I heard something interesting. I can't find it again but it was something like Found it, I had misquoted.

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Its interesting when you think about it - you dont remember being born. You just suddenly realise that you exist when you are about nine months old. The life is a conspiracy!

I've thought of these sorts of things before, but for me, I began existing at about 3. My first memory was when I went into the kitchen and saw my parents watching TV together. I went up and kissed my mother and said something like "A kiss for mommy!" and then hugged my father and said "And a hug for dad!". I still am not very fond of my father. But I felt that my father would not appreciate being like "LOL I DONT LOVE YOU" when I was like 3.

Why does this happen? What are your first memories? When were they if you can remember?

It has to do with how your brain develops. My first memory is from when I was three or four myself. I was in a huge classroom (which probably wasn't that big) with my first speech therapist. Namely, when the bell rang inside the building it buzzed, which freaked me out. I really don't remember what school I went to. I remember bits and pieces of the ride there, but the parts I do remember there's no school in that direction. :S

I can't remember anything before like 6 yo.

Maybe before that time our mind isn't capable as processing the stimuli as a memory.
Or maybe we jus forget it all the same way I dont know what I ate for lunch 25 days ago.
Maybe our minds lose all of our early memories, when our mind starts to operate in a language?

I wish I knew the order of my early memories, but I'm really not sure which was first.
I'm pretty sure that I was about 3 years old when it happened.

Well.... I remember being young... I've seen thousands of other people... I've seen babies and childbirth... therefore I fallaciously imply that I must have been born at some point, and life isn't a conspiracy.

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Well.... I remember being young... I've seen thousands of other people... I've seen babies and childbirth... therefore I fallaciously imply that I must have been born at some point, and life isn't a conspiracy.

But the pit fighting they make you do in order to reach adolescence is.

I can't recall anything before about 3 years old, where my dad made me a model of a Spitfire and I played with it in the bath.

Why the hell would you want to remember being born anyway? It would be a very traumatic experience and I'd guess that us not remembering it is a biological defence mechanism.

The quote is idiotic.

On a related note, my earliest memory is of snow-covered slides in a playground in Russia. In my mind, they're huge, so I'm guessing ~3-4's about right. I'm pretty sure they were significantly bigger than what you'd find on most playgrounds, though. I also remember there being like three of them right next to each other...

On a happier note, my boyfriend's first memory of me is when we were lining up in the schoolyard after recess, and our 1st grade classes were next door, so we lined up next to each other. And he looked over and thought "that's Anna's line."

My first memory of my ex was "She seems grumpy - I don't think I'll talk to her."

Then I turned back to my work and found my friend had drawn a penis over it.

The quote was pulled off of some nobody that no1 cares about. It's not supposed to be profound or insightful, but it just got me thinking.

I don't remember a specific early memory, but my memory of what happened (from my eyes, I remember events vaguely) is semicomplete. Anyways, my first memory of my girl friend is, "wow, she has huge tits." true love

TiKels, have you ever read Piaget's theory? It nicely outlines how children think. The main idea, it appears, is that babies are too egocentric to really focus on anything beyond themselves. At about three or four, the mind expands enough to allow a bit more perspective - even though egocentricity still exists.