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What's your earliest memory?

  • 25-09-2010 11:40PM
    #1
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭


    This is a topic I'd have thought would've been done a billion times before, but I don't think I've seen it on here actually - anyway, I had bumping zombie threads so I'll ask anyway.


    What's the earliest memory you can think of?

    I've a terrible memory, I can very, very vaguely remember my granddad, but not much. But I've just put on Eva Cassidy's version of Fields of Gold, and I suddenly had a really clear memory, the earliest one I can think of.

    I remember playing in some stupid little piano recital from when I was about 7. I was sitting there, next to my nan, God rest her soul. I heard this girl sing the most amazing, beautiful version of Fields of Gold I'd ever heard, even my nan loved it. The whole night, I just kept thinking about that song.

    I got home, asked dad what it was called, and he sat at the piano and played it to me. I spent weeks practising it; and after my nan died, I played the song all the time, thinking of her.



    I know no one cares, but as soon as I put the song on, I had a really vivid flashback to something I'd completely forgotten.


    Hopefully someone's got an interesting earliest memory?


    TL;DR: Gay post, what's the earliest thing you can remember?


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  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I clearly remember another thread on this exact same topic, just a couple of weeks ago ... merge?

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #3
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    I remember the first time i created sperm on my stomach,happy days haven't looked back since.


  • #4
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    Getting my stabilizers taken off. Bombing it down the garden, looking off my shoulder to see who was looking, then turning back front to see I was about 2 yards away from a prickly tree.

    Hurt like a bitch but I did the job.


  • #5
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    bnt wrote: »
    I clearly remember another thread on this exact same topic, just a couple of weeks ago ... merge?
    Ah fuck sorry, haven't been in AH much recently.


    :o


  • #6
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I've an awful memory but I recall seeing Carlos Tevez score a goal for Manchester City only to pull up his shirt to reveal an undershirt sporting the legend "Felix,Creampie me".....to be honest it'd be hard to forget.....also,it was only 20 minutes ago.


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  • #7
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    I remember being in and around 1 and half 2 and jumping up and down in my cot. Everything is yellow.

    Most of my memories revolve around songs and smells. A lot of smells from bad periods (even back when I was about 3, really horrible playschool I hated always smelled like a certain kind of soup, can't take it when I smell it) same with certain deodorants, perfumes


  • #8
    Terry
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    Buying an ice cream from the ice cream man when I was about 3 or 4.

    I can remember that, but can't remember what I did last week. Don't do drugs, kids.


  • #9
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    crayolastereo wrote: »
    I remember being in and around 1 and half 2 and jumping up and down in my cot. Everything is yellow.

    Most of my memories revolve around songs and smells. A lot of smells from bad periods (even back when I was about 3, really horrible playschool I hated always smelled like a certain kind of soup, can't take it when I smell it) same with certain deodorants, perfumes

    You had periods when you were 3?


  • #10
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Richie Cranium wrote: »
    You had periods when you were 3?

    :/


  • #11
    Snakeblood
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    I remember eating a curry pie and watching Frankenstien late at night with my parents, sitting under a quilt. Scared the ****ing **** out of me.


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  • #12
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    I remember dropping a tub of tartar sauce all over the floor and pulling a kettle down on top of my hand. Dunno which was first, though.


  • #13
    loike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭loike


    a floor to ceiling cabinet full of glass falling on top of me when i was like two......


  • #14
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Eating a biscuit. It set a precedent: all these years later, my life still revolves around food.


  • #15
    brummytom
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    Damn, I've just remembered an earlier one :(


    When I was 5, I lit a candle on Christmas day. Burnt my finger waving my hands round like a conductor (classical, not a bus) while I made everyone sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.


  • #16
    tony1kenobi
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    baz2009 wrote: »
    I remember dropping a tub of tartar sauce all over the floor and pulling a kettle down on top of my hand. Dunno which was first, though.


    The tartar was first.....after the kettle you'd have gone to A&E.......so now you know.


  • #17
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Sitting in my high chair and looking out the window at my father building a wall after we first moved there. My mother says I was only gone 1 at the time :D


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I can't remember my first memory


  • #19
    Hail 2 Da Thief
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    I remember once thinking it would be an awesome idea to stick a button up my nose. I was 4 and ended up being brought to the hospital to get it out :o.
    I also remember winning a medal from a sports day in play school when I was about three or four.


  • #20
    dlofnep
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    Being in a buggy with my mam going past Greer's cake shop in Waterford. My second oldest memory is playing tennis out on the street with my next door neighbour, or being able to hear my own heartbeat when I layed on my side - I would picture myself running through a maze to escape something.

    All three of those stick to me.


  • #21
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Being in a buggy with my mam going past Greer's cake shop in Waterford. My second oldest memory is playing tennis out on the street with my next door neighbour, or being able to hear my own heartbeat when I layed on my side - I would picture myself running through a maze to escape something.

    All three of those stick to me.

    Sure one can never forget Greer's :)


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  • #22
    Oranage2
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    Coming out of my mother's vagina


  • #23
    Sharkey 10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Sharkey 10


    Mine is , and im sure of it , is in my pram staring out and seeing mother and her on of her friends staring in at me. When i tell people about this they say theres no way that you can remember that young. What do you lads think?


  • #24
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Coming out of my mother's vagina

    Have you started coming into your mothers vagina yet?


  • #25
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Coming out of my mother's vagina
    Which time?


  • #26
    juma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭juma


    brummytom wrote: »
    Which time?

    You're one sick bastard


  • #27
    Dudess
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    The image of two small boys playing football in the garden (my brothers) and a mini (I wasn't much more than a baby when my parents had that car).


  • #28
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    I remember standing in my cot, catching the top rail, looking out through a new window screen to the road. I was moving back and forth and I pinched my hand between my thumb and forefinger on the clip that held the cot side up. I was 2 then.

    I remember getting my nappy changed, (but that was only last week...:D) naw, I think I was about 2 as well, I remember it cos my mam was argueing with a fella while she changed the nappy.

    The further back the memories the more distilled the imagery, the colours are vibrant the sounds are either shrill or muffled, nothing in between.

    At times I relax with nothing and nobody around and I remember a time when I was young and happy, and just relax into it, it's amazing what you will remember. Take something from the kitchen, something base, the smell of a wooden spoon, some flour, a trigger.....:) happy days.


  • #29
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    juma wrote: »
    You're one sick bastard
    Thanks, I do my best


  • #30
    juma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭juma


    brummytom wrote: »
    Thanks, I do my best

    Good for you, but that wasn't a compliment.


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  • #31
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    juma wrote: »
    Good for you, but that wasn't a compliment.
    It might not have been intended as one, but thanks anyway :D


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