What's your earliest memory?

alexa5x5

I’ve a vague memory of being in a buggy when it was raining and watching the rain hit off the plastic cover that shielded the opening. Also when I was nearly 3 I fell through a glass table, I remember being held down as the doctor stitched up my head.

How far back does your memory go?

Duggy747

I remember being in a race of some sort with a billion of my brothers, I won................I think.

I may have cheated.

jimthemental

I have a fairly poor memor....

Sorry what was I saying there?

Duff

Getting a scud on my arse for pissing in a plant pot when I was 3.

The Princess Bride

Watching Wanderly Wagon from my high chair, eating Heinz baby food-fell in love with Rory's voice......ah the memories

RachaelVO

My Mam coming to collect me from my aunts house when she came outta hospital after having my sister. I remember hiding behind an arm chair and she was trying to coax me from behind it. There's only 20 months between us so I reckon that's a pretty early memory!

Pherekydes

Kennedy's visit.

Oranage2

being in the womb

Archeron

Sticking two spit soaked lollipops to my head in an effort to make horns, and then having to have them cut out by my mum and endure two bald patches.

I think I was about 3.

Jesus Wept

People probably don't know what their earliest memory actually is.

TeddyTedson

alexa5x5 wrote: »

I’ve a vague memory of being in a buggy when it was raining and watching the rain hit off the plastic cover that shielded the opening. Also when I was nearly 3 I fell through a glass table, I remember being held down as the doctor stitched up my head.

How far back does your memory go?

:eek:My earliest memory:eek:

Pherekydes

The-Rigger wrote: »

People probably don't know what their earliest memory actually is.

Well, JFK visited on 27/06/63, so that is my earliest memory.

krudler

probably dropping a glass belong to my dad and being more upset about dropping the glass than the fact I stepped backwards onto it and then needed a 3 inch shard of it pulled out of the heel of my foot.

ScumLord

Waking up in this hotel covered in tattoos.

cosmicfart

Alarm clock ringing at 7am, although I had some flash backs regarding naked women in my dreams during the day, sweet.

OutlawPete

Duggy747 wrote: »

I remember being in a race of some sort with a billion of my brothers, I won................I think.

Sexist.

Presuming that you weren't racing your sisters too.

copeyhagen

****ting ymself out my back garden and my mam goin mad. think i was about 21

Duggy747

OutlawPete wrote: »

Sexist.

Presuming that you weren't racing your sisters too.

The sisters were too busy watching Coronation Sperm :pac:

neil_hosey

my earliest is walking with my ma on a sunny day along a road beside my sisters school to collect them. Used to do it everyday before i started school.

thehairyelbow

Remember when I was very young throwing the radio in the kitchen to the floor because I wanted to see the little man who was talking inside it.

RachaelVO

The-Rigger wrote: »

People probably don't know what their earliest memory actually is.

Well without the risk of sounding facetious, if they don't know what it is, it's not a memory!

Rew

Christmas morning 1981 I was 18 mths old.

LeeHoffmann

I remember being bitten by a goat when I was 2/3. That memory has affected the way I feed animals ever since!

kfallon

I remember the night after my first day at school and me Da carrying me up to bed and I asked him if I had to go back or was that it, little did I know I had about 18 more years of it ahead of me :rolleyes:

I can't for the life of me remember anything before school, well not clearly anyway

stovelid

Trying to fish one of my Opel Fruits out of a drain on the street.

RedXIV

drawing on my baby brother

Dan133269

kfallon wrote: »

I remember the night after my first day at school and me Da carrying me up to bed and I asked him if I had to go back or was that it, little did I know I had about 18 more years of it ahead of me :rolleyes:

I can't for the life of me remember anything before school, well not clearly anyway

How did you manage to spend 18 years in school?

kfallon

Dan133269 wrote: »

How did you manage to spend 18 years in school?

9 years Primary School
5 years Secondary School
4 years College

9+5+4=18!
See I did Honours Maths too
No staying back or repeating either

stovelid

alexa5x5 wrote: »

I’ve a vague memory of being in a buggy when it was raining and watching the rain hit off the plastic cover that shielded the opening.

TeddyTedson wrote: »

:eek:My earliest memory:eek:

Imagine the odds on two babies spending part of the childhoods in a buggy.

LizT

My earliest memory is sitting in the window sill of my bedroom waiting for my dad to come home from work. Apparently every day I would go up there about five minutes before he arrived home and sit and watch for his car.

stovelid

lizt wrote: »

My earliest memory is sitting in the window sill of my bedroom waiting for my dad to come home from work.

Sounds like a good opener for a mawkish country and western tune.

And then one day, my daddy, he didn't come home.

/pedal-steel break

Susannahmia

I have a freakishly good memory when it comes to my early days imo. Playschool etc I remember very well.

