Why Can't People Remember Being Born?
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- You probably remember your 18th birthday, but not your first - or your zeroth. Why is that?
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A lot of things are easy to remember: My high school graduation. My first summer job. That time I got arrested for emptying a bunch of Jello packets into Bryan Cranston’s gas tank - long story.
It doesn’t take a scientist to notice that adults don’t generally remember things that happened before the age of about 3 or 4. Why is that? Why can’t we remember the earliest events in our lives, up to and including birth?
OK, here’s an experiment: Try to remember what happened the last time you ate a burrito. Where were you? Who was with you? Was the burrito full of spiders?
These kinds of memories - being able to recall details of a particular event in the past - are called episodic memories. A person at age 60 will usually have some episodic memories from age 30 - she might not get all the details right, but she will be able to recall some events and explain what happened.
But if you take that same person at age 30 and ask her to describe something that happened during her first year of life, you’ll typically get nothing at all.
Sigmund Freud referred to this hole in our memory as “childhood amnesia,” or “infantile amnesia.” Freud, being Freud, explained it by saying we needed to repress memories from infancy because of their inappropriate or traumatic sexual content.
But sometimes a blank is just a blank, and contemporary scientists don’t tend to throw in with Freud on this one.
Another hypothesis that used to be popular says that babies can’t form episodic memories until they develop certain cognitive capacities, like language.
But there’s a major problem with the language-based hypothesis: Experiments have shown that animals like mice also display both long-term memory and infantile amnesia. Since childhood amnesia crosses species lines, it’s probably something to do with brain biology rather than language.
One possible answer would be to say that baby brains simply can’t make memories. It’s true that memory encoding isn’t as efficient in infant brains as it is in the brains of older children or adults - possibly because the prefrontal cortex of a baby’s brain hasn’t reached maturity yet.
But recent studies have shown that very young children can form some memories, leading scientists to think it’s not that we don’t make memories early in life, but that after a certain point, we can’t access them. The memories are made, but something happens to them: They get erased, or put behind some kind of memory blockade.
Patricia Bauer and Marina Larkina of Emory University have led research on this hypothesis: For example, in one study, researchers recorded children at age 3 describing a recent event, like a trip to a theme park.
Years later, the researchers followed up with those same children to see how much they remembered. At ages 5, 6 and 7, the children could recall more than 60 percent of the earlier events, but by ages 8 and 9, their recall was less than 40 percent. More research of this kind is needed, but this looks like watching the onset of childhood amnesia as it happens.
Another recent study has considered the role of neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that’s crucial for creating and storing episodic memories. If you didn’t have either of your hippocampi, you could end up like the guy in “Memento” - unable to make new episodic memories.
Neuroscientists Sheena Josselyn and Paul Frankland have proposed a theory that childhood amnesia happens because of rapid formation of new cells in the hippocampus when children are young. This is known as hippocampal neurogenesis.
Basically, while your brain is manufacturing lots of the cells you will use to make memories for the rest of your life, it wipes away or obscures the memories you already created as a young child.
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One time I was 3 and I was playing with toy trains in my daycare and thought to myself "you will remember this moment". Still do to this day
I've had many moments like that, but not from such a young age lol
Yeah I remember also a lot of moments when I was only 1 or 2 years old I love it
Mr. Rotundus false memory, no one can remember being that young
Tom G bullshit I remember being three years old.
@@tomg4685 what the?? Three years old?? Doesn't everyone remember from that age tho? I remember picking the potatoes in the dirt with my grandpa and his friend was driving the tractor. I was scrolling through photos recently and saw some photos of that exact moment. I checked the date and discovered I was only one years old
Close your eyes and try remembering an event you experienced in the past.
Many people remember events they experience in the 3rd person, seeing themselves in their memory. If you think about it, that is impossible.
Karnan Aruliah ikr that is so weird
Wow true, it's probably because it's a fake memory, a memory someone told you that they had and you created it as your own.
***** idk about that , i have a memory in third person but i think i see myself in third person because i had a picture of that memory in my cupboard so ya
yeah but how can you validate that memory, or any memories from when you were a kid. You may have looked at the photo and created the memory in your head
Karnan Aruliah That's how they showed most of the memories in "Inside Out"! I didn't even think about that. It's more of an "outside in" perspective than "inside out".
My first memory is waking up on my third birthday and knowing it was my third birthday. I remember confidently walking downstairs from my room and stating it was my birthday. Then I got my present. It was a remote controlled car. This was back in 1985.
@amanda kenya how is he acting special
same with me but on my 4th
hah I was also 3 in 1985
Same memory. My first one is about stairs and mirror. I believe I was 3 years old as well.
Crazy thing is my first memory which I confirmed with mom was when I was one. She couldn’t believe I remembered. That was in 1984. Hell I was shocked also because thinking about it now I had no idea I was about to turn one.
My brother can remember a little bit after being born. He said he remembers looking around and seeing these people who he didn't know. He also remembers not having words for it but it was more a feeling of not knowing them, if that makes sense. My mom and dad said that he was very aware when he was born because his eyes were wide open and he was watching the nurse walk by and he was holding his head up. It sounded amazing! That's my older brother. I'm one of two children in my family. Well, this girl is out! PEACE!
