Very late early memory.

Pighead · 02-09-2009 11:27AM #1

Apparently Pighead has been on this beautiful planet for 32 long years now, yet his earliest memory only goes back as far as 1985 when he was 8 years old. It was a pissy rainy, Saturday in July, and it was the day of Band Aid. Pighead got hit by a red van with a bumper sticker which read "My wife keeps saying I never listen to her.....or something like that" Can clearly remember chucking at that one whilst flying at speed through mid air towards the side of the road.

Have always thought it a bit strange that the old noggin has absolutely no recollections of anything that happened between the years 77 and 85. Sometimes think that maybe the folks have been lying to Pighead all these years and that he's actually only 28. Why would they do that though? Tax Scam? Save money on birthday parties? Did they find a baby Pighead on the side of the road and make a really really bad guess as to what his age was?

At a guess Pighead would say that the average persons earliest memory occurs between the ages of 3 and 5. You get some spanners who claim to remember being in the womb but they're probably just confusing that with the time they fell into a swamp when they were two and a half.

So how far back can you remember?

Carroller16 · 02-09-2009 11:29AM

I remember being 3 and being up in the playground in the phoenix park

Euro_Kraut · 02-09-2009 11:29AM

Pighead wrote:

Pighead got hit by a red van

Pighead wrote: »

.. yet his earliest memory only goes back as far as 1985 when he was 8 years old.

I wonder is there a link there?

Boskowski · 02-09-2009 11:30AM

I have a few fragments from what must have been 3-5. So that seems to make sense.

cathysworld · 02-09-2009 11:31AM

I remember sitting on top of the stairs when I was 3 to watch TV through the glass in the sitting room door!

ibarelycare · 02-09-2009 11:35AM

Pighead wrote: »

Apparently Pighead has been on this beautiful planet for 32 long years now, yet his earliest memory only goes back as far as 1985 when he was 8 years old. It was a pissy rainy, Saturday in July, and it was the day of Band Aid.

That was Live Aid! I was born that day! Can't remember it though.

Earliest memory is on holidays in France, I was about 3. We used to go caravaning every year and as the youngest and smallest of 4 children, my bed was a sleeping bag in the toilet of the caravan

I have a hazy memory of being tucked into my makeshift bed one evening by my mam

citizen_p · 02-09-2009 11:38AM

some spanners think they remember when they are 1 or two.
(AND THEY REMEMBER IT IN 3RD PERSON in a memory you see tru your eyes not from behind you.)
but really somone just tells a story to them... and when the story is said again the form a picture and say i remember that

02-09-2009 11:39AM

i remember a fair bit of play school or pre school,.. whatever its called. so yea, memories from when i was 3

Pighead · 02-09-2009 11:43AM

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

I wonder is there a link there?

Often wondered that as well but Pighead was fortunate that day and the sum of his injuries was one broken toe on his left foot. Head escaped unscathed.

Bit miffed about the whole minor injury thing at the time because all the people who came to see Pighead after hearing he was in a road traffic accident pissed off almost as soon as they arrived when they realised he'd only broke his big piggy toe. They didn't even leave their sweets.

Zadkiel · 02-09-2009 11:46AM

Mousey- wrote: »

some spanners think they remember when they are 1 or two.
(AND THEY REMEMBER IT IN 3RD PERSON in a memory you see tru your eyes not from behind you.)
but really somone just tells a story to them... and when the story is said again the form a picture and say i remember that

Not true, I can remember being :mad:2 and catching my willy in the zipper of my babygrow not likely to fuggin forget that now am i?

AnonoBoy · 02-09-2009 11:54AM

My earliest memory is when I was 5 and my Da took me in a spin in his bright new shiny red van.

"Faster Da! Faster!" I shouted gleefully as we sped through a housing estate.

"Yay!" I cried as we swerved around corners at speed.

"What was that?" My Da asked as we smacked off something small and piglike.

Ah the memories!

Pighead · 02-09-2009 11:57AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

My earliest memory is when I was 5 and my Da took me in a spin in his bright new shiny red van.

"Faster Da! Faster!" I shouted gleefully as we sped through a housing estate.

"Yay!" I cried as we swerved around corners at speed.

"What was that?" My Da asked as we smacked off something small and piglike.

Ah the memories!

That's unreal! If the bit in bold had read "sprawling country manor" Pighead would have sworn that our two incidents were linked!

mirwillbeback · 02-09-2009 12:01PM

Pighead wrote: »

Apparently Pighead has been on this beautiful planet for 32 long years now, yet his earliest memory only goes back as far as 1985 when he was 8 years old. It was a pissy rainy, Saturday in July, and it was the day of Band Aid. Pighead got hit by a red van with a bumper sticker which read "My wife keeps saying I never listen to her.....or something like that" Can clearly remember chucking at that one whilst flying at speed through mid air towards the side of the road.

strangley enough I remember Band Aid day too, it was my birthday ( 11 ) and we went to Dundalk in a big " knacker like " van cos me da was going to see a chiropractor. i hope it wasnt us that hit you. :eek:

Gloom · 02-09-2009 12:06PM

It comes and goes with me. They usually happen at such odd times, maybe I'll see something that "triggers" the memory.

