2006-12-22 21:33:32 · 17 answers · asked by braveheart 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
It depends what you mean by 'remember.' Some people can remember specific incidents from a very early age - for example, when I was about eight months old the gas cooker in the flat blew up and I have a very clear memory of being thrown across the room, landing under the table, mother having hysterics the other side of the room, and even the colour of the floor covering. Also, from about the same age, being held in my mother's arms while Dad drove his beloved Sunbeam Talbot with the roof down.
But those are 'episodic' memories and typically don't have context, and if one tried to recall other memories from the same time one couldn't. The sense of continuous memory that includes other people's conversations and the wider context usually develops anywhere between two and a half and six, in the normal person/
2006-12-23 00:26:30 · answer #1 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I can only answer for myself, I recalled a memory from the age of between 12 months and 18 months I may have even been younger than 12 months. When I was born my little toes were curled over attached to my souls of my feet, the doctors when I was a baby separated the skin, separating my little toes from my feet and I had to go to physiotherapy for a while, it was the physiotherapy that I remembered going to in an old world war 11 hospital in Mount Isa (where I live and was born) that was converted to a physio department when I went there in the early 1970's. My mum and I worked at the hospital and were visiting the old hospital that was now an aboriginal liason office. That's when I commented that I had been there before I remembered beds and people being in the beds. My mum said you can't remember that I said what, she said you were too young. I said I just did and what do you mean, that's when she told me what it used to be and why I was there. I asked her how old I was she said just a little toddler. God bless your Christmas and new year.
2006-12-22 23:47:22 · answer #2 · answered by Moosi 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I had a very traumatic experience at 18 months old. I can still remember it, like it was yesterday. Then again, I think it was the house we lived in, because I have a few other memorys from the age of 2 in that house. Other then that I dont recall a lot until about 5.
2006-12-22 23:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the previous poster. I can remember important things from about 2 years old but trivial day to day stuff is gone. I remember my mom being pregnant with my sister, painting her nursery, bringing her home, but then not much about her as a small child other than the times she had to go to the emergency room. I don't have a single memory of my dad from before I was 6-7 even though he was in my life somewhere.
2006-12-23 02:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by evilangelfaery919 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to psychology books, childhood memory starts to form at age 2... i personally can remember things starting at age 2, but then i have a friend who can't remember before age 8 so i guess it depends on the person.
Good Luck! :)
2006-12-22 23:47:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Me personally around 2-3.
2006-12-22 21:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by It Co$t To Be Around The Bo$$ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember my brother comming home from the hospital for the first time when I was 4 years old.
2006-12-22 21:35:55 · answer #7 · answered by daddyspanksalot 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was 2 years old and can remeber the nurse taking scales in to a room to weigh my baby just born brother I remember the brass scales
2006-12-22 21:39:34 · answer #8 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Usually about age 3 & 1/2, but it differs among different people.
2006-12-22 21:34:37 · answer #9 · answered by Katherine W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm 43 and I remember almost choking on a chocolate when I was only 18 mths old.
2006-12-22 21:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