I can remember quite a lot of my years 1-4. Tiny little slivers of memories. I distinctly remember being washed in the sink as an infant, seeing the kitchen flooded. Getting a packet of crisps from the cupboard, holding a crisp really close to one eye and thinking about how how I could see the crisp but also kinda see through it. All kinds of tiny slithers of memory from the first house I lived in for the first three or four years of my life.
I used to have tricycle back having blue basket ,but I don't ride with pedals ...and in basket i place various things and stones as delivery man 😂 I do have a puddle pool but rarely I bath.. that's what I remember
I can clearly remember memories from when I was younger than 3. I know this because I left the Soviet Union when I was three years old, but I have memories from the Soviet Union. By the way, I was born in 1975.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky Same. I remember things from as young as 2 years and 5 months, when Chernobyl blew up, my family moved down to Odessa, and I have multiple memories from being there
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky it could either be that a) some few people can remember memories if they are really important to them, b) you formed fake memories based on what you were told, happens a lot, and has been proven to actually happen by experiments.
+AfonsodelCB, not all of my memories from the Soviet Union are of important events, and I remember things from the Soviet Union that my parents never told me about. My parents were very surprised when I told them what I remember from that time period.
Sometimes I think that the *only* reason I have memories of specific events from when I was 5 and younger is because of the pictures and/or back-stories of these events. Thus, causing an older me to create these 'memories.'
There's also some discussion on whether the development of language affects our ability to remember early memories. Basically, before language, everything is encoded experientially. You remember the way you felt during an event, not a linguistic description of the events. Some researchers (such as U. of Utah's Alan Fogel) believe we can actually access those memories through essentially our whole lives, we just either don't know the retrieval cues (because they're not linguistic) or don't recognize that they are early memories, because we are just remember feelings and sensations, rather than what we commonly describe as episodic memories.
I think I remember a time in my childhood when I couldn't remember something specific I wanted to keep in mind the next day, so in order to not forget what I wanted to remember like to watch new episodes of cartoons I liked at 7:00AM, I had to concentrate on the thought until I fell asleep. I didn't think about writing down what I wanted to not forget because I was lazy and the thought didn't occur to me. It felt cool to me when I was able to remember something from yesterday, because I was frustrated with the knowledge of forgetting something, but I didn't know what I forgot.
I remember riding in a limo as a baby, the first house I ever lived in, my crib, being the flowergirl to my uncle's wedding when I was two - also entering the church and being scared to death by the giant crucifix statue at the end of the building... Most of these memories are taped, so it was crazy to find out I didn't just dream up these situations XD My parents are constantly baffled by the fact that I can remember so much. I may not be able to remember everything, but I can remember a lot.
My sister at the age of 2 remembered details of her birth, & her time in the womb. And, believe it it or not, she remembered her time before she was "put inside" our mother. She explained how she was a big woman in Heaven & that God had made her small, putting her inside our mother, where it was dark & warm. She explained her birth as coming into the light. She spoke as if she was much older, much more maturely than her 2 yrs. I was 17 at the time, & what she said made my hair stand on end. Immediately after she said this, she returned to acting like the toddler she was, & she couldn't remember what she had just got done saying, as if she had been channeling her own higher consciousness. It's been several decades since, & her words still stay with me. And she did turn into a "big woman" after all.
I can remember my first Christmas @ the age of 5 months. Just a quick flash of being lifted into a pile of presents and having my parents take pictures of me. I remember being really interested in a clear cellophane wrap which encased a tigger plushie. Currently 16, and I make a point to try and recall it as much as I can so I don't forget it.
+ross walker They train the mice when they are young to prefer or avoid things by rewarding or punishing. Then they grow up, and they're presented with those situations again, and the mice who remember will seek out what used to reward them and avoid what used to punish them. Mice who don't remember will show no preference for either until they've relearned.
+ross walker just an idea but they could've had food under a certain object while mouse was young then stop doing that for a long time, then reintroduce the stage to the mouse to see if it remembers where the food was the first time. gyazo.com/abee1860af979ba6d47f4de9dac0b4cf a 30 second drawing of my idea on how they did it.
I actually have several memories from my early childhood. Mostly of me climbing out of my crib and crawling on the floor when my brother and I were supposed to be napping. One memory, though, is of me squeezing myself out from between the crib bars at my grandmother's house during nap time because I didn't want to nap anymore. Apparently, these memories were strong enough to stick with me permanently.
I can remember some. Being in a "car crash" (small car that kids push with their legs while sitting on them) - I tried going from a hill bit too steep. I've still got a scar from it. Crying after I filled up my beloved ball with water, so it was useless. Crying that I lost my hat, while I just left it in a store across the street from our home. I can remember talking to my mom about that, and then going back there. I remember it as being very far away, and when I looked up it in google maps - It's literally across the street (in the block of flats neighbourhood, so very little traffic). We moved from there when I was, like 3,5yo, and those are older. From what my parrents tell me, in the first one I was about 2.
I'm surprised how late we lose those early memories. When I was really little (definitely before teens, I think before I was 8) I remember thinking that I must have popped into existence at age 4, because I didn't remember anything before that.
+Abigail LaVancher memories of birth or being less than a year old isn't impossible as explained by the video, but my earliest memory is 2 years old confirmed by several family members as my parents. some people have better memory than others, why are people upset by that?
I actually recall a bit of a memory of myself standing up in a playpen and crying. The emotion I have attached to that memory is that I did NOT want to be in that playpen! I also remember an orange carpet. When I told my parents about this fragmented memory, they told me that I was around one year old when that happened, based on the fact that I told them that there was an orange carpet, and that I lived in such a house when I was one year old. I guess that's like the one memory that never got pushed out or erased, but it's such a tiny bit of time.
Quick question. I happen to know someone who has been diagnosed as having eidetic memory. She possesses the ability to recall with detail a great number of specific events and details from her early childhood, apparently even before 1 year of age. She is now in her mid 20s. Some people claim she's lying as it's far-fetched, but those close to her (like her parents and family) are often astounded at how well she is able to recount these events, since their own memories serve to reinforce what stories she tells. Are there any studies or conclusions regarding people like her?
I can remember events from when I was about 18 months on, I think. I distinctly remember my second birthday party. (I had a fever and we went to the zoo. It was cold, but I was so hot.) I didn't realize I was only 2 until I was about 28 and my dad sent me some home videos of my childhood. I remember experiencing a lot of stuff that happened around that time. I remember taking a bath with my sister and drinking the bath water because it was metallic and tangy. I remember when my sister (two years younger) came home from the hospital and was bathed in the sink. Pretty triply memories. Things were more intense, like colors and sounds, and I really had no self-consciousness, no sense of what I looked like to others.
Yes, same! I have a handful of memories from around two years old. They're fragmented, but...vivid isn't rhe right word- intense, maybe? And of course everything around me is huge
I do have a few episodic memories from very early on. The earliest is crawling on my grandparents' floor when I was seven months old. The dining room and living room had one continuous white oak floor. When we visited them the next year, the living room part had been carpeted.
I can remember a couple specific events from when I was 2 and 3.... Prob because I talked about them when I still could remember as I was a older child and then kept talking about it and remembering how I talked about it....
same. i remember some stuff when i was 2 or 3, there's a lot, but it's only bits and pieces, and i don't know what happened before and after. i remember a birthday i had it was probably my 2nd or 3rd birthday. i remember i had a fever that day, so my parents bought a cake. i remember going out and sitting at the table, there were some people but i don't know them. then my mom told me to blow the candle, i did, and after i blew the candle i went back to my room and slept.
I too remember things that happened when a baby, like still in diapers. Thing is, I was poddy trained at 2, so these events happened when I was under 2.
