So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving

[WestTexasCrude]

So. what was your first conscious memory that you remember to this day?

[QillerDaemon]

My first memory is cutting my upper lip on a soup can I got out of the trash. My sister maintained that it happened when I was around 18 months old. It required a stitch, and I can still feel the scar with my tongue. I have a few other memories at two and three.

My son says he has no memories before he was about five, about the time his mother took him down to Bolivia. Has no memories of his toddler-age house or the dogs he played with or his daycare school. Nothing.

[WestTexasCrude]

Around 4- totally beautiful winter afternoon. Totally sunny back yard. Me and my younger brother watched our new puppy take a dump on the back porch. Checked it out, My first memory. You?

[WestTexasCrude]

My first memory is cutting my upper lip on a soup can I got out of the trash. My sister maintained that it happened when I was around 18 months old. It required a stitch, and I can still feel the scar with my tongue. I have a few other memories at two and three.

My son says he has no memories before he was about five, about the time his mother took him down to Bolivia. Has no memories of his toddler-age house or the dogs he played with or his daycare school. Nothing.

Yeah, I've always been fascinated about when human memories begin in childhood.

[Antknot]

I remember mom holding a screen door closed with one hand the other hand swinging a broom at a snake sticking it's head through a gap in a retaining wall. . Her outside, me inside the house. I also remember playing colder / hotter with my grandfather and finding a bag of N&M's on a window sill hidden by a curtain. I was younger than 4, because we moved from there when I was 4.

[Geist]

My first memory is cutting my upper lip on a soup can I got out of the trash. My sister maintained that it happened when I was around 18 months old. It required a stitch, and I can still feel the scar with my tongue. I have a few other memories at two and three.

My son says he has no memories before he was about five, about the time his mother took him down to Bolivia. Has no memories of his toddler-age house or the dogs he played with or his daycare school. Nothing.

Yeah, I've always been fascinated about when human memories begin in childhood.

Trying to figure out the age they won't remember it?

[necronomous]

Living with my aunt Carol prior to moving into our new house. Watching Christian cartoons. Waking my parents up.

[CHEEZY17]

I remember a few random things from when I was 3ish.

[Charliesheen]

Falling into a pool in Cuernavaca when I was 2.

[Stapes]

The 60's, 70's and most of the 80's are pretty hazy quite honestly

[QillerDaemon]

My first memory is cutting my upper lip on a soup can I got out of the trash. My sister maintained that it happened when I was around 18 months old. It required a stitch, and I can still feel the scar with my tongue. I have a few other memories at two and three.

My son says he has no memories before he was about five, about the time his mother took him down to Bolivia. Has no memories of his toddler-age house or the dogs he played with or his daycare school. Nothing.

Yeah, I've always been fascinated about when human memories begin in childhood.

It's kind of sad, my son forgetting all those early memories that I had with him then. Running around the living room chasing him in fun, walking around and poking at nature and teaching him how to fish (still his favorite pastime), the time we took him to the dentist to get a couple teeth pulled, early years stuff like that. He says his earliest recallable memories are when his mom and him lived in Buenos Aires for a few months before moving to La Paz so he could start school. But he also says he doesn't like to dwell on those years, so maybe he's never really taken the time to try.

[beagleboy]

I remember in child psych class they declared that almost always your first memories are simply photos you saw that planted a memory in your head or someone telling a story that planted the memory in your head.

[Animal]

my first memories are when my dad and i bought my sister a puppy. it was a pekingese. and it was mean as shit. i was too little to climb very good up onto the couch and i couldn't get away from it. i know i was less than 3 yo, because we moved and i had my 3rd birthday in the other town.

[WestTexasCrude]

My first memory is cutting my upper lip on a soup can I got out of the trash. My sister maintained that it happened when I was around 18 months old. It required a stitch, and I can still feel the scar with my tongue. I have a few other memories at two and three.

My son says he has no memories before he was about five, about the time his mother took him down to Bolivia. Has no memories of his toddler-age house or the dogs he played with or his daycare school. Nothing.

Yeah, I've always been fascinated about when human memories begin in childhood.

It's kind of sad, my son forgetting all those early memories that I had with him then. Running around the living room chasing him in fun, walking around and poking at nature and teaching him how to fish (still his favorite pastime), the time we took him to the dentist to get a couple teeth pulled, early years stuff like that. He says his earliest recallable memories are when his mom and him lived in Buenos Aires for a few months before moving to La Paz so he could start school. But he also says he doesn't like to dwell on those years, so maybe he's never really taken the time to try.

So, what's the story about your son being in S America? I haven't heard.

[WestTexasCrude]

I remember in child psych class they declared that almost always your first memories are simply photos you saw that planted a memory in your head or someone telling a story that planted the memory in your head.

Not in my case. That memory was real. New puppy that lived to be 16. Even know where the backyard where it happened is.

[necronomous]

I remember in child psych class they declared that almost always your first memories are simply photos you saw that planted a memory in your head or someone telling a story that planted the memory in your head.

No one took pictures of me or told me about watching the cartoons. I was 1 to 2.

[beagleboy]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

[WestTexasCrude]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

I can date my first memory. It was the day we got the new puppy. He lived 16 years and died my first year in college (19), so I was around 3.

[WestTexasCrude]

Oh, and beagle, reading that article you posted, I think we are talking about 2 different things. I'm sure way before I was 3, my parents asked me if I remembered something days/weeks before and I'm sure I did. What I'm talking about is the earliest memory I can remember to the present time.

[Wut]

I remember in child psych class they declared that almost always your first memories are simply photos you saw that planted a memory in your head or someone telling a story that planted the memory in your head.

I talked to my daughter a while back about her early memories and she talked about something or other but wasn't sure if it was a real memory or something she just heard about. Psych major...

[necronomous]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.

[WestTexasCrude]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.

His article does make a point though. I remember that beautiful morning when I was 3, but when Dad asks me about a camping trip we did around age 5, I have no memory. Weird.

[necronomous]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.

His article does make a point though. I remember that beautiful morning when I was 3, but when Dad asks me about a camping trip we did around age 5, I have no memory. Weird.

I certainly dont have a steady memory of things at that time, but I dont have it now or when I was 20 either.

[WestTexasCrude]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.

His article does make a point though. I remember that beautiful morning when I was 3, but when Dad asks me about a camping trip we did around age 5, I have no memory. Weird.

I certainly dont have a steady memory of things at that time, but I dont have it now or when I was 20 either.

Seems like a lackadaisical attitude considering your supposed expert opinion on mental issues.

[necronomous]

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/2 ... 64982.html


How do you really know you were 1-2 instead of 3-4?

Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.

His article does make a point though. I remember that beautiful morning when I was 3, but when Dad asks me about a camping trip we did around age 5, I have no memory. Weird.

I certainly dont have a steady memory of things at that time, but I dont have it now or when I was 20 either.

Seems like a lackadaisical attitude considering your supposed expert opinion on mental issues.

What do you mean? Are you saying I should have an eidetic memory?