What's your first memory?

looksee · 07-10-2015 05:10PM

I have a few snapshot memories from my childhood. The earliest one my mother denied I could possibly remember, but the image is there so I don't know if I created it myself. I had to go to hospital/outpatients to get some treatment on my face for a birthmark. I was a small baby, possibly around 1. The treatment was with some sort of radiation (!) and my mother sat with me on her lap and held me firmly so I kept still. I was not at all frightened. I remember a rather basic empty-ish room, a wooden chair and a machine that I cannot define.

One that is more reliable is being in a push-chair - one of the old fashioned metal frame and basic seat affairs - and resting my head against the metal frame so I could feel the vibration from the road against my head. I would have been no more than 2.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-10-2015 05:15PM

a white room with black curtains

Vex Willems · 07-10-2015 05:35PM

Two that stick from when I was about two, one being in hospital and the other our kitchen engulfed in flames. It's ok, I survived both.

Mister Vain · 07-10-2015 06:05PM

Hulk Hogan body slamming Andre The Giant at Wrestlemania 3.

Whitewinged · 07-10-2015 06:17PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Hulk Hogan body slamming Andre The Giant at Wrestlemania 3.

Haha i do have a memory of watching it one night and it was revealed that Lovely Elizabeth was with Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage was pissed! Probably around 1989?

Junkyard Tom · 07-10-2015 06:26PM

Being at a country fayre and riding on the back of a Woolly Mammoth.

Ruu · 07-10-2015 06:28PM

Hiding from Supergran! Hated it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4

School was another one, my cousin bawling his head off, teacher tried to calm him down and he went mental, pulling posters off wall, kicking door. His Mam had to be called to bring him home. Great first day at school.

endacl · 07-10-2015 06:31PM

I remember staring at a (very 70s looking) tea tray hanging on a kitchen wall. Which was very 70s chic. Tea tray? Up on the wall with it! It was round, and had a four-way geometric pattern in browns and oranges.

My mother confirmed the memory a few years back. We did indeed have such a tray hanging on the wall, which didn't travel with us when we moved from that house, when I would've been about 20 months old.

Señor Fancy Pants · 07-10-2015 07:25PM

My oldest memory is of myself sitting on a beach and then being hit by a wave and tumbling through the water.

Couldnt have been a big one, just a normal one breaking on the beach. I remember having zero control and panicking. Could feel the wave pulling me out. Someone finally grabbed me.

I was about 3 and on Silver Strand in Galway.

Samaris · 09-10-2015 05:28PM

One of my earliest definite memories is being in a wood full of bluebells, which were higher than my head. I couldn't see my family and I got upset. Maybe about three in that memory.

Another very early memory is being in hospital and really needing to go to the toilet. I have a feeling that my mum had been staying in a bed near me because I was pretty sick and inclined to get nervy, but she wasn't there at that point. It took me ages to clamber out of the tall bed and by the time I did, I no longer needed to go (or maybe I went and came back, I can't remember now!) And then I couldn't get back into the bed again! I think I was found by a nurse, standing by the bed and whimpering. She was nice to me. I think I would have been about two at this point? It may have been a later occasion though, but I was certainly very small compared to the bed!

What's your first memory?

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