Miriam Lynn Hill I have a similar memory like that... The earliest memory I got I was looking around, some people looked familiar some didn’t. I was in a car seat and was definitely under a year old.
martinski you're so annoying
I thought babies cant open their eyes when they're born.
DONT JUDGE ME IF IM WRONG BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME SALTY ASS PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD.
I have a similar memory but it also when I try to think about it it’s like a composite of a bunch of short memory’s from under one year to preschool and when I think about i it has this feeling of that the time flied intill preschool and I’ve had this memory since preschool now no I can’t see the memory’s clearly but there still there and the feeling is so odd
amanda kenya I DONT KNOW WHY BUT I DIED TO YOUR COMMENT
My earliest is probably 2 or 3 I remember taking a juice baby bottle away from another baby
I remember that I been to the Disneyland when I was young in US (idk the place that's why)
now that I see that you're black things cleared out
Fatty BlackMan why do you have to make it into racists....
Fatty BlackMan do you understand English, this dude was make a joke but you have to make it into racists battle or something.😑😐😒😕
Fatty BlackMan why can't you just enjoy the video..
I remember when I was in my moms stomach here are some details
• you can see like if u had ur eyes close
• you can hear like if u have ur ear close to someone's stomach
• u can only hear ur moms voice and rarely other voices
• also ur floating in water
That's all I remember
Thank you. Yes It is like seeing with your eyes close as looking in the light
I recall one memory as a dream where i was in my mom's arms and they were in a warehouse and buying a refrigerator or something. She told me I was almost 1 years old. And the second earliest memory of mine is as a 2 year old. when i was running half naked across snow capped mountains in Manali(India) and interrupting romantix sessions between couples on honeymoon. long story.
My earliest memory was when i was a baby, I was probably a little under a year old. I was in my mom's friend's house playing with keys while my mom was getting her hair done. I saw my mom's friend plug in a hair drier and turn it on and wondered what would happen if I plugged in the keys. It wasn't pleasant and the last thing I remember is getting hit with a broom handle and crying.
Ryan Fowler-Hughes
Let me guess, you could actually do that in america
My middle name is "Ryan" and my last name is "Fowler" o.o
Ryan Fowler-Hughes I stuck a penny in a lamp(where you'd put the bulb.) It turned my finger nail black. I was two. I have a lot of memories from while living in that same apartment. I was two when we lived there.
VicariousReality7 Yeah, America isn't that safe.
Ryan Fowler-Hughes bullshit
I am 14 and I remember what the first house I lived in looks like people think its impossible but when I told my parents what I remembered they said it was right, I mostly remembered things like colours. Also this is likely be due to me reminding myself throughout my life, which is why I still remember something that early.
well i never ate a burrito...
Fogolol !! I was eating some 2 hrs ago
i dont think burritos are even sold in portugal
Fogolol !! My last time was in a movie theatre when my freind got it on May 24th (I have very good memory)
Fogolol !! Lmao me too
Me either
I'm pretty sure I have a memory from when I was 1 or 2 years old.
I had a dog that died before I turned two years old yet I can remember laying on the floor as a baby and the dog wouldn't stop licking me, and I couldn't stop laughing.
Watching this video made me question whether or not the memory is real, but I can still see it in my head, and I knew what the dog looked like before I even see a photo of him. So maybe not ALL memories get wiped
+Boo Baa I also have a memory from when i was about 2. my mom was telling me about when we went on vacation to Niagara falls when i was 2 years old, and i told her i have had a distinct memory of that way before she told me about it. I remember sitting in my stroller, looking out at the falls.
What a wonderful and precious memory, Boo Baa. ^_^
I can remember crawling out of my crib when I was still unable to walk well. I was under six months old, and was actually walking around six months. The memories are pretty sketchy, but by a year old I have memories that are fairly clear.
When I was about 1 year old I remember my Dad filming me. I was under the table and I was staring at the red light on the camera. The funny thing is that I've never seen the video because it doesn't exist anymore. One time I told my parents about that and they were truly shocked because they remembered watching the video and my Dad also still remembers me being fascinated with the red light.
I'm 33, and I remember little flashes of my grandmother who died of cancer when I was 2. I remember a crocheted beanie she wore to cover the effects of chemo and I remember being at her funeral, in a stroller.
Holy wow, thank you all so much for sharing your stories! These are amazing. My earliest memory is climbing out of my crib in my family's first home, and toddling into the dining room, where my mother was sitting at the table writing or looking at papers. I would've been about 2 years old. Though honestly, at this point, it's more like a memory of that memory. I feel like it 'looks' different than it used to, but I couldn't explain exactly how. /Lauren
my most recent memory is when I was 1 and a half years old, I crawled outside my house and into my front lawn before my mother ran out and grabbed me. I could talk then and later that day my brother got bad that my dad cooked something he didn't like and yelled that he would never eat again, and so I said " you'll get very hungry" and my whole family except my brother started laughing.
+BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks my first memory of being a baby, is when i was 1 year old and i was climbing on the stairs at my aunt's house, my hand slipped so i fell on the staircase and hurt my lip, i still have a little scar on it.
+GizmoGaming when i was one i was crawling next to the door but i was a bit away from it this theif was knocking and he was wearing all black he was saying to my mum open it my mum first asked who are u he said first open it then you'll know (obviously that means hes a thief) then. my mum was like come here son dont go there! its dangerous come here then i was crawling to her i was crying. and i understood what the man was saying OMG i cant believe i understood him even though i was 1
The first memory I can remember was kind of like a dream, so I see a bright light and open my eyes almost like I am fully conscious of myself and body and I think I was laying on a bed. I think I was about two or three.
