What is your earliest memory in this life?

Steve_A · 03-20-2009, 11:25 AM

Hi BROOK,

I dont remember another life (I can barely remember this one!), however I do remember vividly a dream that I had when I was around four or five years of age that I had twice.

The dream was that I was lay on a bed in a room and when I tried to cry for help, or tried to get up I was put to sleep, not by anyone at my side with an anaesthetic, but by a force. Iron shutters would also close over the windows.

Almost immediately that I was made to sleep I was allowed to wake up again and was allowed to remain awake as long as I didn't cry for help or try to escape.

During the dream I even tried to catch my 'restrainers' out by waiting for a couple of minutes and then screaming, but to no avail, they would make me sleep, cover the windows and then immediately I woke up again.

This dream I had twice over the space of a week. It was so vivid that I remember it even today.

Best regards,

Steve

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burgundia · 03-20-2009, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve_A

Hi BROOK,

I dont remember another life (I can barely remember this one!), however I do remember vividly a dream that I had when I was around four or five years of age that I had twice.

The dream was that I was lay on a bed in a room and when I tried to cry for help, or tried to get up I was put to sleep, not by anyone at my side with an anaesthetic, but by a force. Iron shutters would also close over the windows.

Almost immediately that I was made to sleep I was allowed to wake up again and was allowed to remain awake as long as I didn't cry for help or try to escape.

During the dream I even tried to catch my 'restrainers' out by waiting for a couple of minutes and then screaming, but to no avail, they would make me sleep, cover the windows and then immediately I woke up again.

This dream I had twice over the space of a week. It was so vivid that I remember it even today.

Best regards,

Steve

Perhaps you were made to wait to be recycled back to this life....

Czymra · 03-20-2009, 12:42 PM

I am amazed at how much you guys remember. Even now most of my past is only fragments and don't even ask me when what happened. I have the feeling that I access my past not across an imagination of time but much more associatively.

Anyway, earliest memory is either dancing on all four below the table while my mom's watching TV in the living room, no idea why but I madly happy at the time, and the other one is probably standing in the cellar hearing helicopters pass over the house.

Maybe I was 4 or 5 but I have no way of telling, really.

iainl140285 · 03-20-2009, 01:12 PM

Mines appears to from when I was a few days old. What I actually remember is lying facing upwards with a really bright light all around and seeing 3 shadows, the very right hand side was shorter, to theft of that was a taller figure standing really close to the shorter one. A few more steps to the left was another figure. I can remeber them mubling, no words though.

When I got a bit older I was told by my parents that I was 2 weeks premature and had jaundice. I was placed in an incubator type thing and the second they metioned I was under a light that memory just hit me like a wall! I told them I remebered. I believe it was my parents standing side by side and a doctor to the left - although I stress they were just shadows of figures against the background light.

I think that makes it my oldest memory - or as Steve said in a previous post its like a memory of a memory.

Peace
Iain

Czymra · 03-20-2009, 01:37 PM

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I think that makes it my oldest memory - or as Steve said in a previous post its like a memory of a memory.

I have caught myself a lot at synthesising memories i.e. making up a memory from my perspective after someone tells me a story about a part of my life I supposedly took part in. Can we really trust what we remember to remember?

Jacqui D · 03-20-2009, 04:47 PM

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but i asked quite a few youngsters my kids generation 30 something and the generation under that 20 something many didn't have much recall when asked what there first memory was.
Is this something the older ones recall because it seems the older you get what happened last week seems harder to remember rather than what happened years ago.

All those old soldiers seem to remember explicitly when asked about there war time capers and they would have only been 18 plus then.

burgundia · 03-20-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jacqui D

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but i asked quite a few youngsters my kids generation 30 something and the generation under that 20 something many didn't have much recall when asked what there first memory was.
Is this something the older ones recall because it seems the older you get what happened last week seems harder to remember rather than what happened years ago.

All those old soldiers seem to remember explicitly when asked about there war time capers and they would have only been 18 plus then.

Your earliest memory is not something that you begin to remember when you get older. You have always remembered it. Quite possible there is something wrong with young people's memory.

Lawrence of Australia · 03-21-2009, 08:14 AM

I have trouble remembering my early childhood. My mum and grandma tell me about things that happened when they were three. I am 28. My earliest memories are of my 7th or 8th year... and those memories are still images. Perhaps i am only remembering looking at a photograph... I agree with the proposition forwarded in this thread. There is something wrong with my memory.

