How far back can you remember in your life?

Clearly and vividly from age 4. I am not sure if there are snippets of earlier ages that come and go at times, but age 4 scenes are very vivid!

I remember JFK’s murder and funeral. I was just over 2 at the time.

@WestRiverrat Holy Cow, what scenes come to your mind?

@ZEPHYRA the two things that stick out most, are JFK jr saluting his dad’s casket and Jackie sprawling across the trunk of the car to retrieve parts of her husbands head.

Standing up in the crib in my sister’s room and playing with the plastic rail liner that had a crack in it.

@WestRiverrat Amazing! Sorry to harp on about it, but are you sure didn’t see the TV footage of it at age 4–5 and that is why it stuck to your mind? It seems unbelievable that a little child of two could have such clear memories!

The earliest memory I have is from age 2. I was standing in my crib, which which had square shaped wooden rails and posts that were painted a pastel yellow color. The walls of my room were a very pale pink and my mom had hung these really pretty prints of little girls with kitties and bunnys from the Northern tissue company like this

What are you guys RAM personified? In that case I wonder if I am retarded in some way or another!?!?!?!?!?!

I also remember standing in my crib.
I remember my mom rocking baby brother, who was just one year younger than I was.
I remember getting a “big doll” for Christmas when I was 18 months old.
I remember a lot of things that happened in the old house we lived in. We moved from that house on my third birthday.

I can remember something from a trip my family went on when I had just turned 3… I remember walking out of the kids pool, and jumoing into the regular swimmingpool where my parents were…

I remember a specific series of things that happened when I was two. I think language acquisition has a great deal to do with how far back we remember things—if you have language, you are able to record the memories in very different ways that a same-aged child who does not yet have language.

My mom quizzed me about a number of things that I would have no other way to know if I didn’t have my own memory of the events. She said I was two at the time these events transpired.

@Staalesen That reminds me…Several years ago, I took my mother and aunt to Falling Water in Pa. We were walking down the path to the house, and I had a deja vu moment. When I mentioned it to Mom, she said that we had been there many years ago. I was too young to go on the tour, so I was put in a day care center on their property.

@Kayak8 I used to babysit for three children. The mother once told me that she and her husband were amazed when one of the kids learned to talk and would ask about events that happened before she was able to communicate. Weird, huh?

I remember falling off the back stairs of my first house in CT. We later built a deck there and moved when I was 4–5. I think it was around when I was three. That, and in the same house seeing part of the circus on TV.

I rememeber watching a mr mischief wind up toy walking around my plate when I was on holiday.. when I aske my mum she said I must have only been about 2½ to 3 when this particular holiday occured!!

I remember very clearly trying to climb out of my crib and falling.
I landed on a throw rug on the hardwood floor and went sliding on the rug all the way under my parents bed and up ahainst the wall.

I remeber my mother peeking under the bed and saying ’ and how did you get under there?’ hahaha

I was maaaybe 18 months old according to my mom.

I can remember being locked in a suitcase when I was about 2. Older brothers aye!
The weird thing is, I only ever remember it in the third person!?!........

10 minutes ago.
11 minutes ago,I lost my car keys ;)

@lucillelucillelucille brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. ;-)

^ Yes….lol

I remember I had a tail…. and there was that long long swim… looking for an egg….

Actually, I can remember breast feeding! Maybe a little gross, but it’s one of my earliest memories.

Sadly, too far.

I can remember one incident when I was two and that is way over 50 years ago.

My earliest memory is of when I could finally pull myself up in my crib and hold on to the sides. I was just barely one.
I only remember bits and pieces but I remember them vividly like what my mother was wearing and what her hair looked like and what my father and grandmother sounded like and walked like.
I still to this day for some reason can tell who people are just be hearing their walk. It freaks my friends and mother out.

I have a clear memory of being taken to the hospital in the middle of the night. My mother put my coat on over my pajamas. I had pneumonia. I cried when my parents left me because I thought they weren’t coming back. I was two.

When people ask me what my earliest memory is, i will usually say: laying in a cott looking at the walls and celing while my father was in the kitchen, and that there was a strange bug on the wall i did not like the look of, and that i was about two years old. However, I am not 100% sure anymore if that is my earliest memory or not. there are some that are a bit of a blur, like… watching my father eat snails at a bar, learning to walk, and a few others.

My brother is about 3–4 years younger than me, and i remember very clearly the night i slept at the house of one of my mothers friends while he was born. and i remember a lot more before that. so im sure i have memories from when i was 2, possibly even younger.

I remember one thing that i think was before i could even talk, and what is interesting, is i remember my thought process. The memory is of my playing with a toy, a toy that had 4 holes, star shape, round shape, triangle shape and square shape, and you had to put pieces in the correct hole. I remember, that i knew instantly what hole the pieces went in. but instead, i chose to try the wrong holes to see why they would not fit. I remember my parents looking at me and saying things along the lines of “he has got the hang of it now”. and remember thinking, “i already knew what hole the pieces whent in, i was just trying the others”. i remember thinking how my parents where mistaken for thinking i did not know what hole the pieces went in.

Personally I have a hard time thinking back a year ago, which is not a healthy thing, but one thing that I have come to understand is that we at times tend to block things and place them in the back of the mind and just have dreams about them, For example recently i have been having dreams with this street which is not even in the same State that I live in, and I think that I have been in this part of the world just that I forgot.. But In reality i think that furtest I can go back is about 5 but only certain things are remembered not complete things..

I remember from the summer before my 3rd birthday. People say your memories aren’t always accurate but I think mine are pretty good or else relatives are sharing the same skewed memories as I am.

@camertron Wasn’t that “breast feeding” about 10 minutes ago? hahahaha

my earliest memory that was not ever reinforced by repetition by my parents was at age 3, living in New Brunswick Canada. And I have quite a few very vivid memories from that year, including being walked to a nursery school while it was snowing.

Interesting answers, I’m glad I asked. It amazes me how some people can remember things at 1!

@chelle21689: I have to agree, its incredible how much some individuals can still remember.. I think it be awesome to have that ability, for certain memories are just that…Good one!!

@Joybird LOL yes, but not with my mom…