• peereboominc@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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+

  • money_loo@1337lemmy.com
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    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.

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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’ve given it some thought and I’m pretty sure that is my oldest memory. Pretty neat as far as those things go i guess.

  • CaspianXI@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Going to college.

    I grew up in a cult, and I seem to have suppressed most of my childhood. Of course, I have bits and pieces – like little flashbacks from my childhood days – but I don’t really have a coherent childhood story. From college onwards is when my life story makes sense to me.

  • blackbird@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Waking up this morning, or maybe something important from yesterday if I concentrate… 🤔 how did I get here?

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    1 year ago

    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.

  • 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.

  • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was two years old and my parents walked through a children’s haunted house at disney. I vividly recall shadows of witches and cackling.

  • electrogamerman@lemmy.world
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    I dont know what this says about me, but I only have bad memories from my childhood. Not that I had a bad childhood (I think), but somehow those are the one that stuck on my head.

    Examples:

    • Being grounded by my parents
    • Falling off a 2 floor
    • Being grounded in kindergarten
    • Eating too many sour candies and needed to go the hospital

    Anyway, happy Thursday

  • sho@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.