What is the earliest memory you have?

[Zexy]

So unlike the other threads for school memories, let's go somewhat further back. What is the first thing you remember of yourself?

For me it would be like October 2000, a bit more than 3 years old, grandma and I would pick up flowers and bring them to grandpa's bed. Apparently this was something we were doing for several days, but I only remember it all as if it happened once.

 

[DawningWinds]

It's really fuzzy, but I think it was when I was around 3 years old, I vaguely remember walking into the wrong room at the daycare one day and the kids there yelling at me. I don't recall why it was the wrong room, I assume it was a weird city thing since we lived in a big city at the time. More clearly, I remember when my family went to an animal shelter, probably a few months after. My parents had decided we were going to get a dog before we moved and so we stopped there to pick. We ended up getting two; the ones we got were right next to each other, I can still picture the building and the dogs.

 

[Insanish Danish]

My (extremely fuzzy) first memory is of when I was maybe two and a half; my parents and I had just moved houses a few months prior and the family who moved into our old house had invited us over. I remember nothing of the visit except for running around in the backyard with the family's dog and their teenage son warning me not to go in the pool. I have no idea why this particular moment stuck with me.

 

[JollyYoshi]

The earliest memory I have would not be appropriate to share here. It’s not as complex as other people’s first memories and I would be maybe. I was probably around 2-years old.

I can more clearly remember other things from when I was four though some memories might’ve been enhanced by videos.

 

[Herbizarre]

For me, it's either seeing someone shooing away some geese traversing a bridge while coming back from vacations and laughing at the situation, or stumbling upon the scene from DBZ where Piccolo meets Cell for the first time. Thankfully I didn't see what happened to the poor (well, rich) man afterwards because I either left the room as kids always do, or the censorship removed the scene (censorship was quite present in the french dub unfortunately).

 

[SunGodNika1997]

Appropriately enough, it was watching the Bridge Bike Gang episode of Pokemon with my older cousin. He proceeded to educate me about all things Pokemon. I was just shy of 3 years old, and it's one of the earliest things I remember.

 

[toastghost]

it was my 3rd birthday, i was talking to my mom and i insisted that i wasn't 3 until i blew the candles out on my cake

 

[Clampig]

I can very, very vaguely remember being put on a sofa to take a photo with one of my friends. This was when I was probably about 1 or 2, I don't really remember.

 

[colours]

i don't think i remember anything earlier than like, 3rd grade. @_@... and even then, very vaguely as i don't remember much beyond specific circumstances (like how i met my current best friends and who my teacher was... i think...)

 

[Sheep]

Being in kindergarten and running around annoying the teachers lol, as well as napping, sometime when I was 2-5 years old. No idea why I remember that but it just stuck! Otherwise I remember nothing from that age.

 

[Aulos]

I don't know. I have scattered memories from early times I can not put my finger on. Like I have a memory of my bedroom very early on, like when I was gated in the bed (not necessarily a crib, but a toddler bed with rails). As of my vague knowledge, that's probably my earliest memory but I don't know.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I think my earliest memory is from day care. There was a paper doll play of a children's tale, but the person holding the dolls got a phone call and had to leave for a minute. During that time, I watched as some kids went to play with the dolls until the day care person got back.

 

[impervious_gakko42]

It was an overcast day, and I was being pushed in a stroller while holding a stuffed Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba. Think I was like 1 or so. Entire memory is more of a single picture than a sequence of them.

 

[ToxicWhiskers]

Probably at the age of 3 or 4, sitting in a big armchair and one of the old Mario or Sonic cartoons was playing on TV (one of our country's state broadcasters used to air these when they had a kids' block).

 

[guzmania]

i have a memory from when i was two that i would REALLY rather not share, but i will share my second-earliest, which was shortly after i turned three and watched the wizard of oz for the first time. i had a dream that night in which i decided to kiss a frog and then i turned green and woke up shrieking like a banshee.
now that i type it out, i guess i must've watched princess and the frog sometime shortly before that too. i guess i just really didn't want to be green? well, kissing random frogs can give you diseases, so don't do it, people.
ironically enough i ended up playing the wicked witch of the west in a community theater production a while back.

 

[Kanjouhi]

I definitely remember being about 3, I think it was around Christmas time? And I used to live at the top of a block of flats that had a really long winding staircase up to it back then and I tripped down like a full flight of the stairs. I was like completely fine surprisingly lol.
The earliest distinctly positively memory I have though would have to be when I was 8 and I got my 3DS with Pokemon Y. I remember it was in mid-May and I think it was a present for doing well in school that year but I don't exactly know because it was like 7 years ago nyow...

 

[helperman]

weird nightmares about being trapped in a room with robots, or with a tiny gru(from despicable me) holding his shrink ray and jumping around crazily with a face of insanity and anger. as well as some random blurry images in my head of me at my grandma's house.

 

[TheGoldenToon]

I want to say eating icecream in the church dining hall, I think it might've been my first taste of ice cream. I don't remember how young I was.

 

[JamieIsBored]

My third birthday, I went to a garden centre with my parents and while I was there, the local paper were doing a photoshoot to advertise it. They asked me to pose for a couple of photos.

 

[Luci_]

I think about 2005 or before when I was 5, driving over a bridge in San Jose, I see that the forward light seems to be an arrow pointing to the sky which confused my little mind, a peaceful drive through a rainstorm where you could barely see the cars in front.