Just for the record I have had it confirmed I have memories back to the age of 8 months old. I m 35. But when my grandmother was alive I would say do you remember this and she would say yes but how do you. Im serious. Apparently most cant and I want to know why I can.
2007-06-07 19:49:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Well Mr David D Im sorry if your life is full of false memories but I was never told the story behind certain things I told them, there was no false imprint because of this. Everyones brain developed the same, that is harder to believe than remembering passing through the birth canal.
2007-06-07 21:02:31 · update #1
i was about 8 months and i remember being in a stoller at the zoo and i was going pass a gate and in side of the gate was a elephant and a guy was setting on its back and i remember thinking "im not going up there"
i always thought that it was just a dream but as i got older i told my grandma and she told me that that happend at the zoo and she showed me pictuters of that day
2007-06-07 20:00:39 · answer #1 · answered by sutton_phs1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The party line in neuroscience is that no one can remember in that movie-style recall of events we have much before being 3 years old, because the hippocampus in our brain is not mature before then. Of course we do remember things before then in other ways. We learn all sorts of things before then, such as who everyone is in our families, how to use things around us, the meanings of words and other symbols. That kind of learning is not through the recall of specific events that we usually mean by "memory" though.
My earliest memory is visiting a friend's house when I was around 3. I know because that's what I remembered directly when the subject of my earliest memory came up when I was somewhat older.
In contrast my parents often told the story of something clever I did before the age of 2. I can picture the scene of that in my mind, yet I know it's fake, a picture that came to me from my parents' description, not from a real memory. It's hard to describe the difference from me picturing the two memories now, one of a real event that no one described to me and the other what I pictured from this story my parents told over and over again. There's no scientific way to tell the difference. They are actually both hippocampal memories. It's just that the latter didn't first come to my mind until I was older, listening to my parents tell the story - I'm pretty sure. There's no way I can be certain that the image I have isn't from before I was 2. It just seems fake, cobbled together from other images and my understanding of the story, while the memory from when I was 3 is unlike anything else I know and feels authentic.
It's such a hard thing to prove. But there is a change in the hippocampus at about age 3 that correlates with when memories start in the vast majority of people.
2007-06-07 20:20:03 · answer #2 · answered by David D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the farthest back i can remember was when i was 3 or 4, i know it was around there. I had gotten hurt on the playground of the preschool and had to be rushed to the emergency room. I still remember the hot feeling of blood and tears on my face and looking up to the ceiling at the people pushing my gurney around the hospital....i really just remember the hottness feeling on my face the most...
2007-06-07 19:54:10 · answer #3 · answered by claudia_csn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My earliest memory is when I am nine months old. I was trying to ask my mother for some peanuts. She didn't understand me, and I thought I wanted to go outside. *sigh*. I guess my language silks weren't the best back then.
I even remember my dreams from that age.
A friend of mine remembers the day he was born though!
Cool, ey? :)
2007-06-07 20:37:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was 3 years, 1 month old. We were camping in Oregon with my granparents for my moms b-day. I remember picking blackberries with my grandma, and then she and I making a pie, it was my moms favorite. I think this is one of my strongest memories because I don't have many of my Grandma, she died when I was five.
2007-06-07 20:54:27 · answer #5 · answered by MTsBabydoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when my sister was born, i was three. There were 2 tornadoes in Ft Meyers that day. when mom was ready to be discharged from the hospital, I actually remember wanting to push mom in the wheel chair and Dad telling me that I am too small and he carried me while pushing mom and remember looking at my baby sister while she was asleep in mom's arms. I'm 23 now 20 yrs later
2007-06-07 20:58:50 · answer #6 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My earliest memory was when i was 1 or 2
i lived with my mom and my grandparents and i would try to go sleep in their bed at night.
and i remember waking up and no one was in the room and i got scared but i saw jeopardy was on and i knew everything was ok.
2007-06-07 20:10:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoa!! sucks about vera v thats horrible, Well my earliest memory is of me coloring with my friends in our Barbie coloring books (the 80s Barbie was the s h i t) we were on my stairs we were also fightning with the boys cause they kept bothering us I was about 3 or 4.
2007-06-07 20:04:51 · answer #8 · answered by Evolon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
9 months/10 months. Being in my mama's lap in the passenger seat riding down the road in the passengers seat.
I'm 37.
We can all do 'weird' things. God gave us the ability. Most have just forgotten.
Peace
D
2007-06-07 19:54:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was 3 in mexico wit my grandma, he gave me money to go buy candy from the neighbors at the corner.
2007-06-07 20:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by l!Ps.oF.aN.aNgEl. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