I think I have a very vague memory from when I was two years old, but because its scene has been described to me, I'm not sure if it's a true memory or my imagination did work with what people told me. I was flipping through some family albums today, however, and definitely remembered some of the times from when I was 3, which kind of blows me away given I'm now 28.
How old were you in your earliest memory? 2? 3? 4? 1?
I've had a conversation similar to this several times over the years. I think 4/5 years old is typical for a persons earliest memory.
Mine is playing with a friend, waiting for my kindergarten-aged brother to get home. I was a year younger so I would have been 4 years old.
18 months, then 2 1/2
Probably around 2. I have a memory of successfully using my toidy.
20
My first two memories are, funny enough, from my first and second birthdays.
A blue table from my first and a certain toy from my second.
I definitely remember my 2nd birthday. I have lots of memories from age 3 and on.
Four. My parents were always surprised that I can't remember a dog named Smoky that I played with all the time when I was 2 or 3, but I have no memory at all of the dog.
I used to say 4 and had a definite memory about it, but now at 56 that memory is gone. However, I remember that in my 20s, I used to remember something from age 4. My current clear earliest memory is probably from around age 7.
I have lots of real memories from when I was 2-3. I remember the apartment we lived in very well and a number of incidents that happened then. Like when a bee came out of the faucet when we were filling the tub up for my bath. Weird how you hang onto memories like that.
I was 5. The guys who were bricking our house gave me Redman tobacco to try. Of course in didn't like it. One guy let me keep the pouch for a keepsake. To this day it is nailed to a rafter in my parents garage.
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How old were you in your earliest memory? 2? 3? 4? 1?
This may not be the earliest but it was Christmas time when I was 3.
I remember exactly where I was. Some woman came to our house and was talking about Santa bringing toys to everybody in the whole world. Even at that age I had some sense of the size of he world. I immediately rejected this as it just wasn't logical. Hence I never believed in Santa and always knew it wasn't possible.
I remember getting my diaper changed, so probably 16.
Haha, only kidding. I do remember getting my diaper changed and looking up at my old bedroom in the apartment building I used to live in. So probably before 2 years of age.
Two and a half, when my little brother was born
I remember a lot from when I was four.
Nothing distinct form age three or earlier.
Around 2. My cousin claims to remember being born, saying the nurse was a large black woman, which his mother later confirmed.
approx. 3 years 5 months 1 week and 2 days
Somewhere between 9 and 15 months. I remember seeing the mother of our cat before our cat's mother died. A neighbour's cat had one of it's kittens wander into our yard when I was about 9 months, and our family adopted it.
yeah i think dating/timestamping a given memory is often the toughest thing. i'm 31 and i remember being at the hospital to pick up my mom and little sister when she was born. she's 2 and a 1/2 years younger than me. but the only reason i think of that as my earliest memory is because i can definitively date it.
i have other super random memories from around that same time period, but they're such random snippets that i can't remember whether my little sister was born yet in conjunction with them and the snippets are literally so trivial that there is no way that my older sister or my parents would be able to tell me.
Around 3. My aunt would take me on walks and all the old people would pinchy cheeks. Around 4 I remember lots, whole events, people, places, things. I remember the other kid who taught me that No was spelled On backwards and how to spell Off as well. I remember getting pinched by a pincher bug, also performing in a childrens play.