What is the earliest memory that you can recall?

[VolDaddy87]

Reflecting this morning and thought this might be cool to do.

I'm 31, and the earliest memory I have is being on the couch at my parent's house, Comfortably Numb playing on my mom's Quasar stereo. My dad sitting on the coffee table playing along on guitar. I was young enough that he still had to make sure I didn't fall off the couch.

Anyone want to share theirs?

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

I can remember my dad taking me with him to K-Mart in Marietta Georgia in 1970 when I was 3 years old

 

[LouderVol]

The blizzard in 93, Cleveland TN. I was 3 or 4. Playing in 2 plus feet of snow, exploring all the tunnels our dog and other critters dug in the snow.

 

[joevol33]

I remember sitting on my grandpa's lap and he gave me a silver dollar, I was 3. Him and my cousin were hit and killed by a drunk driver a couple of months later while walking home from church. I have no memory of that, but I remember the silver dollar. My other grandpa died a week after him, and I remember my mom and her siblings burning all his stuff in his yard. He wasn't a good guy, and they wanted nothing to do with anything of his. I remember the fire like it was yesterday, but nothing else about eitger one of them.

 

[VolDaddy87]

I remember sitting on my grandpa's lap and he gave me a silver dollar, I was 3. Him and my cousin were hit and killed by a drunk driver a couple of months later while walking home from church. I have no memory of that, but I remember the silver dollar. My other grandpa died a week after him, and I remember my mom and her siblings burning all his stuff in his yard. He wasn't a good guy, and they wanted nothing to do with anything of his. I remember the fire like it was yesterday, but nothing else about eitger one of them.

I don't remember my grandfather. My mom's side passed before I was born, and my dad's passed when I was 2. I wish every day that I could have known him. He seems like such a badass hearing about him. Driving a big rig, working on them, rode motorcycles, owned a plane and loved to fly it. I never got to fly with him and he sold it after he got cancer.

My step grandfather on my mom's side always had a pocket full of change. He would give me a quarter every time I seen him. I loved that.

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

I remember kicking my shoes that had bells on them to keep everyone in the vehicle awake on a road trip to Virginia Beach. I was a little over two.

After that complete darkness until I was four.

 

[MG1968]

I’m 51. My earliest clear memories are from kindergarten. I can remember sitting on a couch and looking at the bright red shoes on my feet. I think I was between 2 and 3.

 

[UTK]

I feel like I hardly remember anything prior to 11-12 years old and Im only 24 now haha

 

[volfanbill]

I remember getting my first puppy. I was 2. Lots of clear memories as a 3 year old at my grandparents and in my bedroom playing with Sesame Street toys

 

[VolDaddy87]

I remember kicking my shoes that had bells on them to keep everyone in the vehicle awake on a road trip to Virginia Beach. I was a little over two.

After that complete darkness until I was four.

It's crazy how you can remember something so well, then complete blanks in between. I have another memory like that I guess around the same time as my last. My mom and dad were hanging clothes to dry on my great grandmother's line. My dad had a Cutlass, T-tops, whole nine yards. it was parked on a slight hill and they left the door open and I guess I just climbed in and play driving. I pulled it out of gear and back it went. I don't remember doing it, but I do remember my dad chasing the car down the hill throwing his arm up(motioning me to throw it up in gear), I had no clue at that age. My next image is a walnut tree right outside the passenger door. It had caught the door and folded it around to the front fender. Luckily I was fine. And no my parents weren't bad parents, just a different time I suppose.

 

[joevol33]

It's crazy how you can remember something so well, then complete blanks in between. I have another memory like that I guess around the same time as my last. My mom and dad were hanging clothes to dry on my great grandmother's line. My dad had a Cutlass, T-tops, whole nine yards. it was parked on a slight hill and they left the door open and I guess I just climbed in and play driving. I pulled it out of gear and back it went. I don't remember doing it, but I do remember my dad chasing the car down the hill throwing his arm up(motioning me to throw it up in gear), I had no clue at that age. My next image is a walnut tree right outside the passenger door. It had caught the door and folded it around to the front fender. Luckily I was fine. And no my parents weren't bad parents, just a different time I suppose.

I was around 4, and we were driving to northern Kentucky on the interstate to visit family. Mom was holding my little sister, and i was laying with my feet in her lap, and my head on dad's leg, we were in his truck. I remember reaching up and turning tge ignition off just to see what would happen

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

It's crazy how you can remember something so well, then complete blanks in between. I have another memory like that I guess around the same time as my last. My mom and dad were hanging clothes to dry on my great grandmother's line. My dad had a Cutlass, T-tops, whole nine yards. it was parked on a slight hill and they left the door open and I guess I just climbed in and play driving. I pulled it out of gear and back it went. I don't remember doing it, but I do remember my dad chasing the car down the hill throwing his arm up(motioning me to throw it up in gear), I had no clue at that age. My next image is a walnut tree right outside the passenger door. It had caught the door and folded it around to the front fender. Luckily I was fine. And no my parents weren't bad parents, just a different time I suppose.

