tell me your earliest memory from childhood

catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
edited August 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
mine is climbing trees down the south coast(of nsw) collecting cicada husks

and

sitting on a bed making a lunar module(apollo 11) with my da.


i guess im talking im about 4 years old here.


you all?
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Post edited by Unknown User on
«1

Comments

  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    Watching Armstrong Land on the moom on TV with the whole neighborhood.

    I was just short of 3.
    GoiMTvP.gif
  • KosmicJelliKosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    I remember being born, seeing the lights and thinking ... awww fuck not again!
  • comebackwomancomebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    I have a few that I think were from all about the same time. My favorite is being at my grandmother's house while my mom was in the hospital giving birth to my brother. I remembering sitting on my grandmom's lap while she told me stories about her dog and about a fox that used to come into her yard. I was a little less than 4 years old.
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    same here
    i remember being born :)
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    I remember opening the shed down the back yard to let the doggy out and the doggy, which was a greyhound, SPRANG through the gate and ran right over the top of me, scratching me to buggery because I was only in a nappy, and I remember lying out on the grass screaming and Mum came and picked me up. I think I was 18 months old.

    There are others but I'm not sure of the chronological order of them. :)
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • hurricane fuckin andrew

    i lived in miami at the time, and i remember just hiding in the closet with my mom and puppy wondering where my dad was...and hearing all the windows break, sounded like a war was going on right outside our door....during the eye i remember my mom telling the dog to watch me and she left us in the closet...i opened the door a crack and saw that our house was half gone...it started up again and my mom came running back, and our dog pinned both of us down to protect us

    when all was said and done, i remember what it looked like when we first opened the door.....no living room, half a kitchen, garage caved in, half a roof, 2 bathrooms destroyed....but not a scratch on the car


    i was 3...i really only remember being in the closet (no pun) and what the house looked like when we first got out
    2003: Uniondale, MSG x2 | 2004: Reading | 2005: Gorge, Vancouver, Philly | 2006: East Rutherford x2, Gorge x2, Camden 1, Hartford | 2008: MSG x2, VA Beach | 2009: Philly x3 | 2010: MSG x2, Bristow | 2011: Alpine Valley x2 | 2012: MIA Philly | 2013: Wrigley, Charlottesville, Brooklyn 2 | 2014: Milan, Amsterdam 1 | 2016: MSG x2, Fenway x2, Wrigley 2 | 2018: Rome, Krakow, Berlin, Wrigley 2 | 2021: Sea Hear Now | 2022: San Diego, LA x2, MSG, Camden, Nashville, St. Louis, Denver | 2023: St. Paul 1, Chicago x2, Fort Worth x2, Austin 2 | 2024: Las Vegas 1, Seattle x2, Indy, MSG x2, Philly x2, Baltimore, Ohana 2
  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,308
    going to san diego when i was four in 1983.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • CityMouseCityMouse Posts: 1,010
    I'm not sure, but I think it's flying on a plane at age 2.
  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    I was two years old, digging in the backyard with a plastic spoon and my spoon broke. :(
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,991
    -- Watching the lunar landing; I was six months old.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • iamsampjiamsampj Posts: 784
    i remember flying from germany back to the states when i was 2 1/2, almost 3. i sat w/ my dad on the left side of the plane, while my mom and sister sat in the middle. i remember eating jelly beans and gummy coca cola bottles with my sister.

    i remember most vividly the fact that as we were getting ready to land, the captain announced that we were now in the united states of america. i remember people cheering and a few people waving flags...i'm thinking this had to do w/ the fact that there were probably a lot of people in the army (my dad included) that were being transfered from germany back to the states.

    ANYWHO...i got really excited because i thought that the captain said united "steaks" of america...and that i was going to be eating steak for dinner :D i was quite disappointed.
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    It is Greek Easter and all of my uncles are playing some game, with cigarettes, and some with drinks, I would imagine as well.
    I am like 4 years old. I am in my Uncle Louie's backyard where he always roasts a whole lamb and all of my Greek relatives are there. I am one of the youngest kids there, I have only two boy cousins who are even close in age. So I am running into where they are playing and I grab what appears to be a hoolahoop and start to pointlessly try to make it go around ........

    My uncle, one of the guys playine darts apparently, yells, "Hey get the hell out of there!!"


    fuzzy memories...........but they are so strong...........
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • kcherubkcherub Posts: 961
    I remember standing at the front door of our house, behind the screen door. My Daddy was coming down the road on a tractor and our Great Dane, Patton was running beside him. My "Nanny" (really just an older woman who baby-sat me, but everyone called her "Nanny") was standing beside me. I don't remember seeing Patton run under the tractor, but I do remember that he did. He was killed. I don't remember it as being all that traumatic--I was only 3, so I wasn't aware of the life and death thing yet.

