When I smell the aftermath of a house fire, it brings back memories. I was maybe one or two when that happened.
I don't consciously remember this but I have always been claustrophobic and panic, especially if my head is restrained.Most people have no recollection of events during the time they were an infant. Those that do have some recollection, it is typically foggy and vague.
Do you have a vivid memory from when you were an infant? (some memory that does not involve mother's nipple/breast, please)
When I was 7 months old, I somehow managed to escape my crib. I don't remember the attempt, or the fall, but I definitely remember my mother's screams. My dad had to rush my MOM to the emergency room!I have another memory, but it's rather vague. It involves monkeys and giraffes. . . and zebras, I think.
I don't consciously remember this but I have always been claustrophobic and panic, especially if my head is restrained.
My mom tells me as a baby I somehow managed to crawl under the fitted crib sheet, nearly suffocated.
I love floating dreams. Haven't had one in awhile.I have a memory of floating about five feet above the floor and moving through a house. A large, fleshy glob came up to me, right up in my face, which scared me.
I've concluded that it must have been back when I was an infant and was being carried by someone. The large, fleshy glob was probably a person coming up close to me--back before I understood what a human was.
I love floating dreams. Haven't had one in awhile.
Most people have no recollection of events during the time they were an infant. Those that do have some recollection, it is typically foggy and vague.
Do you have a vivid memory from when you were an infant? (some memory that does not involve mother's nipple/breast, please)
When I was 7 months old, I somehow managed to escape my crib. I don't remember the attempt, or the fall, but I definitely remember my mother's screams. My dad had to rush my MOM to the emergency room!I have another memory, but it's rather vague. It involves monkeys and giraffes. . . and zebras, I think.
My very first memory is just an image of the night light in my bedroom.
It was a light blue metal box with an etched glass image of Bambi on it.
I talked about it around age four or so, or rather, I remember mentioning it.
My folks swore that "it was taken down before I could remember it" but I found it in the attic some fifteen years later.
Sure enough, it was from when I was maybe eighteen or twenty months old.
But that's only an image stuck in my head.
My first memory of any significance however was the flood on our street.
My mother held me up to look at the water rushing by. (1959)
I was two, because we moved the soon after, 1960.
My father would read me bedtime stories, like "Chester the Horse" (A Little Golden Book)
and one day I ran upstairs (age four) to read to my mother, who damn near "plotzed" because I apparently had taught myself to read.
When they tested me to see if I'd just memorized it, I proved them wrong by reading from "Der Wizard in Ozzenland" which I'd never noticed before.
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I had difficulty with some of the words (because half of them weren't even real English!)but I did prove that I could read.
At the time I didn't understand what all the fuss was about, it just seemed natural to put sounds to the letters.
Stinkers thought they could trip me up with "fractured German".
Everything from age four on is pretty much continuous, I guess.
These days I have difficulty remembering what I ate for dinner last night, go figure....age 65 plus COVID brain fog, I imagine.
Fascinating post, Checker!
We should all be careful what we say and do in front of children of all ages, because they grasp, understand and will remember a lot more than we, as adults, realize.
I should clarify that by "continuous" I only mean that from age four on, I'd say I had a normal memory stream.
I am not a male Marilu Henner by any stretch....that lady is FRIGHTENING and if you haven't seen her feats of derring do, watch a couple of minutes of this:
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But I did HAVE a pretty good memory as a kid because I could recite every line on a typical cartoon or sitcom, or even a commercial, complete with the character voices
and I used to be a damn good mimic. My older brothers referred to me as "The Walking Television Commercial" whereupon I'd spring into action with...oh say...
"Mama Mia that's a spicy meat-a ball!" or whatever had just appeared on the set.
I even did all the mistakes perfectly, and the FACIAL expressions.
Do you remember what was playing at the cinema when you went?I remember nothing before my fourth birthday. My friend's mother took us to the cinema, and I was given a red "Merryweather" fire engine. toy.
Do you remember what was playing at the cinema when you went?
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