What's your oldest memory? How far back can you go?

[Odyssey 5,716]

I can remember as far as when I was 2. The earliest memory from what I can remember is watching my parents play video games. I also vividly remember the house I lived in around that time.

[Pastel 7,630]

My first year of preschool (école maternelle actually), we were running everywhere in the class for no reason. Pretty weird.

I was 2 or 3.

[Kankuro 233]

I was like 2/3 in a spider-man costume and I rolled down the stairs and smashed an Elmo Piñata.

What was wrong with me.

Edited April 16, 2015 by Lightning

[Side Bird 566]

I was three years old, playing with my brother in our house when cops came in. My brother ran out the door and my mother was arrested.

That's the earliest I can remember, which is kinda bad.

[Cash In 22,313]

My oldest memory is my 3rd birthday party. Can't remember anything before that.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Cash_In

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

My oldest memory that I can pin a date on is my fourth birthday.

Edited January 31, 2019 by cpl_dixon

[BulkyBright 37]

I vividly remember walking down Eastbourne Beach with my dad when I was four years old.

[TBD 17,254]

Age 3, when I was helping my mom with something and I was sitting in the kitchen

[ChikaChan 7,323]

I can still remember I was still in china  waking up from a wooden bed and going to a window looking outside still remembers a group of kids being happy while they all swarmed to a monk doing somethingand also I saw a huge spider thing crawl through my uncle bedroom,thanks goodness that it went into my ancient bedroom ever since I came back to the U.S.!!!

[Phosphor 11,529]

I think age 4. I remember digging around the kitchen cabinet below the sink where the cleaning stuff was stored. Also remember getting scolded for it. 

[Fhaolan 4,483]

Age 2, I believe, which was 48 years ago. On a beach near Atlantic City with my mum and my Nan on either side holding my hands, lifting me up through the waves. I've never got a clear answer as to why we were in Atlantic City that summer, to be honest. Feels a bit out-of-character for my parents, but they confirmed that was the place where those events I remember happened.

[Twilight Luna 31,378]

I was 5 and we went to the theater to see Return of the Jedi. My parents took me to a toy store before the movie to buy an action figure and I had picked out Luke.

[Dreambiscuit 9,692]

I can vaguely remember being in a crib and looking over the railings down a hall where someone was in the kitchen. There was also a time when I was in the front seat of the family car, looking up through the windshield and watching the telephone lines passing overhead. I don't know which of these memories came first and I have no idea why I'd retain such mundane recollections. But there it is. I must have been 2 or 3 years old.

On 2/1/2019 at 12:19 AM, Twilight Luna said:

I was 5 and we went to the theater to see Return of the Jedi. My parents took me to a toy store before the movie to buy an action figure and I had picked out Luke.

That's an awesome first memory! I wish I could trade with you! Wow, the movie and a Luke action figure! That's the stuff that dreams are made of. 

Edited February 2, 2019 by Dreambiscuit

[PaulBron 173]

Age 4, when I fell out of bed and hit my head 3 times in the drawers

[Twilight Luna 31,378]

5 hours ago, Dreambiscuit said:

That's an awesome first memory! I wish I could trade with you! Wow, the movie and a Luke action figure! That's the stuff that dreams are made of. 

Thanks! My parents took my older brother to see A New Hope when he was 3. Apparently Darth Vader made him cry.

[Dreambiscuit 9,692]

16 hours ago, Twilight Luna said:

Thanks! My parents took my older brother to see A New Hope when he was 3. Apparently Darth Vader made him cry.

Aww, that's so sad that Vader made him cry. But I'll bet there were a lot of other things in the movie he probably enjoyed. I hope he got an action figure too! (Not a Vader figure though). 

Edited February 2, 2019 by Dreambiscuit

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

My oldest memory involves my dad, I remember sitting on the couch with him, and I vividly remember what he was wearing: a plain white t-shirt, denim jeans and a black ball cap on backwards...this was back when he had long hair. I remember the tv was on and I faintly remember him telling me something, what it was I don't remember. I must've been about 2 years old...

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I have a pretty bad memory. My first memories were of playing Super Smash Brothers at the age of 6. But even then they're quite vague, because I literally don't remember any more about it than that. 

Edited April 12, 2019 by Dusky, the Boy Queen

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

I still have no idea if this was a dream or not, but I remember running around outside behind a small house that was surrounded by mountains and trees. I can't have been much older than 2 or 3, but I have no idea where it could have been, considering my parents never knew what I was talking about whenever I tried describing it. The whole memory just seems surreal, so I'm not sure if it was actually real or not.

The earliest concrete memory I have is from when I was 4 or 5. I used to love playing MechWarrior 2 as a kid, and I can remember quite a few times where I was just sitting behind our family computer, having so much fun playing the game entirely wrong. I used to think the Executioner was stupid and ugly, but now it's one of my favorite Mechs.

[Matraxial Artemi 2,230]

My oldest memory gone way back when I was 4-5 years old, I was on the beach with my whole family, they all go swimming, singing karoke and basically having fun. I was having fun too by just building a sand castle and a trench 

so basically that's my oldest memory that I could ever remember 

Edited April 12, 2019 by Matraxial Artemi

[AveryGamerDude 4,640]

I'd say probably when I was 2 when I was swallowing some coins. ._.

[Twiggy 2,966]

Very vague, but I remember being inside a large indoor swimming pool with my mom. She was holding me and bouncing me in and out of the water. 

I asked her about it years later, and she told me she only took me in there one time. I was about 8 months old apparently. 

After that the earliest memories I can pull up are rolling down the stairs at roughly two and preschool at a little older than 4. 

[Cyclone 1066 3,619]

4 years old? At an auction I know that.

[Splashee 28,564]

My oldest pure memory is laying on a bench in the old bathroom having a diper change, while focusing my eyes on a hook attached to the wall. Because that hook was there years later (not any more though), I have been able to keep retaining that memory. I have a few more, but I think they are newer memories, sitting in a stroller

[AppleButt 8,675]

I remember waking up in the crib one night.  Looked out the window and saw an airplane go by.  Followed by a strike of lightning or something.