Whats your earliest memory? How far back can you remember?

Susannahmia

My friends think I'm strange because I can remember in a relatively detailed way back until I was as young as around 18 months old. (Can guess that age as I remember specific details including ones about an aunt that moved to america I was 18 months old (she didn't come back till I was 7).)

I think they're the weird ones as some of their first memories are as old as their first day of school, communion etc.

Anyways I think my first memory was climbing out of my cot at a year and a half and giving my mother the fright of her life (my cousin had cracked her skull doing the same about a month earlier so she was a bit panicky about the whole thing) , she never put me in the cot again.

Whats your first memory and how old were you?

jokettle

I can remember being in playschool and not really understanding why all the other little girls wanted to play in the toy kitchen. I was about 3; no gender stereotyping for me!

*twirls hair and giggles*

phasers

Clicking on this thread

starbelgrade

I remember being a sperm.

God, I miss those days.

Dudess

starbelgrade wrote: »

I remember being a sperm.

God, I miss those days.

All the gee you could wish for.

When I was about 2 on a family holiday
and playschool and such

starbelgrade

Dudess wrote: »

All the gee you could wish for.

Mmmm. Mammy fanny.

Ruu_Old

Watching my brother come home from primary school everyday in those old CIE buses (yellow ones). I was probably about two or three. I can remember earlier but that memory is most clear.

ringadingding

I read once that most early memories are made up from stories you have heard or photos you have seen and people believe them to be memories.

I have loads from 2 1/2 onwards, few snippets from before that, which i believe to be made up by me.

johnmcdnl

I remember walking into the corner of the table and splitting my head open - the RTE news was on is all I remember and my auld lad looking over at me and probably laughin... I remember then just getting back up and walkin off again...

Asphyxia

I can remember being in my high chair and looking out the kitchen window at my father while he was building a wall. My mother told me I would of been just gone one because he built the wall when we first moved to the house.

Lux23

I can remember being in my cot when we lived in a house in Lusk and I can remember the day we moved to a house in Swords. I was about two, I can also remember talking to the next door neighbours and telling them that i could see dragons in their back garden.

admiralofthefleet

my mother showing me an atlas and going through countries. thats the earliest memory i have and that italy looked like one of my mammys boots

BeerWolf

Remember me days of playschool... when i was like 3 years old, playing with them big lego blocks... and having red beans [sweet stuff] for lunch once in awhile, and nap times. :P

punchdrunk

being in my cot and managing to release the side of it,so it crashed to the floor with a massive bang,and bursting into tears because i scared myself ****less

no idea how i can remember back that far!

AckwelFoley

My first steps.

Bill Bixby was about to get angry on tv and i thought it was my fault.. so i legged it.. 3 steps and bang into the wall

The Paws

at the play school - I remember sitting on a bold chair most of the time - I was 3!!

nlgbbbblth

I was playing on the carpet in our sitting room.
The television was on, my mother was watching the news. I remember seeing lots of rubble and on the street.
Also some ambulances, a burnt out car, fireman, Gardai and people crying and looking dazed.

Had no idea what it was at the time. Now I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIuyuPsy0Mo

Saila

Being born..seriously. Afterwards in the hospital in the baby room in the cot thing I mean

BigBenRoeth

Saila wrote: »

Being born..seriously. Afterwards in the hospital in the baby room in the cot thing I mean

Stop lying on the internet.

Sea Sharp

I remember getting a bath in the kitchen sink. I think I must have been around 1.

Saila

BigBenRoeth wrote: »

Stop lying on the internet.

if thats what makes you feel better about it. It happened Im not kidding.

BigBenRoeth

Saila wrote: »

if thats what makes you feel better about it. It happened Im not kidding.

I know you were born.

W.Shakes-Beer

I remember my dad holding me on the back of his Rough Collie (like Lassie) and the dog walking around the garden.

I must have been ~2. The dog was like a fecking horse compared to me!

Agricola

My Grandad holding me upside down by the ankles! I was around 4 Id say.

Superbus

Being in hospital getting a cyst removed from my throat when I was two, other photograph kinda memories, earliest clear one is my last day of Montessori at four.

BeeJazizWafuls

I remember being in a onesie that had a duck on it, and I had two soothers clipped onto it and I would swap them over every few mins when the one that wasn't in mouth had dried up (insert filthy joke here)

Wompa1

My parents having an argument and my mother taking off when I was about 4..she came back the next day, nothing dramatic or anything!

token56

My earliet memory is of my grandad who died when I was 2 and a few months so I would of had to be younger than that. I just remember visiting him and my grandmother with my parents and he was sitting down and the table having his dinner, and they tried to make me eat a yoghurt I think. I've a few other memories from around 2 or 3 onwards.

mikom

The big bang.

Faith+1

My first memory, hmmmmm. Oh ye, I was just born. I was 8 1/2 premature, the doctors were freaking out.:(

cooltown

It was Christmas eve and I was about 2! My mother came into the living room and my brither and sister was having a fight. She then got into a really bad mood went up into the attic got the boxes for the x-mas decorations. She then took down all the decorations. We didn't have Christmas. It's actually true!:(

BigBenRoeth

cooltown wrote: »

It was Christmas eve and I was about 2! My mother came into the living room and my brither and sister was having a fight. She then got into a really bad mood went up into the attic got the boxes for the x-mas decorations. She then took down all the decorations. We didn't have Christmas. It's actually true!:(

Was she insane by any chance?:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

rainbowdrop

First memory would be of the hurling team my Dad played for winning a big match, which I think was a county final.

They were presented with a huge cup, and I distinctly remember being put inside the cup and carried around the pub by my Dad and my uncle (who was also on the team). It was in 1980, so I would have been 2.........

cooltown

BigBenRoeth wrote: »

Was she insane by any chance?:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I don't think so. It actually still hurts thinking of it!

BigBenRoeth

cooltown wrote: »

I don't think so. It actually still hurts thinking of it!

Not letting the kids have christmas is harsh.....

alwaysadub

I remember pulling a box of my nappies out of the kitchen press. Dunno how old i was but i was under 2 anyway.

I also remember being in playschool and they were trying to make me eat rice pudding,which i hated, so i jumped on a police trike and tried to escape. They caught me though
I was about 3 then, that's one of my 1st vivid memories.

starlit

I can remember as far back as when I was 6 weeks old the time of my Christening. I remember a photo being taken of me and was looking at my hand. Anything else was running after a pet dog I had when I were 2.

we'llallhavetea_old

earliest memory is standing on the windowsill watching santy ride around the estate on a horse and cart, i was one.

jon1981

hmmm finding it hard to remember which is the earliest, i have a number of early memories... not happy ones though