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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/4/2008 8:24:38 AM | Hey!!! I just remebered looking up my kindergarden teacher's dress as she walked past!! A hot Asian chick who wore black garders.  No Shit!!
So that's where the prev in me comes from. lol. | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/6/2008 8:06:05 AM | | I don't remember before 1yrs old but i do remember bits and pieces of 2 and 3. I remember all the various activities we did in preschool. Sometimes i remember them in photographic images but i've looked through all the photos and the only ones we have of that preschool were my graduation from it at 4 yrs old and my first day when i was 2 outside the building. But i remember certain rooms and activities and people/children we dont have pictures for. I also remember when i was about 2 yrs old maybe younger i used to sit with my great grandfather on this porch overlooking the ground and other garage (they lived in south boston) and he would give me a cookie and i can remember his voice. He died when i was 3. I also vaguely remember my 2nd birthday. Weird stuff memory can be! | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/7/2008 9:27:42 AM | OK, let me share what I remember, then you tell me if this can be induced memory.
My parents tried to place me into a playpen in the garden near our summer home.
(Thousands of very bright colors... raw, "unprocessed" photographic memory... )
The trees and their leaves were not just green - they were overwhelmingly bright and had thousands, if not millions of green shades. These shades changed every moment, as the leaves moved on the wind, and as the clowds moved. I remember every shade of every part of every leaf. Today, I can stare at a leaf , and all I see (let alone, remember) is just plain old green...
no, VIDEO memory...
Yes, in this memory as well as the next, I remember the order in which I looked at objects.
incredibly intense emotions, more intense than an adult's... I was fascinated with the playpen and its toys when I saw my parents slowly back off. I tried to follow them and realized that I can't, the thing is not letting me. I understood that I am effectively in a cage (though I did not think "cage" back then, but I understood that my parents put me in this place so that I could not follow them). I was not scared, but felt extremely humiliated and angry and.. betrayed. I wanted to be with my parents, why did not they want the same? Why would not they set me free? (I never had a crib, so that lack of freedom was new to me). I was crying my head off, almost in bass as I recall, shaking the walls of the playpen violently (don't recall if I was TRYING to break it), then my parents stopped, looked at each other, whispered something, came back, pick me up and never put me in that thing again (the last part is from their recollection). The playpen is still there, only it's never again been put together... I remember it put together. That was the strongest emotion I've ever felt.
I was the first one to bring that memory up later on, in quite young an age (I stably remember everything that happened after I was 3)... oh yes, they remembered the big tantrum...
Oh, yes, and my motorics... when playing with toys, I could only move a few fingers at a time, as if I had a mitten on... that's how infants do it, but I was not exposed to babies at all and did not know it at the time when I first shared it with my parents...
There is another memory from about the same time frame, and another where I am maybe 9 months old, but it feels differently, I was much older and remember words. | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/7/2008 10:54:46 AM | I can clearly remember learning to stand. Hanging onto the lounge chair and stepping out and landing with a thump on my backside.
And the memory is as if my head was the main part of me at the time with a less clear feeling or understanding of the rest of my body. As if my body and legs were relatively small and sort of irrelevant. I can remember being focussed on it. I can also remember walking under the kitchen table and looking up at the underside of it.
I dont know how old I was when I walked but probably less than 12 months. | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/7/2008 11:39:47 AM | "I also remember when i was about 2 yrs old maybe younger i used to sit with my great grandfather on this porch overlooking the ground and other garage (they lived in south boston) and he would give me a cookie and i can remember his voice."
That is f*&cking awesome.
I can remember feelings from way back, however the earliest memory I have is of my life is watching the goldfish pond in my neighbors yard. I must have been 3 at the time I'm sure, it most definitly commanded my undivided attenuation.
Amazing how brilliant the colours were. More so than they will ever be again. | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/7/2008 12:42:27 PM | OK, my second memory. A visit to a pediatrician. First we were waiting in line.. and waiting... and I was on my mother's laps, jumping up and down. Then we entered a beige room.. I was still on my mother's laps... I looked at the walls, clockwise, they had pictures of what I later recognized as cartoon characters... back then, I saw them as abstract paintings: mostly blue and red spots, divided by thick black curvy lines. My eyes just followed the black lines. (Don't tell me I made this up! How do you make this up?)
I did not understand a word said, but I heard Mom speak to the doctor in a voice that tried to hide her concern (even panic); I did not know she spoke about me. Dad tried to joke as usual, but I could hear fear in his voice. The doctor said something very optimistic and light-hearted; then the nurse held me in two outstretched hands (I was totally fascinated with the twisted, splitting, thick, greyish-white thread coming off her sleeve button), and carried me across the room to the baby scale. The baby scale was so.... ergonomic, curvy, cozy to sit on, had wheels that I wanted to touch.. I wanted to sit on that scale all my life and made some sad noise when taken off; the nurse replied in some light-hearted way, which told me she understood. Oh, and the window was open, and the doctor's and the nurse's tables were all covered with papers... of various shades of white... and the papers moved and made noise on the wind, that was fascinating, too... and a young birch was shaking on the wind, with brand new little leaves... it's a huge tree now.
And the third one - I was maybe 9 months, I was carried by Grandma in a stroller, the horizontal kind, so I was laying down, drinking kefir from a bottle... someone was walking next to Grandma, and I understood most of their conversation. They passed a place called an AppleTree, and mentioned it, and I was wondering how that place could be an apple tree when it obviously was not a tree at all. They also passed a store and were talking about it.
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/7/2008 1:58:39 PM | | Remember about one year old I peed in my doctors pocket with his cigarettes when he took my cloth diapers off. I don't remember if I was mad or the cool air for the reason. It was quite a story most of my life maybe it was to get him to stop smoking? | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/8/2008 2:06:49 AM | well...I remember when I was in the womb....it was dark
and I heard pumping....which now i know was my Mom's heart...it is quite vivid....
I remember when I was born....but vaguely....and remember
many things and events ever since I was a few years old....
my Mom confirmed my recollection....
I don't think it is a unique situation...many people might remember
events right from the time they were born....
it has never sounded strange to me...to remember all that...and
to have such memories... | |
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| Do you remember yourself before 1 year old?
Posted: 7/8/2008 3:00:27 AM | I don't have any memories before the age of about 7, let alone 1. I knew someone who had no memories before he was 9, but that was rather a special case: up until the age of 9 he was blind.
To me it seems that after a while, you don't remember so much as remember remembering. I don't really directly remember stuff from when I was 7, but I remember remembering things and thinking about them when I was older. | |
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