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So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:24 am
by WestTexasCrude
So. what was your first conscious memory that you remember to this day?
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:34 am
by 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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:12 am
by 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?
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:20 am
by WestTexasCrude
QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:34 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:21 am
by 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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:28 am
by Geist
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:20 am
QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:34 am
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?
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:40 am
by necronomous
Living with my aunt Carol prior to moving into our new house. Watching Christian cartoons. Waking my parents up.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:06 pm
by CHEEZY17
I remember a few random things from when I was 3ish.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:10 pm
by Charliesheen
Falling into a pool in Cuernavaca when I was 2.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:40 pm
by Stapes
The 60's, 70's and most of the 80's are pretty hazy quite honestly
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:58 pm
by QillerDaemon
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:20 am
QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:34 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:26 pm
by 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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:15 pm
by 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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:41 pm
by WestTexasCrude
QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:58 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:20 am
QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:34 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:43 pm
by WestTexasCrude
beagleboy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:26 pm
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:59 pm
by necronomous
beagleboy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:26 pm
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:19 pm
by beagleboy
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:03 pm
by WestTexasCrude
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:09 pm
by 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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:37 pm
by Wut
beagleboy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:26 pm
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...
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:10 am
by necronomous
Because we didnt move into our new house until was 2.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:52 am
by WestTexasCrude
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:10 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:29 am
by necronomous
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:52 am
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:10 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:46 am
by WestTexasCrude
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:29 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:52 am
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:10 am
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.
Re: So you were born/1-2 years brain evolving
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:16 am
by necronomous
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:46 am
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:29 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:52 am
necronomous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:10 am
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?