What Is Your Earliest Life Memory ?

[kiobe]

I'm 50 and I can still remember being in my crib and seeing my room through the white slats. Also the imitation pebble lanoleum floor. Sometimes I think I can remember hearing someone yelling.

[mtpspur]

I remember a nightmare I had as a child (approx 4 years old) where I dreamed giant snakes were chasing me. I literally got moved to every bed in the house. I remember waking and screaming in great fear and getting moved to finally with my sister where kept a snake trapped under the covers so it wouldn't get my sister. I believe this came from watching a jungle movie or Flash Gordon because other then the snakes I remember gorillas with ray guns were hunting me and others and I was hiidng under newspapers and trash. Still have a great fear of reptiles but managed Raiders of the Lost Ark anyhoo. Chickened out on Snakes on a Plane.

[Pensive]

My first memory seems to be a dream (a kind of nightmare). I remember very little of it: I could see a lion moving slowly through my window. And I remember how it horrified me!

[Annamariah]

I've got a lot of memories from the time when we lived in my first home (we moved away when I was 4 years old), but I've no idea which of them would be my first memory.

I do remember when we bought our first car. I just asked my mother and she said it was in November 1990, which means I was two years and three months old then. I remember sitting on the window sill and looking out when my father drove the car to our yard. I guess that must be one of my first memories :)

[Bakiryu]

I remenber being very small, I still slept on a crib, and have done something bad, then I went downstairs, my father chased me, I closed the door and he punched it. I also remenber going to school with my grandmother.

Unfortunatedly, i have a hard time remenbering things, I cab't even remnber what I ate yesterday!

[smartgirl]

I'm in my crib yelling, waiting for someone to come console me. I have been in this dirty diaper for a long time now. Finally my mother comes. She leans over the crib, and "whew!" At least she finally changed my diaper!

[kiobe]

I remember a nightmare I had as a child (approx 4 years old) where I dreamed giant snakes were chasing me. I literally got moved to every bed in the house. I remember waking and screaming in great fear and getting moved to finally with my sister where kept a snake trapped under the covers so it wouldn't get my sister. I believe this came from watching a jungle movie or Flash Gordon because other then the snakes I remember gorillas with ray guns were hunting me and others and I was hiidng under newspapers and trash. Still have a great fear of reptiles but managed Raiders of the Lost Ark anyhoo. Chickened out on Snakes on a Plane.

Wow, that would make another great thread. Scary dreams.

[Visionary3]

I remember looking down from a top deck on a ship seeing the water far down below. I must have been about three years old as that is when we sailed back from Israel when the war broke out and all Americans had to go home.

[Turk]

I remember a doctor was holding my feet with his hand and hitting my butt with other hand, i was so mad at him, but couldn't do anything, so i started to cry but everyone around was so happy including my dad and mom. :(

[kiobe]

I remember a doctor was holding my feet with his hand and hitting my butt with other hand, i was so mad at him, but couldn't do anything, so i started to cry but everyone around was so happy including my dad and mom. :(

Always a smartaleck.:smash:

[Mortis Anarchy]

Corpes Cristi...thousands of jellyfish laying all over the beach...my uncle didn't want me to get hurt so he picked me up and carried me to the waters edge.

That or it was my Kompas funeral...no earlier than that...we were at his house...it had finished raining and he took me outside, we started dancing and he layed down on the grass and I sat on his chest and played with his beard...:( ...I miss him.

[apples of gold]

About four of my uncles were standing around in a circle passing me from one to the other. It seems they got a little too exuberant and one of them tossed me quite high into the air. I don't know if I hit the ceiling or not but I vividly remember screaming my head off. My mother has always behaved as though some trauma has permanently damaged me and this could very well be it. I told her about it much later and she was stunned saying "You remember that!". I don't know exactly what age I was, but under two and still in diapers. She should have made those buggers change them.

[applepie]

I think it would have to be being bounced on my Grandpa's knee. When I was a little girl of only two or three he used to pick me up and bounce me for hours at a time when I was able to see him. It is just this vague memory, but it is the oldest thing I can remember.

[Weisinheimer]

I think mine is the day my little brother was born. I was 3.

[Gadget Girl]

I was in the middle of the bed, watching the ceiling with great interest...

[Granny5]

My earliest memory is of pouring black shoe polish down the front of a yellow dress my mother had dressed me in to have a family photo taken. Everyone in the photo is dressed in yellow but me. I have a blue dress on. I was 2 1/2 at the time.

[Virgil]

I'm amazed at how early a memory some of you have. Kiobe at the start of this thread remembers being in a crib as a baby. Wow, that's hard to comprehend. For me, my earliest memory is of around four years old sitting on the couch at my grandmother's house.

[Granny5]

You know, I have never been really sure that I actually remember the shoe polish incident or if I've just heard it so many time I think I remember it. But I can still smell the polish and feel the wetness. So I believe I truly remember it. I have lots of memories from around that time, but you know what they say about age...can remember long term but not short term...where did I put my coffee???

[BlueSkyGB]

While living in Chile......
playing with all the neighbor's kids and having an earthquake....and the sights of the countryside, are still very vivid in my mind.

[Lily Adams]

Mine is when I was a baby. I was walking around by our grand piano and hitting the top of the piano bench with my hand and I hear my name. I looked over and I saw a bright flash and I remember feeling bad like I did something wrong and I think I cried.

We still have the picture. :D I must have been around 1-2 years old?

Great idea for a thread, by the way. :thumbs_up

[firefangled]

When I was three I ran away from home ( I actually was trying to go to where my mother worked as a waitress on the top floor of the Leveck Lincoln Tower in Columbus) when the babysitter wasn't watching. I walked about 3 or 4 miles and almost made it downtown following the only skyscraper we had. What I remember most about it was a mailman saw me walking down the sidewalk and came up and said, "Are you trying to get home?" He took me in a store and held on to me while someone called the police and they managed to figure out where I lived. I went through lots of babysitters...:lol: :lol:

[Idril]

I have a jumble of early memories but they all center on my mother's run-in with a lawn mower. When I was 3, my mom was mowing the back yard when she hit a bump or something and the lawnmower jerked backwards and ate her big toe, half of the next one and shaved off the top of her foot. I don't have any memories of that day but I do remember visiting her in the hospital, where she sat for 6 weeks and I remember missing her terribly. I would cry when we would visit her and beg her to come home and then she would cry because I was so sad and then my dad would get mad at me for upsetting her and threaten that unless I stopped making her cry, I couldn't visit her anymore...it was a very tense 6 weeks. :rolleyes: