Whats your earliest memory?

BKtje · 12-03-2008 04:00PM

I have 5 or so vivid memories but i have no idea in what order they occured (would all have occured around the same time). I have spoken to parents but they don't recall some/know when they happened but i must have been about 2-3 when they happened.

1) Lying beside my sister for a photo a little while before she died. Definately my favourite early memory and still have said photo.
2) Almost getting knocked down by a car and my dad sitting by the side of the road afterwards crying (from fright i assume, not that it missed

)
3) Sitting in the dark in my old school being super quiet to scare the parents as they collected us.
4) Handing out crisps and sweets etc in school for everyone on my birthday (in holland on your birthday you supply the snacks for everyone to celebrate).
5) Getting a nail jammed into my head after falling over a doorstep in a neighbours house.

Those are the 5 i recall most vividly

Babette08 · 12-03-2008 04:06PM

Setting my fringe on fire while blowing out the candle on my fourth b-day cake...ooh the memories - fun times!! Haven't had a fringe since

ScumLord · 12-03-2008 04:30PM

I remember the first time going to church, I managed to escape from my mothers clutch. Beat an old man with his walking stick then run up to the alter. The priest made some joke about the children coming to God so I kicked him and started out on the run again. Didn't make the front door but we had to leave in the end with all the screaming I was doing.

6th · 12-03-2008 04:32PM

Whats your earliest memory?

About 20 minutes ago .... I hit my head and thats it.

Pherekydes · 12-03-2008 04:34PM

I remember JFK's visit.

That's the earliest memory I can accurately pinpoint.

Lizzykins · 12-03-2008 04:36PM

I remember staying over in my Granny's house while my parents went out and being in a big double bed in the dark. The grandparents cat jumped out of the wardrobe onto the bed and I screamed the house down! I still can't sleep in complete darkness but I love cats!
Memory number two is being in the same house and finding a Union Jack in the understairs cupboard. I wanted to bring it out on the road and wave it around! This was vetoed and I had a tantrum. Bear in mind this was probably 1965/66. I was about 4 I think.

dsmythy · 12-03-2008 05:44PM

Wow, some of you have pretty early memories. I can't remember too far back. First memory i can pinpoint was when i was 6 years old sitting watching Ireland v Italy in the World Cup quarter final that year.

After Italy scored my older brother told me that Italy had taken off their goalkeeper to give Ireland a chance and it was really annoying that Ireland couldn't score despite this. I fell for it but i swear to god everytime i looked up at the screen i couldn't see any Italian goalkeeper in front of goals. Such is the mind of a gullible 6 year old!

Can't remember anything before that. Maybe i just blacked out the eighties or something. Well ahead of my time. I knew the good times were coming.

Poxyshamrock · 12-03-2008 07:50PM

I remember my first day at school when i was 4.
Also remember seeing my mam on the news when veronica guerin was murdered...i would have been 5 then.

OpenYourEyes · 12-03-2008 07:56PM

dropping a toy of the "fat controller" (thomas the tank engine guy) down behind the radiator in the kitchen and it getting stuck!

wonder if its still ther?:rolleyes:

whatsgoinon · 12-03-2008 08:11PM

watchin some fellas install a radiator in my room when i was about 3, they made an awful mess, there was a hole drilled in the wall. My parents were away at the time and my aunt and uncle were down from dublin. My uncle had a lada and he used to bring us to the beach, along the way he would beep going around all the corners to warn people we were coming. There was a thing in between the 2 front seats as well that he would pull up to keep us in the back, good times:)

Piste · 12-03-2008 11:24PM

I remember me telling someone my mum was going to have a baby when I was about two, I also remember bouncing on my then-pregnant mum's large stomach while she tried to gently tell me to stop.

I didn't stop.

misslt · 12-03-2008 11:31PM

I was absolutely terrified of the Mr Muscle man in the TV adverts, I mean I'd hide behind the couch when the ads came on!!

I also remember when my mam was pregnant with my sister 'talking' to her thru her belly button. Very strange child.

GrahamThomas · 13-03-2008 02:48AM

My 3rd birthday, sitting on the rug in my sitting room and playing with a Playmobil fire engine my parents got for me. Good times!

orestes · 13-03-2008 02:53AM

Breaking my leg really badly when I was four (smashed it up real good)

[emo]The first thing I remember in my life is pain...[/emo]

RxQueen · 13-03-2008 11:07AM

orestes wrote: »

Breaking my leg really badly when I was four (smashed it up real good)

[emo]The first thing I remember in my life is pain...[/emo]

:rolleyes:

the first thing i remember is crying on my bed when i was 3, cause my mam wanted me to go get my hair cut, used hate the haridresser and still do.

leninbenjamin · 13-03-2008 11:19AM

i have vague memories of the first time i used the potty on my own. very proud moment.

Keyzer · 13-03-2008 11:27AM

I remember the moment I consciously noticed that I was breathing.

I'm not sure what age I was but I must have been very young.
I remember my chest was going up and down and I was wondering why.

BeerWolf · 13-03-2008 12:22PM

Hmm, plenty --- but the one that really stands out, and which I'll never forget... having a concrete nail [you know, them massively long nails?] go right through my knee and pop out in the other side inbetween the joint.

Just imagining the pain when I tried to stand up... *shudders*

MarkR · 13-03-2008 02:17PM

I remember being in my buggy and looking out. There was a man wearing a plaid shirt. It was probably '79 '80 so that's ok.

ImDave · 13-03-2008 02:31PM

My first memory is falling off the kitchen table and down into the turf box!

cujimmy · 13-03-2008 02:43PM

The earliest memory to beat all others

I remember going to a dance with my father and coming home from the dance with my mother.

AckwelFoley · 13-03-2008 02:45PM

cujimmy wrote: »

The earliest memory to beat all others

I remember going to a dance with my father and coming home from the dance with my mother.

Thehehe..

Bet it was warm

RxQueen · 13-03-2008 02:49PM

cujimmy wrote: »

The earliest memory to beat all others

I remember going to a dance with my father and coming home from the dance with my mother.

heheheh , that took a few reads before i got what you were saying! great post!

Mr. CooL ICE · 13-03-2008 02:57PM

Raspberry wrote: »

No, not the incubator. The glass cot that they put you in. I remember looking up and seeing see through walls around me.

You sure that wasn't the test tube?

AckwelFoley · 13-03-2008 02:59PM

LordChessington wrote: »

You sure that wasn't the test tube?

No. They wouldnt have used the jizz if they seen it.. defective

:P

Andrewf20 · 14-03-2008 07:16PM

1.5 years old, off on hols in Mayo bouncing the pavement after tripping on the kerb, and breaking my Ulsterbus toy on the ground for good measure. Double whammy.

AckwelFoley · 15-03-2008 01:35PM

I do reember when i was being toilet trained.I do the business then scream to my mother to wipe me arse.

.. mind u that wasnt too long ago.. late learner and all that.

cujimmy · 15-03-2008 01:56PM

snyper wrote: »

.........then scream to my mother to wipe me arse.

...

and to quote Stewie Griffin " One finger circular motion"

Victor · 16-03-2008 11:38PM

Probable: Age 1.5 at my cousin's christening.
Definite: Age 3 on my birthday. I got a boat. I think I still have parts of it somewhere.

17-03-2008 01:30AM

Sitting on a hill in Clondalkin while looking over a road with an orange or yellow CIÉ bus going by and a Findus truck parked on the opposite side of it. Must have been around 1986/87.

Whats your earliest memory?

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