what´s your earliest memory?

[oedo]

for me it was my third birthday. I sat in front of the table in our living room. there was a toy train, a teddy bear and chocolate (cat tongues) on the table. my father sat on the opposite, my mother was left to me. no idea, where my brother was. I still remember my father saying "and now you´re three".
this is nothing really special, but I don´t have any memory before this moment. and this is what I find special about this moment.

I´m curious what moments you remember. maybe it´s your first day at school, your first steps, your first spoken words or even your birth (well, probably not)? was it a real event or was it just a dream? please share your memories with us.

[The Andy-Man]

I remember I a big ugly man in a surgical mask, shouting; 'IT'S A GIRL!... I mean a boy...'

I have never got over that moment, and now on the weekend I go by the name Mandy to help me deal with it

[Thorn]

spitting out baby food.

[Fake Boris]

Masturbating with my "teddy bear".

Older and slacker girls prefer "beer bottles". But that's becoming grievous...

[Spiffor]

I couldn't exactly speak about my first memory, because I don't know which of my early memories came first.

One of my first memories was a 'pal' in kindergarten (actually, I hated him) that was always saying "no" to whatever we told him. Still in Kindergarten, I remember crying when forced to go take a nap, and I remember recieving a friendly slap on the butt from a janitor who was amused I dropped the pants wholly when pissing in the urinal.

But the most precise early memories I have date back from Christman, when I was 4 (I think, but maybe I was 3), as I played with Majorettes, and as I was barred from watching Star Wars because it was broadcasted too late for me.

[Thorn]

You know I bet that food was poisen too.

[Spec]

Ummmmm, The farthest I can remember, I think, is when I was 2 years old. I was running up the stairs to answer the phone before my sister did. I lost the race cuz she could climb 2 stairs at a time....

Spec.

[Inverse Icarus]

i was 3, sister 2, i beat her over the head with a small rubber bat that squeaked.

heh.

[Japher]

no idea. I think it is either

a) The cool cast iron railing at my folks house, I was 4 when we moved, I remember it because I would stand on it.

b) Falling off the jungle gym and landing on my head... I don't think that had any affect on me

[orange]

Originally posted by Thorn
You know I bet that food was poisen too.

that would explain a lot.

Mine was when I was on a cruise to Bermuda with my parents and grandparents when I was 3...the only out of the country trip we've ever taken together. They were going to the bar (even though my parents don't drink... ) and left me in the children's room (a daycare with a nanny) and I cried my eyes out. I remember something about something along the way that looked like a miniature movie theatre on the side of the walkway, where people were sitting. I'm really not sure what it is, or what the signifigance of that memory is. I remember crying a lot and popping a balloon that the nanny gave me. I was not a happy camper.

[General Ludd]

I don't know which of these are the earliest, or even which where not merely figments of my imagination.

1) Driving down the high-way with a load of stuff on the car roof and everything falling off and scattering across the road. I seem to remember this in third person, though, so it may of been a dream. But a real old one.

2) Nap time in daycare where we all started showing each others our selves.

3) Also in daycare someone drinking their own pee. Puting a bunch of 4 year olds together provides great learning experiences.

[Sikander]

My first memory was from the time I was about 1 year old. I was in the kitchen of my grandmother's house sitting in a high chair and being fed lunch. My grandmother and my mother were talking and I didn't really understand much english yet. I was bored and saw the cookie jar on top of the refrigerator and asked my mom for a cookie. She came over and told me that I hadn't touched my food, and I couldn't have a cookie until I ate something. I played around with my food and messed it up and asked again a few minutes later. I got the cookie then.

[Alex]

Re: what's your first memory?

glub glub!

[aaglo]

I don't remember how old I was, but It must have been before or around my 3rd birthday:
- I was supposed to be sleeping in my bed (which was in the living room at that time). My mom and dad were watching the original version of King Kong from the tv, and naturally this was not allowed for me to do - but still I did watch it! This was around 1975...

So, my first memory is related with the movie King Kong from 1933...

[DaShi]

Disappointment.