• money_loo@1337lemmy.com
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    1 year ago

    I woke up one day and suddenly realized I “was” and couldn’t remember anything previous to then.

    Maybe like 4 to 6, asked my older brother if he had the same thing happen to him growing up and he said “yeah, I guess” and then left, like he always did. So I figured the amnesia mixed with consciousness was normal and have been remembering the suffering since, lmao.

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      1 year ago

      Basically the same for me. Woke up, walked to the living room, recognized my mom as being, well, mom.

  • peereboominc@lemm.ee
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    Not my first memory.

    When I was eight years old, I was wondering how long I could remember something. So I started an experiment. I decided to remember what I did that day for as long as possible. Every evening when I was in bed I would try to remember it. That was 30 years ago and I still remember that that day I went playing with a friend and we tried to make a swimming pool in his parents backyard and we played with some wild cats.

    I hope I can keep the experiment going until I’m at least 90+

  • solstice@lemmy.world
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    I vividly remember my parents cheering and crying with joy when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. We have extended family and friends in Germany so we were all ecstatic. I would’ve been about 3-4 years old at the time and after some thought I’ve determined that is my oldest memory. Pretty neat as far as those things go.

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    I think my earliest one was going to the doctor once when i was like 2 years old, I know it happened before dad came back from the US and that was when I was 2 and I also have memories of that day.

  • sho@lemmy.ml
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    I have a very detailed memory of my great-grandmothers appartment. There are no pictures of this place at all, but i clear remember the arrangement of furniture and decoration. The appartment was cleared and sold shortly after she died. I was 15 month old when she died.

  • multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml
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    Pushing a tricycle around the yard. It was too big for me to ride. About 3 years old. I know it’s my real memory because it’s very sensory, the grass was tall and tickled my legs, and the trike was rusty and squeaked. It feels slightly alien, I can’t quite understand 3 year old me.

    • saba@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      don’t worry, you’ll forget all about potty training when you’re in your 80’s and your kids put you in a home

  • Cralex@lemmy.one
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    Either going to take a nap in daycare, or being told to wait until the digital clock said something (around a minute or two) and being capable of understanding that I’d get what I wanted at that time.

  • ji88aja88a@lemmy.world
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    I can remember lying in my cot with a Mr men book. It’s more of a photo on my mind than an entire memory of a moment

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      1 year ago

      Very nice! We had those books at school and during reading time all the guys in my class would race to get Mr. Strong.

  • giant_smeeg@lemmy.world
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    Genuinely don’t know. I can’t tell if my earliest memories are made up from other people’s accounts/photos.

  • light_martyr@sh.itjust.works
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    I have bits and pieces of older memories but my first “true” memory where I remember everything vividly was 9/11. So yeah… Fun