I remember when my Dad ran over my favorite red hot wheels toy truck when I was 2 years old, and it traumatized me and ruined me as a child for the longest time.
I have one memory from when I would have been less than one year old, I was outside with my mother at the back of the house. She was holding me and my father was pulling the family car into the driveway.
I can remember what it was like to be a baby. I even remember, in detail, the first time I sat up on my own (my mother picked me up as soon as she saw me, and I was pissed because it had been so hard to do in the first place, and it was hard to REMAIN in a seated position, and now all that work had just been undone). Being a baby was incredibly frustrating. I knew what speech was, and I understood the world around me, I understood my likes and dislikes, I even knew the difference between my mother, grandmother, uncles, etc, but there was no way to communicate anything to anyone or get their attention (because I lacked the ability to speak). All I could do was make noise (crying, whimpering, etc) to get their attention and HOPE that they figured out what I wanted. It should have bugged me when they used "baby talk" with me, but it just made me laugh because they were acting so stupid! It was insanely infuriating that I had little to no control over my body. I knew how it was supposed to work, but I just couldn't get my arms and legs to do what I wanted them to do, and even on the off chance that I gained control for a few precious seconds, I was far too weak as a baby to be able to accomplish anything. When I began walking, I think that was the scariest time for my family because there was nowhere I would not go. But I couldn't help it! To me, it was as if YEARS had gone by without the ability to walk, and now that I could walk, a whole new world was open to me. When I said "mommy" for the first time, it was out of sheer determination and desperation, because normally I had no control over the movement of my mouth and tongue, and I wanted so desperately to have a conversation with her (after a while everyone ignored me because, from their perspective, I was just a baby making noise, when in reality I was trying to communicate with them). But obviously the exertion of speech was too much for my infant self, and I fell asleep. So yeah, I totally remember what it was like being a baby, and I'm glad it's over.
I don't remember when exactly it happened, but I do remember an event when I was still in the crib. I was badly sick and my grandparents were over with my parents overlooking the crib and trying to make me feel better. I also remember something from when I was about 3 (I know it was 3 because my brother was still a baby), where I got yelled at for trying to help clean things.
I'm 47 and my earliest memory is of when I was a few weeks shy of 1 year old. I have several from around this period. Maybe you can talk about why there seems to be exceptions for some people.
+schmittelt Seriously? If you really want to know about this, find out who is doing research on it and send them an e-mail. Maybe they will reply, maybe they will have an idea and maybe they will be able to explain it to you without you having to spend a few years doing an advanced neurology degree to understand the answer. If you make the effort and actually get a reply, post it. I'd certainly be interested in hearing it.
+OfficialJaelTV Ever seen mice go through a maze? If you stick the same mice in the same maze, after a certain time, they will know their way. Until they don't! Or when they still do, even though they shouldn't. :)
+OfficialJaelTV also doing food experiments. using levers to get food or treats. after a while they know which lever or series of levers to use. If they erase the memory they have to refigure it out again.
I also remember reading that learning language helps with storing memories as you can form them into anecdotes using descriptive terms. I read that this is another reason why you can't remember many things before you learned a language
I remember being really freaked out by my own childhood amnesia. When I was a kid, I'd try to remember events that happened a couple years ago or that my parents referenced and get really frustrated when I couldn't remember. I remember connecting that adults don't remember they're babies, but I actually remember thinking that what if I went my whole life always forgetting events and only being able to remember the last few years in great detail. I even got a little philosophical, how does anybody know who they are? Ha
What sucks about being a baby is that you can't remember anything, you can't take care of yourself, and you are not fully aware or conscious of what you're doing.
Honestly I think its because of how much we're learning in those first few years. I mean, we're learning to walk, identify objects, identify people, experiencing new sounds, smells, tastes, every second of every day. I think if our brain remembered the episodic memories as well we wouldn't be able to sort out whats important.
I wonder if something really really traumatic happens to you at a very early age like 1 years old , like surviving a fire , or being bitten by a dog , or witnessing war , might these memories stick with you?
+Azel Ronald One thing you can use is teaching mice to find food in the labyrinth, after a while mice will remember how get to the food most direct way. So if you teach baby mice to find food and wait until it is grown up, you can test if it gets lost or will find food fast as it was a baby. Sorry ford bad english.
. Remember laying in my crib before I can walk my mom picking me up. Remember taking my first steps was evening time I heard my brother yelling she's walking!! Can remember looking at the TV when I was only two years old watching men land on the moon. It was a beautiful sunny day was wearing white clothes my mom was cleaning. My brother yelling about the moon landing. I remember my dad recovering from surgery home from work watching the Watergate trails on tv. I have a picture that was taken of me and my dad I remember that day was still in diapers at my grandma's house. Yet forget my car keys umbrella appointments all the rime.
I vaguely remember trying to walk. Holding on to walls and walking from the diner table and chair, I remember it being fun and a little scary. It made my mum happy so it motivated me and I was determined to do more. Second earliest memory after that was around three I believe, it was a memory of a dream. I dreamt I woke up beside a huge yellow snake, then actually woke up and went to tell my mum about it.
Mostly, by having them run the specific mazes and other activities they had done when they were younger. As Broken Wave said, they use mice because they are easy to test for things like that.
I have 1 memory form when I was about a year old. I remember pushing a baby bottle through the slots in my crib and watching the bottle roll out of the room and start rolling down the stairs. I remember that it made me sad. Probably my first sad memory ever...
+johnny moua Or do you? When you recount a memory often enough it changes. You can even have memories of things that never happened. In the same way you can form a new memory from stories you get told, especially if it's something that gets told often enough. Fairly certain that is the case here.
Probably by teaching them to be afraid of something and see how they react to it later, or by teaching them how to find food using a lever or something.
I remember a lot from before I was three, but I think it is because I continually reflect on past events. It was something I just started doing quite young. I'm not sure what this process is called or how the memories degrade over time doing this.
I remember multiple things from before I was 3. I have one memory of when I was 2 and 8 months. It was my cousin's 1st birthday party. I remember being really scared of the clowns and spending the whole party in one corner with the adults because I was too scared to be near them. I can even remember some of the adults I was with, my god-father and my aunt. I also remember my mom being bed-ridden because she had caught a nasty bacteria and almost died. I clearly remember her struggling to tell me and my brother not to come into the room. We wanted to take a bath in the master bathroom because it had a huge bathtub, but she didn't want us to go near her because she was afraid that we would catch the same bacteria. For a long time I assumed that I was 3 or 4 when it happened, but when I told my mom about it she was surprised I still remembered because she had gotten sick in '98, which means I was actually 2.
You may not be able to remember the event, but you can remember the memory of it. I remember at 1.5 years old, seeing my newborn brother in the hospital, and at 2 years old, the thought process I had by pulling on his hair to make it grow. I remember these things because I actively visited those memories as I was growing up. So my memory today is not the events themselves, but the memory of those memories.
+Binyamin Tsadik yess! I just posted a similar comment, then scrolled down to find yours. I definitely remember remembering things, but I think the original incident has been lost (if it was even totally real in the first place).
I"m 32 and I swear I do have some fragmented memories of being a baby! They are vague and I know it's easy to imagine false memories but I have fact-checked with my family and everything I've remembered has been true! according to my mom I was 6 months old at my strongest early memory.
I actually have a memory of my first Christmas, when I was just over 6 months old. But the rest of my childhood is pretty spotty. Bits and pieces of mostly unimportant stuff mixed with some causes of embarrassment and one or two traumatic events. Considering this, I'm very glad about childhood amnesia. I have enough psychological issues without remembering everything.
+Alberto Fernandes I used to stutter when I was a kid and I was able to completely get rid of it by working with a speech therapist. So at the very least it's treatable.