+deyvis mejia It was your birth date, you were being born😆
The combination of her hand movements, voice, and the music playing in the background is strangely hypnotic.
I remember a campaign that said something like "the first 5 years of your life are the most important in your life", i don't remember anything of those first 5 years.
Also it is said that if you get hit hard in the head you can develop amnesia; some of my first memories are of being hit hard in the head repeatedly.
I have a number of extremely early memories!!! Born in 1954, I can remember the yucky green formula I was given as a baby. I can remember escaping from my playpen. Having my dipes changed. Being held by my mother, grandmothers, a number of aunts and my big sister...I don't remember any men (like my dad) holding me much until I was big enough to walk. I can remember crawling and learning to walk (and my mother washing the kitchen floor all the time as that's where I spent a lot of time crawling). My baths in the kitchen sink as a baby. Being stuck in my crib at "nap time." Crying to get attention when I was done with my nap. ...if I took one (I hated naps)! I remember my "nundle" (a blanket I chewed on to cut my teeth). Our dog "Buttons" that would knock me down when I was learning to walk. I remember standing next to my mom in the front seat of the car at a very early age (no car seats or seat belts in those days). ...and yes...even a foggy dim view of being pushed in a cart of some kind though a pair of doors that I always associated with my birth. ...or shortly afterward. I'm sixty one, now and I can remember a lot of what went on in my life. I can remember very early memories of Captain Kangaroo and Here's Geraldine (I might even remember that theme song), Garfield Goose and the first Bozo's Circus on TV, school from kindergarten on, my paper route, tap dancing lessons from age 4, climbing trees, little brothers coming along, etc. Just snapshots or little vignettes, but none the less memories of actual events. I'm sure you will say I'm wrong, but it doesn't change the things I can remember... I occasionally will say something to my sister and she'll exclaim..."you remember that? I haven't thought of that in years!" Frequently, if I concentrate on a single memory, I can start to remember what came before and after. In some ways it's nice! ...but I can't remember people's names to save my life if I don't have constant reinforcement over a substantial period of time! ...almost never forget a face, though!
A part of my early childhood, i do remember is. Being the only kid not falling asleep during nap time. xD
Earliest memory of when I was 2 and a half. I hurt my knee and my dad brought me home a pound puppy stuffed animal. I remember feeling happy.
I can remember being in my baby crib!
Me too! /Lauren
oh wow! that's weird! My earliest memory was in yje first or second grade x)
+joshi5507 Just out of curiosity, were you subject to any verbal or physical violence or "discipline methods" as a child or other stuff like divorce?
My parents always never worked out. I've never had step parents or anything but they have ALWAYS fought
I can remember my very first sentence and when it happened and why and all... It's so vivid.
I was at an amusement park around 2 or 3 years old holding my dad's finger with my whole hand and adults were just walking legs since I was so little. Dad had to let go of my hand to get his wallet out to pay admission so I embraced his leg so not to get lost. I looked up to make sure Dad was there but I was embracing a strange man's leg. I screamed for my Dad realizing I couldn't see him since I was so little. Suddenly arms scooped me up and I was looking into my Dad's face. And then I was OK. That's my earliest memory. I shared that at his memorial after he passed away.
@Samwell I'm glad. Stay safe :)
My earliest memory must've been when I was about two and a half years old, because I, being two years old, wanted to see what would happen if I deliberately tripped myself up on a step. I hurt my leg really badly :(
I remember crying hysterically and the feeling of betrayal and abandonment when my mom and aunt handed me over to an absolutely terrifying green monster with gigantic eyes that I could not get away from.
Turns out I was about three months old and my aunt brought over a huge green frog plush she thought I would like. They lay me down on its lap for a photo and baby me lost it.
so baby vision is just mush. another reason not like them
I remember when I made myspace
Tom whats myspace?
Wow XD
Tom Do you also remember when you deleted all our inbox messages and blog posts for all eternity without informing us?
Sweet Heart lol too funny.
Sweet Heart Maybe the blogposts are on archive.org?
How did scientists figure out that mice have infantile amnesia? Did the mice tell them?
+Deja Stewart lol I was thinking that too.
that's what I was thinking
deja stew Yes
Open your third eye.
Testing.
My mom always gets mad at me for not remembering my childhood.. now I have something to show her, explaining why! Thank you!
Earliest memory of me that i have is when i was 3, being lost in a very big and busy shopping mall+indoor theme park, crying my eyes out, screaming for my parents, that feeling of being left alone and scared made me remember it to this day. Now im 31
The earliest memory I have is when I was in reception. I had came out of school that day and saw my mum in a red long coat waiting for me. Another memory was when I was in yr 1. I had nearly went home with a complete stranger because the guy had looked like my dad, I only found out that it wasn't my dad when I had said "daddy? I'm tired can you carry me?" The guy turned around and saw me. He had swore and rushed me back to the classroom where my dad had picked me up about 5 minutes later 😂
😂😂😂
I’m 35, I mentioned to my mother many times a memory I have to this day but the first time I reminded her of it I was 27. I asked her if she remembers the time I fell off the kitchen dinning room chair onto a glass ornament fruit bowl she had on the floor next to the chair. When I did her eyes widened and she asked how on earth I remembered that. She says I was 1yrs-2yrs old and without a doubt no more then 2yrs old. I broke the bowl and hit my head but not a scratch or bruise was on me. My mother is very religious and she said she began praying allowed. I told her i remember her and her friend that I haven’t seen growing up in the room I remember exactly what he looked like. But she said there was only her home that day. Maybe an angel?