I can remember climbing out of my cot (age 16 months according to my mother). I also remember having a bath in the kitchen sink and sitting on my aunties lap with her hiding her face with her hair and me thinking it was great fun. Those particular 3 memories were defiantly before I was 18 months old because I remember my auntie being there and she moved to america after that.

I have another very clear memory of putting my finger on a thorn and pressing down, obviously not knowing it would hurt and being very surprised when it did and blood came out. I'm guessing I was very young there (either that or I was a very dim child ).

A while ago another aunt of mine showed me a picture she had of myself and her kids that I had never seen before and I was able to describe that whole day. Where we went who we met, what we played etc. She said I was just gone two years old.

Pity my short term memory is atrocious!

Saila

getting a hernia operation when I was under 12 months

RhubarbCrumble

I have a very vague memory of sitting on my grandmothers lap. It was summer and she was wearing a stripy dress. I must have been about 1 1/2 because she died shortly after I turned 2.

Eathrin

When I went to the bahamas when I was 14 it suddenly came back to me, sitting in my Auntie's closet in the bahamas when I was 11 months. Can't remember much else for another two years though!

JoeyW

This is so gross but sadly very true:D
My earliest memory is being in the cot and smearing the contents of my nappy all over the cot in an 'artistic' way!! I even remember thinking I was drawing.
God help whoever had to clean it up.
Also remember being pushed in one of those huge, oversized prams we used to have and being embarrassed!!

greenybaby

lying in a moses basket in my grannys kitchen and being able to see the end of the basket in the mirror she had above her range which was tilted only remember seeing the image in the mirror nothing else so i guess i wudda been under 12 months next one was first day of school at the age of 4 years 2 days

tan11ie

When I was two, visiting my great granny.

hondasam

starting school but even that is vague, I have very little memory of my childhood.

TaraFoxglove

One year old approximately. It's a snapshot rather than a moving memory. Being held by my mother looking at my parents' landlady while my mother talked to her. We moved into our own house a month after my first birthday so this is how I know my approximate age. Pretty early memory!

mud

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

I remember being bitten by a goat when I was 2/3. That memory has affected the way I feed animals ever since!

Aw I love feeding the goat!

My first memory is of me walking around in a pair of wellies that were too big for me.

orourkeda

Duff wrote: »

Getting a scud on my arse for pissing in a plant pot when I was 3.

Potty training?

Doyler92

About half 8 this morning when I woke up.

candy-gal1

Watching TCC and wondering why i never won the competitions, I mean it was just me entering them ye?! lol

dancing around my kitchen floor to Kylie minogue, the spinning around and spraining my wrist (dont know how that happened lol)

Dancing to Salt n Pepas, lets talk about sex, not having a clue what it was about and my parents saying i shouldnt be singing that lol :rolleyes:

Coming down the stairs on xmas with both parents, my dad telling me santa might be still there so he went in 1st to make sure, and I thought i wasnt going to get presents cos I was up too early! lol thats my earliest xmas memory!

Witchie

Just before my 2nd birthday I rem my mother coming home from a shopping trip and my older brother asking what she had bought me for my birthday and she proceeded to spell out b-o-o-k and I rem getting all excited and saying "oh a book a book!"


I was about 2 years old and living in Edmonton, Canada and there was really bad snow. I remember wanting to go out to play and my mum saying I could but not to go to the end of the garden coz the snow was so high they would never find me.

Also remember being in the playroom in the hospital when I had pneumonia that same winter and there were huge windows and under them benches that were seats but also toy boxes and I remember finding a rag doll there and wanting to take it home with me and crying coz I wanted it. My mum went out that day and bought me a Raggedy Ann doll to stop me crying.

I think it was the following September when my brother started in school and I remember going with him on his first day and hanging up my wee yellow rain coat on the hooks in the cloakroom and going and sitting down in the classroom. I threw a massive tantrum when my mum explained I couldnt stay and cried all the way home.

Captain_Generic

Saila wrote: »

getting a hernia operation when I was under 12 months

That was a long operation

Jesus Wept

RachaelVO wrote: »

Well without the risk of sounding facetious, if they don't know what it is, it's not a memory!

It's not a case of what it is, it's a case of when it was, earliest.

admiralofthefleet

my mam showing me an atlas and pointing out countries. i remember thinking italy looked like a boot and ive been great at geography ever since. it was around 1984 when i was 3

mel.b

I was 4 and on holidays with the family. My sister and i ran across the complex we were staying in and dumped our ice-creams on the door mat of another apartment. don't ask me why, seems like a waste of a good ice-cream now!

The Scientician

My earliest memory is from about 18 months. My folks were opening a store and I remember the electrician guy working on it. That was in 1983.

It's mad how people have memories from 0 and others' earliest memories are 6 or 7. Such a wide variation. I have a tonne of memories that are quite dreamlike and it's hard for me to say with any certainty if they ever really happened at all.

fitzgooble

The royal wedding of 81, I was about 18 mths- 2 yrs and some oul hag gave out to me for waddling past her in some pub down west.