Memories - How far back can you remember, what age were you?

I can remember my days when I was in nursery school and I was then 4-5 years old. Beyond that I cannot recall my days. I believe that some sweet and some very bitter memories of our childhood do remain with us through out our life and we do not forget that, come what may.

all the way back. i've described the delivery room to my mother,which totally freaked her out. it's my short term memory lately that's shot though LOL

Hi Kiran-to be honest i have a short-term memory but do remember quite a few things since my childhood..but there are big gaps in between them..so its a bit patchy. There have been times in I definitley do and always will remember but they are not nice ones-still thats life..nowadays I just try and remember what happens today-just as well I kep a journal eh!! your friend littleowl

most of my memories go back up to when i was about 5or6 ,but i do have like 1or2 memories from when i was like 3 years old

i can still remember when i'm still 5 years old. my grand parents invited me to their house and sleep with them the whole because they missed me and no other people with them. it happens late at night i dream that i urinate at the CR but that was not true i urinate under my underwear and shorts, i am afraid that my grandma and grandpa angry with me because my bet was wet of my urine. so i leave their house and returned home at 3am they don't know that i'm leaving. i am lucky it only takes 10 minutes walked our home from my grand parents home. they are feeling crazy looking where i am but i'm home already only in the morning that my grandma went our home to ask my mom if i was there

I have very few childhood memories. But those that I do have all seem to be around traumatic things. I have specific memories from between 4 and 6 years old. Before that nothing really. After 6 I start to have more precise memories but they are still of specific things and not necessarily of the same things that my parents remember. I think my memory really kicks in around 7 years old. Much of my memory is keyed by photographs. If you show me a photo I will usually remember what was happening at that time. But not if it was prior to the age of 6 unless there was also one of the traumatic events that was tied to that time. I believe for me I have a sub-conscience block to my memory. I have this for some adult memories as well. I know that specific events took place but don't remember the details, thankfully.

I think I remember back upto the age of three (I remember the hospital just before and after an operation I had then)...nothing more...besides some incidents but those are based on photographs. I also remember some incidents at school. But my husband can remember way back to when he was a year old. I didn't think it was possible but he comes up with all these incidents and all his aunts and uncles suddenly remember them and agree though they had forgotten all these years.

I have a few memories that I think were farther back than before I was 6, but its hard to know for sure. 6 seems to be the magic age for me too however, from there on I can remember my childhood quite clearly. Great question for discussion. Makes you have to really think about it.

I remember all kinds of things to where I was as young as 3 or 4. Some of the things are funny while others are not. Its probably because I looked forward to so many things. My mom said it did not take much to entertain me when I was young. Maybe thats why I remember so much. Thats cool though.

I remember when I was 6 years old and I went to nursery school by myself. My grandpa used to take me to the nursery school every morning and that morning I don't know what got into my head and I just left home alone. Fortuantly our house was just 5minutes from the nuresery school but anyway it wasn't that safe as I then thought. Now when I think about it I really wonder what made me go to nursery school by myself that day?

i cant really remember anything at all...

the furthest i can remember is from when i was 3-4 years old. I can vividly remember trying to wear my mother's high heels and arranging cosmetic bottles in her vanity by height.. At around that age, my mother was preparing for her nursing board exams and i often stick around her room, watching her study and imitating her handwriting with my doodles. she even gave me a notebook for writing my script-like doodles..Although i was mostly at home with my mother, i was very attached to my dad. i remember calling his office only to ask him what time he'll be home and to remind him to bring home mcdonalds for me and my sister. i even remember throwing a tantrum at the dentist's because my dad wasn't there.. it was also around that age when i started watching cartoons, anime and japanese shows dubbed in english. I think people tend to find it easier remembering traumatic, embarrassing or very happy memories than any other time in their lives. i'm not a psychologist, but i feel that childhood is the formative years of a child's life, so having good/happy or bad memories tend to affect a child's fears, aspirations, decisions and even temperament later in life.

Thats great kiran,you could remember an incident when you are six years.i could also remember something.when i was in and around 6 years,one of my friend broke up my head with a stone ;for the reason i took his flower knowing to him only ;then too he was angry with me and then threwed a stone on me.then i was taken to the hospital and banded.But that was very small and now i dont know where that guy is?

i very coolly remember .i was just two and a half. my parents were posted in a distant place and this time we were visiting our home town,our grand parents and all, and when it was time to return back i insisted that i am staying with my grand parents !well as it turned out to be my parents returned without me and i was enjoying being with my grand parents and other relatives in the city for two full weeks. at a time when the connectivity and other facilities were not so advanced as they are today.