What Is Your Earliest Memory?

Wondered about the false memories thing after the case about the screwed up scum who raped a two year old child, same upstanding citizen who battered "Baby P" to death. Without wanting to cast doubt upon the court's decision (and besides, said scum is already in prison and will likely remain so for "Baby P") it struck me as skating on thin ice to rely upon the memories of a two year old which could so easily have been implanted, deliberately or otherwise. That said, I imagine anything that horrific is likely to burn itself into your brain regardless of age. Can only hope that in time it's reduced to snapshots of a nightmare rather than complete vivid recollection.

Anyway, wanderings aside, my personal recollections get me no further back than about 4 1/2 - I definitely remember several of my first days at primary school and I have a few glimpses of life before primary school but nothing I'm particularly sure on.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

i poo myself regular on the gixer still at 37 hehe

That's the one!

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

There are some great studies on this

Yeah, I love "studies", there's 6.7 billion people on the planet, so they test about 50 folk and call the result "conclusive"!

[Rich]

I have lots of early memories but only snippets of them. The earliest i can remember vividly is my uncle falling on me and breaking my leg when i was three, can't remember the pain but can remember crying alot, everyone panicing and my dad racing me to the hospital in the car. An earlier one than that is my nan coming to visit, my sister and me had a tent up in the living room i can remember my nan poking her head through then joining us in the tent.

How do people remember if they were 3 and a half? I'm amazed you were getting into fractions at that age, how good was education back then!

I was 3 (I think) when I fell through a glass grate thing while walking past a shop. I fell onto some cardboard boxes in this old lady's cellar and I was eating a bag of crisps at the time, I ended up biting my tongue and could only drink Ribena for the next day or two

Consequently, ever since then I have hated walking over grates outside shops and I have to jump/walk around them

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

How do people remember if they were 3 and a half?

Thats how old I was when my kid brother was born. Simple!

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

How do people remember if they were 3 and a half?

Ask the parents. For instance my mother can tell me the holiday in Wales was in August, and that I was two at the time, so actually I was more like 2 1/4, but thats getting a bit too pedantic eh?

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

You can almost guarantee your earliest memories are false Mine turned out to be a photo I'd seen. Doh!

+1 mine turned out to be a home video from when i was about 1.
Probably my first days at school were my earliest, and thats not exactly that early since i must have been about 5/6 years old.

Originally Posted by Magnum

+1 mine turned out to be a home video from when i was about 1

I'm guessing you're in your early twenties or younger then?

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

I'm guessing you're in your early twenties or younger then?

Im the youngest on the forum - 17