Alberto Fernandes only thing no cure but there is treatment for stuttering you could call it a cure though but it doesn’t mean you won’t accidentally stutter
I felt like I just poped into consciousness when I was like 3 and was walking around for the first time like who are you people . I could still put names to people and talk and walk but I didn't know where or how I had acquired those skills
I remember having the memories of infancy. Memories of memories. I did not care about them and moved on, I think a lot of it has to do with what our brains consider important to know and being a baby is not a life skill. I actually do have some lucid memories from before the age of 3. I remember the cake on my third birthday after all. My earliest was being put on a white furry pelt rug, in front of an electric fire, with two cats that were about the same size as myself. It was a cold day with white storm clouds covering the sky, and we were visiting my grandparents. I was wearing a purple one piece baby costume with a pink image on the chest (I later found out it was of an ostrich by looking at photographs). I was stretching and the baby outfit was a bit too small for me when I was stretched out fully pushing my toes out and for some reason, I liked the sensation of having tight fabric encircle my ankles when I did this. I have several other lucid and vague memories, like the sensation of grass on my hands when crawling and pulling Daddy's nose :)
I actually have a couple memories from when I was a baby, and I'm 20. I remember being 2 and meeting my friends dog for the first time. I also remember my brother pulling my arm out of my socket when I was 2.
Hrrm How do you explain that i can remember my birth and many many infant moments we had no pictures of the room i was born in but i can still remember to this day the way the room looked the picture on the wall above my mothers bed the sudden cold being scared, and i also have memories of when i would of been only a few weeks old
OH MY GOD, so do i, My family think im crazy, but i remember being so snug and warm, the next moment i was freezing screaming, when they wrapped a blanket round me, I even remember hearing the nurses 😱👍👍
I remember when I was about 15 months... a few bits of stuff. Most of it was at my Uncle and Aunt's place. So I think that this is the trigger. Things were STRANGE, so I have memories of that strangeness.
@@rickkwitkoski1976 It is possible but i mean as a baby everything will be strange for you but maybe that certian event was very strange that's why you seem to remember it
I can remember things back to when I was around 1 -1 1/2 years old . My aunt was in shock when I brought her a picture and said I dont remember who this is , but I remember he used to put me on the back of his milk cow and go to the barn to milk her when we visited . It was my mother’s grandfather and he died before I was as 2 . There are some other memories that i shared with her and she couldn’t believe I remembered them . I am 53 and can remember those memories , but hardly remember last week .
That's why your parents should record it! Cause I don't remember my 1st birthday, and the first time I ate toothpaste! And thanks to video footage, I now know what happened on my first b-day and I ate toothpaste!
There's this thing called "transient exuberance"-really young children notoriously go through it. It's when your brain produces vast amounts of neurons in a short amount of time to account for the "exuberant" amount of learning a child at the age of one or two goes through (versus, say, 6-11 year olds). However, having that many neurons is the equivalent of having a messy room: it's hard to do things as effectively with a bunch of stuff in there. After that, the brain goes through a process called "pruning," and that's when the brain gets rid of all those neurons that it is no longer consistently using (I.e why you can remember how to tie your shoes or write your name, but you can't remember your first birthday party at the age of 21). As you use more of your neurons to do things like riding your bike, a myelin sheath forms around that neuron and makes it easier to remember or do whatever it is that you're trying to do. Your brain forges a path through those neurons. Anyway.
I can remember looking through the wooden slats of my crib at my parents sleeping. My mother told me I was moved out of their room and given my own room when I was one year old. My next oldest memory is my third birthday. I remember my father carrying me into the kitchen, my birthday cake with a candle that was in the form of a 3 and the neighbors singing happy birthday.
+tamirgez I have a memor of a deer in a snowy day near our apartment when I was 2. than, when I told my parents about it, they confirmed that happened exactly how I remember it.
+ForeverOfTheStars Yeah I have a couple memories of when I was around 2. I thought one of them was just an odd dream I had, but when I described them to my parents they confirmed it was real.
I remember my third birthday, I had chickenpox and my brother dropped my teddy bear shaped birthday cake on the floor before I got to blow out the candles. Yeah there is a reason we forget these things...
I have a sort of memory from when I was a baby. Lying in a crib staring up at a Winnie the Pooh themed mobile that was hanging above it. I've realized though that over time, I don't so much remember the actual memory anymore, but rather I remember remembering the memory. But that's all memory really is, just a story you tell yourself about something that happened in your past.
I don't think I remember things from when I was very young directly, but I think I remember remembering those events when I was slightly older. Does that make sense?
+Daracaex Maybe, when you were older, other people told you about things you did when you were very young, and you've adopted those stories as memories? The same way that witnesses can begin to give false testimony if they're given a description of what happened, even if they didn't witness those happenings.
+Daracaex I think a previous SciShow video(or maybe it was Vsauce?) saying that our memories are made of the last time we remembered something. I too have early memories because I was thinking about them as an older child. Perhaps those memories were reinforced enough to not fade? Although I can't be certain how old I was during the events I'm remembering. I seem to recall a snippet of trying to walk, but maybe I'm remembering hanging out with my little brother when he was learning to walk? It's been blurred by time enough that I can't recall if it's in first or second person.
i remember when i was around 10 months old and i went to the beach with my aunt. she held me by my arms and dipped me in the sea, i was scared of the sea and my arms were hurting, i remember seeing my mom walking toward us and me crying to caught her attention. family members confirmed it really happened. when i was around 1 yrs old i went to nursery school for a few months and i also have some memory there. i remember while the teacher was changing my diaper, i saw my mom enter the school to collect me and i was happy to see her and i started yelling. i remember the nursery school inside more than i remember the preschool, i also have some memory of some classmates that i could confirm later in life were really there with me. i have tons of memories of one aunt that died when i was around 3, when she gave me candies or chocolate, her house, and a lot more memories before 3 years old
I remember something that happened when I was 2. It's an image of a location where I was at that age. Later I went back to the same location and I could recognize where it was exactly so I know that the memory is real. I think I was able to remember this for such a long time because I used this memory several times before I was 8. The original memory may be lost while I can still remember what I once remembered of it.
I remember a few things: -my grandmother almost burning down the kitchen -my mom studying (college) -seeing watching tv while breastfeeding -my dad panicking and leaving me the pen while he ran out for baby food in the middle of a blizzard (he had to decide whether to bring me or not) - my mom nearly strangling him later on that day (she apparently found out) -watching sailor moon it's bits and pieces but there still there
I remember my first birthday and I'm 14. I got a princess themed party at my grandparents house and I got a little princess chair and a matching princess couch that folded out to be a little bed. I also remember I could somewhat understand what my siblings and cousins were saying and wanted to talk with them. And when I blew out the candles my grandma forgot to turn the lights back on and my mom was slicing the cake so the lights stayed off the entire time we were eating. I think I only remember so well is because it was the first time EVERYONE in my little world was focusing on me, all at the same time. I was like the queen of the world!
I have memories at 50 of several events when I was 1.2 and 2 years old. I also was reading and writing at 3. 8th grade reading level at grade 1. But I can't remember peoples' names.
