Earliest childhood memory

[stoodent]

What is your earliest childhood memory?

[jno]

seeing a flag through a window. I later found out I could date it to when I was 20 months old.

[libertie]

I remember my late dad holding me in one arm and my cousin in the other and we were both wearing frilly sticky out dresses...me and my cousin that is- not my dad...apparently it was at a party for my grandparents and I was about 2!

[heathfield]

When very young, I used to have a nightmare where I was continually falling into a funnel-like shape made up of dull, swirling colours - rather like mixed together plastacene. I eventually got used to it, and could 'bring it on'.
In later life, I've thought about this, and sometimes wonder if it was a memory of me being born !!!

[lou 26]

i remember there was heavy snow and my sister and dad were outside making a gigantic snowball. I wanted to watch them but i couldnt see over the windowsill as I was too small, lol

[jno]

it's possible, heathfield - a notable event but usually crowded out of people's memories while they're still young.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/quer y/0,,-2899,00.html

[mrs_overall]

I remember trying to climb onto a deckchair in the garden and the thing collapsed and trapped me. This was just before my 2nd birthday.

[heathfield]

An interesting link, Jno. Full of personal experiences that experts would claim 'can't happen'!

[spudqueen]

Yes, interesting link that.
My first memory is of being high up in a Church and looking at my shoes. Apparently it was my cousins wedding, I was wearing new shoes (that's why I kept looking at them!) and I was being held by my Dad. I was 16 months old.
Mr Spudqueen can remember being in a cot in hospital when he had glandular fever. He was about 6 months old.

[tiggerblue10]

Taking cover from jet fighters bombing the village I come from in Cyprus. I was 2 or 3.

[FUZZYBEE]

Upon hearing the milkman put the bottles on the step, I got up and went out of the house and brought in all next door's milk one by one, about six pints and tipped it all down our sink. I have no idea why but I vividly remember it. Even down to the shape of the bottles. I was 2 years old.

[Lil O'lady]

Being pushed in my pram by my mum - I was sitting up, with reins on, and playing with a cellophane clown figure that curled up when the heat from your hand got to it. God, the 50's were dull.

[China Doll]

Is it unusual not to be able to recollect very much until about the age of four?

[Ice.Maiden]

I remember clambering up some steep stairs to see my auntie who was in bed with her new baby. I was 2 then. I also remember climbing up the wheels of a pram to look at someone else's new baby - again, I was 2. One of my sister's swears she can remember being baptised. I've always doubted it - but who knows?

[jno]

China, I can remember odd things that happened before I started school, but not really very many. I guess you start to learn so much at school (not just the subjects taught but all the new people you meet there) that it quickly loads up your memory bank and you delete earlier files you no longer use.

[niki2002]

I can remember vividly my Mum telling me my Nan had died. I had just gone three years old. Strangely I cant remember anything of my nan though.

[styley]

Unfortunately, I'd shat myself.

[clever trev]

Crapping my pants at school nearly every day.

[Myriad2112]

Being able to see Croydon Gas works out of my bedroom window and also my dad bringing home an inflatable airship from New York - I must have been about 4.