How old were you when you had the first memory you can recall?

Question

I must have been about 2. I remember crawling through a hole that my companion watch dog dug under the wall between the two parts of the tractor shed. I was following the collie.

Answer 1

I think about 4-almost-5 for a fairly clear memory

Answer 2

When we are babies, we memorise using what is known as the 'visuo-spatial scratchpad'.- All memories in this form have to be visually based as a baby has little or no access to verbal memory systems (As it has not learned language yet). When those language systems do develop in the brain, they supercede the visuo spatial scratchpad and those memories become lost.

This happens to most of us and is a phenomenon known as 'infantile amnesia'. Verbal memory comes 'online' at any time after the age of two.

My first memory is when I was two years old. I was walking away from the hospital where my Gran was staying. I remember her waving to me from the window of her ward.

Answer 3

I think I was about 3, and I remember going outside in the back yard and we had a sliding glass door to the outside and we had an above ground pool, and a big dog chained to a pear tree, and the dog ate the bottom lining of the pool and was dragging it around the yard.

Answer 4

When I was two or three. Three is the oldest I could have been, though, because I remember being in the hospital with pneumonia when I was that age. But it is very likely I remember something from being two, as well. I can't really associate precise ages with my memories...

Answer 5

I was three years old lying in my parent's bed, and my father was teaching me how to read The Little Engine That Could. I remember thinking how difficult it was to translate the words into things I could comprehend. I remember the color of the bedpread, and that I was wearing red pajamas with feet.

Answer 6

Around 4.
I remember a house we lived in for a few months when
I was 4..

Answer 7

I reckon i was about 2 (maybe 3) I remember lying in bed & I tilted my head backwards to look at the wall & there was a dirty big spider there....

Answer 8

I was about 2. I remember carrying a bucket of birdseed to the backyard and throwing the birdseed around on my padio. It was a summer saturday.

what a nice memory.

Answer 9

I was 2 and it was Christmas day. My mom had bought me a little orange and blue play slide. I remember her holding on to me as I went down it over and over again.

Answer 10

I think I was two, when my sister was born and I called her a kitty as my mom insisted she was a baby. Good times, good times.