+lohphat I was also reading by the time I was 3... my earliest memories are from when I was around one year old. I kind of have good long term memory, but I'm bad with arithmetic.
i can remember numbers 10 times easier than letters.. i have a very selective memory.. if i dont give a shit about some info i forget it almost instantly.. so sometimes people think i have short memory.. but i know the flags of all nato nations, their capitals and population, 150 digits of pi, almost always win in memory games .. my first memory is really weird.. cant tell how many months old i was but i was laying on a baby-bed, in the middle of my then room, was gazing at the ceiling light, my ears were hurting and i couldnt move at all..
what if you CAN remember things from early childhood? o-o; I remember going to the hospital for my swollen lymph node surgery when I was 2 years old. I remember clutching an old copy of goldilocks and the three bears as I was lead into the hallway, and then later laying in a hospital bed and watching dumbo over and over- my sister drawing faces on my balloons. These all happened when I was really little. Like I said, I was two. Am I a mutant? D:
that was a traumatic memory. Traumatic memories are more likely to stay with a person because they help that person recognize when something similar is happening, so they can avoid it, at least from an evolutionary standpoint. trust me, your likely to recall a negative event than a positive one, because our human brain is really good at organizing things onto negative categories. on a side note this which is why stereotypes are a thing. Rather than our brains trying to group every individual trait multiple people have, it's easier for the brain to just say: they all have this in common so they are all basically the same". conversely, our brain is able to pick out different traits of people within your own societal niche easier for the same reason. for example, someone who likes books, and someone who likes video games can easily tell each other apart as individuals, while to the outside, someone might just categorize both as "nerd" or "geek". It's just easier for our brain to categorize things as "not like me". the more in common you have with someone, the more your brain has to process before it stops at: "we are different because he likes that and I don't".
I remember other things, like learning to scramble eggs when I was three, and after my surgery, swinging on a swingset with my sister. I remember making a christmas tree mudpie when I was around that same age. So, not all the memories I can recall are traumatic. :P
Leah Grachis I'm not saying you can't remember non-traumatic memories, just saying it's easier for a Human to remember them. I Honestly can only remember two things from before I was 3, My first ever memory of when I obtained self awareness, and the time I shoved a Tack in my brothers butt cheek.
Not a mutant, you are a FREAK! OK, that's not true. Especially traumatic or potent events are imprinted on our memories a bit differently & in better detail. The phenomenon is called "Flashbulb Memory". . Another way any kind of memory can be preserved is by periodically recalling it. I'm sure you didn't just one day get asked if you'd ever been in the hospital, or when the first time was you'd seen the movie dumbo, and simply remember it like an everyday incident from a few years ago.. I'll bet you thought back to the hospital stay from time-to-time before and after you turned eight or nine. I suppose technically, what we are remembering is remembering something, but I don't see much of any real difference.
the only memory i have when i was younger than 3 was finding out a way of getting out of my crib by reaching and getting a chair through the wooden panels of the crib. Oh, and when me and my brother flicked yellow paint around and i cried because it got on a tassel that i was particularly attached to. But that's it.
In contrast to the initial question, why do I still get to remember being a baby? I can still remember seeing a white truck's wheel being stuck on a roadside ditch, my father telling me to keep quiet as I cry loudly on a blue and white cradle, among other things.
I remember being in the womb. I am 15 now and I still retain this memory, along with many others from my early childhood. I was debating posting this because I know that no one will believe it and that is fine, I didn't expect you too. But I lie not, I remember it.
Okay, so is it not infinitely more plausible that you woke up wrapped in a blanket, or something similar, at some point in your life, kicked it off and stretched? I mean kicking and stretching are a pretty important part of life and we do it a whole lot throughout our lives.
*immediately heads to the comments to read about people claiming they remember their first birthday*
+Aeronor2001 I remember the day I was conceived in my mother's womb.
+Aeronor2001 I don't, but I have a distinct memory of shitting in the basement stairs when I was 2... and my brother ratting me out!
+Avatinfernus
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Aeronor2001 I dont, but I remember things when I was 8 mths
Same
I remember my first birthday party. It happened when I was 15.
lol😂
+hackprefect right in the feels
+hackprefect 15? Were you a Jehova Witness? I know they don't celebrate birthdays or holidays.
wrr
+hackprefect It will be awful if you remember how you come out of your mother.
I'm pretty content with not being able to remember being born
Arkie Larkie Yea not a fun time for me or my mother
I can remember quite a lot of my years 1-4. Tiny little slivers of memories. I distinctly remember being washed in the sink as an infant, seeing the kitchen flooded. Getting a packet of crisps from the cupboard, holding a crisp really close to one eye and thinking about how how I could see the crisp but also kinda see through it. All kinds of tiny slithers of memory from the first house I lived in for the first three or four years of my life.
Being a baby? Hell my memory of just being 7 is spotty as hell, anything before that is all blended together
Same (yes I know this is a year old)
Tyrfing
don't worry, i replied to comments that are 4-5 year old in some videos lmao
i cant remember being 1 to 5 years old
@@beepboopily6285 hey look I’m replying to a 4 year old comment
I used to have tricycle back having blue basket ,but I don't ride with pedals ...and in basket i place various things and stones as delivery man 😂
I do have a puddle pool but rarely I bath.. that's what I remember
I swear the first memories that I remember felt more like a fever dream than something that actually happened.
I can clearly remember memories from when I was younger than 3. I know this because I left the Soviet Union when I was three years old, but I have memories from the Soviet Union. By the way, I was born in 1975.
I remember that it was dark and I was swimming around.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky Same. I remember things from as young as 2 years and 5 months, when Chernobyl blew up, my family moved down to Odessa, and I have multiple memories from being there
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky it could either be that a) some few people can remember memories if they are really important to them, b) you formed fake memories based on what you were told, happens a lot, and has been proven to actually happen by experiments.
+AfonsodelCB, not all of my memories from the Soviet Union are of important events, and I remember things from the Soviet Union that my parents never told me about. My parents were very surprised when I told them what I remember from that time period.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky In Soviet Russia, country forgets you! (Wow that worked in more ways than one)
I remeber LOTS after the age of 2, I find it strange that everyone else seems to have forgotten
+Ash Mckinlay
ikr, now im here thinking i got super memory ^.^
***** How can i prove it? lol
*****
good one
+jkuty2 maybe ;) but my short term memory is inexcusable. just really bad.
Once you remember, remembering a memory you will remember it forever.
You mean once you fantasize about a memory you will have fantasized a new memory.
@@SungazerDNB Your statement makes me everything is delusional 💀
I read "Why can't you remember eating a baby?"
*hands you a fried fetus*
An Bien
Because it is traumatic I guess
Sometimes I think that the *only* reason I have memories of specific events from when I was 5 and younger is because of the pictures and/or back-stories of these events. Thus, causing an older me to create these 'memories.'
There's also some discussion on whether the development of language affects our ability to remember early memories. Basically, before language, everything is encoded experientially. You remember the way you felt during an event, not a linguistic description of the events. Some researchers (such as U. of Utah's Alan Fogel) believe we can actually access those memories through essentially our whole lives, we just either don't know the retrieval cues (because they're not linguistic) or don't recognize that they are early memories, because we are just remember feelings and sensations, rather than what we commonly describe as episodic memories.
I *can* remember my first birthday party. I was 7.
I remember my 3rd birthday.
I remember MY first birthday party. it was HARDLY a year ago.
+Henrik Rónai i can remember when i was three and in preeschool
I remember one thing about my one year old birthday party, I didn't get laid. :(
+Daniel Larini born to feel
I think I remember a time in my childhood when I couldn't remember something specific I wanted to keep in mind the next day, so in order to not forget what I wanted to remember like to watch new episodes of cartoons I liked at 7:00AM, I had to concentrate on the thought until I fell asleep. I didn't think about writing down what I wanted to not forget because I was lazy and the thought didn't occur to me. It felt cool to me when I was able to remember something from yesterday, because I was frustrated with the knowledge of forgetting something, but I didn't know what I forgot.
I remember riding in a limo as a baby, the first house I ever lived in, my crib, being the flowergirl to my uncle's wedding when I was two - also entering the church and being scared to death by the giant crucifix statue at the end of the building... Most of these memories are taped, so it was crazy to find out I didn't just dream up these situations XD My parents are constantly baffled by the fact that I can remember so much. I may not be able to remember everything, but I can remember a lot.
