Earliest memory

[Madaya]

We have to be careful here, because as newborns, our brain is incapable of stringing together a coherent timeline based memory.
My x wife and I, were having a conversation with our 3 year old daughter (soon to be 27 = wow) and we were talking about things and stuff, like when she was born. She was saying how mummy was there and it was bright and doctor ******, was there and was loud. (It was a tricky birth, and I wasn't there).
Ask my girl now, and she doesn't remember it at all.
My first memory (and I cling to it, because I first explained it to my parents surprise when I was around 10), without any prompting was this...
I was in a dark room, in my Mums parents flat, there was a party in the next room, in Liverpool England. My brother , who I obviously recognised, because I'd spent the previous six months of my life in his company, came in to the room, he was somewhat less than 2 years old. I was in one of those old style 4 wheel prams. He grabbed onto the handle bars and - flip - I ended up on the floor.
I remember Mum picking me up, my brother crying, being carried in to the party room (must have been a great party), seeing faces - coo coos etc. I wasn't that badly hurt obviously.
Clear as day, even though it was night (I knew that much).

[cs123]

I noticed when my eldest girl was growing up how many childhood flashbacks I had. Sitting with her and playing with toys, drawing with chalk, playing in the park, taking her to kindy all bought back lots of memories.

It was really great.

[BPXR6T]

I can remember vivid flashes of when I was two. Random things like waiting at he front gate for my sister to come home from school, various toys, my father getting bull ants down his pants whilst working on the car. Lots of memories. I have one memory which would be my earliest, my mother tells me I was around one as we moved out of that house shortly after my birthday. I took a tumble down the steps of a two story house in one of those baby walker things.

[Iggypoppin']

3 years old, digging up the back yard and dad yelled at me.
5, sword fighting with my brother and he walked into a fish tank that sliced his leg open.
Those two are very vivid, everything else up to about 8yo is too blurred to recall.

[pottery beige]

lying up on rear parcel shelf of old boys HT Holden.. rolling down onto backseat..

much lols when old boy cottoned onto the fun and slammed those big drums on and i rolled down via bounce on seat onto floor..

not lols big belted *** i copped..

he couldnt yell at me sit down put seatbelt on.. there were none..

[atec77]

Originally Posted by Madaya

We have to be careful here, because as newborns, our brain is incapable of stringing together a coherent timeline based memory.
My x wife and I, were having a conversation with our 3 year old daughter (soon to be 27 = wow) and we were talking about things and stuff, like when she was born. She was saying how mummy was there and it was bright and doctor ******, was there and was loud. (It was a tricky birth, and I wasn't there).
Ask my girl now, and she doesn't remember it at all.
My first memory (and I cling to it, because I first explained it to my parents surprise when I was around 10), without any prompting was this...
I was in a dark room, in my Mums parents flat, there was a party in the next room, in Liverpool England. My brother , who I obviously recognised, because I'd spent the previous six months of my life in his company, came in to the room, he was somewhat less than 2 years old. I was in one of those old style 4 wheel prams. He grabbed onto the handle bars and - flip - I ended up on the floor.
I remember Mum picking me up, my brother crying, being carried in to the party room (must have been a great party), seeing faces - coo coos etc. I wasn't that badly hurt obviously.
Clear as day, even though it was night (I knew that much).

1956 xmas '57 coming around the bottom corner into our street in Castlecliff (Whanganui NZ) in the Family Model A ( side valve v8 powered) and the sound of it being pushed as the old fella showed off (smell tyre smoke) . I musta been two almost three is the first memory I really can find

[Trevor 57]

Most kids can remember most stuff once they are over the age of 10

Some kids will have vague memories of stuff before then, but the memories can be clouded by others recollections or by photo's

[AU Mont]

cmon man........ you can remember being a baby in a pram........ your daughter remembered being born?

as if, its not possible

[Kable72]

2 years old, driving from Bundaberg to Sydney as my parents had moved down there for work and only having a 2 seater car at the time my Brother and I couldn't go down with them at the same time. So my uncle drove us down. Wet myself in his car

Don't worry chaps, it was a commodore

[H.G]

Going to the b&s ball with dad and coming home with mum!

