What is the earliest...

MassiveDelta

memory you have?

As far back as you can remember what is the absolute earliest memory you have?

runnercheryl

Mine is of my first birthday. After that, I don't recall anything until I was three in nursery school.

And yet, from the age of six onwards, my memory has been almost non-existent...

Carl01

Looking into a wall mirror when I was 3 years old.

Scared the hell out of me then too.

TDGee

Wow. I am completely missing large blocks of the 1980s, I have no idea!

SergeantSunshine_reused

Hmm I remember drawing on the floor at my grandmom's house with a crayon when I was very little. Then blamed it on my infant brother xD So I was around 4-5

MassiveDelta

Mine is me being in a playpen in the front yard of where we lived and there were lots of my extended family around. I was old enough to pull myself up and stand at the rail maybe even walk Im not sure. My mom told me that it was my uncles birthday and she has no clue how I can possibly remember that.

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Katbaran

Wow. I am completely missing large blocks of the 1980s, I have no idea!

I have the same problem with the middle to the end of the 70's! lol. Good times....

Seriously, my earliest memory is of staying with my Grandmother when my Mom was in the hospital having my sister. I was about 3 1/2. I *think* I can remember earlier than that, but it might just be the memories I have of seeing pictures from when I was younger than 3.

onequirkygirl

Mine would be my fourth birthday party. It was that blizzard in the northeast in 1996, everyone was trapped in my house.

At said party I was playing hairdresser with my neighbor and she kept banging me on the head with the back of the hair dryer......(she was just jealous, it was purple! :P)

Sl1ghtly

I remember being groggy this morning.

lorac321

Age 4. My dad ran me over and I remember him carrying me into the house, I remember the car ride to the hospital and then the x-ray machine. Don't remember going home though.

liftingbro

I would have to say when I was 4 and riding my bigwheel. My uncle (only 6 years older) and his his friends were riding bikes and I got pissed that the wouldn't wait for me and left me behind. :mad:

adamb83

Hmm... must have been 4 or 5 years old. Very sick around Christmastime - I had to stay in my room while the family celebrated (Christmas Eve). I was able to come out after everyone had gone home, and I remember sitting in front of the fireplace, near the Christmas tree, watching cartoons and eating oatmeal that my Mom had made for me.

Sweet, right?

clydethecat

i remember my dad and i bringing a big stuffed dog to my mom in the hospital after she had my brother. i was 2y 4m.

anubis609

Playing "doctor" with some of the girls in my class when I was 5 years old.

catherine4211

I was 5 and walked in the front door with my new friend from school and my dad was passed out drunk on the living room floor.

MassiveDelta

Playing "doctor" with some of the girls in my class when I was 5 years old.

Why were you sick? :P

juliecat1

when I was about 2 - sitting in my room talking through the floor vent to my dad who was in the garage. I just remember giggling and thinking it was so cool!

Kityngirl

I remember the blizzard of '78 in Ohio...I have no idea how since I was three, but I clearly remember the snow being halfway up the swing-set in the back yard and my mom not letting me go outside with my brother and sister because it would have been over my head....

MissSharkattack

When I was 4 1/2, at my grandfathers funeral.
They had the bottom of the casket closed, and I thought he was cut in half

LuckyLeprechaun

I remember the floorplan and the furnishings in the house I was born in, and we moved out of when I was 3, so although it's not that specific, I have memories from approx. age 3.

I remember my dad teaching me how to read when I was 2. That's probably THE earliest.

G30Grrl

I remember walking hand-in-hand with my dad through the park while my mom was at a doctors appointment. She was very pregnant with my sister, which means I was almost 2 1/2.

G30Grrl

Oh wait, I remember being in the hospital with croup on my second birthday. My aunt came to visit me and brought me a copy of The Velveteen Rabbit, and the rabbit on the cover was soft and velvety, which I loved.

pigwidgeon82

This memory is from when I was a little over 1 year old. I remember being strapped down to a table and not being able to move, being in a lot of pain, seeing this light hanging above my head, and some man hovering near the light. I remember trying to find my mom and the room, but I couldn't move my head, so I could only see her out of the corner of my eyes. She was turned away from me, so she couldn't see me, and she was crying, but she was holding my hand.

These are just the images I distinctly remember. When I was older and relayed them to my mom, thinking they were pieces of a bad dream, she told me I was running in the grocery store and fell and busted my lip open. I was too young and small for anesthesia, so they had to sew me up without it, so they velcro-ed me to a table to prevent me from moving and sewed me up. My mom said it was so horrible she couldn't look, she just cried the whole time while she held my hand.

I guess it was painful enough for me to remember it from a very young age, even though I didn't know exactly what was going on.

duharvalgt

My father telling me the story of nisse when I was around 4

Tiggerrick

Breaking my leg when I was 4.... seems like traumatic events at about age 4 and memories are common. I am amazed at the even younger ones.

nerdyandilikeit

I'm trying to remember before this, but I really don't. I remember pictures of things that happened, but not the actual memories. The earliest thing I remember is the night my dad left. It was after we went to bed and my parents were arguing. I snuck downstairs to see what the yelling was about and my dad walked out the back door with an overnight bag. It's just snippets, but it's the first thing I remember. I was nearly four.

Qarol

Standing in my crib, crying. My mom came in, picked me up, and sat me on her lap in the rocking chair and sang to me. I was only wearing a diaper. My legs were so little. I can remember the sound of my voice saying, "sing it again, mommy." and her chuckling and saying I was just trying to not go back to bed.

smae1980

Breaking my leg when I was 4.... seems like traumatic events at about age 4 and memories are common. I am amazed at the even younger ones.

that's because 4 year olds seem to do nothing besides jump off of things! at least mine does!

smae1980

A lot of these post made me tear up, the one year old in the E.R., the dad drunk, the dad leaving the family...I feel for everyone who had such sad experiences as their first memories. Mine was at about age 3 or so and I attended a tupperware party with my stepmother and when it was over all the ladies were standing around getting their jackets and purses and I was tired so I held my arms up to my mother to pick me up, but when I looked again, it wasn't her. I was a very shy child and I remember feeling very embarrassed and I cried when I realized my mistake. Not really a big deal, but I was shy and overtired

firesoforion

I have a couple of "cradle care" or pre-preschool memories. One is of making this ornament (I should have been 1 1/2 ish, not quite positive, could have been a year older.), though I'm not positive if it is a real memory or not. I do still have the ornament though! A couple of others from there. Then quite a few from age 3 on.