My first memory is when I was one and a half years old. It was my cousin's birthday and he got a bike.
i can recall an event when i was just 6 months old.that event was by baptismal ceremony.i was even able to understand my mom's language back then and was able to tell the story based from the pictures taken from that event.my mom didn"t believe me at first,but she was shocked when i told her the actual words i heard from her.as a baby i didn't recognize my mom's face, just her scent and her voice.my mom said i didn't went through separation anxiety and stranger anxiety during my infancy.i was this cool baby who was always okay with whoever holds me.weird...
My first memory was probably around the age of 1-2 years old. I remember the smell of the mat the doctors layed me on to do tests. The mat was made out some kind of latex and I often got reminded by it when I smelled it somewhere else again later in life. My mother told me some years ago the docters found out I was allergic for that as a baby.
You probably remember your 18th birthday, but not your first - or your zeroth. Why is that?
My grandma is 83 and she remembers when she was 4
BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks I've never eaten a burritio, STUUUUUUUUUUUPID! Try pizza.
BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks do a video on bionics
+BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks don't patronize me i remember when i was born vai picture my 3rd month being alive i visualize my hearing to images to form my memories which happened
Von Doom Lots of people are reporting really early memories in the comments section of this video. That's awesome!
I've always disagreed with this idea of childhood amnesia. I have very vivid memories of my early childhood. I know how old I was because of the years I lived in 3 different houses for my childhood. 1st house I lived in was for 3 years, the next was 5 years and the 3rd house for 11 years. I agree I don't have as many memories in the first 3 years of my life but I still have plenty. Like being fed cranberry gerber food, very off standout memory. Other's like the first time I saw rain and times I injured myself when I was 2.
***** I don't remember what day it was in any of my memories, if you asked me what I did on a thursday 4 months ago, I wouldn't remember, I don't know anyone who does.
I still know what the weather was like that day, what I was eating, where I was oriented in the house and what I did after I was finished being fed. Not surprising it's the only vivid memory I have of being fed.
***** so how old are you?
I'm an old man, jk I'm only 21. I still have vivid memories of being under 3, like the first time I saw rain, the first time I was given cow milk instead of formula or breast milk. I threw it across the room near my fisher price orange and yellow car. I remember being upset and grabbing blue bunny, my stuffed rabbit, and hugging him and turning to my left side to go back to sleep.
These memories I have are short, spread out but vivid like yesterday. There are under 100 of my early years and sometimes it takes something in my present environment to bring them up again, but I remember them well.
***** The problem is that we're not good at distinguishing between real and false memories, especially from when you were a kid, and it is incredibly easy to make false memories about your childhood; all you need is a picture of the event, or for someone to tell you about it. Most adults who claim to have vivid memories from events in early childhood are simply remembering what they were told about these events by other people later on, and have forgotten the fact that they were told about it. This is because the brain is good at storing knowledge but is notoriously bad at remembering where we learnt that knowledge. It's the same reason why you probably have access to lots of random facts without remembering where you learnt them or who taught them to you.
Yeah, but I have no photos of my early childhood, and those that I do aren't really memorable. My parents never really talked to me about my past, and they say they don't remember the stuff I remember. So I'm pretty sure are true memories. The fact that I have such detailed memories ages 4-8, the second house I lived in were of those ages.
I'm 31 years old. The earliest memory that I can recall.... I was living in the Bronx, NY at the time my parents and I lived in an apartment on Grand Avenue on the 4th floor. I recall it was a sunny day and my father was at home cleaning. I remember that I was in my baby crib wearing my blue pajamas that was white covering my feet. I also recall that the show Alf was airing. (for those of you who remember that TV series). I personally don't know why I can recall that memory and that is really the only memory I can recall from that time frame. Yes I can recall memories such as the firefighter who gave my toy back after I had drop it from a fire escape because of a small fired that had occurred in an apartment unit within the building I lived at in Grand Avenue.
I can remember my grandmother giving me a bath in the kitchen sink and not feeling cramped I don't know how old I was probably because I had not learned to count..
Dam reading some of these makes me wish I could have had a childhood like theirs. My earliest memories are a bright light and a ceiling and my next earliest memory was watching 9-11 on the news. A dust cloud engulfed a city street and people ran some dust got into the car and I asked my mom why she said, "It went through an air vent honey" Thousands of people died that day, needless to say. As I was typing this I realized something profound, those memories affected my behavior. I did not respect people or handle them all that well. I now understand that our earliest memories affect how we act in our lives. I know we can turn away from wrong doing and I will do so. Thankful I saw this video! Stay blessed everyone! God does answer prayers and shows us the way when we ask and or need it!
I remember when I was 1 years old I was being carried by my mom while watching TV and at the age 2 I was asked by my teacher how old am I and I answered 2. That's the oldest memory I only remember.