[TheSneakiness]

Watching Dad replace the rear leaf springs in our XD wagon. Would've been about 4.

[Vincenzo]

Make of it what you will.

First memory is being held by great Grand mother when first home from hospital, her voice and the sun shining brightly in my eyes. possibly clouded by picture of that moment.

Next memory, 1960 travelling from Canberra to the south coast NSW (Tomakin) many times and especially the the car punt to cross the Clyde river. I have most memories from aged 2 1/2.

Cheers Vincenzo

[Road Games]

My second birthday laying in the cot and unwrapping a greyhound bus toy handed to me from my nanna...

My 3rd birthday when my mum had an icecream cake made as a duplicate of an plastic ocean liner toy boat i also had frogs in the pond for the first time (freddo's in jelly) and i remember a kid at the party trying to steal my John Player Special Formula One car

And also the thunderstorms and lightening from 1974

[Papa Smurf]

I remember having a pic taken outside our place in Sydney when I was 2. I found this out long time later from a date on the pic March 1955. I remember vividly standing outside Crown St Women's hospital in 1956 and my Mum did a Michael Jackson with my Sister (put her out the window while holding) and me saying not to drop her, (silly me)

The next one I DO remember well is going to Melbourne with my Dad in 1958 on the train. I remember my Dad carrying me most of the way at Albury Station to catch the train into Melbourne.

[poppa smurf]

I remember some brute of a man, all dressed in white, surrounded by a mob of women, pulling me out of a nice warm secluded spot and slapping my backside.

lucky for him that he was wearing a mask because if ever I find him, I'm gonna pull his nose something chronic!

Yeah! I remember the parcel shelf in the back of the holden.......I was a loaf of bread in those days.

riding a sheet of iron down the face of an quarry with the front folded up, getting pushed down a hill on a home made billy cart and no brakes, smoking pieces of cane in our fort, my first, ummm! kiss with willywog ryans sister under the hedge at the playground, birth's of our children, birth's of our grandchildren, sons marriage.

so many memories, hard to pick the first but I wouldn't change any of them.

but that bloke in white wants to watch himself.

[2011G6E]

One of my earliest memories is car related.

I can remember the red vinyl/fake leather interior of the Hillman Super Minx my parents had at the time I was born up until I was about four in 1969. I then vividly remember waiting out the front verandah about 5.30pm waiting for dad to come home from work while mum was inside making dinner...ah, the days when the economy meant that single income families were normal, when kids didn't come home to an empty house after school. This was 1970 and I was five years old.

Anyway, I was waiting, and waiting...dad was late. I remember asking mum why he was late, and she just smiled and said he was coming home with a surprise.
Then a white car pulled into the driveway, and not the white Hillman Super Minx. It was a brand shiny new Mazda Capella sedan!!
I then remember in 1974 being in Skinners Mazda showroom in Nambour, looking at another new Mazda. I really wanted dad to buy a shiny red little 808 wagon that was sitting in the window in pride of place (and for some reason I specifically remember the little chrome rail that ran along inside each rear window...), but they decided that we were doing so much travelling to Bundy to see grandma and up to Innisfail to see other family that something bigger was the go.
So we came home with a top of the line 929 wagon, factory air con, stereo radio cassette with AM and FM (whatever "FM" was...), white interior...and purple in colour. Awesome.


Guess that's what breeds a car nut...your earliest memories and ones that stick with you all these years later are car related...

[wookie836]

I can remember a few early things, but one of the earliest thats clear as day was moments before i had a operation to remove my baby teeth when i was about 3 or 4, being carried by a nurse into these aisles with rows of boxes. when we stopped she said she heard a hornet buzzing around and getting me to look for it, trying to distract me when she stuck me with the needle and calmed me down a bit from the 'sting'. ha well played.
I still can remember some dreams and nightmares i had when i was quite young aswell.

