you'r earliest memory

Originally Posted by Mason Grey

you guys have great memories!
do you all notice a lot of difference between really early memories and recent ones? besides detail - do they feel any different??

No. They recall in less pieces though.

Originally Posted by Mason Grey

and are you guys able to recall things very easily? like recall on command easily?
sort of like searching through your memories... i know friends who say they do that...

I can

Originally Posted by Mason Grey

i don't really remember anything before i was like 9 or 10... haha. my memory is terrible!

I've always had a really good memory. I always thought it was because I've always noticed all the small, largely insignificant things.

It may sound crazy but ive got the memory of my 2nd or 3rd birthday in my head, I can see it visually sometimes and its like a high. Like I see me walking around as a little guy through my grandparents house that got burnt down, and going into a room and someone was playing a guitar, its crazy like when I think about it I can see it. I cant remember alot of my child hood though.

I remember splitting my head open and going to the ER at the age of 2. I was in the hospital when it happened because my little brother was being born at the time. I was excited to finally leave with a new baby brother and I was running down the hallway backwards and my mom yells "watch out" I turn around and crash my head on a sharp corner of a metal supply cart. Had to get stitches.

I also remember being able to legibly paint the words "quality market" in finger paint at the age of 3. I shit you not.

when i was 3 or 4, a man on a horse passed by our house. i was sitting next to the window and our house was at a very populated part of the town where a horse with a rider would be the most unlikely thing you will see. i saw that and called my mother and bro to see. i had never seen a horse in front me. it was so huge. i was thrilled. that's my earliest memory.

Standing up in my cot, which was beside my parents big bed. The room was black but the door was open a crack with light shining through. I gripped the bars and they were cold, and I felt incredibly alone.

Mum says they moved the cot to another room when I was 2

During the Blizzard of 78' I remember my mother telling me I couldn't play outside because the snow was too deep (about 40 inches)




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i was almost 2 years old. my "mother" slapped me across the face and broke my jaw.

i underwent several different surgeries to repair my jaw.
i remember the pain and, having my jaw re-set and wired shut.

since that time i chew with a somewhat of a cross bite and, my jaw makes popping noises when i chew.

my "mother" always claimed she never broke my jaw. she said my brother hit me in the face by accdent with a stray baseball and, that is how i got a broken jaw.
both my brother and sister where there when she slapped me and saw everything.
they always told me my memory of the event was correct.

The light hurt my eyes.

when i was 3 or 4 my family visited my uncle's farm. my dad and uncle walked out through the cow pasture and i saw and wanted to follow them. i didn't know there was an electric fence around the pasture and ran into it with my face. i remember being scared shitless and in pain and crying. my big sister was with me, and though i don't remember this part, she told me i did it again a little while later.

i have great respect for electricity now, hahah.

memories before age 2-3 would be purely sensual , that is , without the words you have been trained to catagorize and interpret memories with . most children of this culture have been intensely programmed with a social language such as English . yet , prior to that , you were not unintelligent . everything you ever have been is still you . remember you the egg if you want to . why even try ? because it is to feel wholeness . why would that be good ? so as to then touch all of life respectful of all you are and all you can know .

i spose there are psy methods like Re-Birthing that attend to this - but i think just a soft , quiet intention of touching mama ocean/ mother earth is good enough . ooo , the warm !