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#1 ·
At what age are your earliest childhood memories?

I'm kind of surprised I can remember memories from my early childhood... There's one that involved me realizing what year it was which puts me at 5. But then I'm pretty sure I have earlier ones than that but since I wasn't as clearly aware of the year I can't pinpoint what age I was.

For that memory though I just remember being in a dreamy fresh state and then realizing it's 1994 and being like wow... it's 1994? :laughing: and being baffled by what year it was.
 
#2 ·
Hm...

I think 5.

My most vivid memories from those years are my dreams though. I've always had extremely vivid and intense dreams and I can recall my nightmares from that age just as accurately as if they'd happened yesterday.
 
#3 ·
3. I think because it was the first kind of traumatic memory (for a child of that age).
 
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18-24 MONTHS old. I had surgery. I have a distinct memory of waking up and glaring at my mom, my dad and the doctors.
 
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A lot of late nights being waken and carried out by my father going to my grandparents' place for the weekend. Also, have a red and white tricycle one about the same age being stung by a bee on my left cheek while eating a Snackbar. Same tricycle I used to take off down the street and finding my first friend all on my own :)
 
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1 or 2: I remember standing in my crib and looking at others through the bars and over the top. I know I was less than two, because at two, my Mom and I moved out of my Grandmother's house and into our own apartment.

That same year, I was around 1 1/2: I remember my Grandmother holding me and watching my Mother and her boyfriend through a kitchen window and then I remember my Grandmother tossing mop water over them.

At three years old, I have a lot of memories, but I don't care to speak about them--they are traumatic.
 
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I have many early recollections that I don't think qualify as memories. They are too fuzzy and I remember more the feelings that I connected to them, than what actually happened. I believe my first actual memory was when I was three years old. My mom wasn't watching me and I jumped into a pool. I remember the water closing over my head and for the first time in my life, not being able to breath. When my mom pulled me up from the water she was freaking out but I was more dazed than scared.
 
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I know the feeling, something very close to that happened to me when I was around four years old. My Mom fell asleep at the beach and I walked down a boat ramp.

Today, I can't walk past water and not sweep the area for humans in trouble. I have had the chance to repay my favor.

Not to mention, once when I was not watching, one of my older sons tossed my youngest son into the deep end of the pool when I was distracted in the kitchen. I learned to believe in miracles that day, he floated to the top... and I went outside just in the nick of time. :)
 
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#13 ·
wow... more random pics then real memories
2 years old, nearly 3 years old, playing on the beach, sun is burning, the family is on vacation, my mother is pregnant
sitting on a boat, watching the blue paint of the boat, watching the water

3years (and a half?) my father decides to make photographies of me and my brothers, he is heavy, well, I am a weak child with a big pair of glasses on it^^ and this foto-shooting seems to be for eternity -.-
 
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I was 2 or 3; I was at a park with my cousin and we were laughing while we were on a merry-go-round. I also remember other snippets, like watching Star Trek in my apartment, attending a play group, buying underwear at Kmart... they were all likely around that same time.
 
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Let me think...
I remember having a huge dislike for my dad when I first "saw" him, I kept biting him, since at first he thought it was cute, but then it started to hurt.
Kept doing it for a while, till we went to the zoo and he started crying for some odd reason. Then I stopped, no idea what age I was, but I did start growing teeth and some coherent thought.
 
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