I have four memories from when I was two. They really helped me understand my young kids when I became a parent.
My sister at the age of 2 remembered details of her birth, & her time in the womb. And, believe it it or not, she remembered her time before she was "put inside" our mother. She explained how she was a big woman in Heaven & that God had made her small, putting her inside our mother, where it was dark & warm. She explained her birth as coming into the light. She spoke as if she was much older, much more maturely than her 2 yrs. I was 17 at the time, & what she said made my hair stand on end. Immediately after she said this, she returned to acting like the toddler she was, & she couldn't remember what she had just got done saying, as if she had been channeling her own higher consciousness. It's been several decades since, & her words still stay with me. And she did turn into a "big woman" after all.
I hope theres not only endless darkness after death
you arent serious rigth?
rofl
+dafttool Ahh, a child's imagination.
+Jesus Ramirez Romo absolutely serious
I don't remember anything because I don't exist.
i can't even remember what i had for breakfast this morning
+Winter X I can't remember replying to your comment.
what comment? huh?
+Winter X The comment that you... ... ...
TheGraveAccent ;P
+Winter X ....... Pancakes. I think. Or was it cereal? damn it, I can't either >.
I can remember my first Christmas @ the age of 5 months. Just a quick flash of being lifted into a pile of presents and having my parents take pictures of me. I remember being really interested in a clear cellophane wrap which encased a tigger plushie. Currently 16, and I make a point to try and recall it as much as I can so I don't forget it.
How do you know if the mice forgot or remebered things...? stupid question i know but..
It's not stupid it's a true question I want to know too!
Yeah, some stuff i just dont get how they could possibly know, like this
+ross walker Associate an experience with another in young life, see if association exists in adult life. (Such as a red color where food is stored)
+ross walker They train the mice when they are young to prefer or avoid things by rewarding or punishing. Then they grow up, and they're presented with those situations again, and the mice who remember will seek out what used to reward them and avoid what used to punish them. Mice who don't remember will show no preference for either until they've relearned.
+ross walker just an idea but they could've had food under a certain object while mouse was young then stop doing that for a long time, then reintroduce the stage to the mouse to see if it remembers where the food was the first time.
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a 30 second drawing of my idea on how they did it.
I actually have several memories from my early childhood. Mostly of me climbing out of my crib and crawling on the floor when my brother and I were supposed to be napping.
One memory, though, is of me squeezing myself out from between the crib bars at my grandmother's house during nap time because I didn't want to nap anymore.
Apparently, these memories were strong enough to stick with me permanently.
I have a few memories from before I was 3. They aren't terribly vivid, but they exist.
The earliest I can remember was the front yard of a house we lived in when I was 19 to 26 months.
I can remember some. Being in a "car crash" (small car that kids push with their legs while sitting on them) - I tried going from a hill bit too steep. I've still got a scar from it.
Crying after I filled up my beloved ball with water, so it was useless.
Crying that I lost my hat, while I just left it in a store across the street from our home. I can remember talking to my mom about that, and then going back there. I remember it as being very far away, and when I looked up it in google maps - It's literally across the street (in the block of flats neighbourhood, so very little traffic).
We moved from there when I was, like 3,5yo, and those are older. From what my parrents tell me, in the first one I was about 2.
I'm surprised how late we lose those early memories. When I was really little (definitely before teens, I think before I was 8) I remember thinking that I must have popped into existence at age 4, because I didn't remember anything before that.
I Think I Pooped Into Existance When I Was 2..?
Here come the kids claiming to remember being infants.
Lol ikr
+Abigail LaVancher memories of birth or being less than a year old isn't impossible as explained by the video, but my earliest memory is 2 years old confirmed by several family members as my parents. some people have better memory than others, why are people upset by that?
+Abigail LaVancher i remember when was a separate sperm and egg :]
+Nick Silva Cause they don't feel special.
I remembered things from before my first birthday. retelling the memories around age 4 keep the alive today.
I actually recall a bit of a memory of myself standing up in a playpen and crying. The emotion I have attached to that memory is that I did NOT want to be in that playpen! I also remember an orange carpet.
When I told my parents about this fragmented memory, they told me that I was around one year old when that happened, based on the fact that I told them that there was an orange carpet, and that I lived in such a house when I was one year old.
I guess that's like the one memory that never got pushed out or erased, but it's such a tiny bit of time.
Quick question. I happen to know someone who has been diagnosed as having eidetic memory. She possesses the ability to recall with detail a great number of specific events and details from her early childhood, apparently even before 1 year of age. She is now in her mid 20s. Some people claim she's lying as it's far-fetched, but those close to her (like her parents and family) are often astounded at how well she is able to recount these events, since their own memories serve to reinforce what stories she tells. Are there any studies or conclusions regarding people like her?
I can remember events from when I was about 18 months on, I think. I distinctly remember my second birthday party. (I had a fever and we went to the zoo. It was cold, but I was so hot.)
I didn't realize I was only 2 until I was about 28 and my dad sent me some home videos of my childhood. I remember experiencing a lot of stuff that happened around that time. I remember taking a bath with my sister and drinking the bath water because it was metallic and tangy. I remember when my sister (two years younger) came home from the hospital and was bathed in the sink. Pretty triply memories. Things were more intense, like colors and sounds, and I really had no self-consciousness, no sense of what I looked like to others.
I can relate
Yes, same! I have a handful of memories from around two years old. They're fragmented, but...vivid isn't rhe right word- intense, maybe? And of course everything around me is huge
I do have a few episodic memories from very early on. The earliest is crawling on my grandparents' floor when I was seven months old. The dining room and living room had one continuous white oak floor. When we visited them the next year, the living room part had been carpeted.
I can remember a couple specific events from when I was 2 and 3.... Prob because I talked about them when I still could remember as I was a older child and then kept talking about it and remembering how I talked about it....
Me too, i was talking about that i saw only colour red and I think I was talking about the womb and I was thinking where am I
Same
Same here - I think because I have a twin, we reinforced each other's memories often
I can very easily remember, in detail, events from when I was an infant. Is it possible for there to be an exception to childhood amnesia?
I do believe some people can recall certain things, but these people are very few and far.
same. i remember some stuff when i was 2 or 3, there's a lot, but it's only bits and pieces, and i don't know what happened before and after.
i remember a birthday i had it was probably my 2nd or 3rd birthday. i remember i had a fever that day, so my parents bought a cake. i remember going out and sitting at the table, there were some people but i don't know them. then my mom told me to blow the candle, i did, and after i blew the candle i went back to my room and slept.
I too remember things that happened when a baby, like still in diapers. Thing is, I was poddy trained at 2, so these events happened when I was under 2.
I remember when my Dad ran over my favorite red hot wheels toy truck when I was 2 years old, and it traumatized me and ruined me as a child for the longest time.
I have one memory from when I would have been less than one year old, I was outside with my mother at the back of the house.
She was holding me and my father was pulling the family car into the driveway.
I can remember what it was like to be a baby. I even remember, in detail, the first time I sat up on my own (my mother picked me up as soon as she saw me, and I was pissed because it had been so hard to do in the first place, and it was hard to REMAIN in a seated position, and now all that work had just been undone).
Being a baby was incredibly frustrating. I knew what speech was, and I understood the world around me, I understood my likes and dislikes, I even knew the difference between my mother, grandmother, uncles, etc, but there was no way to communicate anything to anyone or get their attention (because I lacked the ability to speak). All I could do was make noise (crying, whimpering, etc) to get their attention and HOPE that they figured out what I wanted. It should have bugged me when they used "baby talk" with me, but it just made me laugh because they were acting so stupid!