Accidents happen. Can’t blame people for freak things.

 

[Plano Vol]

my first sighting of a bammer

 

[tnuhcvols]

I was around 4, and we were driving to northern Kentucky on the interstate to visit family. Mom was holding my little sister, and i was laying with my feet in her lap, and my head on dad's leg, we were in his truck. I remember reaching up and turning tge ignition off just to see what would happen

This ain't supposed to be a cliffhanger

 

[superdave1984]

I have a couple that are pretty close together, both of them I was under 3. One I was playing with a horseshoe and a nightlight. Learned about electricity that day. Another my dad took me and my sister fishing at a nearby creek. I had caught a catfish and was trying to haul it in and I started to slide down the bank. My dad caught me by the back of my shirt just as a large snake dropped out of a tree into the water right in front of me.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

We took a trip to Queens to visit my Aunt and Uncle when I was 2 or 3, so it would've been late 71 or 72. I don't remember much of the trip other than what's on old home movies. I do distinctly remember sitting on my Aunt's kitchen skin with the window open, and feeding a piece of lettuce to a bird that was outside. The other memory of that trip is sitting on a curb eating a burger.

 

[TennesseeFan07]

Birth.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

It's not a full memory but I have vidid parts of a memory of my grandfather selling a truck to someone. I remember I was sitting on a patio area playing with a ball, a watching my grandfather walking around the truck talking to a guy I didn't know. When I told my dad about it, he said I couldn't have more than 3 years old when that happened because he remembered the truck and my grandfather selling it and when it happened.

 

[Tin Man]

Stepping off the front stoop and disappearing into a drift of snow (over my head). I was curiously amazed for a moment before a parent lifted me out. It was in Syracuse, NY. I think that I was 2-something...

Being scared of my maternal grandparents' neighbor's rooster when it cocked its head and approached me in a strutting fashion. I had played with the neighbors boy who was about my age. He had come to my grandparent's property often. He invited me over to his house. I encountered the rooster and retreated. His father had a hard look and his mother looked sad and tired. This was outside of Savannah, GA. I was 2 or 3...

Falling into a fire ant mound, later sitting in the bath tub while my mother bathed me with rubbing alcohol. I'd suffered so many ant bites that my temp had spiked to 104. The rapidly evaporating alcohol was to bring my fever down. This was in Georgia. I was 3-something...

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

The blizzard in 93, Cleveland TN. I was 3 or 4. Playing in 2 plus feet of snow, exploring all the tunnels our dog and other critters dug in the snow.

Was it in March? In March 13, 1993 we had the biggest snow that my parents have ever seen here in Montgomery. Wonder if it was the same storm.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Also this sort of counts but I remember having a really, really bad (as in scary) dream when I was very young, probably 5. It was so bad that I still remember parts of it now. In the dream I was somewhere and it suddenly went very dark and I heard very loud, booming voices yelling. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember the dream felt very real.

Later in life I was told that I had a very scary accident when I was not quite 2 when I was with some cousins and I think they were climbing on a dresser and it fell over onto me. Luckily the way it landed it got sort of pinned to the wall so it didn't fully fall on me but some drawers fell out and those and a lot of clothes fell on me. Now this might be a stretch but my mom said her and my aunt came running in screaming and my cousins were too and I think that dream was kind of the memory being replayed. I wasn't really hurt but I was crying and scared because I think I had mostly been playing on the floor minding my own business.

 

[LouderVol]

Was it in March? In March 13, 1993 we had the biggest snow that my parents have ever seen here in Montgomery. Wonder if it was the same storm.

I couldnt tell you a month. But I remember it hit everywhere. I think it being my first memory is why I like snow so much.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

My earliest vivid memory is getting made to stand in the corner with my arms out in kindergarten, on my birthday

 

[DancingOutlaw]

I remember in pre K laying down for a nap on a cot and waking up and my entire body was asleep. I couldn’t move or talk but I could look around. It eventually wore off, I told the teacher but she just said that’s nice or something. It never happened again.

 

[pismonque]

I have a few glimpse memories from a car wreck when I was two.

I was riding in the back seat with my brother (no seat belts, this was in the sixties when we didn't like safety yet) when we skidded on ice and spun into a tree. I have a memory of being thrown into the back floor and climbing back out of it afterward (remarkably, my brother and I weren't hurt).

I remember the view of my mom in the driver's seat after the crash, as I saw her from the back seat. I don't remember specifically what she was doing or any associated sounds, just the visual, but I always had a sense of frantic trauma tied to that image (she was injured pretty badly and lost my soon-to-have-been-born sister).

But most clearly I remember a woman carrying me shortly after, walking slowly back and forth by the side of the road, gently bouncing me up and down and saying "shh-shh-shh-shh" over and over, trying to soothe my wailing. She held me like that in the cold until some family members arrived to take my brother and me home. I couldn't pick her out of a lineup if I had to, I just have a blurry image of the side of her head and her shoulder and the sound of her shushes.

I was just about two and a half months past my second birthday and I don't think I have any other memories of that time frame. Those glimpses probably only survived because of the associated trauma.