I think it has to do with you remembering them again and again as you grow up, use it or lose it imo.

[Mechan1k]

I remember going on my first snowy trip when I was 3 ... tobbogin (sp?) went under the fence and through the car park ... with me on it.

[Adamz Ghia]

My earliest memory is from when I was 22 months old, it's very cloudy, but I was sitting on the floor in the kitchen with a carton of eggs smashing each one on the tiles and mixing milo through them. I mentioned this for the first time to mum when I was 16 and she remembered the same thing. Fun times in 1988...

[homegrown]

Originally Posted by AU Mont

cmon man........ you can remember being a baby in a pram........ your daughter remembered being born?

as if, its not possible

I cant remember what my wife asked me 5 minutes ago but I can remember the colours of my 1st pram. Actually remember alot from a really young age as young as 2. Did have a bit of tragic childhood with step dads which might explain it. But not surprised with what some people can remember on this thread.

[babyf6]

My first memory is funnily enough is from when i was 2 and i was riding in the back of my uncles 'mercedes red' xc gs falcon

[Ben73]

I remember heaps of stuff from when I was less than 10. Some of it I'm not exactly sure how old I was.
Youngest memories where I am sure of my age was when I was 4, before and after my heart operation. I remember laying on the hospital bed just before they put me to sleep. I remember waking up as the bed was being pushed down a corridor back to my hospital room.
I remember so many things from that week.

[Keepleft]

A kid that alerts to German military marches, the Junkers and paratroops. 4-6yo.

Personally; as a 3yo (1966) asking Joy why she ran over and killed our dog "Inky" (stupid thing was a tyre biter, this time did the whole loop, ran away back to house yelping before dropping stone dead). Don't remember her being very upset, apparently was.

[TC200six]

Seems like it's age 3 for most, I'm the same. I remember numerous moments from that age.

The way I know that I was that age is due to the year these things happened. For example I remember some moments before and during the time my family's old house had extension built, and that was the year I turned 3.

[gtxb67]

i think my earliest memories (or memories of memories) are from the age of 4

i remember watching moff in the xa coupe - which was late 73 (almost 4 and a half)
i remember barracking for st kilda as my mum did and my father trying in vain to change me to footscray - one day he brought home a footscray jumper, so the st kilda beanie got flicked

i remember my hate for holden at this time too. i remember sitting in the back seat of the family volksy (oval rear window) travelling down boundary road in braeside. we went passed an ht style monaro coupe and even at that age i didn't like the female driver because of her car. the next thing i remember is my mum standing at the drivers door covered in blood pleading for me to get out. the volksy was caught by a gust of wind, clipped a truck, flew through the air into a ditch (now a service road . . . k mart/coles warehouse area), and rolled through the air multiples times before coming to rest by a pole. that nice lady in the monaro that i used to hate took us home
our next door neighbour took my mum to the doctors while her 2 year old slept on our couch
i remember later on telling my old man that i was sitting on the back seat the whole time, and he telling me i could not have been and was getting thrown around (without a seat belt). i guess he was right. i have never had any recollection of the accident itself

[Madaya]

Mate, what a extraordinary memory. Glad you are still here to tell it and that everyone was hopefully okay in the end. A lot of our early memories seem to focus on drama of some sort, not necessarily bad ones.

[Yellow_Festiva]

Went on a family trip to Europe, was sitting on grans lap at the window and watching the sun reflecting off the wing of the plane and thinking how wonderful it was.

I was 2. Don't remember anything else till I was 5 or 6.

[xbxd351]

Believe it or not my earliest memory is of driving. When I was 3 I decided to jump in my grandfathers holden ute (possibly a hq) which was parked in the backyard and start it up (keys were left in ignition ). I'm guessing it was a manual as it took off straight away and went over a little wire garden fence and bumped into my grandmothers canary cages that were lined up along the wooden backyard fence. The little wire fence got all tangled up underneath the ute and I can remember my grandfather and some other men trying to untangle it I have verified this memory with my mum and grandparents and it's the only clear memory I have from those early years.