It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.
I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.
Weird person giving me something incredibly sweet. (Later found out that was a polio vaccination via sugar cube). The memory was very partially formed, but it should have been around 18 months old.
Other fully formed memory starts around 2 and half.
Climbing onto the counter (at 2 or 3 years old) to get a Flintstone’s vitamin, because I liked the way they taste. Plot twist: what I actually ate was one of our dog’s epilepsy pills.
My best friend face from kindergarten.
Had an audible “aww” to this one haha. Love it.
Two years old. Watching my dad build his train set in the attic.
Prob 3, and making a big ass semi truck out of Lego duplo blocks from my own mind. Thing would fall over because of weight. It had a driver and passenger.
3 years old, my family was being sealed in a Mormon Temple Ceremony. Kind of a renewal of vows for my parents, but with cult stuff, and us kids.
I distinctively remember portions of my little school when I was between 2 and 3 years old, and of playing with my still-to-this-day best friend :P
Further back than that, I can’t really remember anything, I don’t think.In a cot looking up to see my family looking down.
I can’t be sure it’s not a false memory, but I seem to remember sitting all buckled into one of those removable car seats on the floor of the hallway in our first house. The low perspective is very vivid and the place in the hallway is very specific (the threshold of the living room). That house would put me at under 4, but the angle etc would suggest I was much younger and in an infant car seat. I can never be sure if the level of detail supports it being a real memory or a false one. My first memory’s definitely in that house though. I remember in the heat of summer hanging out with my mom in the one room that had an air conditioning unit. But I was definitely ambulatory at that point.
That’s pretty much how my memory goes too.
A dream where I saw myself sleeping. It was pretty boring.
My mom and dad getting into an argument about how toasted the bread should get in the toaster. I was somewhere between one and three years old.
I’m something like 4-5 years old, and my older brother still has to pay a candy to my younger brother because he found something my older bro lost and he said we get a candy if we find that thing
Being at MarineWorld (now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom) to see the orca, and the poor creature was just laying in the water motionlessly. my family was there and they were like “aw, it must be sick :(”
I think this might be the article for it: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Marine-World-Mourns-Loss-Of-Killer-Whale-3303153.php
I probably have slightly earlier memories but I don’t actually know which ones are older so I stick with this one
Some scary dark night, some Neon Signs, a low light street lamp, the car doors frooze, so cant open them, so had to climb through the car from the other side.
I was probably 3. I climbed up the cupboards in the kitchen and found a knife and a box of aluminum foil. I sat down on the floor to try and open the aluminum foil with the knife, slipped, and cut my hand. I don’t remember actually cutting my hand, but I remember up to it.
The scar was pretty small, but remains to this day lol
