What is your very first memory? Did it happen around the age of three, when long term memory usually begins?

Question

I've just been reading the Mad Pundit's Blog, and he tells about his first memories, which were quite interesting.

I won't answer my own question, but sometimes - like this time - I become frustrated because we're not allowed to.

Answer 1

I recall having memories of things around our home and family from before I was able to crawl or walk. No one ever spoke of that as being unusual until I was in the higher grades in school. That was when eventually classmates brought up lack of memories.

Just this year my last living Aunt asked me a question regarding some family history that had been kept from her by others and I was able to put that to rest. It was something I had never known was an issue.

But then when I was little, a common saying was, "children should be seen and not heard" as a matter of good manners. So, I guess those factors primed us to watch and listen. Not a lot of fun but well some of us took it all in.

Answer 2

My first memory is of my Grandma changing my diaper.
Whether it is a true memory or not i dont know.

I am not the only person who can remember back to
toddler hood, and this was way earlier than 3 years old.

Answer 3

my youngest memory was when my parents dropped me off at my grandparents house so they could have a few nights to themselves, they gave me a kiss on top of my head and said bye. this was my first sleep over as well and i was scared to be without them. my grandmother had a screen door at the time and as i watched them back out of the drive way to leave, i tried my best to get through that screen door, and as they were driving down the road leaving, i was hysterical. i didn't understand what was going on. and yeah i was around 3 1/2. then my memory goes to kindergarten and up. nothing at around age 4.

Answer 4

About 6 months old, in Washington State, a Chinook helicopter flew over. Remember seeing the twin rotor blades and the noise was overwhelming.

Answer 5

Here is one of my favorite early chlid memories: I don't remember how old I was. But I was at the park with my best friend and this boy at the top of the slide told me to come up there b/c he had a secret. My friend told me not to go up there, but I did. When I got up there he cupped his hands around my ear, like he was about to tell me a secret, but instead he gave me a kiss on the cheek. I felt so embarrassed. I really like that memory.
I do have earlier memories of when I was 3, but I really like this one, so I thought I would share it with you!

Answer 6

My very first memory is from when I was only a few months old. I don't know why, but I remember being in a baby tub and my mom washing my face and hands. Weird, but true.

Answer 7

I remember when I was 3 or 4, I would stay home and play Legos when my siblings were in Elementary School.

I also remember finding some baby chicks when they were at school, and I put a football helmet over them. :-P They escaped before I could show my brothers and sister, so they thought I was lying. Haha.

Answer 8

Looking out the window at night and seeing a full moon; getting so scared that I jumped into my sister's crib with her.

My sister is one year younger than I; I must have been two or three at the most.

Answer 9

My first memory was of my mother ... so I must have been between 1 & 1/2 (anyways before she left).

Answer 10

I remember about age 1 or 2, when my mother used to bath us in the kitchen sink!

Other things happened when I was 2, and I remembre and my brother was born when I was three...

I wish you well..

Jesse