What is your absolute earliest memory and how old were you?

Question

I can remember many things about my early childhood - my earliest memory being at age 1.5. Why is it that most people have trouble remembering anything before age five?

Answer 1

i can remember being in an incubator under a biliruben light. I can remember wanting my mom and feeling really warm and secure, but not safe. I can remember being very very sleepy, and very much wondering who the lady was who kept touching me.

I can remember figures running by swiftly, and people talking loudly, but i couldnt understand them, and the muffled sounds of beeps and whirrs, i remember being sore, and having a complete sense of self.

After that i dont remember anything until i was three months old and we lived in a haunted house. My room was mint colored and i hated it. I remember it seeming empty and cold. I remember my crib, and laying in it, and being able to see the window, but not having eye sight to see out, only the white light that came in.

i remember thinking that i wanted my mom and calling for her, only i was crying. I remember the dark wood trim around the doors, one went to the hall, the other to a closet, which scared me, thats why i wanted my mom.

I remember a lot.

It freaks my parents out.

Answer 2

4

Answer 3

My earliest memories of myself was at the age of 2 yrs. old. My dad molested me for the first time. Traumatic ordeals can be burned in ones brain and has some what to do with that, but not always.

Most people have trouble remembering prior to the age of five yrs. old for a variety of reasons. It all depends on their alertness and their surroundings around them. Traumatic things can be stored easier than non-traumatic things for some people. The reasonings of this is unclear. Perhaps psychology will be able to pin point this better in the future and who knows, perhaps they already have!

Answer 4

I think people have trouble remembering anything before they were 5 because of something like a brain filter... I read about this person who could remember everything because of lack of a "brain filter".

My firt memory... you're gonna be shocked. When I was 2 days old.

Yeah, mom and I came home from the hospital early... homesickness, didn't like the hospital. She was showing me off to my relatives; Uncle Sam was sitting on a picnic table flipping a coin... there was a walnut shell on the table. Tita (Aunt) Ruth was wearing a horizontally striped T-shirt with magenta and white. I saw my cousins' white cat with orangish-peachish splotches. The clouds were like cottonballs... The tub where my cousins' big black dog takes a bath was out... The flies were so big... and they were shiny and green on the back...

Answer 5

I have a few flashes of memory from when I was around a year old, but that's the earliest. I remember having a conversation with my dad(he died when I was 3) about something--well, he was talking, I was babbling and playing with his feet:)
Scientists think we tend not to have many memories of our early childhood because our brains are stil being wired for sensory input, so things get garbled and forgotten.

Answer 6

age 3

Answer 7

I remember my dad teaching me how to ride a little red bike without training wheels when I was about 4. He was holding the back of the seat, running behind me. Everytime he let go, I got scared and took my feet off the pedals. Another fond memory at around the same time was sitting with my dad on the recliner, munching on chips and dip watching a football game, and I accidentally elbowed him in the stomach.

Answer 8

Unless you had something traumatic happen, most of us don't have anything to remember. My earliest memory is at around 2. My dad brought home a toy car that backed up when it bumped into something. It was for my brothers, but I got to play with it, too.

Answer 9

I remember wearing diapers and walking across my aunt's kitchen floor to the back door to the garden. I know I hadn't been walking long, and the year was...well, it doesn't matter, but I must have been 18 months, give or take.

As to why our memories before age 5 are so limited, I suggest it's because so little really happened: we weren't in business, yet, had no b/fs, and seldom received telephone calls. What's to look back on? (just teasing...I think it's because our brains are still under construction).

Answer 10

my earliest memory was when i was about 2, and i didn't want to take a bath because there was a window in our old bathtub, and i thought people would see me.

i can remember much after that...not until about 4 or 5 years old.