Here's an odd question for R&S....?

Question

I always get chewed out by somebody for not being on topic, but once in a while it's fun to break for a few seconds and answer a rather frivolous question. Here's one! I apologize in advance.

What is your earliest memory in life? How old were you at the time?

Thank you all. I see many old friends here.

Answer 1

Having my picture taken by my mom when I turned three years old. I was standing in the kitchen, in front of the refrigerator. It had the magnets arranged so it read Happy Birthday. Good times. I miss my mom. :(

Answer 2

I don't know if it's my earliest memory but, I was walking out of my Grandparents back door when I was little. They had a wooden table that an eagle landed on and spread it's wings. It was beautiful.

As to being off topic, this seems to be the only place you can really get responses. I posted two different questions about computers in that section. I didn't get a response to either of them. The first one I re-posted here, got fussed at but, I got the answer. The second, the only answer I got came from one of my contacts.
)o( Blessed Be!

Answer 3

My earliest memory in life dates back to when I was under 12 months old. Most don't believe that I really remember this and perhaps it is a memory my mind has developed.

I am laying in my crib and my bedroom door swings open and the doorknob hits the wall. My mom and dad are yelling and my mom points at me and says "I told you not to yell in front of the baby!"

I grew up in this same house and there was always an indention in the wall from where the doorknob hit it. I always asked where the indention came from but my parents couldn't remember. I don't remember if I dreamed this memory or if it just came to me one day but I told my parents about it and they said it sounded like what had happened. It had to have happened before I was 18 months old because my parents were separated by then.

Maybe not a wonderfully happy memory but it still amazes me that I have the memory at all.

Answer 4

Various memories of the house I was born in, which we didn't leave until I was 30 months. I remember my dad shushing me when the television was on for the Apollo 11 launch fairly clearly, when I was 4. Which ages me pretty precisely.

I used to work with someone who claimed his earliest memory was when he was 9.

Answer 5

My earliest memory is kind of a black and white deal, me sitting on my mom's lap on the bus. I was about a year old.

Otherwise, a real, color memory is a pony running off with me at a state park in Nevada, when I was 3.

Answer 6

Being at a park when I was 2 or 3 years old- I hit my head on the slide on the way down, my Mom panicked (typical) and my Dad told her to calm down, since I wasn't even crying (also typical) :0)

Mostly I remember sights and sounds and smells and feelings of a particular place- the smell of plaster takes me back to my childhood in Texas like nothing else, since my Dad owned his own business and used the stuff constantly.

It's funny how the mind works sometimes!

Answer 7

I believe near a year old. The house of my parents has a long corridor and at that time night lights on the elect. outlets are along the corridor. One of the lights was broken and I put my finger inside. I remember the electrical shuck. I was climbing I'm sure.

OK this is my excuse to be weird.

Answer 8

My earliest memory is of going fishing with my parents. I was about 2 years old.

Answer 9

I was traveling on a train with my late mother and our compartment was fitted with a clever toilet that tipped up, and folded back into the wall. I was fascinated and had to go pee every few minutes, so I could play with it. I still remember the toilet and my mother used to say I potty trained myself during that trip. I don't know how old I was, probably the typical age for that sort of thing.

Answer 10

Living in my grandparents' house, learning how to focus my eyes on things and recognize different faces. It was a very early time in the first month or two. Months later I recall beginning to learn language. The interesting thing was, I have a cousin that is a few months younger than me and I recall quite well the language of infancy, it is completely based on tonal and emotional aspects rather than words. Basically, I have a nearly complete memory.