Childhood memories

disland

Hi Folks

Just wondering what the norm is for childhood memories?

I have

• 1 memory from when I was 9
• A few from when I was 10
• And then more and more for the years following this.

I cant remember anything from before I was 9 - at least I think I cant.

brianthebard

I can remember stuff from when I was three.

Varkov

I remember back in primary school i used to get shat on by a bird at least once a week. Hasn't happened since then

whiskeyman

Do you not remember even snippets from primary school?
First day of school?

I remember stuff when I must have been around 2 or 3... first day of school, and a lot of other flashback moments.

Solarball10

I can remember my first day at school vaguely (I was 4.)

I also have a verrrrrrry vague recollection of jumping from chair to chair when I was 2, falling and screaming my head off...

But my favourite memory was when I was around 7/8, my dad who's a farmer had a cow who had just calved, and she just refused to stand up - she'd been like that for a few days. My mam was gone away somewhere 1 night and he went down to check on the cow, bringing me with him. Anyhoo, still no joy with her standing, she gave a really loud MOO at me, I screeched to high heaven, and - WOOHOO! - SHE ROSE! My proudest childhood achievement, lol!

Quazzie

I remember being on a train with red leather seats as a child. My mam later told me that was an English train that I was on aged one and a half.

disland

nope. cant remember first day of school. cant remember first communion or any of that.... Always bugged me as to why I cant.

brianthebard

Maybe you drank too much those years?

anti-venom

disland wrote: »

nope. cant remember first day of school. cant remember first communion or any of that.... Always bugged me as to why I cant.

Don't you have any photos of your communion or any childhood events? Do any of those trigger any memories? Do your childhood friends not remind you of things that happened? You're lack of memories must be really unusual. It always amazes me just how few memories we have of our entire lives.

Wazdakka

Varkov wrote: »

I remember back in primary school i used to get shat on by a bird at least once a week. Hasn't happened since then

Maybe your mum was putting birdseed in the hood of your jacket...

_feedback_

I have a couple of memories of Xmas and things like that when was maybe 3/4, but not much.

We moved house when I was six and remember a good bit from there on!



Don't remember much about last Saturday night though. That bugs me, the ouls short term memory mustn't be the best!

whiskeyman

anti-venom wrote: »

It always amazes me just how few memories we have of our entire lives.

I think we have loads stored away, but just need them triggered as you mentioned.

I seem to be getting loads of flashback over the past couple of years, especially as I go to places I was on holidays as a child, or meet up and chat to people I knew back then.

disland

There is photos but they dont trigger much. I might dig them out next time I'm home and go through them.

Sharpshooter

l remember my first day at school and the rank smell of
milk in plastic beakers at the end of that day still makes me feel queasy.
They were PreFabs and boiling that sept and the milk had soured.:(
On a brighter note l remember being brought to Dollymount with Mam and Dad , they also brought a portable gas cooker and pressure cooker containing Cabbage and Potato's and Corned Beef and we sat and ate our Sunday dinner on the beach.l was 5 and when l close my eyes l can go right back to that moment even
visualising the big towels mam brought for us to put on our knees so the plates wouldn't burn us. Sigh!:)

Turd Ferguson

I remember when uncle Frank used to come into my room at night...

Roadend

sharpshooterH wrote: »

l remember my first day at school and the rank smell of
milk in plastic beakers at the end of that day still makes me feel queasy.
They were PreFabs and boiling that sept and the milk had soured.:(

We used to get bags of milk.

Wazdakka

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I remember when uncle Frank used to come into my room at night...

NO YOU DONT! If you know whats good for you..

Turd Ferguson

Roadend wrote: »

We used to get bags of milk.

Bags of milk? That is just udder stupidity.

delly

If anything will trigger a childhood memory, it'll be this picture.

http://stevegarufi.com/toys1.jpg

Earthhorse

There was a really interesting article on this in last week's Sunday Times Magazine about a woman who could remember in detail every day of her life from the age of around 8 and even earlier periods in a lot more detail than most of us would.

It talked about how, at around five years old, most children get infantile amnesia. If you ask a four year old about something they did when they were two they'll remember but a five year old won't. Nobody knows why but essentially memories of day to day events essentially get wiped clean at around that age but there are obviously exceptions.

One of my earliest memories is of talking to my mum and teacher (junior infants) about how I had to move school (we were moving house) and how I was worried that the kids in the new school would know joined up handwriting and I wouldn't so I wouldn't be able to follow along.

whiskeyman

Roadend wrote: »

We used to get bags of milk.

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Bags of milk? That is just udder stupidity.

I hope you only paid for the milk with cash.
Lots of credit cards got skimmed...




/runs away laughing in a mad cackle...

Turd Ferguson

delly wrote: »

If anything will trigger a childhood memory, it'll be this picture.

http://stevegarufi.com/toys1.jpg

:eek:
Wow, that brought back alot...

TheNog

When I was 3 my sister and I used to go into our coal shed and eat the coal dust.

At 4 my dad brought me to my first football match and I wondered off. He found me in a house beside the pitch. Apparently I knocked on the door and said 'Can I have some food 'cos my mam dosn't feed me'.

