What's your oldest remembered memory?

Avatar MIA · 02-07-2016 12:46PM #1

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 · 02-07-2016 01:27PM

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 · 02-07-2016 01:32PM

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 · 02-07-2016 01:33PM

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

Avatar MIA · 02-07-2016 01:35PM

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

But, I've always had this memory.

CaraMay · 02-07-2016 01:36PM

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

PARlance · 02-07-2016 01:50PM

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 · 02-07-2016 01:53PM

Kittens in the snow.

Mister Vain · 02-07-2016 01:55PM

Hulk Hogan bodyslaming the giant at wrestlemania.

YFlyer · 02-07-2016 02:02PM

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 · 02-07-2016 02:06PM

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 · 02-07-2016 02:10PM

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 · 02-07-2016 02:34PM

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 · 02-07-2016 02:49PM

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 · 02-07-2016 02:49PM

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

redbel05 · 02-07-2016 02:56PM

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.

Avatar MIA · 02-07-2016 03:04PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:09PM

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.

Avatar MIA · 02-07-2016 03:15PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:17PM

Avatar MIA wrote: »

And... And?

Don't stop there!

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

Avatar MIA · 02-07-2016 03:28PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:45PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:50PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:51PM

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

Traumatised for life

Penny Tration · 02-07-2016 03:52PM

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 · 02-07-2016 03:53PM

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 · 02-07-2016 10:04PM

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 · 02-07-2016 10:21PM

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 · 02-07-2016 10:25PM

Pain: a monster earache when I was about 2.

lollsangel · 02-07-2016 10:28PM

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 · 02-07-2016 10:37PM

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

What's your oldest remembered memory?

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