what is your first memory?

March 24, 2012 1:35pm CST
I had an extremely traumatic early childhood, and I started having memories of these things very early, and I can still recall them now as if it were just yesterday, what is your first memory? Was it a happy, sad, traumatic or some other kind of memory? I'm just curious to see what emotions have the most influence on memory...
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• Philippines
9 Apr 12
My first memory was my 3rd birthday. I just turned 3 years old that day and that's what I remember. My parents and relatives were circling around me. I am opening my gifts, they were all so happy. I think I make them happy and I entertain them. That's what I remember. I don't remember if I'm happy that time.
@tinjan11 (75)
• Philippines
2 Apr 12
When I was in early childhood, I can remember the time when I had my first hospitalization. I think i was 3 years of age at that time. I remember how I was put on a stretcher and how the nurses and my parents hold my hand because I was so resistant to get of the bed.I'm so afraid of the injection and I don't want to be injected.During that time, whenever the nurse enters on my room and gave a IVTT medication, I cried a lot.But then she injected it on the injection port and it didn't hurts. That was all that I can remember. Now that I am a nurse,I remember these childhood memory of mine whenever I encountered patients who were children.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
25 Mar 12
Hello Rozeen and welcome to myLot. I hadn't thought about my early memories for a long time now. I really have two very early memories. When I was toddler there were these swings that were hung in the door way. They were pretty much like he wings are today for infants. I remember jumping up and down in it as it was pretty close to the floor. My mother did a lot of embroidering at that time and I remember her giving me a cloth with the hoops and a needle and thread too. I wove the needle and thread round and round the hoops making a mess for mom to have to cut so I could start over,
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
24 Mar 12
my childhood memory is a happy one. i remember vividly how we, siblings, huddled together to listen to the scary stories of my father. the story-telling would take few hours after dinner. television then was a rarity. it was scary, but at the end of the story, we found ourselves laughing and smiling because we made fun of each other.
24 Mar 12
My earliest memory is of sitting in my grandparents' living room with a pile of books beside me as I struggled to read through my favourite on my own (a story about some children and their dog going to the seaside and buying sweets - it had lovely illustrations). It was quite telling of things to come as I'm now a mjor book geek :P Birdie -
• United States
31 Mar 12
There are so many memories of my childhood but the first one was, i request my dad to bring the moon from the sky in my hand and dad laughed and refused that it is impossible. i wept alot all night, my dad said to me that he will bring the moon tomorrow. the next day he bought a planets pics calendar. i wept again but this time my dad got trick to silent me, he bought some chocolates, jellies and biscuits. by seeing all of this items i was happy ;)
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
24 Mar 12
sick in my baby bed, vomiting it all over. including the orange curtains, my elder sister in her baby bed and a very angry mother shouting at me