didn't you? Like a fur...

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I think I remember myself out of the hospital when I was just born, but that's most likely a memory that was fabricated by my brain from pictures and stories.

Other than that, there is a flash of a memory of me trying unsuccessfully to pull myself up a rope, probably aged 2 or 3.

	03-05-2005 20:47									#28
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I remember older stuff too. I remember the book: the adventures of a little lion and I remember another book for children: the boy with the silk hands. that had scared me very much and i was feeling so sorry for the boy with the silk hands because he couldnt eat berries. they stained his hands.
i also remember going to children theater: "the tin city" and the head tin not saying my name when he said hi to the kids by name. fortunately that was rectified after i talked to my mother.

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my earliest clear memory is lost but what I do remember is sunshine and warmth, feeling happy sitting in parent's living room on the carpet with the sun streaming in, probably about 2.

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cool thread

My earliest memory is from our living room in our family's very own house. I was naked, I was walking, and I could see our brand new TV in the darkness, other members of my family were watching it and I was walking towards them.

I think I was 3, but I'm not sure. I have several memories from the ages 4 (near 5) and 5, and I started fully become aware of my own consciousness at the age of 6.