what's the earliest clear memory you have?

[Rastus]

I remember going out with dad and coming home with mom.

 

[dud]

Watching a news report about a presidential assassination on an old B&W TV. The date was November, 1963.

 

[Mixolydian]

Earliest memory I have was taking a dump in my diaper when I was like 2.

 

[AdamK47]

The earliest clear memory I have was the first time I turned a PC off.

 

[PingSpike]

I remember chasing the chickens in my backyard when I was about 3 or 4.

One of, if the not the earliest memories I have involves chickens. My dad was slaughtering some of our chickens with an axe. I remember him telling me that the chicken was going to run after he chopped its head off. I'm not sure if I entirely believed him or not. When he did it, the headless chicken did go running RIGHT TOWARDS ME. I took off running as fast as I ever have. I remember looking over my shoulder and I must have run 100 feet because I was WAY ahead of the chicken as it bounced off a nearby building and fell down.

 

[Platypus]

figuring out how to use my dad's record player and sitting and listening to records for hours and hours by myself while my parents were at work.

 

[PingSpike]

...being forced to wear diapers until I picked up my blocks...

What kind of parenting technique is this?

 

[IronWing]

Watching the Miii mobile spinning lazily over my crib. I would try to reach out and grab it but it never would be mine.

 

[God Mode]

I was 3 and my grannie was watching me in her apartment. I was hating on this yellow itchy pajama when my parents came back from the hospital and I saw my baby brother for the first time.

Seems a lot of people have memories around the age I did at 3 years old.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Shower with my dad?

First time I saw out the windshield and thought oncoming traffic meant imminent collision. Who knew the yellow lines were some sort of safety barrier?

Hard to say which is earliest.

 

[Miramonti]

I remember lying on my stomach in my crib, sleeping with my arm hanging down thru the slats, and someone pulled my arm and hit me in the back. Freaked me out. Since then, I've never been comfortable sleeping with my arm hanging off the bed.

Don't know how old I was...old enough to roll over on my stomach but not old enough to be in a regular bed...atleast in my mother's opinion at the time, lol.

 

[shortylickens]

Still in the crib.
And before everybody jumps in with "NO theres no way that could be possible", fuck you. I remember.


Got my bears head stuck in between the bars and couldnt pull him out. Tried to cry but no sound came out of my mouth. Went to sleep and by morning my dad had unstuck him.
Hudson, I believe his name was.


Have been told by more than one psychology type person that if you remember stuff from too early it means your brain is fucked up for the rest of your life.
Which fits.

OH CRAP, 35K!!!!

 

[Joseph F]

I remember playing with a ball on the floor ar my grandma's house.
I have no idea how old I was.

 

[purbeast0]

on my 4th birthday i was hit by a car and medivac'ed to childrens hospital in dc. i have this memory engrained in my head of when i was lying in the helicopter as it was flying to the hospital. like when i think about it, it feels like a dream, but i have a pretty vivid picture of what it looked like.

im 30 now.

 

[highland145]

OH CRAP, 35K!!!!

Grats old man with the F-ed up brain.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Stung by a wasp on my 2nd birthday at my aunt and uncle's house. It was on my left pointer finger. I remember crying and running inside and there was another wasp (or maybe the same one) crawling on my sock and my dad knocked it on the floor and stomped on it.

I've been seriously afraid of wasps and bees ever since. I was stung several more times at various points during my childhood too.

 

[lupi]

I remember living in iceland when I was about 2.

 

[brainhulk]

I remember living in iceland when I was about 2.

Iceland huh? Is it true there is a high chance your parents are actually 1st cousins?

 

[foghorn67]

I remember being on a table with bright lights. I was surrounded by people talking unnaturally very loud. I couldn't move much. But I remembered having to look at a bunch of colored patterns. And later, pictures of families, cars, boats, etc. I couldn't see past more than a few feet even the area I was in was very bright. The light just dropped off very suddenly into darkness.
I brought this up to my mother when we were talking about early memories with other family members gathered around.
My mom got really excited and she spent a few minutes looking for something. After finding an old photo album, she showed me pictures of me when I was an infant. Well, crawling age. Whenever infants crawl.
I was on an observation table in an auditorium. My mom was an admin to a professor at a university. The professor was excited to demonstrate early development skills when he heard my mom was expecting.
Turns out the brightness was the observation lights, the loud voices were due to the staff speaking with microphones, and the seating areas were dimmed.

