What's your oldest remembered memory?

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Has it ever happened that you suddenly remember something that happened years ago that you'd forgotten about?

Sometimes a random memory pops into my head that I cannot fathom the reason for it occurring.

Not surprisingly some early memories are my favourite. Unfortunately it's very rare I'll remember something new from a long time ago.

Anyone else more fortunate? Any flashback type memories? Anyone been to Nam? :P

donutheadhomer

I can remember wallpaper on a wall in my parents house. they claim they put different wallpaper over it when I was 2 years old

failinis

donutheadhomer wrote: »

I can remember wallpaper on a wall in my parents house. they claim they put different wallpaper over it when I was 2 years old

Similarly, I can remember a certain carpet which was changed when I was about 2yrs old as well.

donutheadhomer

failinis wrote: »

Similarly, I can remember a certain carpet which was changed when I was about 2yrs old as well.

wow.maybe its the same house

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I can remember jumping from a cot into a bed between my two brothers.

But, I've always had this memory.

CaraMay

Watching jaws on tv with my grandmother and it was sooooo scary.

PARlance

Oldest memories all involve bed wetting unfortunately. It still haunts me to this day.






They're from last weekend, memory and bladder are shot.

Temptamperu

Kittens in the snow.

Mister Vain

Hulk Hogan bodyslaming the giant at wrestlemania.

YFlyer

failinis wrote: »

Similarly, I can remember a certain carpet which was changed when I was about 2yrs old as well.

Just remembered now that when I was about 2 or 3. I opened and spilled a small tin of brown paint onto the living room carpet.

Peregrine

I remember the toys (get your head out of gutter!) I had when I was very young.

A particular one had little penguins who would climb up an escalator and then roll down a loopy slide. Wheeeeeee! Hours of fun

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Me & my sister spiking our hair with sudocrem. Couldn't have been much older than 2. Took a fortnight before her hair was properly clean again.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Getting my finger caught in the fan belt of a tractor. I don't remember it hurting but I remember my dad carrying me inside and my mother crying as she tried to stop the blood. I was two.

Summer wind

When I was about 2 I remember my nana holding me while I was sitting on a bicycle with big orange wheels. It was owned by an older child of about 8 and I couldn't even reach the pedals. I wanted to keep it though:)

Agricola

Probably my grandfather lifting me up by the heels so I could hang upsidedown.

redbel05

We were digging out our back garden last summer to lay a new lawn when I came across a little plastic girl figurine.... And suddenly I remembered sitting in grass that was taller than myself, with a giant orange cat and an enormous dog playing with that figurine. Must have been about two. Think its were my love of animals came from originally.

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redbel05 wrote: »

We were digging out our back garden last summer to lay a new lawn when I came across a little plastic girl figurine.... And suddenly I remembered sitting in grass that was taller than myself, with a giant orange cat and an enormous dog playing with that figurine. Must have been about two. Think its were my love of animals came from originally.

Brilliant. That's exactly what I mean. I wonder how common this is.

Junkyard Tom

I remember opening a chocolate bar and there being a shiny golden ticket inside that meant I'd won a trip to a secretive confectionery producer's factory.

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I remember opening a chocolate bar and there being a shiny golden ticket inside that meant I'd won a trip to a secretive confectionery producer's factory.

And... And?

Don't stop there!

Junkyard Tom

Avatar MIA wrote: »

And... And?

Don't stop there!

Sorry Dahling, we had to sign a confidentiality agreement so I simply can't say!

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Sorry Dahling, we had to sign a confidentiality agreement so I simply can't say!

So, you're just going to fudge it then.

hairyslug

Not sure how old I was but was on holiday with my family, my parents got me a set of toy trucks, I buried them in the sand and that was the last I saw of them (the toys, not my parents)

Speedwell

When I was about ten or eleven, I went up to my mother and asked her, "Did we ever have a blue stroller?". She wanted to know why I was asking. I said, "I was just thinking and I thought I remembered a time when we had a house with a big backyard, and I was lying on my back in a stroller that had blue and black and white on it, and I looked up at the blue sky, and I remembered thinking that there was something in common between the color on the stroller and the color of the sky, but I didn't know the words yet for color, or blue, or sky, it was just something I thought." My mother gave me a strange look and said, "We gave that stroller away when you were only a few months old."

dar100

Waking up to my mother giving my father head...

Traumatised for life

Penny Tration

3 and a half years old. My baby sister was in hospital with listeria. I don't remember that part, but I remember clearly walking down a hospital corridor with a helium balloon for her, holding my dad's hand. It's a sweet first memory.

myshirt

My oldest memory is being able to (since I was a young man) decipher whether movies and Discovery Channel programmes were using real dinosaurs or not.

New developments in technology may have fooled others, but not yours truly.

Idjit

I brought a relative to his Junior Infants class recently and the smell of play dough made me remember my own first day of Junior Infants when I first met a number of people that are still currently in my life..and one who died when we were still very young.

