Do you have any memories from 2 years old?

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I want to see a healthcare professional today and recollected two important memories I had from the age of 2. I don't have many of them from a young age but I do have some that have stayed with me. I recollected them to my mum when I was younger and she didn't understand how I could remember the events, and the specific details.

He basically said I was lying and said I'm obviously just recounting a story someone told me, and that your brain can't remember things before the age of 5... in some vaguely scientific way.

I didn't think I was some child prodigy but I can't be the only one who remembers something at that age and he's talking shit surely?!

I have several memories from when I was 2.

Yes, a few. I have to have been 2 as we moved out of the house I have the memories from just before I turned 3.

Yes, I remember being on holiday and the house we stayed in. I’ve never seen photos but I have a memory of crawling up the stairs on a pink carpet. My mum was amazed I could remember this as I was so young. I also clearly remember a neighbours dog from a similar age.

My earliest memory that I can put a date to is the day before my second birthday. My mum was telling me something important (and datable, hence I know the exact date). I can remember the moment as if it were yesterday.

I have lots of memories from before I was five - and so do many other people I know. I'd be interested to know what scientific study your HCP has based this on.

yes remember being in hospital.

Yes I remember being in my grandmothers house which must have been before I was 3.

I have a couple of memories from before age 2 but they are almost like photographs rather than a “moving image” memory. I remember a specific cot in a holiday cottage, having a stitch removed from a cut on my toe (but not getting the cut!) and I also remember having a vaccination but I could have been older than 2 then. I also have a memory of putting on one of my dresses from when I was 6 months old on and pretending to be a baby. I don’t know how old I would have been but I must have been little to fit!

I'm glad I'm not the only one! He really annoyed me. It's not like I described my time inside the womb, I was actually a conscious being, not unbelievable to remember something that happened to me at an age where I could walk and talk.

My earliest memory was 18 months falling down stairs from the top. My mum has confirmed my memory was correct- I was able to tell her what she was doing at the time (hoovering) and what I was wearing. Obviously there were no photos! I also have memories of when I was 2 and my sister was born...things that weren’t told as part of that “story” told by adults, such as getting told off by a nurse for getting on my mums bed, and me thinking it was because I had shoes on, when really it must have been because my mum had had a cesarian

I can't really remember anything from before I was 3 years old. One of my earliest memories was of when we moved house. I was 3 years and 4 months old. I can remember being in a black taxi with my mum and our cat in a cardboard cat carrier,and the cat crying because he hated travelling. I've since read that the earliest age that it is possible to have memories from is something like 3.27 years,so that would more or less tally with my experience.

Yes I remember going to see my newborn cousin in hospital. Hardly a high definition , technicolour production but it's a definite memory. Also remember being in hospital myself age 3.

It would have really annoyed me too. My early memories are very visual, like photographs, so are obviously not based on what someone has told me. Many of them are quite random and unimportant, so wouldn't be the subject of anyone's anecdote.

I've since read that the earliest age that it is possible to have memories from is something like 3.27 years

All of us here so far have proved this wrong 😂 they should do another study!

Lots of pre-5 memories. Pushing a plum through a grating ( aged about 2 years ) sitting on a great mound of snow my dad had made into a slide at a bungalow before brother was born, going to a farm to buy eggs when brother was a baby in a pram, watching a carnival from a flat roof top, all of these before 4 years old.

I can remember my grandad and i can remember looking for him after he died (he died when i was 2). I can also remember being in hospital after an accident i had when i was 2 although i dont remember the actual accident.

Wikipedia is quite interesting on the subject and loosely sets the lower bar at 2 years old.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia

Interestingly in the context of this thread, hospitalisation, sibling birth and house moves are cited in the above article as being particularly memorable (my earliest memory is hospital-related).

Yes, definitely remember waving to to Mum when she was in hospital before my sister was born (hospital was next to a park). I remember my sister being brought back from the hospital in my Mum’s arms and being confused why I couldn’t sit on my Mum’s lap. I was about 19/20 months.

I have a vague recollection of the nursery I attended...I think I was about two...it's more like I can picture the place and remember being there rather than a crystal clear memory of an event iyswim.

Yes I have memories from the age of around one. I get so pissed off with people saying it’s not possible. It bloody is!

Sorry to chunter on about the Wiki article, but it's fascinated me. The theory that the memories might be stored but not accessible is interesting. It makes me wonder what might be unlocked.

Yes lots
We lived abroad when I was one until nearly 4 so I think that helps
I have over 30 distinct memories of this time including those around the birth of my sister when I was 2 and three quarters. They include things before she was born

My earliest memory is my 3rd birthday party, I had a caterpillar cake and my mum gave the face ( best bit obvs.) to the girl next door and I utterly lost it.

I also remember being served very weak orange squash. My 3rd birthday party was shit

I can remember events from when I was 2 to 3, being ill and my Grandmother sitting with me is one of them.

She sang a little song with me that I sang to my father about fifty years later. He was so stunned that I could remember a nursery rhyme that his mother sang to him when he was a child!

I can quite clearly remember being in my cot, which I was in for the first 18m or so (I was able to describe to mum where this was placed in the bedroom and recount memories of a specific way in which I used to lie on my soft toy dog). I remember mum moving the toy from under me when she thought I was asleep but I wasn’t.

Many memories from ages 2-4, after which we then moved from that house.

For me, memories are always surrounded by feelings, colour and sound, which is why I think I have a good memory for places and things. Struggle more with factual recall.