How far back can you remember?
 

How far back can you remember? And given that your oldest memory isn't the day you were born, can you offer explanation as to why you think most people can't remember that far back.

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i remeber as far back as when i was about 4 years old...it's scary...i remember walking around with my grandpa to the park and this big statue of a tank in ukraine...


llo...i usually can't remember what i did 48 hours ago...so to me this is kinda scary...



as for why i think people can't remember that far back...umm...i don't know.

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I remember select moments from nursery school, which is when I was 3. I can't really recall much before that.

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Christmas after I turned 1 year old. My sister was playing with my toys and I was frustrated that I could verbally express my disapproval.

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same here I cant remeber what I did 2 days ago

although I do remember in kindergarden they brought in a huge ass snake and Ive been afraid of snakes ever since

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mommy and me when I was 2...
and we can't remember that far back becuase to a large extent, our eyes were closed

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I cant pinpoint an exact memory...But I can remember back until I was like 2 or 3. The reason I cant pinpoint a memory, is that I have a bunch of memories from a long time ago, and I dont know which ones happened first.

As to why we cant remember that far back...I dunno.

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I remember having my diaper changed :unsure:


*shrugs and walks away*

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I remember from about when I was three.

I believe that long term memory cells were not top-priority when we were going through our fastest growth.

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I was 1 1/2. All I was really doing was playing with my really awesome baby toys. I had this pink one that when you pressed a button a little head would pop out and a note would sound.... it was godly.

The reason people dont remember that far back is their memory isn't developed. It's extremely rare anyone will remember their birth. Some people have, but they have an IQ over 200.

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I dont know how far back i can remember because i have a lot of home videos... of when i was 1-4 so im not sure if i actually remember what happened or if i only know that it happend cuz ive seen the home videos.

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My earliest memory is from when I was between age 1 and 2. Sitting on my mom's lap while she talked to my biological father (who I don't know). I think the memory thing has to do with brain cells during growth (like what Rndm said)

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I think I was 1 and I was being breast fed...mmhmm.

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The farthest I can remember back is when I was probably 3-4 or so and I was in school using watercolors to color in a butterfly (which my grandma still has to this day which is kind of scary). Maybe earlier memory but not sure, but I remember being at my first house and I was walking towards the edge of the porch and I saw a smoldering cigarette sitting there, I touched the ashes and then started crying because it was still hot.

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That doesn't make sense. You have other senses that did work when you weren't born. I believe that some people can vaguely remember that time.
Same here... I remember some stuff from when I was 2 or 3... but I'd have to think about it for a while before I'd know what it was.

Sometimes I see those tapes from when I was a kid, so I don't know whether I remember something from the tape or from my own head... if you know what I mean. :) Basicly what Mushy says. :p

Your memory is selective. You remember stuff that made an impression. The older you get, the bigger the impression has to be to be memorised...

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I have very vauge memories from before the age of 4.

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The furthest back I can remember is when I was around 3, I was on a train heading for Quebec... don't why I remember that though, all I did was sit there.

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i can remember all the way back to when i was in preschool, for halloween one year, the teachers brought in a giant couldron put it on like a fake fire settings, they dressed up as witches, i cant remember what i was dressed as, i just remember i really had to go to the bathroom, but they wouldnt let me leave, but finally they let me go, and they also gave us little things to throw into the giant pot which had fake smoke (probably dry ice) that was really cool, and the performed a spell (abra cadabra we all said) and they gave us stuff to eat which was like juice and little debbie snack cakes.... i dont know why i can remember this, also remember something else, of when i was really little like 4, y mom would pull me and my sister in our little wagon over to our grandma's house and we would visit her, and she would feed us juice and cookies, (the sugar free ones) -blech.. and then i remember when i was in 1st grade, i got sick at school, my mom had nowhere else to take me, so she took me to my grandmas house, and she watched me, she asked me what i wanted to eat, i said peanut butter and jelly sand which, she asked how would you like it cut, i go the way mommy cuts them, (mom used to cut them into triangles)-- she came back with like 10 little bit sized squares, i fussed a little but she told me that if i ate em i didnt have to take a nap, in the end i ended up puking them up and sleeping on my own, so either way it was a no win situatuon


i dont know why i can remember these things, i can also remember way back to when i recieved my first tonka trunk fr christmas (when i was 4) and i used to sit in the garden in our backyard and would play for hours with my sister.

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If it were possible to convert the amount of memory a human has into computer terms, would you say our memories are still greater than supercomputers?

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interesting

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Probably. There's like a growing supply of "links" that we continually grow on in our brains... they're being made every day.

When I first realized my existence I was still living back in Ontario, so I associate Ontario with my childhood now. I remember everything.. I was at least 2. I remember big events like getting my dog, and I remember small things like when I was just about to fall asleep, and I was listening to my playskool tapedeck. Falling out of the closet and breaking my leg.. trying to milk my dog like a cow (didn't work well :P,) and even every place I visited (Lawrence-Skuce Elementary, a high school, skating rink, my house, my friend's houses, everything.) It's pretty creepy. I just don't remember our first house in Ontario before our townhouse, where I met my best friend at the time.. when I came into conciousness, I had probably "known" her for a good few months.

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I can remember a few select memories from as far back as age four, but I don't remember everything that happened from then to now. I find it hard to remember what day it is, or what I did all week, so this is really no surprise to me. My Aunt is able to remember everything that happened to her from about age 10 until now and she is nearly 30 years old.