The image I had was of us hanging up our coats on these little hooks with our names on them. The whole room smelled like play dough and the teachers perfume. Its a very comforting memory. Jolting to remember the child who died though.

GipsyMoth

My first memory was when I was in junior infants and a boy brought in his mothers lipstick, the teacher had to leave the classroom for a message and we all put the lipstick on and played kiss chase every single child in that class was covered in red lipstick. The teacher came back and was horrfied the principle had to come down and we had to go to the bathroom in twos to was it all off Every time i apply lipstick I smile and think of that day. I can't remember anything before that though

bnt

Pain: a monster earache when I was about 2.

lollsangel

My earliest memory is sitting on Charlie (my granddad's ass) holding onto a blue bit of rope while my grandad helped me to ride him....couldnt be more than 2 cos I can remember sitting at the window when I was 3 crying bcos Charlies new owners were taking her away. Grandad bought a little grey tractor to bring the turf home instead

Mongfinder General

I remember seeing my Dad standing at the front gate of his work wearing a blue shirt. He was made redundant from that job when I was 2. I also remember going to the circus whenI was 2 or 3

AckwelFoley

I remember taking my first steps

Noahboah2014

Remember going to play school when I was about 3.
Also.remember walking along a wall as my dad walked beside me, so we were around the same height and he was holding my hand & I remember saying "look how big i am now daddy? People might think I'm your wife" hahahah

Oops69

AckwelFoley wrote: »

I remember taking my first steps

physiologically very unlikely i believe.

Ruu

The ceiling border (a windmill pattern) in the living room, hated it! We even had a stencil or roller with the rubber print on it.

Noahboah2014

Oops69 wrote: »

physiologically very unlikely i believe.

Unless child was very late to walk possibly?

Armchair Andy

I remembered for a long time lying down in the back of a car looking at high trees and the blue sky surrounded by egg sandwich smell and the sound of a radio with some GAA match on. Could never distinguish whether it was real life or dream until I drove that road myself nearly 25 years later on.

It was the military road in Dungarvan and would've been the road to Clonea beach for us back then. It's a great first memory as I remember being completely happy and excited then. What age was I? Maybe 5 or 6.

Noahboah2014

Ruu wrote: »

The ceiling border (a windmill pattern) in the living room, hated it! We even had a stencil or roller with the rubber print on it.

Throwback to when borders were all the go. We had them in every room, or that wooden rail thing that went around the middle of the wall.

AckwelFoley

Oops69 wrote: »

physiologically very unlikely i believe.

Apparently so.

Armchair Andy

Noahboah2014 wrote:

Throwback to when borders were all the go. We had them in every room, or that wooden rail thing that went around the middle of the wall.

Dado rail. Wallpaper below paint above. Fashion trends eh? :-)

2rkehij30qtza5

Hiding at the side of my house while a helicopter was overhead. I was so scared of the helicopter and of the noise. It was flying quite low. My mother trying to get me to come out (no space between us and neighbours house and she couldn't reach me). I was terrified of the helicopter and I was crying. I was 2 years of age. Remember it quite clearly actually. My mum can't really remember it at all but it was a real trauma for me at the time!!!!

Noahboah2014

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Dado rail. Wallpaper below paint above. Fashion trends eh? :-)

Dado rail that's it. Couldn't think of the name of it. Hahaha. That was the in thing alright. My mother in law actually still has it in her sitting room now. Lol

gidget

I had a near drowning incident in the sea when i was 3. i can remember being under the water & my dad's arms pulling me up out of the water & then sitting in my mam's lap with the towel wrapped around me with the soother in my mouth.

mansize

I remember building the pyramids

from_atozinc

gidget wrote: »

I had a near drowning incident in the sea when i was 3. i can remember being under the water & my dad's arms pulling me up out of the water & then sitting in my mam's lap with the towel wrapped around me with the soother in my mouth.

Are you afraid of water now ?

gidget

Are you afraid of water now ?

Not a bit actually. My mam says for the first couple of days afterwards i was a bit nervous getting put in the bath, but that soon phased out.

Outlaw Pete

Riding my little plastic motorbike up and down the path in the back garden when I was four, whilst humming the theme tune to CHiPs.

Remember being obsessed with Top Cat around the same age also.

Noahboah2014

mansize wrote: »

I remember building the pyramids

Priceless

dexter647

I remember when a bag of Tayto went up to 10p thinking fcuk that...

Roadtoad

Dáithí Lacha

GT_TDI_150

I remember my granny ... she was in her late 80s when she passed away... i was 30 at the time . Hows that for oldest memory?


A genuine one though, i remember a blue teddy i had that made its way out of a window onto the roof below and stayed there. I was 2-3 at the time and no pictures exist of that bear so im fairly confident that is my own memory bank saved that one up.

Memery is a funny thing .... i have vivid memories of driving home from playing a soccer match in west cork and can pinpoint the piece of road where the announcement came on the car radio that Ayrton Senna had died... thing is... i was living in Belgium at the time that Senna died. We were definetly on the way home from a match. Everything else of that memory is wrong. I was in my late 10s at that time.