What's the earliest thing you can remember?

[boxtops]

I can vividly remember when I was about 18 months old, I was proceeding down our garden and found the tortoise in some grass. I can remember what I was wearing. I am told that is exceptionally young to remember, but I also remember my Dad's 40th birthday which was just before I was two, Mum made a fruit cake and we put a cardboard 40 on it because he didn't like icing. I can see the picture of it in my mind still.

[mazie]

I was about a year oldish, I remember being in a very high pram and leaning over the side (I hade some sort of harness on , no comments from you lot) and I lost my dummy...and I cried

[cazzz1975]

I remember jumping up and down in my cot, it was early morning and I had woke everyone up, I suspect I was less than a year old

[ttfn]

^ For 'dummy' read 'silk cut'

[cazzz1975]

lol ttfn...and now I have the vision of crafts avatar..

[andy-hughes]

I remember being in my pram, so certainly too small to walk, and siting outside in our back garden. The builders were shifting rubble building a new house nearby, and when they emptied their whellbarrow, the noise made me cry.

[4getmenot]

weeing myself in school assembly when I was about 3 and had to wear some big navy blue pants the nuns gave me. My old house was up for sale recently and I looked at the pics of the rooms, Moved when I was 4 and didnt bring back any memories at all.

[boxtops]

Hi ttfn!
I can also remember my dad and my uncle kept chickens, I don't remember this but apparently I boinged out of my high pram one day straight into the chicken run. Could explain a lot....

[jno]

some people remember being born, or even earlier (not me, though)

http://www.guardian.c...uery/0,,-2899,00.html

[mazie]

a bit young even for me ttfn :o)

I doubt I'd lose my dummy these days

I remember so much about being really young it's scary but cant remember my teens too well. some things I can but it;s very patchy

[NoMercy]

I remember the day we moved into our house in Hereford (Oct 1980). I cannot remember a single day before that.

[Stephen_G]

Going to Anglesey on holiday. I was about two or three years old. The campsite we stayed in was very bumpy and one day Dad had me sat on his knee and I was steering the car. I drove straight over them.

[boxtops]

One post on jno's link suggests we don't remember anything reliably before the age of three - we are here starting to prove that premise wrong!

[ttfn]

dear boxy - age has a lot to answer for, does it not
<hence my need to make continual lists, otherwise I forget everything... I put it down to having too much to remember, if I don't write it down it's gone>
Apparently then if you have a good memory at one extreme of your life you lose the other one! In that case I shall stay the teenager I am. However I can remember being strapped into my coach-built pram and I can remember what I had for lunch today (and no mazie - those aren't both memories on the same day)

[mazie]

when my son was about 3 he explained something that happened to him, he told us in great detail, we just looked at each other. He had explained being born....it was realy spooky

[mazie]

lol, I bet they are ;o)

[jno]

I dunno, boxy, the memories here are all rather vague, aren't they? People remember things but - what with years of subsequent memories crowding their databanks - are hard put to remember just when it was.

I can remember a car in a garage. I found out later it was my uncle's and I stayed there when I was 22 months because a sibling was being born at the time, so I can date that precisely. But if I hadn't been able to identify the car (which I was able to do from photos), it would have been another unplaceable memory.

[4getmenot]

but how do you know you do remember it and it wasnt just a dream you had that you are remembering making you think you were that age? I can think of images I had before 3 but then unless I have proof it happened I think I must have dreamt it, or someone just told me about it.

[momcj]

i remember falling off me little green bug bike, on my mom and dads garden path-just went right back! 31 now and we still have the bike-minus some of the stickers, all kids still play on it.

[craft1948]

For some reason I don't remember much at all........