It was insanely infuriating that I had little to no control over my body. I knew how it was supposed to work, but I just couldn't get my arms and legs to do what I wanted them to do, and even on the off chance that I gained control for a few precious seconds, I was far too weak as a baby to be able to accomplish anything. When I began walking, I think that was the scariest time for my family because there was nowhere I would not go. But I couldn't help it! To me, it was as if YEARS had gone by without the ability to walk, and now that I could walk, a whole new world was open to me.
When I said "mommy" for the first time, it was out of sheer determination and desperation, because normally I had no control over the movement of my mouth and tongue, and I wanted so desperately to have a conversation with her (after a while everyone ignored me because, from their perspective, I was just a baby making noise, when in reality I was trying to communicate with them). But obviously the exertion of speech was too much for my infant self, and I fell asleep.
So yeah, I totally remember what it was like being a baby, and I'm glad it's over.
I definitely remember developing motor skills in my hands, it was incredibly exciting, add if the world was finally responding to me ☺
I don't remember when exactly it happened, but I do remember an event when I was still in the crib. I was badly sick and my grandparents were over with my parents overlooking the crib and trying to make me feel better. I also remember something from when I was about 3 (I know it was 3 because my brother was still a baby), where I got yelled at for trying to help clean things.
I'm 47 and my earliest memory is of when I was a few weeks shy of 1 year old. I have several from around this period. Maybe you can talk about why there seems to be exceptions for some people.
+schmittelt Seriously? If you really want to know about this, find out who is doing research on it and send them an e-mail. Maybe they will reply, maybe they will have an idea and maybe they will be able to explain it to you without you having to spend a few years doing an advanced neurology degree to understand the answer.
If you make the effort and actually get a reply, post it. I'd certainly be interested in hearing it.
Idk why but I swear I remember being bathed in the sink as a baby...
how did they know what the mice remembered lol
+OfficialJaelTV Ever seen mice go through a maze? If you stick the same mice in the same maze, after a certain time, they will know their way.
Until they don't! Or when they still do, even though they shouldn't. :)
+OfficialJaelTV also doing food experiments. using levers to get food or treats. after a while they know which lever or series of levers to use. If they erase the memory they have to refigure it out again.
+OfficialJaelTV science bruh
OfficialJaelTV
See the used parts of the brain, for example with you when you wrote that comment : probably none
Animal psychics.
I also remember reading that learning language helps with storing memories as you can form them into anecdotes using descriptive terms. I read that this is another reason why you can't remember many things before you learned a language
I remember being really freaked out by my own childhood amnesia. When I was a kid, I'd try to remember events that happened a couple years ago or that my parents referenced and get really frustrated when I couldn't remember. I remember connecting that adults don't remember they're babies, but I actually remember thinking that what if I went my whole life always forgetting events and only being able to remember the last few years in great detail. I even got a little philosophical, how does anybody know who they are? Ha
What sucks about being a baby is that you can't remember anything, you can't take care of yourself, and you are not fully aware or conscious of what you're doing.
Being a baby means you're not smart
Honestly I think its because of how much we're learning in those first few years. I mean, we're learning to walk, identify objects, identify people, experiencing new sounds, smells, tastes, every second of every day. I think if our brain remembered the episodic memories as well we wouldn't be able to sort out whats important.
I'm pretty sure everyone can remember a thing or two from when they were a baby
I can't remember anything when I was baby
I guess not then lol
I wonder if something really really traumatic happens to you at a very early age like 1 years old , like surviving a fire , or being bitten by a dog , or witnessing war , might these memories stick with you?
how did they find out if the mice remembered their childhood XD
+Azel Ronald One thing you can use is teaching mice to find food in the labyrinth, after a while mice will remember how get to the food most direct way.
So if you teach baby mice to find food and wait until it is grown up, you can test if it gets lost or will find food fast as it was a baby.
Sorry ford bad english.
+sander lenovo thanks!
+Azel Ronald They asked them, duh.
. Remember laying in my crib before I can walk my mom picking me up. Remember taking my first steps was evening time I heard my brother yelling she's walking!! Can remember looking at the TV when I was only two years old watching men land on the moon. It was a beautiful sunny day was wearing white clothes my mom was cleaning. My brother yelling about the moon landing. I remember my dad recovering from surgery home from work watching the Watergate trails on tv. I have a picture that was taken of me and my dad I remember that day was still in diapers at my grandma's house. Yet forget my car keys umbrella appointments all the rime.
@SciShow What if you are over 20 years old and can still remember some episodic memories from when you were an infant?
I vaguely remember trying to walk. Holding on to walls and walking from the diner table and chair, I remember it being fun and a little scary. It made my mum happy so it motivated me and I was determined to do more. Second earliest memory after that was around three I believe, it was a memory of a dream. I dreamt I woke up beside a huge yellow snake, then actually woke up and went to tell my mum about it.
But how do they know if the mice remember or forget stuff?
Mostly, by having them run the specific mazes and other activities they had done when they were younger.
As Broken Wave said, they use mice because they are easy to test for things like that.
I have 1 memory form when I was about a year old. I remember pushing a baby bottle through the slots in my crib and watching the bottle roll out of the room and start rolling down the stairs. I remember that it made me sad. Probably my first sad memory ever...
Really i remember when i was 2 and ate a flower
+johnny moua Or do you? When you recount a memory often enough it changes. You can even have memories of things that never happened. In the same way you can form a new memory from stories you get told, especially if it's something that gets told often enough.
Fairly certain that is the case here.
+johnny moua nice Fairy Tail logo. Lol
dkSilo
i really did my mom had a photo of it
Johnny Moua me 2 (except that i ate my mom's lipstick)
Was it a buttercup? they're highly toxic
How the heck does one go about testing how much of its childhood a mouse remembers?!
+Women's Studies Textbook you teach him shit when he is young
+Women's Studies Textbook Your channel name made me kek.
Probably by teaching them to be afraid of something and see how they react to it later, or by teaching them how to find food using a lever or something.
back when i was 9 joey packed the nine
+Hubu- duffwee pack a van with four guns at the time, with a the sliding door, fuck is up?
I remember a lot from before I was three, but I think it is because I continually reflect on past events. It was something I just started doing quite young. I'm not sure what this process is called or how the memories degrade over time doing this.
Beware: there's a snowfall full of special snowflakes in the comments.
lmao so true
+777malkavian and the jealous sun is out to shine today huh
Alex Trew you
Lol
I remember multiple things from before I was 3. I have one memory of when I was 2 and 8 months. It was my cousin's 1st birthday party. I remember being really scared of the clowns and spending the whole party in one corner with the adults because I was too scared to be near them. I can even remember some of the adults I was with, my god-father and my aunt. I also remember my mom being bed-ridden because she had caught a nasty bacteria and almost died. I clearly remember her struggling to tell me and my brother not to come into the room. We wanted to take a bath in the master bathroom because it had a huge bathtub, but she didn't want us to go near her because she was afraid that we would catch the same bacteria. For a long time I assumed that I was 3 or 4 when it happened, but when I told my mom about it she was surprised I still remembered because she had gotten sick in '98, which means I was actually 2.
No one else can remember my first birthday either??!
Even your parents apparently
You may not be able to remember the event, but you can remember the memory of it. I remember at 1.5 years old, seeing my newborn brother in the hospital, and at 2 years old, the thought process I had by pulling on his hair to make it grow.
I remember these things because I actively visited those memories as I was growing up. So my memory today is not the events themselves, but the memory of those memories.
+Binyamin Tsadik yess! I just posted a similar comment, then scrolled down to find yours. I definitely remember remembering things, but I think the original incident has been lost (if it was even totally real in the first place).
I hardly remember my childhood let alone being a baby.
Not because it was bad, but because it's just a big blank spot. I hardly remember anything.