Richie · 04-11-2009, 03:23 AM

I actually remember being in the womb.I came into my mother a few days before I was born.I remember,upon arriaval,I tried to take a deep breath and there was no air.Then It dawned on me that that I can't breath untill birth and I needed to remain still and calm.I remember hearing many voices but I can't remember what was said.I remember thinking in english.No joke.what I have said is true.I am not and indigo child.I also remember drowning at a lake outing before I was (2) two years old.I remember the details causing my drowning but nothing afterwards.I do know,somehow,that there is much more to us than this existance.Oh yea,my dad found me and got me out of the water and somehow the water came out of me.That was about 50 years ago.

pyrangello · 03-20-2009, 08:30 PM

17 Months old , I remember watching the funeral for our president John F Kennedy on the TV in black and white . I remember the horse driven carraige and the feeling of sadness.

vagabunda · 03-21-2009, 03:27 AM

one of my earliest memories...besides being in my cot or pram...is toddling off out of the house, about 18 months old, down the road to the sweet shop...i sat my bum down next to a low shelf and start helping myself...my (very attentive, btw!) mum comes in right behind me rather frantic and relieved, of course...and so began my wanderings...i hope that wasn't an imagined memory, after all i do recall only being a couple of feet off the ground!
one other thing, as a small infant (6 mos), i was brought to a place, a park-like area with trees...and brought back to the same place, much later, after i was able to speak and after the area had been cleared and asked, what happened to the trees?

03-20-2009, 12:42 PM	#3
Czymra Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 1,151	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? I am amazed at how much you guys remember. Even now most of my past is only fragments and don't even ask me when what happened. I have the feeling that I access my past not across an imagination of time but much more associatively. Anyway, earliest memory is either dancing on all four below the table while my mom's watching TV in the living room, no idea why but I madly happy at the time, and the other one is probably standing in the cellar hearing helicopters pass over the house. Maybe I was 4 or 5 but I have no way of telling, really.

03-20-2009, 01:12 PM	#4
iainl140285 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Scotland Posts: 974	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? Mines appears to from when I was a few days old. What I actually remember is lying facing upwards with a really bright light all around and seeing 3 shadows, the very right hand side was shorter, to theft of that was a taller figure standing really close to the shorter one. A few more steps to the left was another figure. I can remeber them mubling, no words though. When I got a bit older I was told by my parents that I was 2 weeks premature and had jaundice. I was placed in an incubator type thing and the second they metioned I was under a light that memory just hit me like a wall! I told them I remebered. I believe it was my parents standing side by side and a doctor to the left - although I stress they were just shadows of figures against the background light. I think that makes it my oldest memory - or as Steve said in a previous post its like a memory of a memory. Peace Iain

03-20-2009, 04:47 PM	#6
Jacqui D Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Kent,England Posts: 1,267	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but i asked quite a few youngsters my kids generation 30 something and the generation under that 20 something many didn't have much recall when asked what there first memory was. Is this something the older ones recall because it seems the older you get what happened last week seems harder to remember rather than what happened years ago. All those old soldiers seem to remember explicitly when asked about there war time capers and they would have only been 18 plus then.

03-21-2009, 08:14 AM	#8
Lawrence of Australia Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: One Big Round Country Posts: 11	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? I have trouble remembering my early childhood. My mum and grandma tell me about things that happened when they were three. I am 28. My earliest memories are of my 7th or 8th year... and those memories are still images. Perhaps i am only remembering looking at a photograph... I agree with the proposition forwarded in this thread. There is something wrong with my memory.

04-11-2009, 03:23 AM	#9
Richie Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 36	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? I actually remember being in the womb.I came into my mother a few days before I was born.I remember,upon arriaval,I tried to take a deep breath and there was no air.Then It dawned on me that that I can't breath untill birth and I needed to remain still and calm.I remember hearing many voices but I can't remember what was said.I remember thinking in english.No joke.what I have said is true.I am not and indigo child.I also remember drowning at a lake outing before I was (2) two years old.I remember the details causing my drowning but nothing afterwards.I do know,somehow,that there is much more to us than this existance.Oh yea,my dad found me and got me out of the water and somehow the water came out of me.That was about 50 years ago.

03-20-2009, 08:30 PM	#10
pyrangello Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 412	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? 17 Months old , I remember watching the funeral for our president John F Kennedy on the TV in black and white . I remember the horse driven carraige and the feeling of sadness.

03-21-2009, 03:27 AM	#11
vagabunda Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Maine Posts: 45	Re: What is your earliest memory in this life? one of my earliest memories...besides being in my cot or pram...is toddling off out of the house, about 18 months old, down the road to the sweet shop...i sat my bum down next to a low shelf and start helping myself...my (very attentive, btw!) mum comes in right behind me rather frantic and relieved, of course...and so began my wanderings...i hope that wasn't an imagined memory, after all i do recall only being a couple of feet off the ground! one other thing, as a small infant (6 mos), i was brought to a place, a park-like area with trees...and brought back to the same place, much later, after i was able to speak and after the area had been cleared and asked, what happened to the trees?