to ask what your first memory is?

[Diel]

I was in a cot watching my parents sleep. Think I must have been about 18 month or so. My next vivid memory is standing on a sunny street outside my house when I was about 3 or 4. Wondering what other people's memories are like from being a child. What age were you?!

I remember quite a bit from when I was small, and I have strong memory from all parts of my life. I could tell you exactly what I did on a day from a holiday 30 years ago. Or recall conversations I had in school with my best friend. But one of my earliest, I must have been about three, was standing at a buffet table of sausage rolls at a Christmas party & wondering if I could take one. I remember looking around for an adult to ask, as I wasn't sure what to do outside my own house re. food. Also remember Santa arriving!

I was born in the 70's and I remember the smell and taste of the metal frame and poppers that held the plastic coated fabric seat of my baby walker thing.

I remember my mum putting a nappy on me after a bath, and I was potty trained by 2 so it must have been before then. Also remember a present I got for my 2nd birthday and being scared of the man in strange clothes (= my uncle, in bike leathers) who gave it to me.

Also remember car journeys when I was very little and knowing that if we went under a bridge then we'd be in the car for a long time. (Probably not really but the other way was a short journey to my grandmother's house.) But my memory is very clearly of always lying down across the back seat and what the view looked like from there. It seems unlikely I could remember being young enough to be in the carrycot, though?

I have a small collection of early memories, not sure which are the earliest.
Two very specific memories of a house we left when I was only just 2. I described them to my mum, including remembering that the bedrooms all had a frosted glass window over each door.
There are no photographs of this.
I could also describe the garden very well. There are a few photos of the garden, but not from the angle I am remembering.
I can also remember being in my cot and looking through the bars at my sister asleep across the room. Would have been under 2.5
I have one memory of being handed to someone so they could have a picture taken with me and I screamed my head off. Didn't like being held by anyone else but mummy!
Mum has the picture, I am not quite 2 and the poor lady holding me looks very embarrassed. I was surprised, on seeing the photo as an adult, how well I had remembered her face!

Lying in my cot looking at the curtains when something touched my feet. Only when I told my mother this when I was in my twenties did she tell me that she used to creep into my room and feel my feet to see if I was warm enough. I described the room and she was surprised because we left that house when I was 14 months old.
The other early memory I have was being manhandled onto the beach from the promenade while still in my pushchair, and then being arranged so I could see the sea. How old? Don't know, but young enough to still be in a pushchair.

Being pushed in my buggy over the dimpled concrete which was next to a chemist on the walk from town to our house. I must've been 18 months' old or so as it was summer and we didn't live there by the next summer.

Standing in a bowl on my grandmother's table while she washed me. She died when I was 3 and 2 months after being in hospital for a few weeks so I must have just turned 3.

Butlins in Ayr when I was either 2 or 4. I'm guessing 4 because my next memory is my 5th birthday.

All happy memories by the way.

Hmmmmm... I remember I always used to come home from nursery and would have pancakes for lunch... I don't remember a lot about nursery just those amazing, amazing pancakes. My DM would have hated making them by the end of it. I would have been about 3 or 4.

My new baby sister being put in MY pram - I was just 2.

I can remember toddling in to the bedroom I shared with my sisters I would have been around 18 months. I clearly remember moving house aged under two as I was kicking fallen leaves while my Mother pushed my pram as it was loaded up with things as we were only moving a few roads over.

From aged two I remember most things but I have a memory that's not standard. Can recall all phone numbers that I have used through my life if they were used a few times. Minute details like patterns in curtains at friends houses, the bag in the scullery that we collected milk bottle tops in for Blue Peter, the picture on my little sisters a baby reins,

I can open the pantry cupboard from forty years ago and tell you exactly what the items on the shelf were. I very probably have undiagnosed aspergers, everything points to it. Spent my life hiding in higher education with lots of other non standard folk.

I remember eating a tangerine watching rainbow when I was two. I also remember visiting my cousin when he was born a few months later. We also moved country when I was 2.5 and I remember getting off the aeroplane. Quite a few memory's after that of being in crèche and play school.

Something that I recently found out when I was going through counselling for anxiety is that I have no memories from before I was about 9 and the earliest things I can remember was sitting at the top of the stairs hearing my parents row. I went to Disneyland Paris when I was 5 and have no recollection of it at all.
My earliest happy memory was being 10 and being invited to the popular girl's sleepover and being baby spice when we were singing spice girl songs.

why is this Unreasonable? (or not?) Why not just post in Chat?

The earliest memory I can put a date on is my second younger brother being born. He's 2yrs 9months younger than me.

I remember laughing and going up the stairs on all fours underneath my mum (who was climbing the stairs on all fours to get to her bed to give birth!).

I remember being in a strange house with two elderly people that I didn't know late a night. My older sister was sat beside me on a sofa and we were given warm milk to drink and my sister was given a toy as a present. Apparently that was the next door neighbors house that we waited in while my mum was actually giving birth!

I was under 3 years old and on my parents freshly made up bed "singing" and jumping/bouncing to "here comes the sun" playing on the radio while my mother cleaned house.

It was either seeing my Mum in my Nans kitchen whilst she was pregnant with my sister. Or it was going with them to collect the big green pram for my sister (it also had one of those toddler seat things across it). Both probably around the same time. I'd have been coming up to 3.

I was 2yrs and 9 months. I was at my grandparents house and was crying because my mum was going to hospital to have my sister.

Other very early memories are being thrown onto a metal framed bed at nursery and being told I was very naughty for spitting out the skin on custard. I remember playing drums on my father's beer belly, I'd have been under 3.5yrs

Ime early memories vary wildly from person to person.

My earliest- being born. Now a memory of a memory, but was there til maybe 7yr old.Many other clear memories, being in pram, travel, holidays, before 2. In these, I can clearly remember what I was feeling.

3 of my DC claim to have no memories before about 4 , although they sometimes come up with a fragment that I can date before then.

One DC has phenomenal memory, eg in his teens described an event on a family outing when he was 1. I thought it must have been recounted to him, but he could describe the place in detail, somewhere we've never been since. He can remember visually- it's as if he consults pictures of his past.

I can remember in a tactile way. I didn't learn about different kinds of wood till I was in my thirties. Touching eg beech wood, I could then identify which of my preschool toys had been made of that, also that Granny's furniture was oak.Because I could remember what they felt like.

So I wonder if someone who uses words or concepts to remember things simply has less of a framework to do that until a bit older,iyswIm.

Jeez these are so young! I can't remember anything before 5,
My mum came home in the morning with my little brother and I remember thinking "what the?! What is this?! Why have you brought this home?"
Then she sat me down and gave me him to hold and promptly dropped him!! I was NOT impressed.

Meekonsandwich That's probably because these memories people are recounting won't be true memories.

It's exceptionally rare to remember anything before 4 or 5 due to childhood amnesia.

My grandads dog popping my new Pocahontas ball. I would have been about 2

My earliest memories are of my alcoholic day being abusive. The happy memories only start after he left when i was 4.

I remember loads from before I was five- things at playgroup and nursery mainly, but also being at my great aunts house. My earliest memory is of being in my cot and a great uncle coming to get me. I was 2 as it was the only time they came to our house.
My family are rubbish at taking photos, and I only talked to my mum about some of them as an adult, and was correct about details no one would have mentioned.
DH can't remember anything under 5 at all

I remember having my nappy changed in front of the fire at about 2, my mum said I was nearly out of nappys then.
And I clearly remember my mum and dad ahem-getting busy when I walked in on them at about 2 and a half. It took me a few years to click on but I remember being mortified in my first health education class when I realized