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[spacemonkey]

[Boris Johnson]

[Winchester]

[OGPhilly]

I'm sure that I've "pruned" plenty of things and forgotten a ton of memories, since I only know what I remember and not what I forget. But that still seems like it should really apply up until 8 or 9, cause after that my memories becomes much more sophisticated and coherent. The early memories really are just flashes of recollection, like a snapshot, whereas stuff from when I was 9, 10, 11 I can actually remember experiences, events, and interactions, as well as my coherent thoughts about them at the time. Not traumatic stuff either. Just being in school, playing with friends, etc.

[JDHURF]

I have hazy memories leading up to about second grade and then at about that time my memory is just chock full of all sorts of memories.

I still have some pretty strong memories from when I must have been three or so (the memories are more images and feelings than anything else), but I also confuse dreams I had then with actual memories. I can remember when we moved to KS, right before we left, as we were getting into the moving truck to leave, my best friend and I got into a little kid fight about who got to have some candy necklace that we both wanted and our parents were saying like you will never see each other again, don't let the last thing be a fight, and that sort of thing. I can remember playing in the sandbox with her. I don't know if this is a dream or an actual memory, but once I fell and nearly bit my tongue off and I had to eat pudding and yogurt and soft stuff for a while and I remember being in the kitchen and having no problem with that, lol

[John Galt]

[JDHURF]

[John Galt]

i never ate worms out of a sandbox

my earliest memory is of falling, being carried into my house, then bleeding on my floor, then getting my chin stiched. i have a few memories of that time when i lived in minnesota, a few memories of the stairs, the fence, the neighbor's entry way. then i moved to los angeles. i have more memories of that (which was from kindergarten - fourth grade) but not that many. my memories mainly involve infatuation with a girl named Hannah but i was totally friend zoned. i do remember firing machine guns and stuff though

[OGPhilly]

I mean, for example, when I was 10 years old I remember very specifically going to a classmates house for a sleepover. It was a Saturday and I got there in the afternoon. He had a playstation and we played Twisted Metal. He was the clown with the ice cream truck and he beat me repeatedly as I went against him with several different characters, so I said the ice cream truck must be the best car in the game, so then I was the clown and he chose some other guy I had previously played as and he beat me again to prove that he was just better at the game. Then we played Skullmonkeys for a while. Then we picked on his little brother. His bathroom was fully carpeted and had no tile, which I thought was really weird. Then we watched South Park, which my mom didn't allow me to watch at the time. Later, we were hungry and he said he had some string cheese but when we went to get it, it was in the freezer for some reason (FROZEN CHEESE!) so we ran it under hot water before we ate it. His house was facing a busy street while my house was on a very quiet block, so the sound of cars going by made it very difficult for me to fall asleep.


I haven't been back to this house since, and I lost touch with the classmate pretty quickly after that school year ended, but I can still remember this stuff vividly because by age 10 my brain was just keeping tabs on what I experienced.

[The Comrade]