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What is the youngest age that you have a clear memory from?

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I think it was when I turned 4. I remember how I pulled that piece of paper of the calender and it showed my birthday 🙂
 
Around 3 or 4 not sure when it was we had just put a new walk way to the front door and Iw as running up it. My Psych class talked about this once it seemed most people could remember an event at around ~4 years some earlier some later but most of them it was 4 kinda interesting IMO.
 
I remember very clearly when I was from 3 to 5, my parents had a house in Miami. I can't remember specific dates but I remember my Dad taking me fishing and I caught ONE freaking fish when I was that age. 😛 Then I also remember this big birthday party they put on for me when I turned 5 I think. There is a lot of sporadic moments I remember.
 
Mid-Early 3's

I remember going to Mexico with my mom, that was way before I even started Pre-School...
 
I don't know how old I was, but I can remember sleeping in a crib, so maybe 2? I also remember when my sister was born (I was 3), and the first night I slept without a diaper (I think that was 3 also).
 
I was 5 ,I remember waving goodbye to my mother leaving on a trip where she got killed by a drunk driver.

Ausm
 
I remember my 3rd birthday. They were all singing 'happy birthday' and I thought they were laughing at me and I cried the whole time.

I also remember quite a few things from when I was 2 - like my grandparents coming to visit us in California.
 
Originally posted by: Glitchny
age 6 when i was stung over a 100 times on my head, by bees after stepping on a nest.
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haha

thats was funny i remember that. you got all puffy

i was 4 or 5 whe i fell off that wood pile i remember that

you dont remember me throwing a hocky puck at your head? i remember that also
 
I don't know how old I was, but it had to have been < 1 yr cause I couldnt walk yet... I was crawling around after a blue plastic chew pretzel that my family was taunting me with in a hotel room in florida.
 
"The lack of neural connections helps explain why our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthdays. We see this in the memories of a group of preschoolers who experienced an emergency fire evacuation caused by a burning popcorn maker. Seven years later they were able to recall the alarm and what caused it - IF they were 4 to 5 years old at the time. Those who experienced the event as 3-year olds could not remember the cause and usually misrecalled being already outside when the alarm sounded."
 
Originally posted by: americangigolo
"The lack of neural connections helps explain why our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthdays. We see this in the memories of a group of preschoolers who experienced an emergency fire evacuation caused by a burning popcorn maker. Seven years later they were able to recall the alarm and what caused it - IF they were 4 to 5 years old at the time. Those who experienced the event as 3-year olds could not remember the cause and usually misrecalled being already outside when the alarm sounded."
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Yep, I'm with the above poster on this one. Anything much earlier than 2.5 to 3 years is most likely more a combination of recounts that you've heard from various people than it is an actual memory. And trust me, stories that you hear can become "stronger" memories than things you've actually experienced. Memory is funny (and faulty) like that. You may not remember having heard someone tell you about the event before, but it most likely happened...and you just end up recalling the event itself, and not the fact that it was told to you.
 
holy shiit u just brought me some crazy memory..

i was about 5 or so, i clearly remember going over a kid's house and playing with them and i told them something like,
"hey i can count upto 100"
"what's after 100 then?"
"hundred hundred.."

..memories,.
 
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