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Very late early memory.

Pighead

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?

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The Big Red Button

I remember me and my sister lighting a fire on the carpet in the corner of the sitting room when I was three and she was four. It was all her fault, she was a bad influence on me.

I also remember very clearly the bollocking (accompanied with wooden spoon) that came afterwards

Turd Ferguson

I remember me and millions of my buddies shooting out of the tip of my fathers erect penis....we lost alot of men that day

smoochie06

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I remember me and millions of my buddies shooting out of the tip of my fathers erect penis....we lost alot of men that day

Euwwwww.

Love2love

Apparently the hippocamus doesn't develope competely until approx 3 years old which is why we suffer childhood amnesia.

My earliest memory is when I was about 4 years old and my brother and me were out in the backgarden. Its was Easter and my mother told us not to get dirty as we still had to go to mass. Anyway being the rebels that we were, we played in the muck and got filthy! My brother told me to spit on my hands and rub them together to get the dirt off. My mother went ape when she saw us as it was all over our clothes. My brother couldnt understand why because he assumed if our hands were clean then so were we!

Iang87

earliest memory is when i was 3, Ireland beat romania (so i was told later) my memory involves me crowd surfing.

I believe my da threw me up in the air and someone else proceed to push me back up, like an inflatable Condom at a concert i made my way around the place eventually landing back where i began.

Zzippy

redfacedbear wrote: »

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.

Hey, we must be exactly the same age - the pope arrived here on my 5th birthday too - and its one of my earliest memories too!
I got a Lone Ranger cowboy outfit, and we went to the airport to see the Pope arrive, but they wouldn't let me bring my guns in... I was mad! :mad:

Iang87

Zzippy wrote: »

Hey, we must be exactly the same age - the pope arrived here on my 5th birthday too - and its one of my earliest memories too!
I got a Lone Ranger cowboy outfit, and we went to the airport to see the Pope arrive, but they wouldn't let me bring my guns in... I was mad! :mad:

i would safely make the assumption ye are the same age, there's no must about it

joanofarc

i distinctly remember my 1st birthday party....could tell my mother exactly what i was wearing, who was there and what food she had put out!!! freaks her out that i can describe it so well.:D

Iang87

joanofarc wrote: »

i distinctly remember my 1st birthday party....could tell my mother exactly what i was wearing, who was there and what food she had put out!!! freaks her out that i can describe it so well.:D

that is very weird, are you sure you haven't just seen the photos of it loads and think you've remembered it

J.Ball

It was the year 1990 when i was 1. I was crawling around the floor and found a seering hot cup of tea so decided to dip my hand in it :eek:. I remember the flashy ambulance lights the best

Riskymove

Pighead wrote: »

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.

Pighead, its quite possible you suffered from some sort of brain defect or repressed memeory of trauma that impeded the storing of long-term memory function but that the shock and trauma from your accident caused this defect to be corrected....what you need to remember your older memories is some sort of mind-meld or meditation techniques.....:eek:.....Note to self: stop watching fecking Star trek/X-Files re-runs.....

Super-Rush

I can picture a helicopter landing in the field beside my house. It was dropping food for people because the snow was so bad we were all stranded in our houses. I think i was 2 or 3 years old. I also can remember Hurricane Charlie. That was fcuking scary.

Quazzie

super-rush wrote: »

I can picture a helicopter landing in the field beside my house. It was dropping food for people because the snow was so bad we were all stranded in our houses. I think i was 2 or 3 years old. I also can remember Hurricane Charlie. That was fcuking scary.

Hurricane Charlie was in 1951. :eek:

How old are you?

Super-Rush

I'm not that old but i do remember a hurricane type thing in 86 i think and hearing people referring to 'Hurricane Charlie', maybe they were saying it was as bad as that.

And i found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Atlantic_hurricane_season

Pighead

super-rush wrote: »

I'm not that old but i do remember a hurricane type thing in 86 i think and hearing people referring to 'Hurricane Charlie', maybe they were saying it was as bad as that.

And i found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Atlantic_hurricane_season

Yes, yes, yes. Memories slowly coming back. Pighead also remembers a hurricane Charlie. Can vividly remember the front page of the Evening Herald showing a picture of a guy dressed up as Charlie Chaplain, skipping down the street whilst carrying the umbrella. That must be my second ever memory. The memories are really starting to flow now. By the end of the day work shall begin on a book entitled "Pighead's childhood memories"

JONJO THE MISER

I remeber when i was 15 trying to pass for a 12 yr old so i could get half price tickets to the cinema.

boogle

My parents owned a pub until I was five. My earliest memory was following my mum around the pool table in the pub one morning (I think she was ironing it) and asking repeatedly "When will I be 3? When will I be 3?"

The Big Red Button

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I remeber when i was 15 trying to pass for a 12 yr old so i could get half price tickets to the cinema.

Your earliest memory is when you were fifteen? :eek: Nothing before that?

Ann22

I've a very early memory, I remember lying on my back in a cot or a pram waving my arms and legs in the air and crying, I couldn't talk or think clearly but I knew I wanted company and to be lifted. A door slid open noisily and a woman with long dark hair lifted me and carried me into the next room where I was on this woman's knee, she was talking to my mother. Turns out it was my auntie 'cos she had long dark hair yrs ago. When I'm in a new house, the smell of fresh plaster brings me back to that time. I was a year old when we moved to the house with the noisy sliding door..so I must've been more than that but not old enough to stand by myself.

DublinWriter

I've a very bad long term memory and have basically a seven year window from the present time backwards in which I can remember events.

For everything outside that window, I only remember selective snippets of about 3-5 seconds and only of 'important' events.

It's really embarrassing sometimes when someone comes up to you and remembers you from primary/secondary school and you haven't a clue who they are.

GerM

When I was 4 a giant 70ft Gulliver washed up on Dollymount Strand which was supposed to be part of the 1988 millennium celebrations. Went down and had a nose about it. That's my earliest memory. Apparently it's featured in the 1988 episode of the Reeling In The Years.

galwayrush

Being breastfed by some drunken singer from Galway.:eek: