How detailed memories do you have of your childhood?

**Kyriakos** · April 25, 2016, 07:05 PM

General question.
I mostly recall (or can recall, given i sort of not focus much on it since 3-4 years now) sequences spanning the years between mid elementary school and any later part of my childhood.

No serious memory gap in that time-span. Oh, other than one somewhat strange memory where i seem to have forgotten what happened prior to informing a fellow elementary schooler than a surgeon made of paper had maimed one of our classmates. Obviously it was mere imagination, and only happened to coincide with an abrupt departure of the supposed victim of the paper maniac, from our school, never to be seen again.

**gaunty14** · April 27, 2016, 04:42 AM

I've got a few fragments from before I was four, from four till now...my memory is decent enough.

I vividly remember throwing one of my Dad's hammers into the canel that runs along our backgarden and then hiding under a trampoline.

**Copperknickers II** · April 28, 2016, 01:21 PM

I don't really remember anything before the year 2000, except a couple of school-related things. My first memory is trying to draw the number '3' and failing badly. I still can't do it very well, it just looks like a vertical zigzag.

**Iskar** · April 28, 2016, 02:07 PM

So maybe that memory is in fact not so remote?

I have some scenic memories of a few select moments, although they seem randomly chosen rather than by importance. Other than that most of it is a blurry mingled-together memory of "general circumstances". We used to go to different parts of England and France every easter and autumn holiday but most of the earlier holidays are just a huge blob in my mind and I often cannot tell apart which rememberd incident or visual memory belongs to which holiday.

**lolIsuck** · April 28, 2016, 02:09 PM

My memories go quite far back. I have a few memories from daycare, when I was 3, one of which was eating sand.

Also have quite some memories of the first years of elementary school and I remember the later years of elementary school and high school well, it's not that long ago, I'm only 22. My short term memory on the other hand is utter crap, at least for remembering things I have to do, trivial things are saved immediately and remembered for all eternity.

**Kyriakos** · April 28, 2016, 02:28 PM

Well, at 22 you are still a baby, of course you'd remember highschool (unless massive repression happened)

I am 37.

**Hetman Khmelnytsky** · May 08, 2016, 02:02 PM

I remember well of my childhood back in Ukraine, like wearing uniforms at school. I was only 6 when the Orange Revolution happened, and I could barely remember some of it. I remember seeing on TV some of the regular childhood stuff like "Tom and Jerry" and "Nu, pogodi!" My dad was an "afganets" and he would parade annually to commemorate the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And my family tends to go to hike a lot along the Carpathians, especially in Bukovel. And I remember how we celebrate Christmas and Easter here, and it was spectacular. Since I have a mild case of ADHD, occasionally I have mood swings, even ones that last a week, but I was able to cope with it in America.

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**Roma_Victrix** · May 08, 2016, 03:31 PM

I can remember quite a bit, actually, even going back to when I was about 3 or 4 years old. From then on I can pretty much give a pretty detailed account of my life. You know, if any of you cared to hear it.

Originally Posted by Hetman Khmelnytsky

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...Speaking of which, I remember quite distinctly when TMNT2 came out in theaters.

**Kyriakos** · May 08, 2016, 06:04 PM

The power of the ninja turtle face!!!

**AqD** · May 15, 2016, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by lolIsuck

when I was 3, one of which was eating sand.

How did you survive all those years?

**Kjertesvein** · May 19, 2016, 05:32 PM

At the age of 4 I spent 2 months in Ivorian Coast.

* Dinner included walking it home from the market. Every detail from slitting the throat, the screams, the struggle and the blood of the goat, til it hang from a hook is remembered. It was done very quickly. Unfortunately, I've not had much use of it.
* European hair was a curiosity.
* The market smelled like crap and the jungle was loud.
* The food that were fed to the green mambas was contained in a paper cardboard box on the floor. Just like mackerel in a can, it was full with mice. Alive.
* Me and my brother pressed some Lego inside a mountain. "When we're adults, we'll go back here to retrieve it." That's never going to happen.

~Wille

**lolIsuck** · May 20, 2016, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by AqD

How did you survive all those years?

Sheer luck and my mom I presume.

**River Lord** · May 20, 2016, 04:05 PM

Well, how far back can you remember? Any opinions?

**Kyriakos** · May 20, 2016, 04:14 PM

My earliest continuous memory is from the first year at kindergarden/pre 1rst elementary grade. It is a very important memory for myself, and i could see it as foreshadowing. I recall how most of the other kids in the class were semi-feral and could not communicate with our teacher, so i kind of acted as a translator between another kid and her

Prior to that i could not recall much, even during mid elementary school (when i actually tried to recall).