    For years, I always thought it was an older black gentleman driving the tractor. Just a few years ago, my Mom told me that the tractor did belong to a man that worked on my grandfather's farm, but he was not driving it that day. I haven't looked at my Daddy the same since then. LOL

    So, maybe I don't remember it all that clearly. ;)
    I still want you all to "take care"--I am just damn tired of typing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/kcherub#p/a/u/0/N-UQprRqSwo
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Allie wrote:
    my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.


    :eek:

    I'm so sorry Allie!!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • I remember an old apartment my mum and I had... before some burned the building down :eek: :( . I remember biting my sister and when I saw she was bleeding I ran to my grampie for defense :) in my defense she was pinning my arms down and I told her I would bite her if I she didn't let go :D I was probably like five
  • SDHSClassof82SDHSClassof82 Seattle Posts: 306
    Watching Armstrong Land on the moom on TV with the whole neighborhood.

    I was just short of 3.

    Mine is also watching the moon landing, laying on the couch, alone with my mom in the *middle of the night*. I was three also. I recently found out that happened at 8pm in my time zone. My mom has no memory of it ,and it's curious I don't remember my Dad, my brother or sister being there. So it's a little mysterious.
    “Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere...
    Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead...overhead...”
  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    I remember skipping around my mom's chair as she sat with my new baby brother just home from the hospital. I was about 3 years old.
    Allie wrote:
    my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.
    - Damn!! Sorry about that.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • DonJonDonJon Posts: 5,089
    I remember two things (not sure which one came first) and think I was about 3.

    Laying face down in brown fluffy carpet at the bottom of about 5 stairs and crying. Mum has since told me I was trying to 'surf or slide' down them with my foam paddle mat from the pool.

    The other was a birthday party (still 3 I think) where the gas bottle on the BBQ exploded and one of the mums was covered in flames. I remember a massive flash and noise and the men trying to roll her on the ground.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • DonJon wrote:
    I remember two things (not sure which one came first) and think I was about 3.

    Laying face down in brown fluffy carpet at the bottom of about 5 stairs and crying. Mum has since told me I was trying to 'surf or slide' down them with my foam paddle mat from the pool.

    The other was a birthday party (still 3 I think) where the gas bottle on the BBQ exploded and one of the mums was covered in flames. I remember a massive flash and noise and the men trying to roll her on the ground.


    Well the first one was cute but the last one... sad and so scary.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    Lizard wrote:

    - Damn!! Sorry about that.

    thanks. yeah it's not so great. Your memory is much nicer!
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • DonJonDonJon Posts: 5,089
    Well the first one was cute but the last one... sad and so scary.

    And my surfing skills aint improved.

    STill catch up with that ladies sons - good lads.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • DonJon wrote:
    And my surfing skills aint improved.

    STill catch up with that ladies sons - good lads.

    hahaha well I doubt I could even get myself up on the board but when I finally make it Oz I am going to try :D


    Yeah? Such a terrible thing but something that is apt to stay with you :(
  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    I had just made my way past the cervix and was cruising through the fallopian tube at a slow, yet comfortable pace.

    I had just gotten a look at the egg on the horizon when I noticed competition out of the corner of my vision.

    We knew that only one of us would be allowed in, so we did rock, paper scissors for it. And here I am today.
  • electronblueelectronblue WPB Florida Posts: 3,460
    probably when i was four... i saw my mom knocked flat on her face on the ground.. firey car hood had both been struck by lightning.. i was inside car.. then remember seeing neighbors come out of their house running and screaming..they picked my mom up off the ground with blood all over her face...~
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I used to remember more, but those memories are disappearing. :( ..I think I have one memory from being like 3.. a few more from age 4.. I remember being about 3 when I saw Star Wars and my mom taking me to the store to buy a Chewbacca action figure.
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    I remember one that my parents claim i don't. I was pretty young, under a year maybe, and my mom and dad were giving me a bath. I remember they took me out and started drying me and somehow got the towel to stick to my butt and they thought it was hilarious and they went to look for the camera. I remember crawling off to my room thinking it was really fun and pretending that I didn't know that they would worry about me being gone. [I know that's a crazy thought for someone under 12 months but I swear it's true, haha.] Then I remember finding this huge ass stuffed bear that was at least 17 times taller than me and i used it to help my self stand up, then someone picked me up.
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • DonJonDonJon Posts: 5,089
    hahaha well I doubt I could even get myself up on the board but when I finally make it Oz I am going to try :D


    Yeah? Such a terrible thing but something that is apt to stay with you :(

    Where are you gonna try?? If you are in Sydney flick me a PM as clients of mine run the surf school at one of sydneys most popular beaches.

    Its a great sport but can be terribly frustrating in the early stages
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • bernmodibernmodi Posts: 631
    Must have been around three years old. Somehow got out of the house - alone, with my favorite teddy bear and a doll carriage - and went off for a little walk. Maybe I just remember because of the spanking when my parents found me.
  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I was three years old and I was on a little boat on a lake with my two sisters and one of my father's friend.
    I tried to cath something on the water and I fell off the boat. I also drowned. I rememebr and I still fear water...
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
Sign In or Register to comment.