What's your earliest memory?

[longers]

I can't remember if this has been done before.

I can recall a few things before the age of five but not very many. Is this normal?
What are your earliest memories and what age do you think you were?

Just curious!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Joining Cycle chat, 6 months

 

[numbnuts]

Aged three, falling down the cellar in our pub

 

[Thomk]

A dark tunnel, loud moaning/screaming, a shock of cold air and a smack on me bum

 

[ianrauk]

Seeing my little brother (21 months younger) lying in a bit pram with me on a seat that used to sit on top. So I must have been about 3 or 4 years old.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I remember loads from before I was 5! It surprises me that some people don't..... Actually, I find that very bizarre if I'm honest!

I felt old by the time I started School, those jaded nursery blues!!

Anyway, my earliest memory was being in the pram and seeing what would happen if I threw a toy (a red toy car) out. My Mum picked it up so I did it again to see if the same would happen. It did, and I got into trouble for it, so I never did it again. I even remember the location!

 

[TVC]

Various memories of the house we lived in, in Newcastle. Difficult to put them in order, but we moved out when I was four.

 

[Sandra6]

I can remember every house I've ever lived in and I was only a toddler when we moved the first time. All I remember is the high fence.
My first proper memory is of the second house, when I was 2, and we had a large veranda and my dad was sawing wood and I played with the wood shavings.
I have an impressive long term memory but I go upstairs and forget what I went there for.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

my memory is of a blue painted hotel with the entrance door set in the corner and my brother in a cot by the radiator in the bedroom.

my mum tells me it was our summer holiday to Crediton in Devon when I was 4 and a half - 1973

I clearly remember my first day at school in September of 1973 as well.

 

[welsh dragon]

My first day at school clinging onto my mums leg and screaming because I didn't want her to leave me there.

 

[Lullabelle]

I have a few memories of my grandad, he died when I was about 5 so I guess they are the earliest. I have 1 memory in particular

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My first day at school clinging onto my mums leg and screaming because I didn't want her to leave me there.

First day at School?? If I am not mistaken, that actually happened last week!!

Seriously though, I just accepted things, but I do remember after a few weeks, declaring that I was 'fed up' (those primary 1 blues!!) and just wanted to go home!!

 

[craigwend]

probably about 3 - 4 old of our 'old house' ( a room & a toy tank?) , though as I get older the (like many) memory fades...

Also as memory is linked to 'language' I now understand this as 'normal', i.e how do I 'encode' the words for the objects I saw, if I did not have the language to do this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia

 

[welsh dragon]

First day at School?? If I am not mistaken, that actually happened last week!!

Seriously though, I just accepted things, but I do remember after a few weeks, declaring that I was 'fed up' (those primary 1 blues!!) and just wanted to go home!!

You are too kind sir.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I also remember being a baby, lying in a cot with lots of people around me. I also remember noises, but the pram memory is my first one 'proper'.