What's your earliest memory?

Susannahmia · 18-05-2011 05:07PM

I have a freakishly good memory when it comes to my early days imo. Playschool etc I remember very well.

I can remember climbing out of my cot (age 16 months according to my mother). I also remember having a bath in the kitchen sink and sitting on my aunties lap with her hiding her face with her hair and me thinking it was great fun. Those particular 3 memories were defiantly before I was 18 months old because I remember my auntie being there and she moved to america after that.

I have another very clear memory of putting my finger on a thorn and pressing down, obviously not knowing it would hurt and being very surprised when it did and blood came out. I'm guessing I was very young there (either that or I was a very dim child

).

A while ago another aunt of mine showed me a picture she had of myself and her kids that I had never seen before and I was able to describe that whole day. Where we went who we met, what we played etc. She said I was just gone two years old.

Pity my short term memory is atrocious!

Saila · 18-05-2011 05:09PM

getting a hernia operation when I was under 12 months

RhubarbCrumble · 18-05-2011 05:45PM

I have a very vague memory of sitting on my grandmothers lap. It was summer and she was wearing a stripy dress. I must have been about 1 1/2 because she died shortly after I turned 2.

Eathrin · 18-05-2011 05:48PM

When I went to the bahamas when I was 14 it suddenly came back to me, sitting in my Auntie's closet in the bahamas when I was 11 months. Can't remember much else for another two years though!

JoeyW · 18-05-2011 05:57PM

This is so gross but sadly very true:D
My earliest memory is being in the cot and smearing the contents of my nappy all over the cot in an 'artistic' way!! I even remember thinking I was drawing.
God help whoever had to clean it up.
Also remember being pushed in one of those huge, oversized prams we used to have and being embarrassed!!

greenybaby · 18-05-2011 06:02PM

lying in a moses basket in my grannys kitchen and being able to see the end of the basket in the mirror she had above her range which was tilted only remember seeing the image in the mirror nothing else so i guess i wudda been under 12 months

next one was first day of school at the age of 4 years 2 days

tan11ie · 18-05-2011 06:20PM

When I was two, visiting my great granny.

hondasam · 18-05-2011 06:43PM

starting school but even that is vague, I have very little memory of my childhood.

TaraFoxglove · 18-05-2011 07:13PM

One year old approximately. It's a snapshot rather than a moving memory. Being held by my mother looking at my parents' landlady while my mother talked to her. We moved into our own house a month after my first birthday so this is how I know my approximate age. Pretty early memory!

mud · 18-05-2011 07:20PM

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

I remember being bitten by a goat when I was 2/3. That memory has affected the way I feed animals ever since!

Aw I love feeding the goat!

My first memory is of me walking around in a pair of wellies that were too big for me.

orourkeda · 18-05-2011 07:21PM

Duff wrote: »

Getting a scud on my arse for pissing in a plant pot when I was 3.

Potty training?

Doyler92 · 18-05-2011 07:23PM

About half 8 this morning when I woke up.

candy-gal1 · 18-05-2011 07:36PM

Watching TCC and wondering why i never won the competitions, I mean it was just me entering them ye?! lol

dancing around my kitchen floor to Kylie minogue, the spinning around and spraining my wrist (dont know how that happened lol)

Dancing to Salt n Pepas, lets talk about sex, not having a clue what it was about and my parents saying i shouldnt be singing that lol :rolleyes:

Coming down the stairs on xmas with both parents, my dad telling me santa might be still there so he went in 1st to make sure, and I thought i wasnt going to get presents cos I was up too early! lol thats my earliest xmas memory!

Witchie · 18-05-2011 07:41PM

Just before my 2nd birthday I rem my mother coming home from a shopping trip and my older brother asking what she had bought me for my birthday and she proceeded to spell out b-o-o-k and I rem getting all excited and saying "oh a book a book!"

I was about 2 years old and living in Edmonton, Canada and there was really bad snow. I remember wanting to go out to play and my mum saying I could but not to go to the end of the garden coz the snow was so high they would never find me.

Also remember being in the playroom in the hospital when I had pneumonia that same winter and there were huge windows and under them benches that were seats but also toy boxes and I remember finding a rag doll there and wanting to take it home with me and crying coz I wanted it. My mum went out that day and bought me a Raggedy Ann doll to stop me crying.

I think it was the following September when my brother started in school and I remember going with him on his first day and hanging up my wee yellow rain coat on the hooks in the cloakroom and going and sitting down in the classroom. I threw a massive tantrum when my mum explained I couldnt stay and cried all the way home.

Captain_Generic · 18-05-2011 07:43PM

Saila wrote: »

getting a hernia operation when I was under 12 months

That was a long operation

Jesus Wept · 18-05-2011 08:04PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

Well without the risk of sounding facetious, if they don't know what it is, it's not a memory!

It's not a case of what it is, it's a case of when it was, earliest.

admiralofthefleet · 18-05-2011 08:07PM

my mam showing me an atlas and pointing out countries. i remember thinking italy looked like a boot and ive been great at geography ever since. it was around 1984 when i was 3

mel.b · 18-05-2011 09:04PM

I was 4 and on holidays with the family. My sister and i ran across the complex we were staying in and dumped our ice-creams on the door mat of another apartment. don't ask me why, seems like a waste of a good ice-cream now!

The Scientician · 18-05-2011 09:09PM

My earliest memory is from about 18 months. My folks were opening a store and I remember the electrician guy working on it. That was in 1983.

It's mad how people have memories from 0 and others' earliest memories are 6 or 7. Such a wide variation. I have a tonne of memories that are quite dreamlike and it's hard for me to say with any certainty if they ever really happened at all.

fitzgooble · 18-05-2011 09:25PM

The royal wedding of 81, I was about 18 mths- 2 yrs and some oul hag gave out to me for waddling past her in some pub down west.

What's your earliest memory?

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