 

[lupi]

You'll have to ask someone from there.

 

[shortylickens]

Iceland huh? Is it true there is a high chance your parents are actually 1st cousins?

No.

 

[HAL9000]

5 days ago.

 

[dennilfloss]

Fireman carrying me down the stairs in his arms while the apartment above us was burning.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember enjoying to unscrew the knob on the dishwasher and screw it back on. I was maybe like 3-4. I can almost still visualize and feel myself doing it. It also had big push buttons and if you pushed certain ones the others once popped back, and I just played with it all the time.

Another thing I also remember is I'd always be with my mom when she was grocery shopping and we had this grocery store where at the cash when they bagged the stuff, they'd put it in these bins that would get put on rollers and be pushed through an opening with flaps (kinda like luggage at an airport) and then they'd say "door 2" or w/e and we'd go outside get in the car and pull over to that door. It was basically like a mini garage door that would open and a guy would load the car up. That system is no longer in place, but I can still visualize the doors there. Now it's just a big rectangle as the bricks don't match perfectly.

Really if I dig deep I can remember lot of stuff like that. It's really odd the kind of stuff that just sticks.

I also remember my Granda on my dad's side (who is now dead). I remember he had this big piggy bank that was made in plastic, it was yellow and in the shape of a slot machine, at least I think that's what it was. I would not have really known what it was at the time, but if I can remember it well enough, it was probably that. I asked him how he got the money out, because there was no plug at the bottom. He said he used a knife, so I was like "you mean you have to cut it up?" and he's like "no you just put it where the hole is and shake it and the money falls out. I was probably like 5ish.

I also remember when he passed away. I did not really understand fully, but I basically understood that I would not see him ever again, but at same time it was just a weird concept. I remember touching his hands at the funeral and he was really cold. I was not really sad, I was more confused. I remember I must have been loud or something and my parents told me to not be so loud or I'd wake him up, and I was like "but wouldn't that be a good thing?" I just remember walking around the funeral home and there was lot of people, and then there was this other room I kinda just stayed in. That memory is kinda fuzzy though, I can only remember a bit.

Every time I go to a funeral I try to visualize to see if it's the same funeral home, but it's hard, especially considering it probably got renovated since then. It's not really something I'd want to bring up to my parents "is this where grandpa was when he was dead?" just does not seem like something you ask at someone else's funeral.

Oh another thing I remember, is on the bowling alley building, there was this small sign on the side with a red M on it, I think it was for a business that was there way before, like even at that time it was probably not there. To this day, that sign is still there, but the plastic insert is flipped over, but I can still slightly see the M. Yeah, I remember weird things. lol

I also remember all the playgrounds we had. It's actually pitiful to go to them now. All the awesome playground equipment I spent so much time playing on as a kid is now gone, and replaced with crappy low plastic stuff, or nothing at all. They're even thinking of selling off most of that land. If only I could have gone and taken pictures of the parks, as a memory. Pretty sure it was only in like the past 10 years that they removed the stuff. It's childhood memories I will always cherish. I pretty much grew up at those parks, especially the one near my parent's house that had the huge green metal slide. I also remember this house near that park that had a huge hanging light with a ball, and I used to think it was funny. When my mom would bring me to the park as a kid I'd point at it and start giggling. That house now belongs to one of my coworkers, what are the odds? That light is still there too. It looks like a big disco ball, except it's just white.

Oh another thing, when I was maybe like 2 or 3, I was diagnosed with ADD, well more like they thought I had it. So I was referred to a specialist in Ottawa. So my parents brought me there. I recall a playground there that had lot of big tubes with holes to put your feet to move up, they were orange, and it was really cool and I always wanted to go. I remember being in the doc's office and they were doing various tests on me, like getting me to place things in a logical order and stuff. I remember a box of items with various test stuff but don't quite recall most of it's content. I do remember one test was placing blocks in different ways. They were maybe 1 inch cubes of various colors. I remember having to place them with the corners touching the table (as oppose to flat) and get them stacked in a pyramid this way. I don't remember the rest of the stuff, but my parents sometimes bring up that day, and they pretty much determined I did not have ADD or anything like that, I was just really advanced for my age, but not as social.


cliffs:

I remember lot of weird stuff

 

[sleep]

Earliest memory that I have is when I would have to get up to take my mom to work. I was so little that they couldn't leave me alone.