How Far Back Can Your Memory Take You?

[Bobbisox1]

I have a very good memory and can go back to when I was about 18 months old , I can remember standing up holding the rail of a cot when my two much older than me ,sisters came in from work.
They must of pooled some of their wages and they’d bought me a tiny pair of black ankle strap patent shoes, I remember loving my new shoes, haha

[hereIam]

I have a friend whose husband is utterly convinced that he remembers being born !!

[Apc2604]

Pasta - what a difference nowadays!

[zebo]

I have an odd 'memory'. It was February 1952, snow on the ground and very cold, I can 'see' the living room, a large fireguard covered in steaming nappies, my brother was about 18 months. I went with my Mum to the coal place at the side of the house to get more coal late morning and the 'old lady' from across the avenue came to our gate and called to my Mother 'Isn't it awful, the King's dead, it's just been on the wireless'. That memory is even now very vivid but my mother always said it never happened, my Dad brought the news upstairs when he brought a cup of tea before work.
However during the various Jubilees it was said that his death was announced late morning, my Dad couldn't have told her, but she had died years earlier.

[zebo]

//You can make someone remember they saw Bugs Bunny at a Disney park, even though he’s not a Disney character.//
Isn't that just confusion? We have pictures of ourselves in a theme park with Bugs Bunny, Roger Rabbit, Jessica but we had to look them up to decide we must have been at Universal studios, not DIsney.

I certainly think that if you tell a child they did something or they see pictures of themselves doing it then it becomes a 'memory'.

[Spicerack]

I could have sworn I spent farthings in the 60's. Just read they were made obsolete in 1956. Certainly had them, must have been swizzed in the sweet shop.

[Mamyalynne]

Farthing went at the end of 1960 - I remember them.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/farthings-last-day

[bunkmoreland]

as regards tastes an smells- back in the 80s when all the different tasting yogurts were coming out, i tried an apricot one because it was a fruit i'd never tried before.The second i tasted it, it just felt lovely and familiar and the hairs rose on my arms! When i told my mother she just looked startled and said "but the heinz apricot dessert was your favourite when you were a baby!" Deffo tastes and smells tap into those other areas .

[Theland]

Lying in a pram about 2.
Sitting in a toy car about 3.

[Caran]

I can remember sitting in my pram, eating little brown balls that had escaped from my nappy. I can remember my mother's howl of disbelief at what I had done.

[bunkmoreland]

my wee sister did that caran,the little brown balls were all over her and her blonde curls! Our mother told us that one!

[Peter Pedant]

I thought about this very thing as you posted
( jung group consciousness)

two people ( I was at primary skool with) said they couldnt remember being at primary skool even tho they knew they must have been
( hence no memory of me) even tho I was able to name his parents and their professions and address

it is usually 2 1/2 to 3 - you have a infantile memory as mums wiv young children will affirm
then around 2-3 it changes to the adult version and the infant one is wiped
ergp we all remember back to around 3
we have had this before = I er remember

suez crisis 1956 when I er was fwee

[Peter Pedant]

twins I know
remember bouncing their cot over to the door
and opening it and
escape !
parents couldnt wrk out how they had done it
but - what age do you stop using a cot?

[Peter Pedant]

bunko - memories circuits in man are reused from the iuncal hippocampal system which is smell in lower mammals like dogs. The upshot is that memories and smells are connected

zebo I think it is probably true - I wads a week old in Feb 1952 and my fathers diary for that week
"X knocked at the door and said the King had died"

said to the last time an important event was spread by word of ,outh

[nescio]

The earliest thing I can remember which I can definitely date was my brother being born when I was 2yrs 5 months. I remember my dad taking me into my parents' bedroom and seeing this pink, squirming thing in the crib. He'll be 54 in a few months.