Your first memory

Time Traveler · Your first memory

I don't know where else to put this, so it's here. Sage, please move it if you feel it should be moved.

Because of my own experiences, I'm intrigued by peoples' first memory. I mean, your very first one. I've been asking my friends, so I'll ask you all here.

I find very early recollections fascinating. Anyone care to go first? q39

mia

Laying across my mothers lap, having my nappy changed.
With my head hanging down, looking at upside down books on a book case.
I couldn't sit up by myself, so was about 5/6months old.

Time Traveler

Wow! That's wonderful. Mine is also at a very young age. You're the first I've talked to who goes back that far, aside from myself.

My first memory is just seeing a fist on a little naked arm, about down to the elbow is all I can see. I am very relaxed, very secure & just sort of floating there. Worried about nothing, seems there is nothing to worry about. In fact, I don't know what worry is. There's only me. On my wrist is a beaded bracelet, with the beads held together by "elastic" string. The beads are square, but have rounded corners.

I believe this is shortly after I was born & still in the hospital. They used to ID babies with bracelets like that.

mia

I can remember talking to my mum telepathically and her ignoring me. I would get so frustrated.
And my brother was born when I was 16months old, I can remember his first cry.
Sitting on top of the pram with brother inside.
Knowing what others were thinking.

the hermit

My wife can remember things from a very early age
My goddaughter can remember things from a very early age
I remember so little apart from the bad times

Our minds are strange things
Our pasts have shaped our futures
Our futures will shape our worlds

Sulis

i have had the memory for forever of coming out of a dark tunnel into light.

i used to think it was me remembering being born, now days i wonder if it was a dream i had at very young age q25

i also remember being in a cot or pram and its shadowy around me looking at two people facing each other, my parents, i think they were arguing quietly.

then im not sure how old but im laying in bed watching my dolls talk to each other, you know how their lips can move in dim light. i guess im 4, 5 not sure its before we moved away. Lots of memories from that house, not so many from the house we moved to.

woodnldy

No really early, early ones clear. Hmm, maybe 5 years old, playing with rabbits dad had in cage in the back yard. Playing marbles by the yard fence, hide and seek under a fig tree in the yard. Getting a bike for Christmas,running into dining room and seeing it under the tree. Then ouchie in same house Jumped of off kitchen cabinet and landed on dogs water dish and almost cut two toes off, mom grabs dish towel and puts it over toes and foot and says "Hold tight hon" and picks me up and we go flying to the Dr's office. Little sister is screaming and crying. me I'm looking at the mess and telling mom I'm sorry. q18

I was only 5 then I know because we moved to Arkansas when I was 6. Thanks for this line guys, made me go back aways. Love you all Cheryl

herding cats

hmmm

I have a memory/dream/vision...........I am very very small, I see a windshield of a car the car has no roof, I see a stoplight I hit the windshield then it all goes black.

If this is a memory it isn't quite how the incident went but close and I was between 6 months and a year old.

Another vision/dream/memory.....I am about 2 and sitting on the floor staring at the corner of two walls that are blue.

I used to believe this happened in the house I spent most of my childhood in EXCEPT I always knew the walls were not blue when I was 2 we painted them blue when I was 8 and I spilled that blue paint on my younger sister while we were painting

someone helped me figure out what this blue corner was.....it was from when I was 2 and it was when I drown in the pool at my fathers friends.

otherwise I have quite a few memories from about age 4 on up....

mofeta

My earliest is of my Grand-Dad coming and picking me up out of my crib. When I described where the crib was, my little toy clown and the little onesie I had on my Mum said I was about 5 or 6 months old. She was kind of surprised I remembered that.

Time Traveler

This is fun. I'm gonna ask my sons..........I'm sure I'll find that "enlightening." - TT

Sage/Debs

I really had to ponder this one...I am in awe of some of them and how young you were. I remembered being with my great-grampy on a woodpile, he had a peanut in his lips and a chipmunk (named Chippy) ran up his body and took the peanut and ran down the woodpile. I asked my mom last night how old I would've been and she said Rickie was just about 6 mos old, so I would've been 14 mos old.
I know I tried for years and years quietly sitting hoping Chippy would take a peanut from me. Now Chippy was most likely dead and gone by then but at 5, it worked! My grandad was a great guy, he was one with nature. I got alot of my Native American from them both.