How Far Back Can You Remember?

[NoshowJones 17524]

This is not related to Thailand but I think it may be interesting. In the News now is a woman who says she is Maddy who disappeared age 5 about 16 years ago. It is reported she only has vague memories if something she remembers when she was about 5 years old.

How Far Back Can You Remember? I remember at 4 years old talking to my pal at the back of the house where I lived, who was 5 and at school. I remember telling him I was 4 and cannot go to school yet. I can remember where this was said and all the houses, walls trees and an old wash house nearby.

Another thing, I can pick off nearly all the names of the children who I started school with at 5 years old.

What about you?

[KannikaP 9682]

I read somewhere that children cannot remember much before three years old. So why celebrate Birthdays or Christmas for them before that. 555

I remember watching the Queen's Coronation on a neighbour's TV (Billy Robinson, the wrestler) when I was 4 1/2, and starting school a few months later.

 

What's confusing about that?

Edited March 29 by KannikaP

[nikmar 7890]

I remember being pushed in a pram by my mum

[Jingthing 91158]

About age 5 and not much.

[worgeordie 59501]

Yesterday .....I think 

regards Worgeordie   the memory man 

[ezzra 59101]

I remember all those whom ever borrowed money from me and never returned it.

[nigelforbes 4867]

About 9:15 this morning.

[transam 57979]

For me, I can remember a few things from 4 years old. 

Perhaps from birth and the early years our gray cells are working overtime developing and learning the basics....👶  

[proton 7865]

Remember being in a pram in the garden summer 1952 so a few months old and feeling bored. Then next year looking at QE2 coronation on the TV, lots before the age of 4, last week is a blur though

[Crossy 43980]

36 minutes ago, nikmar said:

I remember being pushed in a pram by my mum

 

Me too, and throwing my (glass) bottle out in a tantrum whereupon it was run over by a bus!! (No.12 my mum tells me).

[Crossy 43980]

33 minutes ago, ezzra said:

I remember all those whom ever borrowed money from me and never returned it.

 

Yup, ALL my kids!!

[Will B Good 13356]

I have a couple of very distinct memories from 2 1/2 years old (then nothing until much older)............five of us had had to live in a tiny, one bed caravan through the winter of 1958 and certain scenes have stuck.....could always be false memories I guess.

[pgrahmm 8670]

My family moved from Massachusetts when I was 2 - 3 years old....

I can remember the house, the outside places around the house - the hill - the equipment parked up the street....My Mom's friends - where they lived & where she worked.....I remember my baby sitter trying to tie me to a tree because I always went wherever I wanted....

I remember the flight to SF & the fight I had with the airline employees that tried to take my basket of toys....

However, about half the time I don't remember where I last left my phone.....

So, if you never hear from me again, you'll know I'm still looking for the damn thing.....

[freedomnow 2318]

I remember coming out the tunnel thinking - GOD, this place AGAIN....welcome back to the Circus/Madhouse of the Milky Way.

[kidneyw 1305]

Being thirty and moving to Thailand in 1980.

[freedomnow 2318]

7 minutes ago, kidneyw said:

Being thirty and moving to Thailand in 1980.

God your old.

[NoshowJones 17524]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

I read somewhere that children cannot remember much before three years old. So why celebrate Birthdays or Christmas for them before that. 555

I remember watching the Queen's Coronation on a neighbour's TV (Billy Robinson, the wrestler) when I was 4 1/2, and starting school a few months later.

 

What's confusing about that?

Absolutely nothing, The woman who says she is Maddy could only vastly remember one thing about being on a beach when she was 5 years old.

[NoshowJones 17524]

1 hour ago, nikmar said:

I remember being pushed in a pram by my mum

So do I when I was not well and about 3 years old.

[NoshowJones 17524]

I would be very interested to know how many names you remember from your first day at school, I think there would be an average of about 40 in the class.

[stoner 6233]

what ?

[Crossy 43980]

12 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I would be very interested to know how many names you remember from your first day at school, I think there would be an average of about 40 in the class.

 

I doubt I could remember from my first class but certainly my first school (and classes did tend to stay together): -

 

Barry Statter

Elis Moore

Pamela Wilson (got a rubber stuck in her ear)

Michael Shirkie

Mark Bridges

Kevin Hall

Carol (something).

 

I've got faces in my mind but can't put names to them. Must be getting old 😞 

 

Hmmm, that's not many and I don't remember any teacher's names!

[riclag 8067]

We lived in a three decker (3 floor apartment house) .My moms parents on the 1st , My family on the second. Aunt & Uncle family on the third.

I was standing in my crib crying for my mom for what seemed like a long time. I eventually laid back down and cried myself back to sleep.

Till this day it brings back ,sadness .

Wow crazy huh 🤔 

Edited March 29 by riclag

[nigelforbes 4867]

27 minutes ago, freedomnow said:

God your old.

Yes, but at least he can spell.

[norbra 521]

My 3 most vivid memories from age 3 which includes my first sexual encounter.

1, Heading to a Melbourne beach on a very hot morning too far to walk so in my pram,pram got stuck between a sewer vent pipe and a corregated iron fence with both my hands in the jam as well.

2, The girl next door 6 months older than I was suggested we play doctors and nurses, she showed me hers and then wanted to see mine. I obliged.

I often wondered how at that age and an only child she was aware of these things

3,Train ride MEL to SYD, stayed in a guest house,rode double decker bus to Luna Park, ferry to Manly.Tarronga park Zoo and the wide expanse of sand at Bondi beach

[watchcat 196]

About 1.5 minutes. That/s what it takes going from my veranda to the kitchen, and often I forget why!

[Screaming 880]

44 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I have a couple of very distinct memories from 2 1/2 years old (then nothing until much older)............five of us had had to live in a tiny, one bed caravan through the winter of 1958 and certain scenes have stuck.....could always be false memories I guess.

It is interesting that you mentioned your memory of 1958. I was only 6 years old back then. My father had bought a new 1957 Chevy the year before. There was a recession during the years 1957 and 1958. My father lost his job because of this in 1958 and had to sell his car. My mother was a house wife and did not work. Our family of seven also suffered during the winter of 1958. I had to walk to school in the snow with holes in the bottom of my shoes. I put cardboard in the bottom of my shoes before leaving for school but by the time I got there, the cardboard was mush. How can one forget that?

[wildpuppet72 63]

27 minutes ago, stoner said:

what ?

Stoned again huh! 😆 🤣 

[wildpuppet72 63]

What was the topic about! I forgot 😆 🤣 

[steve187 7496]

25 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I would be very interested to know how many names you remember from your first day at school, I think there would be an average of about 40 in the class.

i think remembering the names would be enhanced if you then went onto other schools with the same children,

i vaguely remember being at a fenced off section of a junior school having an afternoon nap and drinking a small bottle of milk, maybe aged 4 or five, also a few other things prior to age 11, when i changed schools

[dingdongrb 1758]

I remember being conceived in the backseat of a Chevrolet.