I remember standing in a sink and looking out of an upstairs windows while being told that the man I was meeting was my Dad. I asked my Mom how old I was and she said I was 13months old I described the room to her and my Blue pram and two rocking toys I had my mom said I was only 10 months old when the toys were left behind.
I remember when i was still in my crib i folded my blankets and stacked my pillows to climb out the crib then wake my parents up xD
Safer way then I escaped my crib i saw video of my insaijty at 9 months and i still handn't started walkin and refused to crawl I could stand and sit. the video has sense been lossed or destroyec during life event. I stood up in bed Idk what I was thinking and straddled crib rail. Then swong leg over and grabbed rail. Dad got me when got to this point. Dad filmed it with hidden camera after he heard and caught me in act first time at night to show family they didn't belive him and he wanted to know how. No clue what I wanted that caused me to do that.
I remember being bullied at of 3 in kindergarten,remember my second birthday. Remember birth of my sister when I was 2.5. I have almost all memories after 2 year of age.
So memories might not be accessible, but what about abuse victims? They are affected by the abuse and their brain biology and body remember the abuse. Although not a memory, but the effects are there. So in essence, there is some type of memory. Has anyone watches the movie "The Final Cut" with Robin Williams? Some people are implanted with a camera that records their life. This video would be horrifying and fascinating to watch.
painting with my mom on a counter at age 2, and another was when i had a dream black and white at a carnival
Just watch Inside Out- it explains everything ! Haha 😂😂😂
lol
I remember being born. For real. All I can remember is darkness at first, then I think I could see some red, you know like when light shines through your closed eyelids and looks red. I recall opening my eyes to see white light but everything was EXTREMELY blurry. Couldn't make out anything other then that I was looking at light. My dad would often (annoyingly) tell me every year for my birthday that he was there when I was born, he said he held me and said something to me, I was crying but then I stopped and opened my eyes. However I don't remember hearing anything, and again, I saw nothing but light because everything was extremely blurry. I found out sometime during my high school years, that babies do not have developed focus in their eyes yet, so that makes it more credible. I had a relative tell me once that he remembers being born too and he saw his dad's face and all that, but I just don't really believe it, because of the focus thing. The first sound I remember was some old lady walking slowly across a floor, don't know where it was or how old I was, but I think I may have been held by someone, anyway, the old lady I think stepped on something cause it made a loud crunching sound. A lot of kids don't believe me when I say I remember being born. Sometimes I wonder if it means I'm special. It just amazes me how many people don't remember stuff, my childhood friends will sometimes say they don't remember a lot of the stuff that I do and etc. As a kid I used to go to this Halloween party for a few years held at a church, anyway I befriended a special needs girl... the next year I saw her again and asked her if she remembered me from last year, I think she remembered me but the year after that she said no.
What was the experience like?
Are you wearing a CPU as a necklace? O_o
+maximumsid I have worn computer chips as jewelry before, but this is a squid pendant from an artist who goes by squidglass over on Etsy! Cephalopods are important. www.etsy.com/shop/squidglass?ref=pr_shop /Lauren
+BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks Very cool. Thanks for sharing :)
+maximumsid At first glance I thought it was a piece of hologram film. Wish holograms were still cool. :(
XelleldIsWeird yeah ikr as you can tell by her face
You also have to remember. A lot of memories people have of when they were baby's are sometimes because they were shown a home video or a picture or havr been told a story from the past and took it as their own memory. So try to think if you really remember when you were a baby or if you watched or saw it 2nd hand.
Yeah I don't wanna remember that coming out of a thing agh
I remember when I was 2, I was in a dodge neon with my mom and she was listening to that airplane song by Rihanna. I even was talking to my mom about this and said, "I think the parking lot was in the back for the apartment complex." And she was so shocked by all of the detail. I think I remember this because It was probably the first song I every enjoyed because I didn't really understand music. Lol sorry didnt mean to write so much.
Contemporary scientists don't tend to throw in with Freud on anything.
Butt Poopington Not true. Psychoanalysis is still studied to this day, some forms of Freudian therapeutic techniques are applied by psychologists everywhere. There was and probably never will be a psychology degree without somewhat extensive study of Freudian theories and therapeutic techniques. So you cannot be more wrong.
Ksenia Donis Psychoanalysis was invented by Freud, yes, but just about all of his techniques and theories are seen as pseudoscience by contemporary psychologists. There are many, MANY scientists who consider the entire field of psychoanalysis to be pseudoscience because there is simply too little scientific evidence that it works. Freud took all of his results at face value without looking further into them. He did not rigorously test his results as modern scientists do.
Butt Poopington as a fellow psychologist I should agree and disagree at the same time. It is impossible to scientifically test psychoanalytic theories, unlike cognitive or behavioural psychology. Psychoanalysis is based on anecdotal evidence and concerns itself with the "black box". However as I said it is a impossible to disregard Freudian psychology and psychoanalysis. The culture the relationship between therapists and clients that's in large thanks to Freud. Psychology is not only science it is also an art and a therapy.
Ksenia Donis
I mostly agree with you, however I think that a lot of what is considered "impossible to test for" really can actually be tested and quantified, in one way or another. If not now, then eventually. With that said, the fundamental tenants of psychoanalysis are based on untested premises, so really the whole thing lays outside of the realm of science for now, and, in my opinion, makes it an unviable form of therapy. There ARE perfectly good forms of therapy that have been scientifically tested in the field of psychology, but any psychologist who uses psychoanalysis as therapy for their patients is relying on faith and faith alone.
