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by Moggy » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:09 pm

Preezy's Console Journey thread made me nostalgic and I started thinking about what my earliest memories were.

It’s hard to know what memories came first, but I think my earliest memory was of a flood in our kitchen. The washing machine pipe had burst overnight and downstairs was covered in water. In my mind the water was pretty deep (thinking about it now, it can’t have been all that deep!!) and I can remember splashing around in it thinking it was the best thing ever. It was like a paddling pool but inside the house!! It must have been awful for my parents, but was amazing for a kid. :lol:

I can also remember that we had a dog when I was little and that the dog vanished one day. I have no memory of the dog being taking away, just a memory of it being there and me asking my mum where it went and she said it was a boisterous and rather crazy dog and so they took it to a farm. That sounds like the usual parenting bollocks, but I found out years later that it was true, my grandad had been given the dog by a friend of his who was a farmer and decided to give it to us, the dog was not really much of a family pet and so my dad took it back to the farm and told my grandad to ask us first next time and not just hand over a dog. :lol:

I also have a memory of standing in our back garden looking over at the woods that were nearby and asking my mum if I could play there. No idea how old I was then or if it was before/after the memories above, but I clearly remember getting really upset that wasn’t allowed to leave the garden at all. We moved to that house when I was just over 2 so I think it must be a pretty early one or else I would have been used to the woods being there!

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Ironhide » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:48 pm

My earliest memory is being around 2 or 3 years old and sitting in the garden on a hot summer afternoon, I was sat on a little plastic stool which was shaped like a tortoise whilst eating an ice lolly.

Another early memory is of being traumatized by a wasp landing on my arm, probably at roughly the same age.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Preezy » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:51 pm

Earliest memories are hard to grasp - are you actually remembering it or are you just recreating what you've been told about your childhood?

I reckon my earliest memory is probably being in the front room of my family home in Wigan when I was very young, sat on a relative's knee, but again I don't know if that's because I've seen photos of the like and am just replaying it as a memory.

My clearest memories from my early childhood are when my family moved to the Middle East - I was about 4 I think and stayed there until I was maybe 11, but it's all very clear and I can recall little details about our house there and the school I went to, the toys I had, what my bedroom was like and the friends I had (although I can't remember their faces, sadly). The brain is super weird.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Moggy » Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:09 pm

Preezy wrote:Earliest memories are hard to grasp - are you actually remembering it or are you just recreating what you've been told about your childhood?


That’s true, I tried to stick to things that I am pretty sure I remember, but who knows?

One memory I have that I think is false is of one of my uncles eating a hot dog and as he grabbed the bun, the sausage falling out into a load of mud. I have heard that story quite a few times and I think my brain has turned it into a memory when I don’t think I was even there. :lol:

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by OrangeRKN » Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:23 pm

Preezy wrote:Earliest memories are hard to grasp - are you actually remembering it or are you just recreating what you've been told about your childhood?


Pretty sure all my earliest memories are actually this. I distinctly remember playing in a cardboard box at Christmas, but I'm almost certain that's on home video somewhere.

Doesn't help that memories tend to be in third person

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Cumberdanes » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:37 pm

I've mentioned this in various threads here before but one of my earliest vivid memories is playing Blood Money on my Atari STe for the first time on Christmas Day 1989. I was 6 and prior to this had only ever played on a Spectrum so playing something so much more advanced blew my tiny little mind.

I really want to dig out my Mam's photo albums from when I was a kid now.

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by Ste » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:48 pm

My dad used to work on the oil rigs so was away for weeks at a time. I remember staying up with my Mum one night waiting for him to come home. This was in our first family home (on Gwladys Street next to Goodison Park) that I think we moved out of when I was 5. My sister must still have been a baby and my brother not even born. I remember he brought me a couple of Star Wars figures. Cant remember what ones.

In that same house I remember lying in bed and being scared of the green curtain pelmet.

I remember my Grandad taking me to town and buying me the Darth Vadar figure.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Tomous » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:49 pm

My earliest memory is Moggy’s uncle dropping a sausage from his hot dog into a load of mud.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Cumberdanes » Thu Feb 01, 2018 5:41 pm

Tomous wrote:My earliest memory is Moggy’s uncle dropping a sausage from his hot dog into a load of mud.


Is that a euphemism?

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by False » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:21 pm

I remember cutting up my face and hands with a razor blade and getting blood all over myself, the floor and my giant dog teddy and my purple radio. I was up early and trying to shave like my dad. I dont remember any pain but I do remember just cutting again and again making more blood.

