Your absolute earliest concrete memory?

Plankton · 01-27-2015, 09:38 AM

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.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-27-2015, 10:01 AM

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.

Overcast · 01-27-2015, 10:16 AM

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.

ReadyMadeFour64 · 01-27-2015, 11:30 AM

I remember this.

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

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 01-27-2015, 02:44 PM

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.

Neapolitan · 01-27-2015, 11:27 PM

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.

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

JennyOndioline · 01-28-2015, 03:30 PM

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.

01-27-2015, 09:38 AM	#31 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	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. __________________ See location... Last edited by Plankton; 01-27-2015 at 10:10 AM.

01-27-2015, 10:01 AM	#32 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	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.

01-27-2015, 10:16 AM	#33 (permalink)
Overcast . Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: . Posts: 1,531	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.

01-27-2015, 11:30 AM	#34 (permalink)
ReadyMadeFour64 Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 159	I remember this. It is a John Lennon Baby Blanket. I do not know how old I was when I saw it. Probably 3.

01-27-2015, 02:44 PM	#35 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	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.

01-28-2015, 03:30 PM	#37 (permalink)
JennyOndioline Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 154	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.