My earliest memory for now,
waiting for the storm and flood to calm, in the house wth my family. Praying that our stilt house won't get carried/destroyed by the flood/storm. It was 21 years ago when I was 5 yo.
I was born in 1996 and my first memory is visiting New York in 1999 and seeing the world trade center
Tommy Bertrand My first memory is also from when I was 3! :o
Wow my memory must be bad. I went to see the world trade center just two years ago and dont even remember seeing it..
Mine was 2 :@
+MiotaLee I rember when I was 3 I almost locked myself in my room.
my first was on 2001 and seeing the trade center fucking turn to dust
I recall falling down a staircase and not responding when I landed on the floor, I can't remember if it was the rug burn carpet stairs in my childhood home or the rubber-gripped stairs at my grandma's house. I was maybe 3 yrs old, just after I started learning how to run and move faster on my little legs. I was running down the stairs, I recall not moving, or even crying immediately, after I landed face-first. It was like I saw it happen from the top of the stairs, but couldn't do anything to stop it. That to me might be the earliest memory thus far.
What's with the changing background colour?
I didn't notice it the first time, how weird. After I saw your comment I checked they do I wonder why
Memory Test I think...
calsta619 Just tryin' to add visual depth! I mean, I know my arm flails are great, but they can't be everything. /Lauren
+calsta619 perhaps the transition of topics?
I remember the first time I ate a burrito, I was exactly 7 years old and I was at school, I was eating at one of the tables closer to the line to get your food, and it didn't have any lettuce in it. It wouldn't suprised me to remember that only about 4 years have passed
I think frued was projecting because he was molested as a child
Royals
I was a Cesarean section
I remember the route my mom took, and my favorite houses along the way, when she'd push me around the neighborhood in my stroller. I could walk the route today and point the same houses out, and when I reminisce about it it's clear POV snapshots in my mind's eye. My mom finds this really remarkable, as I would have been very young- still in diapers. But I really do remember.
A burrito? Errrrrrrrrrr... ;~; WHY DO U THINK EVERYONE EATS BURRITOS ;~;
+Amy Enderson Because they're delicious? ^__^;; We don't really, we were just making an example.
@@BrainStuffShow should have said pizza more relateable
Earliest memory of mine is getting my legs stuck in my crib, way back when I was a bit over one year old or younger, because my crib was still up against my window. Nice earliest memory, I know.
Oh my god I just noticed I haven't eaten a burrito in 2 years
+Your pal foxy Sounds like you've got some important work to do. /Lauren
+BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks i have never had one. is that bad? what do they taste like?
@@Butter12321 have you had one yet. It's only been three years.
@@Butter12321 try a bean and cheese burrito for starters and them you will become addicted.
I remember being two years old and going to a small cabin with my parents for a few days. I also remember how my mom's stomach was huge because she was almost due with my sister. I remember my sister coming home from the hospital and then later my dad asleep in his chair with her on his chest. I can remember vague pieces of Christmas decorations and lights and a small house that lite up inside from even early on. And I am in my 40's.
It's like asking why a baby can't bench press.
My earliest memory is very clear and is from the time when I was 3-4. I remember my dog, house layout, and how I organized plastic army men by type and color on the kitchen floor and placed each one on each tile. I also remember a nightmare I had mainly featuring Pixar characters.
Also, I never really put too much credit in what Freud said. I think he was one of those kinds of people who made big breakthroughs, but also got a ton of other stuff wrong....
her necklace changes colors
You couldn't take your eyes off her chest either, eh?
I clearly remember a few incidents from 7 months onwards. I was able to walk then and by age 11 months I was able to run. At 7 months I used to mumble a lot trying to speak a few words but couldn't speak with clarity. However, I was able to understand a few things what others used to speak. I could understand facial expressions pretty well, like laughter, crying, annoyed, etc. From the age of 2.5 onwards I remember everything clearly, like my firsy day in pre school, first friend, first text book, first uniform, first school van, first exam etc. My earliest memory is listening to my parents' conversation in the kitchen and then going to the dinner room all by myself then, into the garden exploring the house. It was a huge place. At age 2 when my brother was born, I also went to the hospital and wanted to play with him. Back then I thought I had a sister until I was 6 years old when I realized I was wrong.
No joke, I remember being in the womb/born O.O
+thenowhere2 What was it like? Did you touch the gspot?
I also remember being in the womb of my mother.
If you encourage a young child of say 3/4 to recount an event from when they were 2/3 on a regular basis, (almost daily) will they eventually just forget one day or would that memory become permanent?
I'm 13 but I can't remember much up to the age of 8...
Same
+X4W3SOM3xDoesx GamingX I'm thirteen and the earliest memories I remember are from 4ish.
Same.
Well im 16 and cant remember before 11
+X4W3SOM3xDoesx GamingX ptsd
I can remember being in my pram before I could walk. My daughter can remember being born by caesarian section - and the doctor with the face mask and lamp on his head and the incubator, so baby brains can make memories. She's ten. I forgot about the inside of the pram for ages until something triggered the memory. I think it was an image of a pram. Later when I saw a photo of mine lots more memories came back. I can remember being taken out to dinner in a Moses basket and coming home in the car. I've always had recall of really early memories though - eg. stepping on a bee aged one - I can remember the house and the garden because of that.
