Posted on 03/21/2025 12:27:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
When I tell people that I can vividly remember things which happened in my life when I was only 2 years old and maybe earlier they think I’m crazy. Some of the things were verified by older siblings and parents when I got older.
They should speak for themselves!
I remember multiple occasions when I was strapped into an MRI machine and shown stupid pictures that the lab technicians had shown me just a few hours, days, or weeks before.
Scary experience! Probably scarred me for life! Wish I could forget!
Regards,
I recently found my diary from that time.
Day 1: Still tired from the move
Day 2: Everyone is talking to me like I’m an idiot.
My first memory was at 2, watching the first moon landing on a black and white tv.
That’s a lot like my case.. we moved out of my first house when I was 18 months and I have a handful of memories from that house.
At 73, I think the reason I can still remember those few early memories is that I remembered them soon after, then remembered remembering them, and so on.. so that short list of early memories got carried forward enough that they could become permanent memories.
The point is, I doubt I’ll ever be able to add to that list - I’m probably not going to remember something new from that early.
I think that’s the way it works later in life too - we mostly keep re-remembering the same things - and that reinforces those memories and we carry them forward through life.. it’s rare nowadays for me to remember something new that isn’t on my ‘list’ of things I have already remembered.
Our human brains are very “leaky.”
I’ve come to think that we refresh memories periodically by thinking about them but with distortions, reinforcing them but with flaws.
So the memories we refresh live on but become distorted over time.
However, we’re convinced they are accurate.
The ones we don’t refresh fade into oblivion.
😆
Um, could it be because being a baby sucks?
I had memories of a being in a crib and there was a certain wallpaper pattern with animals and stripes, but couldn’t recall that being in our house, or any close relatives’ houses. I described it to my mother, and she was very surprised — she said it was the nursery at the church we had gone to 40 years before.
I can remember 1943-44-45 blackouts, cars with slit headlights, F4U Corsairs and early Sikorsky helicopters flying. My father was Chance Vought chief electrical inspector. I wuz one year old.i remember the Barnum &Bailey Hartford fire..I wuz in it...
Well, taking meds is not interesting. :)
Yes, I read them.
The earliest remembrance I have is laying on the backseat of some car going down the road and looking out the window, just up, and seeing lights go by, apparently street lights and someone says “Here’s Chicago!” then I must have went back to sleep wondering what a Chicago was.
That would have been when I was about two or three at the latest.............
Except for a few snapshots, I don’t remember much at all before I was 17 and went to college. My sister remembers my life, but I don’t. I suppose there’s a reason, but I’m OK not knowing.
I’ve seen Polaroids of me as a toddler baby on the back of a cow and other places on my grandfather’s farm, but I don’t remember any of them..........
I was 5 and I remember the day JFK was assassinated and a few days after. What I remember is how everyone reacted to it. I guess the event itself didn’t make sense to me.
I remember being with my mother and a friend of hers when the news came on the car radio. They were both very upset and crying, then when my brothers and sister got home from school they were upset. Adults were glued to radio or TV for the next few days. I can still remember kids on the floor watching TV, adults on the furniture glued to all the news. I was sitting with the other kids but I was just watching everyone in the room. I guess I was trying to figure out what was going on.
My memories of that event are vivid, but it is like I was an outsider watching the others. Odd memory.
And that’s the last thing I remember :Bill Cosby.😁
I’m doing good if I remember what I had for breakfast yesterday.🥞
bttt
The “b” for bump that is probably still there.
Nope, not there anymore.
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