Same, I'm 15 and can barely recall any memories in great detail, with the odd exception
I"m 32 and I swear I do have some fragmented memories of being a baby! They are vague and I know it's easy to imagine false memories but I have fact-checked with my family and everything I've remembered has been true! according to my mom I was 6 months old at my strongest early memory.
always great videos! i'm just curious onnn WHYYYY I HAVE HAIR AORUND MY ANUSSSSs?ss?s??!??!?!!?
+litojonny I'm just curious how long you will draw out this tired meme. *eyeroll*
+litojonny so you can fart silently...
if you fart with a shaved ass it will make a sound
+litojonny "What kind of abuse are you reporting? (*) Pornography or sexually explicit material."
Oh saitama, it's because you are bald!
+litojonny one day we will get this very much needed answer jonny.
I actually have a memory of my first Christmas, when I was just over 6 months old. But the rest of my childhood is pretty spotty. Bits and pieces of mostly unimportant stuff mixed with some causes of embarrassment and one or two traumatic events. Considering this, I'm very glad about childhood amnesia. I have enough psychological issues without remembering everything.
What causes stuttering, how it works, and is there a cure?
+Alberto Fernandes I used to stutter when I was a kid and I was able to completely get rid of it by working with a speech therapist. So at the very least it's treatable.
I- I uh well um... I am- am not really um... su- re?
MischievousMoo Trying to stutter in text is weird, just stop it.
Alberto Fernandes only thing no cure but there is treatment for stuttering you could call it a cure though but it doesn’t mean you won’t accidentally stutter
Throughout my whole life, the earliest i've remembered is my second birthday. Somehow I specifically remember not remembering anything before.
I felt like I just poped into consciousness when I was like 3 and was walking around for the first time like who are you people . I could still put names to people and talk and walk but I didn't know where or how I had acquired those skills
Thats exactly how I remember it too!
+Trevor Ross I remember my 2nd birthday to
Why are all my childhood memories awkward
Why are all my memories in general awkward
"Neither can anyone else." Uh, my parents can remember my first birthday party.
I remember having the memories of infancy. Memories of memories. I did not care about them and moved on, I think a lot of it has to do with what our brains consider important to know and being a baby is not a life skill.
I actually do have some lucid memories from before the age of 3. I remember the cake on my third birthday after all.
My earliest was being put on a white furry pelt rug, in front of an electric fire, with two cats that were about the same size as myself. It was a cold day with white storm clouds covering the sky, and we were visiting my grandparents. I was wearing a purple one piece baby costume with a pink image on the chest (I later found out it was of an ostrich by looking at photographs). I was stretching and the baby outfit was a bit too small for me when I was stretched out fully pushing my toes out and for some reason, I liked the sensation of having tight fabric encircle my ankles when I did this.
I have several other lucid and vague memories, like the sensation of grass on my hands when crawling and pulling Daddy's nose :)
Matthew Laurence I remember dont get invited into a birthday party and fantasizing about what it would look like.
Miao Music don't make it weird.
Jamie Yayme what???
I actually have a couple memories from when I was a baby, and I'm 20. I remember being 2 and meeting my friends dog for the first time. I also remember my brother pulling my arm out of my socket when I was 2.
Hrrm How do you explain that i can remember my birth and many many infant moments we had no pictures of the room i was born in but i can still remember to this day the way the room looked the picture on the wall above my mothers bed the sudden cold being scared, and i also have memories of when i would of been only a few weeks old
OH MY GOD, so do i,
My family think im crazy, but i remember being so snug and warm, the next moment i was freezing screaming, when they wrapped a blanket round me,
I even remember hearing the nurses 😱👍👍
+Hazely They cant explain, cos they failed at science.
At the least on this subject...
Death Remnant have heard your parent talk about it?
I didn't know temperatures could be scared.
The oldest memory i remember is when i was 2... i remember my grandma puting me in the crib and started shaking the crib and singing to me😅
I remember when I was about 15 months... a few bits of stuff.
Most of it was at my Uncle and Aunt's place. So I think that this is the trigger. Things were STRANGE, so I have memories of that strangeness.
@@rickkwitkoski1976
It is possible but i mean as a baby everything will be strange for you but maybe that certian event was very strange that's why you seem to remember it
Hey, when I was a baby I obviously had a drinking problem and blacked out a lot. I've moved on in life. DON'T JUDGE ME!
I can remember things back to when I was around 1 -1 1/2 years old . My aunt was in shock when I brought her a picture and said I dont remember who this is , but I remember he used to put me on the back of his milk cow and go to the barn to milk her when we visited . It was my mother’s grandfather and he died before I was as 2 . There are some other memories that i shared with her and she couldn’t believe I remembered them .
I am 53 and can remember those memories , but hardly remember last week .
That's why your parents should record it! Cause I don't remember my 1st birthday, and the first time I ate toothpaste! And thanks to video footage, I now know what happened on my first b-day and I ate toothpaste!
I don't remember much of anything because my life has always been boring and forgettable.
There's this thing called "transient exuberance"-really young children notoriously go through it. It's when your brain produces vast amounts of neurons in a short amount of time to account for the "exuberant" amount of learning a child at the age of one or two goes through (versus, say, 6-11 year olds). However, having that many neurons is the equivalent of having a messy room: it's hard to do things as effectively with a bunch of stuff in there. After that, the brain goes through a process called "pruning," and that's when the brain gets rid of all those neurons that it is no longer consistently using (I.e why you can remember how to tie your shoes or write your name, but you can't remember your first birthday party at the age of 21). As you use more of your neurons to do things like riding your bike, a myelin sheath forms around that neuron and makes it easier to remember or do whatever it is that you're trying to do. Your brain forges a path through those neurons. Anyway.
I can remember looking through the wooden slats of my crib at my parents sleeping.
My mother told me I was moved out of their room and given my own room when I was one year old.
My next oldest memory is my third birthday.
I remember my father carrying me into the kitchen, my birthday cake with a candle that was in the form of a 3 and the neighbors singing happy birthday.
I remember a major surgery I had when I was around 2
+Sans The Skeleton Why not?
+Sans The Skeleton "Papyrus, you want anything?"
+tamirgez I have a memor of a deer in a snowy day near our apartment when I was 2. than, when I told my parents about it, they confirmed that happened exactly how I remember it.
+ForeverOfTheStars Yeah I have a couple memories of when I was around 2. I thought one of them was just an odd dream I had, but when I described them to my parents they confirmed it was real.
Now I want an episode on how you sit around and chat with mice about their fond memories of childhood - or pinkiehood.
I remember my third birthday, I had chickenpox and my brother dropped my teddy bear shaped birthday cake on the floor before I got to blow out the candles.
Yeah there is a reason we forget these things...
I have a sort of memory from when I was a baby. Lying in a crib staring up at a Winnie the Pooh themed mobile that was hanging above it. I've realized though that over time, I don't so much remember the actual memory anymore, but rather I remember remembering the memory. But that's all memory really is, just a story you tell yourself about something that happened in your past.
I don't think I remember things from when I was very young directly, but I think I remember remembering those events when I was slightly older. Does that make sense?
+Daracaex Maybe, when you were older, other people told you about things you did when you were very young, and you've adopted those stories as memories? The same way that witnesses can begin to give false testimony if they're given a description of what happened, even if they didn't witness those happenings.
+Daracaex I think a previous SciShow video(or maybe it was Vsauce?) saying that our memories are made of the last time we remembered something. I too have early memories because I was thinking about them as an older child. Perhaps those memories were reinforced enough to not fade? Although I can't be certain how old I was during the events I'm remembering. I seem to recall a snippet of trying to walk, but maybe I'm remembering hanging out with my little brother when he was learning to walk? It's been blurred by time enough that I can't recall if it's in first or second person.