No joke, I remember being in the womb/being born O.O
I remember my mom putting me in the sun because I had a skin condition. I was only one week old!
I also remember my Grandpa holding me when I was 9 months old, and I was chewing on his eye glass case.
Other people are just more in-tune with their souls than others...
you are implying I have ever eaten a burrito. Most non-americans don't eat burritos.
I remember when I was 1 I was inside of a crib and felt imprisoned. I saw the sunlight shine through the window. I noticed the bars were sky blue as I escaped and woke up my parents by screaming.
In my opinion, someone has spent a lot of time and money compiling a lot of basically useless information, none of which is provable, and unscientific guess work. justjerry :)
Interesting concepts. While hearing this, I began to think that much of what was said is true, but to add that in order for most of us to recall something it has to be repeated many times or looked over many times (actors/actresses in plays/films have to mostly remember lines). If you think about all the times you can recall a movie/show scene that excited or saddened you or songs you enjoy and can sing the lyrics with the song right away. I am no scientist, but I agree with the developmental part about the brain, but I also think that if everything in our life was repeated over and over again (like a "Ground Hog Day" movie moment) then we could at least recall most of our memories, but would have to play back like a movie for us to remember/recall all of it (which sounds impossible). That would be a scary idea, since now everything is changing and trying to find ways to make our lives easier, but it could make our lives the total opposite.
I remember pushing my cousin because she tried to take one of my birthday presents out of my hands and then curling up on the floor, thinking "sleepy"; this happened during my birthday party, when I turned three.
My mom was shocked when I told her about a memory I had about seeing her and my dad taking furniture off of a truck. I went on to tell her about the color and she was even more shocked. She told me son you were about to turn one. That was 39 years ago. I know people who have memories beginning from 3 months.
As upsetting as it may be, my earliest memory is my mother holding me and crying while we watch the second World Trade Center tower getting hit. I also remember from that day my mother throwing the phone against the wall in frustration because she couldn't get in contact with my father.
I remember being a baby same as being a baby and 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21. I may not remember every detail but I remember the good stuff some bad. it wrote most of it down and still have it to this day.
I'm apparently a freak of nature, because my earliest memories of being between 1 and 1 1/2 years old (crawling age) were never erased. Although I feel weird for being "different" in this regard, I also appreciate that I can share common pop culture and societal references (though firsthand experience) with people much older than me.
I remember playing with a car that had a remote attached. I was 3. I think I remember running around outside in red overalls at 3. Those are my earliest memories.
The earliest memories I am confident about is a dream about Disney's Aladdin I had when I was 3. That and generally walking around my house.
about 2 decades have passed and I still remember dreams I had that young?
The oldest memory I can recall is someone, I think my sister, waving an Ernie toy over my cot. I think I was probably not even one.
My earliest memory is sitting on something at eye level with adults and having clown makeup put on me. Apparently that was my first Halloween.
Mom says if you concentrate hard enough long enough, you can remember baby stuff. Two things I remember, playing with a little barn on the fireplace - I like the way the doors open, close and lock and being uncomfortable, wanting mom to tuck the blanket around my head. There were no words just emotions and comfort feelings. So weird.
I remember from age of two. My first memory is being in a house full of toys and I was laying on the couch getting my diaper changed and there was another kid talking and the lady had a tub of water with her and she sets it on the floor, it was one of those things you put your feet in. One side was the living room and the other side was the kitchen.
One of my earliest memories was sitting in my high chair when I was almost three and knocking my sippy cup of grape juice into the floor and my mother getting a little frustrated.
I have a couple other early memories I would like to share that are quite strange. I was about four years old and in the tub with my older brother and sister (aged about seven and six). I was sitting squished at the back of the tub. I remember my brother and sister started fighting and my sister fell back onto me. I was forced underwater and with the weight of them both on me, I couldn't get back up and breathe. My siblings finally sat back up and I remember floating a little but not having any control of my body. It was as if I died or lost consciousness. Then I heard my mom screaming. It was the most terrible sound and I can still hear it now thinking back on it. An eye blink later, I was suddenly sitting up at the back of the tub again with my brother and sister in front of me as if nothing had happened and my mom re-entered the bathroom to help us finish up in the tub. This was not a nightmare because I remember continuing the rest of the evening and telling my mom something bad happened in the tub.
About a year later when I was five, I was playing in the yard of our little townhouse. There was a row of pine trees up a small hill behind our home that led to a parking lot and another community of townhouses and apartments. I decided I wanted to go past the trees. As I climbed up the small hill, my mom screamed at me to come back right now. I remember fear flooding me because I knew by the tone in her voice that she was going to spank me. I was so scared that I vividly remember SEEING MYSELF walk down the hill to her from her perspective as if I was next to her. I had literally removed myself from the situation. As soon as I reached her, I saw her from my own perspective again and then she swatted me on my ass lol....there was no escaping the pain.
I can also remember telling my parents when I was about three years old that I was a soldier. I was trapped behind enemy lines in WW2. BTW, I'm an atheist and totally opposed to this type of thing. How could I recall anything before I was born? One more thing - I believe we can be reborn in the past, because time is not linear, it is curved, as Einstein showed. Also, okay, this is complicated, I'm very anti-abortion, because of, you know, waking up alive in the womb, when I thought, in words, (Oh, this is where I am) and when I was born, immediately understanding every word anyone said (I don't care if you don't believe me!) I could see, as soon as my eyes opened, unlike what is the common belief that kids can't focus for a while, and I knew that the stainless steel weighing scale the nurse was taking me to was going to be very cold, so I screamed. I was arguing with my mother, because I finally figured out how to use the voice of this body, by the time I was 9 months old.
