How Far Back Does Your Memory Go?

fmdog44

fmdog44

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My memory kicked in when I was 5 years old. Oddly, it started on the day we moved to a new home. I recall almost nothing prior to that day.
 

Bits and pieces from about 6 or 7 years old. None of it really clear so could be my over active imagination filling in the blanks.
 

What was the question again? ;) Seriously though, I do remember my sweet "Gammie" in Ft. Lauderdale Florida taking me to a toy store to buy anything I wanted in the whole store. I picked out a doll and then she took me next door to the Howard Johnson's for a chocolate "Frosty" (milkshake). I was about 4 or 5.
 
I have a few memories that go back to when I was about 2 and a-half. My baby brother was born, I met my uncle for the first time (he'd come to live with us), and I discovered a food-storage shed and 4 or 5 huge crocks behind my great-grandmother's house. The crocks were used to keep meat, eggs, and olives. I remember these things very vividly. I even remember the smells in the food shed and around the lids of the crocks; primarily vinegar, salt, and dried alfalfa. I remember picking up potatoes from the straw beds in the shed, and biting into one. I took it to my mother, and she got very upset.

Between that time and my 5th birthday I only remember a few times that I spent talking with my uncle, and the times my little brother was very sick. He had bad asthma, and had to stay in a hospital a lot. But I have many more memories of things after age 5...a wider range of things. I think that's when your world suddenly gets bigger. At age 5 it seemed vast to me, and so populated.
 
I remember being taken to the hospital in a taxicab when I was around 2 or 3. I had the croup and after coming home had to breathe the fumes from a machine. I remember hearing adults talking about my sickness in the next room.
 
My first memory is of a winter outing. I had a red snowsuit and was sitting on a sled while my parents ice skated around a frozen pond. There were other people there and my focus was seeing the branches of shrubs & trees frozen in the ice. I was younger than 2. My father corroborates this. I have other memories of single events all along the way. My younger siblings remember nothing before about 5th grade - interesting.
 
i can remember back when i was 3--my mom went to the store and my older sister was watching me --i was suppose to stay in the house untill she got back--i went out side and climbed the clothes line pole i tried to get down and got hung on a hook and tore my new under wear-i stuck a pin in it but she found it come was day
 
somewhere around 2 or 3. I used to go down the street to a bar and play the pinball machine and drink cokes. I couldnt see the ball but I could see the back board light up. when mom came to find me she paid the bartender for the cokes and said it was cheaper than a babysitter
 
I'm guessing 4 or 5... before I started to school. I remember my older brother and sister got to ride the school bus and I had to stay home. We lived on a farm and my dad sat me up on a horse that then got spooked and ran away with me hanging on to the saddle horn. My brother happened to be on his horse and chased us down.

So just bits and pieces of things, but that's how I remember most of my life. :D
 
my first ever vivid recollection was learning to swim

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I remember ...

... everything was horribly hot, and the swirling proto-planet was just then forming out of stellar dust ...

Seriously, I'd have to say I have a few spotty memories from around 4 or 5 years old. Playing in my room with the cat, reading Dr. Seuss, stuff like that.
 
It's hard to pin down a date for memories. Some memories when you are a kid are not very "memorable" events. lol

I remember the first time I was old enough (or tall enough) to turn on the light switches. Freedom at last!!! :)

And when one old picture was taken, that looks like I was about 3, but I can't judge kids ages very well.
 
I would say 4 or 5 years old. I remember kindergarten...as it was in an older school that was closed a year or two after I went there. I also have memories of my grandmother, who died when I was 5 years old.
 
I think I remember bits and pieces when I was 2 or 3 but not sure if they are true memories or not. The first vivid memory I have is when I was around 4 and almost had the top part of my finger chopped off by an axe that was left out by one of the neighbors parents. I was in the backyard and one of my friends took the ax and hit it on my finger. I still have the stitch marks from it. I remember the crying and the visit to the emergency room. I can pretty much piece my memories together since then but not as much in detail as I use to be able to remember them.
 
MarkinPhx said:
I think I remember bits and pieces when I was 2 or 3 but not sure if they are true memories or not. The first vivid memory I have is when I was around 4 and almost had the top part of my finger chopped off by an axe that was left out by one of the neighbors parents. I was in the backyard and one of my friends took the ax and hit it on my finger. I still have the stitch marks from it. I remember the crying and the visit to the emergency room. I can pretty much piece my memories together since then but not as much in detail as I use to be able to remember them.
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OMG that's brutal! No wonder you remembered it! :(
 
I remember things way back, things my mother said I couldn't possibly remember. Even now, I sometimes dream I'm in a place we lived and moved out of before I was four. I remember sleeping in a crib.

I remember being in a chair, behind what I now know was a cake and 2 candle flames in front of me, but I can't remember the colors of anything- mostly the 2 candle flames.
 
I was 6 or 7,walking to the local elementary school which was 3 blocks from our house. My siblings and I would come home for lunch every day,for some reason I couldn't understand why we had to go back in the afternoon
 

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