That's because when you think of a memory, you think of a time when you thought about that memory, not the memory itself.
i remember when i was around 10 months old and i went to the beach with my aunt. she held me by my arms and dipped me in the sea, i was scared of the sea and my arms were hurting, i remember seeing my mom walking toward us and me crying to caught her attention. family members confirmed it really happened.
when i was around 1 yrs old i went to nursery school for a few months and i also have some memory there. i remember while the teacher was changing my diaper, i saw my mom enter the school to collect me and i was happy to see her and i started yelling. i remember the nursery school inside more than i remember the preschool, i also have some memory of some classmates that i could confirm later in life were really there with me. i have tons of memories of one aunt that died when i was around 3, when she gave me candies or chocolate, her house, and a lot more memories before 3 years old
My earlier memory was holding my baby brother in the hospital after he was born. I was almost 4
earliest*
+Adrienne Patterson Aw that's sweet...
One of my earliest memory is holding my little brother when he was born, but I was 5. It was an amazing moment.
My earliest memory is of me puking on my aunt in the car while we were immigrating to the states. I was about 4.
Good times.
I rememb my mom being in the hospidal and me taking her shoes,light blue shoes whit little whit i
thing on them,I dont know wtf is wrong.
I remember something that happened when I was 2. It's an image of a location where I was at that age. Later I went back to the same location and I could recognize where it was exactly so I know that the memory is real. I think I was able to remember this for such a long time because I used this memory several times before I was 8. The original memory may be lost while I can still remember what I once remembered of it.
Is it possible for what Greg Heffley had? Where he remembers before he was even born?
I've heard stories that people do remember how they were born
so yeah I guess it is possible
This comment is gold
I remember a few things:
-my grandmother almost burning down the kitchen
-my mom studying (college)
-seeing watching tv while breastfeeding
-my dad panicking and leaving me the pen while he ran out for baby food in the middle of a blizzard (he had to decide whether to bring me or not)
- my mom nearly strangling him later on that day (she apparently found out)
-watching sailor moon
it's bits and pieces but there still there
I actually have faint memory from the womb.
No
I remember my first birthday and I'm 14. I got a princess themed party at my grandparents house and I got a little princess chair and a matching princess couch that folded out to be a little bed. I also remember I could somewhat understand what my siblings and cousins were saying and wanted to talk with them. And when I blew out the candles my grandma forgot to turn the lights back on and my mom was slicing the cake so the lights stayed off the entire time we were eating. I think I only remember so well is because it was the first time EVERYONE in my little world was focusing on me, all at the same time. I was like the queen of the world!
I'm 14 and I can't even remember when I was 6-7
+Zane Zinn I'm 19. And I can't remember first, second or third grade. But I remember being on a boat when I was 2.
+Muhammad Al Kherim same but minus the 19 year old part
I can remember episodically back to 2 years old. I wish I knew why.
I do not want to remember my birth...
I have memories at 50 of several events when I was 1.2 and 2 years old.
I also was reading and writing at 3. 8th grade reading level at grade 1.
But I can't remember peoples' names.
+lohphat Weird, same here, and I'm horrible with names too, it's kind of embarrassing.
+lohphat I was also reading by the time I was 3... my earliest memories are from when I was around one year old. I kind of have good long term memory, but I'm bad with arithmetic.
i can remember numbers 10 times easier than letters.. i have a very selective memory.. if i dont give a shit about some info i forget it almost instantly.. so sometimes people think i have short memory.. but i know the flags of all nato nations, their capitals and population, 150 digits of pi, almost always win in memory games .. my first memory is really weird.. cant tell how many months old i was but i was laying on a baby-bed, in the middle of my then room, was gazing at the ceiling light, my ears were hurting and i couldnt move at all..
what if you CAN remember things from early childhood? o-o; I remember going to the hospital for my swollen lymph node surgery when I was 2 years old. I remember clutching an old copy of goldilocks and the three bears as I was lead into the hallway, and then later laying in a hospital bed and watching dumbo over and over- my sister drawing faces on my balloons.
These all happened when I was really little. Like I said, I was two. Am I a mutant? D:
that was a traumatic memory. Traumatic memories are more likely to stay with a person because they help that person recognize when something similar is happening, so they can avoid it, at least from an evolutionary standpoint. trust me, your likely to recall a negative event than a positive one, because our human brain is really good at organizing things onto negative categories.
on a side note this which is why stereotypes are a thing. Rather than our brains trying to group every individual trait multiple people have, it's easier for the brain to just say: they all have this in common so they are all basically the same". conversely, our brain is able to pick out different traits of people within your own societal niche easier for the same reason. for example, someone who likes books, and someone who likes video games can easily tell each other apart as individuals, while to the outside, someone might just categorize both as "nerd" or "geek". It's just easier for our brain to categorize things as "not like me". the more in common you have with someone, the more your brain has to process before it stops at: "we are different because he likes that and I don't".
I remember other things, like learning to scramble eggs when I was three, and after my surgery, swinging on a swingset with my sister. I remember making a christmas tree mudpie when I was around that same age. So, not all the memories I can recall are traumatic. :P
Leah Grachis I'm not saying you can't remember non-traumatic memories, just saying it's easier for a Human to remember them. I Honestly can only remember two things from before I was 3, My first ever memory of when I obtained self awareness, and the time I shoved a Tack in my brothers butt cheek.
..... you shoved a tack up your brother's ass?
Not a mutant, you are a FREAK!
OK, that's not true. Especially traumatic or potent events are imprinted on our memories a bit differently & in better detail.
The phenomenon is called "Flashbulb Memory". .
Another way any kind of memory can be preserved is by periodically recalling it. I'm sure you didn't just one day get asked if you'd ever been in the hospital, or when the first time was you'd seen the movie dumbo, and simply remember it like an everyday incident from a few years ago..
I'll bet you thought back to the hospital stay from time-to-time before and after you turned eight or nine. I suppose technically, what we are remembering is remembering something, but I don't see much of any real difference.
the only memory i have when i was younger than 3 was finding out a way of getting out of my crib by reaching and getting a chair through the wooden panels of the crib. Oh, and when me and my brother flicked yellow paint around and i cried because it got on a tassel that i was particularly attached to. But that's it.
mike is hot and his voice is pretty.
In contrast to the initial question, why do I still get to remember being a baby? I can still remember seeing a white truck's wheel being stuck on a roadside ditch, my father telling me to keep quiet as I cry loudly on a blue and white cradle, among other things.
When your a baby, do you have to learn how to remember?
+Sean O'Brien Touche
+Sean O'Brien If you would have to - you couldn't, because memory is required for learning.
I remember being in the womb. I am 15 now and I still retain this memory, along with many others from my early childhood. I was debating posting this because I know that no one will believe it and that is fine, I didn't expect you too. But I lie not, I remember it.
+Whiterun Guard What, specifically, do you remember from being in the womb?
Danielle Holbrook Kicking mainly, and a feeling sort of like needing to stretch after a very long period of time sitting.
No visual. Just kicking and feeling like you need to stretch?
No visual of course.
Okay, so is it not infinitely more plausible that you woke up wrapped in a blanket, or something similar, at some point in your life, kicked it off and stretched? I mean kicking and stretching are a pretty important part of life and we do it a whole lot throughout our lives.
Why do I shiver when I pee
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+Reid Ewasko What the? Why do you shiver?
+Cupcake Foodie That's why he's asking, and maybe it's the loss of body heat stored in fluid. I'm not a biologist, though.
MetaBloxer I didn't mean it to sound like that. Obviously I know he's asking a question
+Reid Ewasko I think Buzzfeed did a video on this. It mostly happens to guys and it's basically a mini-orgasm.
I'm 30, earliest I can remember is Christmas eve when I was 2.5 years old
+sethredxiii Morrison I remember when my brother was born when I was about that age. Damn. I wish I remembered anything BUT that.