Do any of you guys/gals get fleeting memories of yer childhood?

HovaBaby

I think about a lot of stuff, consciously. I am a bit of an introvert so I spent a fair amount of time in my head, LOL.

But anyways, for some reason in my head memories of my childhood come back to me from time to time. I can see them visually in my head, but they are fleeting. They appear and go away, whilst with other memories I bring them up consciously. When they appear fleeting I also fail to grasp the meaning of them, I assume there is a reason my subsconscious is showing them to me?

If I visit by chance where these memories where made from in the first place I might remember I thought of them, but not all the time. But this is a weird occurence.

7Sins

Woman discovers she can remember stuff

Snakeblood

HovaBaby wrote: »

I think about a lot of stuff, consciously. I am a bit of an introvert so I spent a fair amount of time in my head, LOL.

But anyways, for some reason in my head memories of my childhood come back to me from time to time. I can see them visually in my head, but they are fleeting. They appear and go away, whilst with other memories I bring them up consciously. When they appear fleeting I also fail to grasp the meaning of them, I assume there is a reason my subsconscious is showing them to me?

If I visit by chance where these memories where made from in the first place I might remember I thought of them, but not all the time. But this is a weird occurence.

I get fleeting memories of your childhood.

marcsignal

yes op, i remember sitting on a red hot poker when i was 5 :eek:

long story, but that was the year i won the under 6s olympic high jump.

TeddyTedson

Being molested stands out

Kevin Duffy

No fleeting memories, no. Lots of long, lingering ones of the great days of childhood, whole summers paying football or swimming in the sea, long winters of snowball fights with socks for gloves. Ah......bollocks, I sound like Bill Cullen :mad:

marcsignal

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Being molested stands out

i'd say it stood out for your molester too :pac:

Seachmall

I fell down a toilet once.

It's not a fleeting memory, more of a horrific source of cold sweats and PTSD resulting in a crippling fear of toilets.


I now poop in urinals.

BBDBB

HovaBaby wrote: »

I think about a lot of stuff, consciously. I am a bit of an introvert so I spent a fair amount of time in my head, LOL.

But anyways, for some reason in my head memories of my childhood come back to me from time to time. I can see them visually in my head, but they are fleeting. They appear and go away, whilst with other memories I bring them up consciously. When they appear fleeting I also fail to grasp the meaning of them, I assume there is a reason my subsconscious is showing them to me?

If I visit by chance where these memories where made from in the first place I might remember I thought of them, but not all the time. But this is a weird occurence.

Our brains remember and retain far more data about our lives than we could ever possibly be able to process. Dont worry about it, its just your brain making links from new stimulus to old memories, very little to be concerned about. As to the significance, well you would be the best judge of that.

sheesh

one fleeting one that i get occasionally is the wearing of shorts and wellingtons during the summer (no socks) cannot have been more than 8

wellingtons and shorts and nothing else in the sunshine

AnonoBoy

I used to solve crime with a sociopathic millionaire who always wore a cape.

I don't remember much but somebody detailed my adventures in comic book form so that's handy.

Adyx

Several memories do occasionally stand out especially if something triggers them. This thread for instance or visiting a place I haven't been to in years.

Three that never go away though are (accidentally) copying the Knight Rider trick of reversing a car out of the back of a truck, crawling through a partially collapsed concrete pipe under a road not much bigger than me and knocking a saucepan of boiling water over my head and shoulder. I live a much calmer life these days.

marcsignal

Aw fuck it, seeing as it's nearly Christmas and all.

Here's an old pic of my bro, my dad, and me (with the fire engine) christmas 1970.

Stiffler2

I wonder how much memory the brain can store in terms of Gigabytes or terabytes. I'm working off kilobytes here anyway, let me tell u.

smash

I suppressed all of mine.

fishy fishy

marcsignal wrote: »

Aw fuck it, seeing as it's nearly Christmas and all.

Here's an old pic of my bro, my dad, and me (with the fire engine) christmas 1972.

gawd your ma was tiny

Shiner11

Not a lot of fleeting memories from my youth. But i do get a lot of bleating memories from when I was a young sheep.

smash

marcsignal wrote: »

Aw fuck it, seeing as it's nearly Christmas and all.

Here's an old pic of my bro, my dad, and me (with the fire engine) christmas 1972.

Why are you sitting so far away?

later12

Smells often remind me of my childhood. The olfactory bulb that processes smells is located close to that region of the brain - the limbic system - which processes memory and emotion, so it's no wonder that smells can evoke such a sentimental response.

Some smells that are particularly evocative of my childhood are rice krispie buns, toasted cheese sandwiches, horse shit, Irish stew, damp turf burning, silage (mmm), washing powder, warm milk and that mixture of whiskey and stale tobacco that lingered permanently around our house.

/homesick

ImpossibleDuck

later10 wrote: »

Smells often remind me of my childhood. The olfactory bulb that processes smells is located close to that region of the brain - the limbic system - which processes memory and emotion, so it's no wonder that smells can evoke such a sentimental response.

Some smells that are particularly evocative of my childhood are rice krispie buns, toasted cheese sandwiches, horse shit, Irish stew, damp turf burning, silage (mmm), washing powder, warm milk and that mixture of whiskey and stale tobacco that lingered permanently around our house.

/homesick

yeah smells always do it for me too. baby food and such

marcsignal

smash wrote: »

Why are you sitting so far away?

It was christmas day, and nobody was getting within 10 feet of my fire engine

Saila

do any of yours start with "I remember when this was all fields!"

brummytom

I vaguely remember eating a bar of soap left on a hotel bed in Majorca (I think) when I was about 5, because I thought it was white chocolate. Horrible horrible taste.

And from the same holiday, being in some creche thing and hearing the supervisor people talking about eating rabbits and being terrified they were monsters.

mw3guc

I remember getting a schoolbag from Santa when I was 10 and having to invent alternative gifts when telling my friends. The difficulty arose when I was asked to produce them
Easter was easier - you could claim an infinite number of imaginary chocolate eggs that you had already eaten ...

ejmaztec

Saila wrote: »

do any of yours start with "I remember when this was all fields!"

I couldn't see the fields through the ice.