But for those few seconds, the visions are amazingly clear and vivid and make me nostalgic. Usually seeing dead loved ones at events, all looking up of course, random school days that at the time I figured were meaningless but now looking back, you miss them.

Pighead · 02-09-2009 12:06PM

mirwillbeback wrote: »

strangley enough I remember Band Aid day too, it was my birthday ( 11 ) and we went to Dundalk in a big " knacker like " van cos me da was going to see a chiropractor. i hope it wasnt us that hit you. :eek:

Don't worry mirwillbeback. Pighead harbours absolutely no grudges to the person who sent him flying. If anything, that man deserves to be bought a pint. Without him, Pighead could still be awaiting his first memory.

token56 · 02-09-2009 12:07PM

Earliest memory is of my grand father who passed away when I was 2 and a half, so I must have been around 2 at the time. I remember it fairly clearly too.

Quazzie · 02-09-2009 12:10PM

I remember being on a train when I was younger and I distinctly remember it having red leather seats. My mother told me several years later when I said it to her that that occasion was us visiting my Grandparents when I was about 17 months old. :eek:

redfacedbear · 02-09-2009 12:22PM

The pope arrived in Ireland on my fifth birthday - I have very clear memories of my shit birthday party - all my friends had buggered off to the Phoenix Park to see him.

Although, I do have memories of being in Playschool which could only have been from when I was three-ish.

pickarooney · 02-09-2009 12:30PM

My earliest memory is of being in tremendous pain and wishing for my own death. I was three and a bit. ****in' Emo.

FACEPALM · 02-09-2009 12:32PM

When I was about 5 my sister and I thought it would be a good Idea to invite every kid on my street( about 25ppl) and from my class ( another 30ppl) with the bright idea that I would get loadz a presents .
the one think i didn't do was tell my mam how many people i invited .
It worked:) and I got sh1t loadz of presents and to this day my mam says that all the mothers were just dropping the kids into my house and pissing off for the day . :pac:

Long Onion · 02-09-2009 01:38PM

I remember when the Lisbon 2 thread was started.

truecrippler · 02-09-2009 01:47PM

I must've been only about 1 to 1 and a half years old. I was playing in my front garden with my Mam, I crawled away from her and started eating muck. I can still taste it.

When I mentioned this to my parents they did say that I used to eat muck sometimes ;P.

smoochie06 · 02-09-2009 01:50PM

The earliest thing i remember was getting slapped by my neighbour who was about 15 and i was around 3.

TimeonmyHands · 02-09-2009 01:50PM

My first memory is my first day at school. Reckon I was about 4. I wanted to be with my older sisters and brothers so spend my first day at school in their classroom with their teacher.

brummytom · 02-09-2009 01:54PM

I've got a terrible memory. I can remember little snippits of things like my Grandad (God rest him) giving me sweets and stuff when I was about 3, but I can't remember anything until 9/11! :eek: I know that's late, I would have been just 8.

We were out at the swimming baths with my class (would have been Year 4 I think), Mrs McDonough came in, she'd be listening to the radio out in the reception bit. She whispered in our teacher's ear, we were told to come to the shallow end and say a Hail Mary because there'd been a "plane accident" in America. Very weird thing to do in a swimming baths.

I can remember going home, switching on the TV and every station had just rolling news on, every station replaying the same clips of the second plane hitting, then the towers crashing. I remember the family just sitting there in silence, they were acting like it was the end of the world.

I know to everyone here that's very recent past, but to me, that's a significant memory of my childhood.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 02-09-2009 02:02PM

I remember eating toast and then having milk and cookies in play school very well and kind of remember a nativity play in playschool when I was 3/4.

wudangclan · 02-09-2009 02:03PM

i've loadsa vague early memories but hard to put a time on them.
i remember nearly drowning in butlins pool one time,i just remember the colour and me dad pulling me out.i was two at the time.
it was ray bradbury, the science fiction writer ,who could remember every detail of his early childhood in perfect detail,he was even able to recount details of his entry into the world, (and complications with his birth)to his amazed parents,as a child.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-09-2009 02:03PM

I remember crawling along on our kitchen floor, being picked up by my Dad and staring at some of the spots on his face. I'm guessing that I was less than a year old.

Pighead · 02-09-2009 02:17PM

Hmmm seems that a lot of our earliest memories are traumatic events that have occured in our lives. Car accidents, death, abandonment, 9/11, getting slapped by neighbours, Frada's Dad being spotty.

Now Pighead's no psychologist but this must mean that bad experiences affect our brain more than good experiences. It's like the old wise saying that goes "Things that were hard to bear, are easy to remember" or the newer saying which Pighead just made up "If you remember only the good things, you most probably have a rubbish memory"

chakotha · 02-09-2009 02:18PM

My earliest memory was when I almost lost the top of my thumb in a phone box door when I was 2.

And being carried ringing doorbells looking for a doctors.

Must have been the trauma there too.

wudangclan · 02-09-2009 02:21PM

the brain slows time down in order to record traumatic incidents to avoid repetition so thats why those types of memories tend to clearer.

http://www.physorg.com/news116655680.html

Very late early memory.

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