Whats your earliest memory?

[Ori]

Mine is of running down a path alongside a wall, I know that this place was where I first lived, a small flat in our citys worst area.

 

[CaptainXeroid]

I had to stop and think about this one. There are lots of things floating around in my head.

The earliest one I can think of that wasn't something my parents or anyone else has told me about was playing with the twisty dials and rabbit ears and seeing a woman in gold and white and hearing 'Isis'. It must have been a show about the Egyptian goddess. Piecing it together, I guess it was the early 1970's, so I was about 4-5 years old.

 

[Unedited]

My second birthday. I went to visit my father's grandparents and they bought me a shiny red tricycle.

 

[michel]

err..I got up this morning, I'm pretty sure of that....:biglaugh:


Actually, I am not sure if this is a proper memory, or if it is something I was reminded of by my parents (That makes deciding what are real memories very difficult, I find).

There was a kid next door to us in Africa; one day, he had just had his birthday, and had been given a wigwam. His parents were out, and he came over asking if I could go play with him (I must have been about 6 - working it out from where we were living at the time).

He took me into the wigwam, and told me he had found his parent's cigarettes, and we were going to have to smoke. We sat down in this tent, and he told me what to do :"You have to have a glass of water," he said, "You then put the cigarette between your lips, puff like mad, and then drink the water in one go".... speaks volumes of his parents' habits!

The fun part came when he told me we had to do a special ritual - because he had been given this wigwam, he had pinched a bronze hatchet (about ten inches long, heavy, with a very sharp steel blade - given to his mum when she had 'Christened' a ship - I have one from my Mother as well). We had to make a fire, put the axe in it, and then have a ceremonial burying of the hatchet.

The **** hit the fan when his Mum came home ( he was hiding) couldn't find him, couldnt find the hatchet, well, you can imagine! I think all the village policemen were called out..........:bonk:

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The earliest thing I can remeber unreminded is when I was 1. We was at our second house, my brother and dad was working on something. One of them found a penny, handed it to me, and I swallowed it. I remember my dad telling me im not a piggy bank. I don't know how im able to remeber this 17 years later, but my brother fliped when I told him that I remembered that a few weeks ago.

 

[Isabella Lecour]

My earliest memory is at six months. I remember looking up and seeing the bar to the swing and hearing the "thunk,du thunk, du thunk" of the swing as it was swinging. I think it was a particular odd memory that stuck with me because I didn't see anyone nearby and the memory of the sound was so clear. That swing was the only sound around.

Isabella

 

[michel]

Ah! I've got it now! - why you guys are remembering so far back! - because it isn't as far back for you as it is for me!

 

[Neo-Logic]

Someone was pulling on my head and it felt like I was going through a tunnel of some sort ...... ... :biglaugh:

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

My Grandfather built his house on the edge of a Golf course he part owned. I remember walking aged three with him down his walk through a revolving gate to the club house . (67 years ago)
Terry
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

 

[Jaymes]

At the hotel at a beach, racing with my cousin down the hallway to an elevator. I think I was about three or so.

 

[QTpi]

When I was two I broke my arm. I still remember it as though it was yesterday, but it happened about 53 years ago.

 

[Scuba Pete]

I guess my earliest memory is say 12:01 am. 12:00 is midnight, and 12:02 am is technically later than that. Most of these memories are of me sitting at my keyboard responding to something on RF.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I also have several memories when I was 2 and on up. Yet I cannot remeber the years I was 14-17. I think its mainly because my parents divorced when I was 14, and my mom became evil, and it put me under so much stress I willed myself to forget completly.

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

I think my earliest memory was when I was about three years old. I took my little brother out of his crib and went visiting our upstairs neighbour....at 3:00am. I can remember telling him that we were going to a birthday party.

I mentioned this to my Mother so many years later because I wasn't sure if it was an actual memory or just a dream I'd had. She couldn't believe I remembered that. I supposedly got into a lot of trouble, and my Dad put a dead bolt on the door the next morning. :tsk:

 

[Hirohito18200]

Earliest thing I can remember was my nany trying to teach me how to fold oragami cranes and being taught how to speak basic Japanese. I was around three probably, and I've certainly forgotten both skills

 

[The Black Whirlwind]

It was my second birthday and i got a kitchen playset.

 

[Lintu]

I was about 2, and my mom was pregnant with my sister, and I was sitting on my dad's lap eating Ritz crackers with cheddar cheese, and my parents were playing space invaders on the atari.