Sharpshooter

whiskeyman wrote: »

I hope you only paid for the milk with cash.
Lots of credit cards got skimmed...




/runs away laughing in a mad cackle...

Now yez are just milking it.:p

Saint_Mel

sharpshooterH wrote: »

Now yez are just milking it.:p

Another pint sized gag


Taxi......

Zangetsu

I don't remember much, substance abuse is a bitch :pac:

Roadend

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Bags of milk? That is just udder stupidity.

They went sour on the idea after they discovered we used to just hock them in the air and let them burst on hitting the ground

Sharpshooter

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Another pint sized gag


Taxi......

Punny, Not.:p

Wazdakka

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Another pint sized gag


Taxi......

Can we Moooove on please?

I'm sorry..

Roadend

Wazdakka wrote: »

Can we Moooove on please?

I'm sorry..

What have you dung!

Turd Ferguson

Jesus Christ, what have I started

pickarooney

Earthhorse wrote: »

Nobody knows why but essentially memories of day to day events essentially get wiped clean at around that age but there are obviously exceptions.

A kind of dairy reboot?

Sharpshooter

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Jesus Christ, what have I started

Thats another Thread isn't it.:D

Pighead

Pigheads first memory is of him and his sister sitting in the garden as little baba four and five year olds. Pighead spotted two wasps entwined (possibly making love) on top of his sisters mop of brown hair and suddenly an excitement and giddyness ran through his whole body.

"Copy me, copy me, little sister" said Pighead whilst slapping his hand on his head. She dutifully obliged and before you could say "Fcuking hell" she was rolling around the grass bawling her eyes out clutching her badly stung hand. That's actually Pigheads sister first ever memory as well. Great times.

Miguel_Sanchez

I can remember things from when I was about 2 or 3. Very vaguely though.

I can't believe someone doesn't remember anything before they were 9.

Where you in some kind of accident?

gcgirl

I remember my first day in school i ran out after my gran! Our first Video player and the first video we rented out was Grease! I think i can remember stuff from 4 on wards !!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The old wom next door offereing me sweets to take my pants off. No wait... that was last week.... em.... carry on...

AnonoBoy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

The old wom next door offereing me sweets to take my pants off. No wait... that was last week.... em.... carry on...

Well that explains the jumbo bag of cola bottles you had at the weekend. And your recent subscription to Mature MILF Monthly. *shudder*

delly

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Well that explains the jumbo bag of cola bottles you had at the weekend. And your recent subscription to Mature MILF Monthly. *shudder*

We have a 'thanks' button, but we really need a 'fail' button for responses that aren't exactly funny :pac:

DublinWriter

disland wrote: »

nope. cant remember first day of school. cant remember first communion or any of that.... Always bugged me as to why I cant.

Same here. I only have about a dozen snippets of memories pre 12.

AnonoBoy

delly wrote: »

We have a 'thanks' button, but we really need a 'fail' button for responses that aren't exactly funny :pac:

Ooooh I have been zinged and I love it!

gogo

Not many memories, can't remember first day of school, earliest memory is of going to the cinema to see bambi, crying all the way through it, not just at the film but at the the shock of everything being so big and loud. It was a big leap from our wooden (more brown plastic) encased telly at home to the cinema, must actually verify this story with my mother.

I also remeber a lad in my class at primary school, who was fully grown at the age of seven, hands like shovels. At my first communion, my dad didn't go up to communion (prayed to a different dude), and this lad - sitting behind me- picked up my end of the pew so dad and I went sliding down it (probably only a couple of inches, but at seven it felt like miles). remember my dad laughing with me all during the mass at "hulk hogan" behind us.
Happy days.

rossie1977

Varkov wrote: »

I remember back in primary school i used to get shat on by a bird at least once a week. Hasn't happened since then

its happened to me three times in the last 10 months and all outside of ireland, the foreign birds don't like me :mad:

on topic my first memory is going to galway hospital to see my then baby brother, i was 2 years 5 months old

a bit fuzzy then until the morning of my sixth birthday, i remember waking up thinking i was really old

Big Knox

delly wrote: »

If anything will trigger a childhood memory, it'll be this picture.

http://stevegarufi.com/toys1.jpg

Holy ****balls batman, you may have just triggered my earliest memory I used to have that EXACT set and I use to put random things in the lift and wheel it up and down all day.

What an exciting childhood I had...

4zn76tysfajdxp

I pretty much remember everything from my childhood from ages five or six onwards...

disland

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

I can remember things from when I was about 2 or 3. Very vaguely though.

I can't believe someone doesn't remember anything before they were 9.

Where you in some kind of accident?

No accident. Not that I'm aware of , or not that anybody has told me about!

Nehaxak

I remember the first time I wrote my name clearly on a bit of paper with a red pen. I was three years old. :eek:
Strange but one of my earliest memories I still remember.

Prof.Badass

I have loads of memories from the age of 3 up.

I also have at least one from when i was 2.

Quazzie

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I remember when uncle Frank used to come into my room at night...

Show us on the doll where he touched you!