why cant we remember anything before we were born?

Answer 1

I give this lecture to every parents of a young child, in my volunteer work.

At birth, the brain is essentially a blank slate, with only genetic memories necessary to survival, such as the processing of nutrients, activating body functions, and developing the immune system.

From birth until age 2, the human body does three primary things, absorb nutrition, develop the immune system, and growth.

At age two, the brain “BEGINS” developing the synaptic connections between short term and long term memories. Prior to this development, the human brain does not have the capacity to store memories for the long term. There are those that may develop earlier than others, but this is not a benefit as they have overall shorter life spans. Those who take longer to develop this have the longest life spans, so pressing children to excel early could actually be harming them.

Memories are stored through repetition, meaning that they remember repeated items more readily. It take six times for a child’s brain to create what is needed to develop a synaptic connector. This applies to everything, whether it is learning letters or learning not to be doing something.

The final stage of developing the synaptic connector does not take place until night time, while sleeping. This happens throughout our lives. The brain takes everything we learned while awake, sorts and permanently stores it. This is while it is so important for a child to get 10 hours of sleep, all the way through their teen years, and for us to get at least 7 hours as adults. It only happens under conditions simulating night, so taking a nap during the day doesn’t count. Naps only re-oxidizes the muscles.

This is why you can’t remember anything from before your birth, and little to nothing up until age 2. In the womb, the brain is in a low level sleep state, as it is still developing.

Answer 2

could you remember anything when you were out of your mum's womb?about who cut your umbilical cord? most probably no.

could you remmeber anything when you were 5 years old? vaguely, the events that made the most impact on your life you would remember.

could you remember anything last year?
im sure you can.

and those stuff you remember are probably the ones that make the most impact in ur life. so before you were born, what interesting things happened? and even if interesting stuff happened, how would you know? since you were not exposed to the outside world yet?
and besides, your brain wasnt fully formed form DAY ONE, it formed over a few weeks/months (?). yea.

hope this answeres ur qn.

Answer 3

A lot of people would have killed their parents before they were born if they remember they were concieved out of stupidity or have been aborted a few times before being born

Answer 4

That is why it is unjust and unreasonable for the belief in reincarnation to receive the consequences of the previous life.
Man's life starts here and continues to exist till the end without end in various worlds of the One True God.

Answer 5

Why should our memories have been erased just because we entered this world?

And if you think memories are stored in the brain, why wouldn't babies remember a bunch of random garbage because of the randomly empty data spaces?

Answer 6

Well, in all fairness, we can't remember much about our first few years of life, either. My guess is that it takes us a while to figure out what all our senses are telling us, and that we can't remember much until we work that out.

Answer 7

Our brains hadn't developed the capacity for memory at that point of our existence. Even if it had, would you really wanna remember being inside your mom and coming out her vagina?

Answer 8

That would be pretty scary, good thing God did not give us a memory during that time.

Answer 9

it is because our brain is busy adjusting the body to adapt to thw external environment which is too different from the mother's womb .hehehe

Answer 10

Isn't yet enough for your present problems of yr life?