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by Death's Head » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:33 pm

My earliest memory is from when I was about 3. I had a cardboard box which had some cuts in it to make a kind of trap door and I repeatedly made some figure (probably an action man or similar) continuously fall through the trap door. You'd think that after the first 20 times action man would no longer fall for it, but clearly he is one thick bastard.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Miguel007 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:39 pm

Waking up in hospital, crying because my parents weren't there is my first memory. The smell of the hospital and toast that was on my bedside table forever burned into my memory. I was three year old and apparently ran away from my Mam round the back of a double decker bus as we were going out and a bloke overtook the bus at speed and knocked me down sent me flying and I broke my left leg. I'm lucky to be alive really and ever since 1986 my street where I still live has speed bumps.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Dual » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:52 pm

It's hard to say but I think my earliest memory was of a flood in our kitchen. The washing machine pipe had burst overnight and downstairs was covered in water. In my mind the water was pretty deep (thinking about it now, it can’t have been all that deep!!) and I can remember splashing around in it thinking it was the best thing ever. It was like a paddling pool but inside the house!! It must have been awful for my parents, but was amazing for a kid. :lol:

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by KomandaHeck » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:15 pm

False wrote:I remember cutting up my face and hands with a razor blade and getting blood all over myself, the floor and my giant dog teddy and my purple radio. I was up early and trying to shave like my dad. I dont remember any pain but I do remember just cutting again and again making more blood.


Read this as purple dildo.

Christ, I've got to sort myself out.

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by Qikz » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:25 pm

I remember being in a swing in our garden being pushed by my dad. I saw my mum come out the door and heard her call my name. I then remember being taken into the house in my Dad's arms and everyone singing happy birthday to me. I remember being scared by all the faces looking at me and wondering what the hell was going on.

It was my first birthday party. I've spoken to my parents and they've confirmed that's exactly what happened and they never told me about it and it was never recorded due to us not having a video camera at the time. The only way I could know about it is if I remembered it and I can still remember it clear as day. I even remember exactly where I was in the garden and seeing it in first person. They got rid of that swing when I was about 2 and there's actually 0 pictures of it anywhere so even the fact I remembered the swing surprised them.

It reminds me that my Mum has a memory of herself falling through her cot at like 6 months old. Her eldest brother was stood looking out the window and everyone came to rush to see what was wrong. Similar situation for her in that nobody ever told her about it and it was only when she spoke to her eldest brother at around 20 to ask him if it happened he confirmed it.

Meanwhile I can't even remember what happened 2 days ago. strawberry float sake.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Cumberdanes » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:41 pm

I remember waking up this morning... ah good times :lol:

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by rinks » Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:03 pm

A family holiday. It was a really hot summer, I distinctly remember that. The road journey took forever, and the heat made it unbearable. And when we got there, the accommodation was abysmal. Obviously that's just based on what I've been told. I don't think I'd have had much awareness of that aspect of it, but it got things off to a bad start. But the locals were very friendly, apparently, and made sure we had all we needed (it was a tiny place, not a resort). I think they must have taken pity on me, because - this is the bit I remember most - a few of them gave me little presents to cheer me up. My mum was pleased with the attention, but my dad wasn't. Apparently he said, "What the strawberry float are we supposed to do with myrrh?"

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Squinty » Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:59 pm

Falling down the next door neighbours staircase. Right from the top to the bottom. Smashed my head at the bottom had to be taken to hospital.

I also remember getting a tooth out at the dentists. They knocked me out by inhaling gas from a balloon thing. It was the most terrifying experience I can remember. It felt like an eternity.

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by Moggy » Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:05 pm

I can remember my first serious accident as well. I am not sure how old I was, but my dad ran some string across the room and then I could put my He-Man’s hand onto the string and let it slide down across the room. It was great fun, right up until the moment that I was running across the room, tripped and smashed my head into the gas fire. I had to have lots of stiches and still have a small scar by my eye. :lol:

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PostRe: Your earliest memories
by That » Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:08 pm

Moggy wrote:I can remember my first serious accident as well. I am not sure how old I was, but my dad ran some string across the room and then I could put my He-Man’s hand onto the string and let it slide down across the room. It was great fun, right up until the moment that I was running across the room, tripped and smashed my head into the gas fire. I had to have lots of stiches and still have a small scar by my eye. :lol:

I can relate to this! I got a bit overexcited as a toddler and ran into the corner of an oven ( :slol: :fp: ), and I also needed stitches & still have a scar near my eye from it (on my eyebrow).

It's like we were fated to be libtard cuckflakes together :wub:

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