Earliest Memory

[nailit]

Was reminiscing with my mum earlier.
Realised that I actually havnt got an 'earliest' memory.
Do you?
I find it odd that some people can pinpoint a memory and say that its their first.

[fiction-factory]

I can remember a few things from first year at primary school aged 4 but can't remember which occurred first.

[tonyav]

I can remember starting school and have a few vagueish earlier memories.

[-SharonA-]

I have lots of memories from when I was about 3/4 yrs old. Like first home, outings, friends, house fire etc.

[Old_Geezer]

Lying in what would have been a carry cot, on the dining room table. Family seemed to be being quiet. (No it wasn't yesterday either.)

[Calicogirl]

My Dad telling me Custard the Dragon when he tucked me up, must've been 2 or 3 years old? I still know it off by heart :) x

[Cloverjo]

I've got two possible 'earliest' memories. One, I'm standing in my cot with my head between my legs looking at my mum in the doorway. The other is going up a lighthouse with my dad while my mum stayed outside with my sister in her pram. I'd have been just about 2 in both of these.

[Peter Pedant]

erm we have had this before ....
young children do have memories but they seem to start again around 2 1/2 - which is when your earliest memory usually begins
We dont have an internal clock - but I can remember a painting ( that I now have) being painted and it is dated.
May 1955

I also remember my father having to pay for petrol AND having to have something else - I think that was petrol rationaing with coupons in 1956....

the above is an example of internal dating
there is a big industry in this in History and archeology

[queenofmean]

I remember being fed porridge by my dad in my high chair on a rainy day while mum hung the washing up.

I remember the first hypo i had too when I was 3, but not much else really sticks in my mind.

[Mamyalynne]

Being a Bridesmaid aged 4 and people kept asking for a curl.

[Patsy33]

I remember walking around an overgrown garden with little red Wellington boots on. I also remembering being in a bathroom and the smell of Imperial soap. My Mother told me many years ago, that is when I stayed with my Auntie & Uncle and a older cousin, as my Mum had just had a new baby daughter. I am 2 years a couple of months older than my sister. So I would have been 2 years if age!

[murraymints]

Sitting under a table in parent's first flat...also clearly remember the layout of rooms and neighbours...they left that property when I was 18 months old...

[Caran]

Gross, but I remember eating little balls of poo that had escaped from my nappy while sitting in my pram.

[Cloverjo]

Are you there wasn't a rabbit in your pram, Caran? :)

[maggiebee]

Remember my first day at school but nothing before that.

[Caran]

That's a possibility Cloverjo!

[NellieMay]

Being in hospital aged 2. Remember being in a cot and boy in next bed screaming. Remember a nurse telling me off for bed wetting and being upset. Also remember my parents collecting me and bringing me a toy dog. In those days parents were only allowed at visiting time and I was apparently there for a week. Good old days!

[ChrisMc]

I'm the same. No particular memories just bits and pieces even up to when I was 11/12 and even after. I often think it's quite strange or maybe I just blocked it all out.

[ChillDoubt]

My earliest memory is the moon landing in 69.
I was 4 years old.

[NellieMay]

Funnily enough I can remember most of the kids in primary school, but only a few from the two schools I attended from age 11. I really didn't like school from age 11.

[marval]

I remember seeing the trains, we lived in Warwick opposite the shunting yard.