If you search back through your childhood memories, at what age did you have the earliest memory?

Question

Is that earliest memory vague or clear; was it an image, an idea, or a feeling, or a perception; were other people part of or in the memory?

Answer 1

My parents were killed when I was 3 and 1/2, and I still remember my mother. I see her face in my dreams often and remember a couple different times I spent with her mostly playing, but I also remember her being mad at me for turning the water up on the sprinkler and gettting the cars wet after she told me not to play with it. I remember it was a party day, so I guess it on my third birthday. It's funny, I really don't know much about my father other than he a was very succesful business man.

Answer 2

My earliest childhood memory is something that happened when I was about two and a half years old. I was in the room that I shared with my baby sister when she stepped on a tack that had gotten stuck in the carpet. I remember seeing it in the heel of her foot when my mom picked her up....odd, she didn't cry much..just gave a little yelp. She was in a diaper and t-shirt. I know, that is young to have such a memory, but it is there for whatever reason.

Answer 3

I think that all of these other people are crazy- or maybe I am. The first thing I remember I was about 4 and Blackie, my cat ran away from home. He had been an inside cat and we had to put him outside when my baby brother was allergic.

I resented the baby for a long time because he made my cat leave. When I was 32, my dad told me that they actually had given the cat to a friend of theirs with a handicapped daughter who wanted a cat....

She needed Blackie more than I did and I am glad (in hindsight) that we were able to do that for her.

Answer 4

Don't remember the exact age but I can recall thinking the birds on my mobile were pretty cool. No I am not kidding!
My next vivid memory was walking on my tip toes, saying, "Desitin" and listening to my mother yell at me not to scratch (I had the chicken pox). I was around 2 or 3

Answer 5

I can (vaguely)remember seeing my Great-Grandmother sitting in a straight-back chair wearing her bonnet, dark ankle boots, dark "stockings", long sleeves and a long skirt, ( I have been told this was her every day attire!) We have pictures from when she died, and it was before I was 3 years old! So the memory of her in the chair was before THAT...
I also remember her being "laid out" ( a corpse)at their family home ( my first recollection of seeing someone after they'd died). I suppose that's why i remember that time,, but her in the straight-back chair... just a memory... of LONG ago!

Answer 6

I can trace back to the earliest memories when I was 2.5 years and my brother was born.

Answer 7

Your question itself is reflexive of the answer. There is naught but the effect of the experience, but the timelessness of the experience itself is so amazingly powerful, for we do not remember something until it sheds light on the reasoning behind our existence, for all else is the means and the method unto the infinite self being expressed.

Answer 8

My earlliest memory ... I was about 5, I remember finding a dead bird and burying it, the next morning i went out to see if it was still there ,, It was gone.

Answer 9

Kind of vague, it's my older brother sticking his tongue at me down the hallway. I must have been crawling age. It's like a fuzzy picture in my mind.

Answer 10

I was 3 yrs old and I remember taking a piss when I heard the news my brother was born.