Your Earliest Memory

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by Tragic Magic » Sun May 20, 2018 11:30 pm

This is a hard one.
What is your earliest memory? Is it something you genuinely remember or just something your family have described in such a way that you think you remember?

For me, it's getting my head stuck in my grandparent's garden gate. Like this was a creepy, old graveyard mother strawberry floater of a gate but nonetheless, I stuck my tiny ass head right through those imposing, cold bars.

But I got stuck. My ears and cheeks and ting had me ensnared in the gate's steely grasp and I remember lots of crying and screaming to get out.

I think me mammy eventually put Fairy Liquid on us head and splooshed us out the vacuum, like she was giving birth all over again.

I'm just reet grateful that I wasn't left to starve and rot.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Qikz » Sun May 20, 2018 11:32 pm

I remember being taken in to my first birthday party from a swing in our back garden. When I bought it up with my parents they had no idea I knew about it. There was no video of this happening, they certainly never mentioned it to me and there's no photos of us even having a swing. I just remember everyone staring at me and being scared and I remember my dad carrying me in after my Mum came to get us.

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by Corazon de Leon » Sun May 20, 2018 11:35 pm

I remember being in my mum’s car in Darwen town centre and having been driven from the nursery I was attending at the time. I couldn’t have been older than three. I believe it may have been the first time I sat in the front seat without a car seat etc.

Quite a boring one, but meh

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by Alvin Flummux » Sun May 20, 2018 11:47 pm

My earliest memories are likely of being at the Ravenscar daycare/kindergarten place back in Carlisle, the year before I started in Reception. Memories include stealing my little sister's chips and getting a stern look from one of the staff ladies, doing the Wind the Bobbin Up song, playing What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? in the back garden, and watching a baby being washed in a big tub by the owner's son Damian. Oh and making friends with a pair of brothers, one of whom was named Ashley.

I remember having a dream during that time about being in kindergarten, the front door being open, and a steam train hurtling toward the front door - that might've been an earlier memory manifesting as a nightmare, I don't know though. I had another bad dream around then, of being in a hospital, everything was white with a yellowish tint around the all the edges. I was being taken through the hospital (held?), and was very upset that I wasn't with my mum, who was in a bed also being taken through the hospital, on a path sort of parallel to my own, but far away, with pipes and all sorts in between. I think that that nightmare could have been a misremembered recollection of my sister's birth when I wasn't quite 2 years old, in May '90.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Return_of_the_STAR » Mon May 21, 2018 12:30 am

Hyperion wrote:I remember this thread from three months ago


:lol:

My memory is gooseberry fool. I’m not sure I have one from before about 4 or 5 years old. Most early memories I can recall seem to be from about 6 or 7 years.

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by Gemini73 » Mon May 21, 2018 2:41 am

Most of my earliest memories stem from whe I was around 5-6 years old and we were living in Rochester NY, US for a couple of years, (my father was an engineer for Rank Xerox). Said memories are a bit scatty, but for example I remember stuff like a kid at primary school getting stuck on swing surrounded by a huge puddle after it rained, counting to 100 on my own for the first time, the Chinese American family (who spoilt their son) inviting me around to see his really expensive remote control R2-D2, and being freaked out by my 'girlfriend' when her eyes all puffed up due to what I now know was an allergic reaction to something or other. Sadly I don't recall any of their names. The one memory that still makes me chuckle is crying my eyes out as my dad's car was towed away for repair with me chasing after said tow-truck on my 'Big -Wheel' (some of you might remember those).

All these memories, and lot more from that time, are triggered by this one picture I have of me at Christmas 1978.

This one. :oops: (I'll probably regret putting up this pic, but I've had a tough weekend so what the hell).

( I had a TIE-Fighter that day too)

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Moggy » Mon May 21, 2018 5:49 am

Hyperion wrote:I remember this thread from three months ago


My memory is so bad that I don’t even remember starting that thread. :fp:

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Tsunade » Mon May 21, 2018 7:34 am

Mine was when I was about 1 sitting on this plastic rocking horse rocking back and forth in my mum's (very sapphire blue) living room confused to what was going on, but enjoying it all the same.

I loved that plastic horse, the seat lifted up and it was hollow inside, so I used to stash toast crusts in it.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Vermilion » Mon May 21, 2018 7:49 am

I remember further back than anyone else i know (no idea why or how), i remember being in the cot and playing with a little toy attached to the bars.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Curls » Mon May 21, 2018 4:38 pm

I remember shooting through my mums uterus and beating all the other little strawberry floaters to the egg. I remember feeling like an absolute champion

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by Kriken » Mon May 21, 2018 7:59 pm

I think I was around 2 and I was trying and failing to play Super Mario Bros.

I have some other memories from around that time when I lived in the Phillipines (I think my family minus my dad moved between there and England a couple of times during this time, before I was 3 or 4) but they're a bit hazy. There's a memory I have of being abandoned. There's one where I'm in pedicab and I think we forgot something so one of my sisters (?) jumped out and ran back home to get it.

On my first day of school when I was about 4 I remember the moment I was introduced to the class pretty clearly. I ran and hid from them. And from that point on my memories are more numerous and are a lot clearer. My long term memory is pretty good. Short term, not so much.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by satriales » Mon May 21, 2018 8:47 pm

I remember being 2 or 3. There was a huge storm and a tree fell down in my neighbours garden and just missed crushing me to death.

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by Rik_ » Mon May 21, 2018 9:59 pm

My earliest memory is fairly innocuous, it's literally just waking up one morning, my mum coming in and telling me it was time to get up and then me telling her "no it's not". No idea why in particular that sticks out, it just seems to be where my memories start.

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by Death's Head » Mon May 21, 2018 10:48 pm

My earliest memory is from when I was three or four. I was at my aunt's (we went there almost every summer holiday) and I was playing with a cardboard box and either an Action Man (TM) or some other action type figure. The top of the box had been cut into a type of trap door effect and Action Man was trapped in a loop of walking along and then falling to his doom.

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by Rightey » Tue May 22, 2018 4:34 am

My earliest memory is of going to get my haircut, I was walking with my Dad holding his hand and the barber shop we went to was like something out of a 50's tv show. The barber had on that special shirt they have, and he had a flat top haircut.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by K » Tue May 22, 2018 5:59 am

Getting my tonsils removed when I was 2. I remember freaking out when the nurses tried to put me to sleep and hiding under a table while screaming "YOU'RE KILLING ME" at them. They must have got me cause i don't remember what happened next.

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by Jenuall » Tue May 22, 2018 12:12 pm

My earliest memory is of my Mum taking me to a play group near where we lived, I played on a rocking horse and did some hand painting.

I specifically remember having a great time playing with one of those water trays - pouring water through the wheel and watching it spin, scooping it up in a cup and doing it again, patting my hands into the water and shouting "SPLASH! SPLASH!" with a manic grin on my face.



I was 28 years old.

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PostRe: Your Earliest Memory
by Mini E » Tue May 22, 2018 12:27 pm

On a related note, I work with stroke patients and one lady I came across met (this place is disgusting) had suffered three strokes before the age of 55 and had absolutely no memories until around her 50th birthday. I can't even imagine losing that proportion of my life.

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by Victor Mildew » Tue May 22, 2018 12:40 pm

Jenuall wrote:My earliest memory is of my Mum taking me to a play group near where we lived, I played on a rocking horse and did some hand painting.

I specifically remember having a great time playing with one of those water trays - pouring water through the wheel and watching it spin, scooping it up in a cup and doing it again, patting my hands into the water and shouting "SPLASH! SPLASH!" with a manic grin on my face.



I was 28 years old.


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