Personally, I think you can remember. The problem is, you don't realize you are a baby. You don't see yourself that way until older. What the person "thinks" he should remember, but can't remember it, are not things that interested you as a baby. You remember the things that interested you and you don't realize later, that you were that young. I remember doing things and seeing a picture, that was taken, of me doing it, and was amazed I was that young. What I don't remember now, was hold old I was then. I remember sitting in a highchair. I remember my mom rubbing my gums with a cool wash cloth when I was teething. I don't remember teething, that didn't concern me, nor did I know it was happening. But I do remember what my mom did and me wanting to chew on that cool washcloth because it felt good to do. I remember my aunt changing my diaper and me pissing in her face. LOL That really happened. I can remember her jumping out of the way when she was changing my diaper. I don't remember pissing in her face, I learned that much later, but I remember her jumping. I had wore diapers, and I pissed when I felt like it. And at that moment in time, I guess I felt like it. I heard my mom mention, when talking to another mother, that I never crawled as a baby. I remembered I didn't want to crawl because the floor hurt my knees. I remember it. Before I learned to walk, I remember things. But its things that interested me then and not what I thought should interest me. If you think on it, you can remember.
I have memories from 18 months and younger tied to trauma. I remember being at a gathering and a drunk relative giving me a nickel and choking on it. Being rushed to the hospital. Also going to church and walking down the street we live on. I have many more memories. There was another trauma. Could the memories be like a awakening in early childhood?
I remember when I was one. Ridding on a toy tractor in the kitchen while my mother was cooking. the reason I know I was one is because I asked my mother about the toy tractor. she told me I had one when I was one but it broke sometime before my second birthday.
I'm 12 and my earliest is just a glimpse of me taking a bath in the sink
I think my first memory is crawling after a mirror on wheels while my grandmother was visiting. No clue what age that was but very certain I couldn't walk yet. Most of my memories from that early are almost like photographs, just remember a face, a situation or something like it, just tiny flashes.
My earliest memory is when I was at my 1st birthday. But, I remember most things in a " video in my head" so to speak. My first memory is almost like a still frame on a camera of my aunt. But looking at photos she looked different . But it was deffinetally her. I just think my brain just messed it up ever so slightly over the years .
Maple tree in our front yard, I thought it looked nice.
My mom spraying water with a hose causing a rainbow to appear.
My dad building a boat.
Being too hot with sun on my crib and crying. Mom rescued me and dog tried to help :) Had a very sore head and sat leaning against wall in the shade. I wasn't very mobile or dexterous.
The last one is probably the of the earliest. I was still learning to speak so it's all a bit of a hodge podge. My mom thought I had slid down the side of my mattress but I had riggled down the side to escape the sun. I was too young to speak so she didn't understand. It's stayed with me my whole life. I think the dog was trying to pull me out at one point. They got rid of him because he barked a lot. Probably saved my life in retrospect.
Q: Why Can't People Remember Being Born?
A: Theories.
My first memory is cutting my finger with a food chopper on the floor if my kitchen.
My earliest memory goes back to when I was about a year old. I thought it was a fabrication of my mind but my mother is in the memory and has confirmed every detail. The funny thing is, I vividly remember speaking to my mother and I remember her responding to me like someone responds to a baby uttering sounds rather than words. I remember being frustrated, but when I asked her about that memory she told me I couldn't even speak yet, which explains her reaction to me but also makes me wonder how I can have a real memory of me speaking when i wasn't able to.
My earliest memory in life was when i was just 9 months old.Before you say things like"How is that possible?,You are lying. and How did you estimate that you were 9months old?" i can say that i can explain it.Ever since i was growing up i have always remembered thing from when i was 3-5 years old.I remember my kindergarden,how it smelled,what i did there,certain things that have happened and just very vivid memories.And i had had a reocurring memory of me being small and crawling,probably a baby,in my home's kitchen which was green at that time following something round that has been spinning backwards and a woman smiling behind it on a white floor.Yes i do remember it as it is and before i could explain it to myself i actually always wondered if it was a memory or a dream?I had told all my relatives about it and they all shook their heads all the time thinking i was imagining.But we endeed has a green kitchen at that time,so they kinda belied me and said it could be possible it indeed was a memory.I havent told about my memory to my granny though.Ironically i don't remember when and how i told her about it and she nodded saying" Why yes i remember!When you were a baby and just learned to walk you had a "proshtapulnik"-in my country this was a celebration that the relatives do for the baby when it learns to walk and put random objects on a table,whatever the baby catches standing that will represent what he/she will be when he grows up. "When u had that celebration we had all gathered in that kitchen and put a white floor mat." When i told her about the round object and the smiling woman she said" Why yes that was me.I was the one rolling a homemade round bread on the floor luring you near the table with the objects." I then asked my mother when my proshtapulnik was and she said i had learned to walk at 9months old.That is my earlies memory i have and it has been reoccuring in my mind all the time ,these blobs of color that i have made sense of are my first memory from when i was under just a year old.