I was racing my bike against someone else when someone at the finish line acted like they were gonna ghost ride into me, so I swerved to avoid them, flew over the handlebars and landed on the concrete with my forehead. Both my eyes swelled up around them with blood from the contusion. I couldn't see for a few days, and I missed 1 week of school.

True story.

OHHHhhhh... that memory.

I remember waking up from a nap, it was summer, the windows were open, a small breeze blowing the curtains, and a prop plane over head. I was 2 or 3.

I was about 2 or 3. My mom would do physiotherapy on my legs and I can remember lying on my back on the floor looking up at her and her bending my legs and ankles around.

My earliest memory is my parents playing music together while I was in nothing but a diaper dancing on the bed. I couldn't speak except for maybe a few select words.

I remember this.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...MpRYv814t2qGvg

It is a John Lennon Baby Blanket. I do not know how old I was when I saw it. Probably 3.

i swear i remember my grandmother and great grandmother singing. i have a memory of two old ladies in a living room with a wooden interior who were singing, and my parents say this sounds like them. the only thing about it is that the last time i saw them i was about 9 months old or so. and this seems a bit early to have a memory. i don't have any other memories from that time. my next one is from when i was around 3 and we went up north for my grandmother's funeral. i don't remember the funeral but i remember standing next to a pile of dead leaves, and we don't have that in florida so i know it must've been up north (most likely in new jersey). and this is the only time we went up north in between being 9 months old and about 5 years old, and i remember the trip when i was 5 quite clearly so i know it wasn't this time that the pile of leaves memory is from.

when i was 5 and we went up north we visited my granddad at his apartment in the bronx, and when i was outside his apartment building i saw a muslim lady in the full burka get-up, with only her eyes showing. this was the first time i ever saw anything like this, as there aren't that many muslims in south florida. at the time i was convinced she was a ninja. i told my mom about the ninja encounter and she was like that's nice, probably just thinking i had an overactive imagination. it wasn't until years later that i realized the ninja was actually just a muslim lady.

there was a similar incident in florida when i saw what i can only assume now was an armadillo outside our complex. i was obsessed with dinosaurs at the time due to seeing jurassic park and i was pretty sure i had seen a real dinosaur.

I remember getting cookies from my great-grandmother. The first thing I would do when I visit my grandmother's house was to go over to my great-grandmother and get cookies from her. I am guessing I was three at the time, she passed away when I was very young. The three I vaguely remember eating were the Lady Stella, Swiss Fudge and Anginetti cookies. So I am guessing my first memory was eating an Stella D'oro cookie.

http://www.sofreshandsogreen.com/wp-...ro-cookies.jpg

edit: I still think Stella D'oro Swiss fudge cookies are the greatest cookies ever.

I vomited up a hot dog. I can still smell it. I vomited my way to consciousness. Pretty representative of my life as a whole, really.