How Far Back Does Your Memory Go? (page 2)

R.F.

The actual earliest memory for me is after my brother was born and I saw him for the first time. I was 22 months old then.

snowbird

Leo, thanks for that; it was fascinating.

I suppose my memory of my mother's giving birth is so vivid because of the commotion surrounding it.

I remember seeing water puddling around her feet, my brothers running to fetch the midwife, and someone starting a fire underneath the big pot we kept outside.

I remember being terrified that something bad was happening to my mother, and the midwife forcibly pulling me away from the door when I tried to look in to see what was happening.

Later on when I told my mother about it, she was astounded at my recollection.

Sylvia

snowbird

Hi! R.F.

I've talked with several people about their earliest memories, and they usually recount the birth of a sibling as one of them.

Hmmm ...

Sylvia

my oldest memory is 4-5 of when i chased down a green snake in the woods and it wrapped itself around my arm as i held it.....i have a really terrible memory...esp of things before i was 12!!!..........oompa

John Doe

I can remember having dreams where I could hear/feel a strong thumping and could see a red tint on everything. Sometimes I've wondered if this was from being in the womb. I can't tell you a specific age of my earliest memory, but it goes way back.

quietlyleaving

I've jsut realised that in five and a half years my mum had had 4 children. I clearly remember my sister being born when I was 3 and a half. I remember playing with my brother before that though but don't remember anything at all about my sister who is a year younger than me.

snowbird

This is good stuff, people.

Please continue.

Sylvia

Finally-Free

I have a few old memories. One was as a newborn. I was in the doctors office and weighed on a cold metal scale. Then I recall great pain, but the memory was very vague. For years I thought it was a needle. When I asked my mom about it a few years ago she was astonished that I remembered the incident. She said it wasn't a needle, but that the doctor broke my foreskin against her wishes. She wasn't in the room, but rushed in and blew a fuse at him when she heard my scream.

I also remember being abused by 2 women when I was still in my crib. I'm not sure about my age, because my parents were too cheap to buy me a real bed until I was 4. After the women were done with me they got on my parents bed and had sex. I think one of them was a woman who rented an upstairs room from us. She sometimes babysitted me and my sister.

My parents finally bought me a real bed when my crib tipped and crashed sideways to the floor as I was climbing out.

I also recall an incident when I was in my playpen in the kitchen. I learned how to move the playpen across the floor by shaking it. I shook it until I got close to the kitchen table. I pulled on the tablecloth until all the dirty dishes, milk, juice, and other stuff crashed to the floor.

heh heh. Finally I was beginning to get some payback.

W

quietlyleaving

I can remember having dreams where I could hear/feel a strong thumping and could see a red tint on everything. Sometimes I've wondered if this was from being in the womb. I can't tell you a specific age of my earliest memory, but it goes way back.

JD I think we do remember being in the womb but mostly unconsciously

digderidoo

10 months old.

Some people, especially in my family do not believe me. But i remember a photograph being taken with me holding an orange, i remember the orange being given to me by one of my aunties and being told to stand there. I remember wobbling.

My nan says the photo was taken by another aunty so i couldn't have remembered it, but the orange was definately not given to me by this particualr aunt.

I also have other memories of that sort of age, being on a bus ride to one of mother's friends. They had a black mgb, which i remember well, they worked out that i must have been just about 1 when they had it.

My memory is good from the age of 2. We lived in a flat until i was 2 and half and i remember it well. I also remember being picked up by my uncle to see my brother through a window when he was born, there is 2 and a half years between us.

Apparently i was an intelligent child but then mother became a jw.

Paul

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