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Post by econstudent on May 9, 2014 22:15:36 GMT -5
When I was 2, we went on a trip for my mom's grandma's funeral. I remember several things from this trip very vividly: my mom running a red light because she was following my grandma's car (this is the only time I remember her ever getting pulled over and it really freaked me out), what the hotel lobby looked like, some family member's weird shoes, and that I liked my great-aunt better than my great-uncle (this is the only time I ever saw them until I was an adult). I feel like I must have been older on that trip because of how much I remember, but my mom says I was 2. I know I had to be 4 or under because my little brother wasn't born yet.
Other than that, I remember when they brought my little brother home from the hospital (I was about to turn 5) and I have a few memories from my preschool class.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 22:18:45 GMT -5
Earliest memories? I'm assuming you mean during this life?
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Post by Apple on May 9, 2014 22:25:10 GMT -5
I think I was about three and my parents went out of town, leaving my older siblings and me with a family friend. I was put to bed in a playpen in their bedroom (siblings slept in the boys' room). I remember waking up to a bright light and a green monster leaning over me. I started screaming until the dad came in and picked me up. Turns out the "monster" was the mom, but she had curlers in and was wearing a beauty mask--she was back-lit so I couldn't tell it was her. She had just come in to check on me and make sure I was sleeping ok.
I also remember setting up the pool in the summer, and then waking up in the bathroom with my dad putting washcloths on me. I had fainted, again. I was wearing a yellow dress my mom had made me, that I grew out of long before I started kindergarten, so I was probably three.
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Post by busymom on May 9, 2014 22:51:29 GMT -5
I can remember being in a crib in my parent's room, & climbing over the railing, falling, & running crying to find my Mom.
The one that freaks my Mom out is, I can remember sitting on my Mom's lap, riding in the old family Plymouth. The interior was gray. The reason that gets to my Mom, is she says I was a toddler when they traded that car in for something else.
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 10, 2014 1:36:11 GMT -5
My brother and I were in cots next to each other....the room was blue and I remember paint marks by the door where someone hadn't decorated properly. Neither of us was potty trained....his was blue and mine was pink I remember the drive was black tarmac with little white stones...and the boats with sails on the river at the bottom of the garden. We had a rabbit which I remember. I was 2 when we left that house so those memories are from being very young I've never been back.... but I looked at this place on google maps......and it is familiar
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Post by truthbound on May 10, 2014 4:56:26 GMT -5
Earliest memories? I'm assuming you mean during this life? Sigh you only have one life. I remember when I was four I saw my father's shoes. I wanted to be like him so I tried them on. And I so remember the beating he gave me for doing that. I never tried those shoes on again.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 8:04:18 GMT -5
Earliest memories? I'm assuming you mean during this life? Sigh you only have one life.I remember when I was four I saw my father's shoes. I wanted to be like him so I tried them on. And I so remember the beating he gave me for doing that. I never tried those shoes on again. Sigh ****You may have only had one life, but I've had many and I DO remember parts of some, especially my last one.
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Post by michelyn8 on May 12, 2014 9:51:29 GMT -5
I have a memory of waking up in my crib and seeing my aunt and cousin asleep in their bed in my room - I might have been 2 or 3. I know they lived with us for a while after my aunt decided to divorce her first husband but have never asked my mom exactly when that was. Its Mama's only living older sister and their relationship is touch and go on a good day. My oldest memory of my second sister is her telling me to go away. Again, I was probably 3 or so. Most fascinating/disturbing to me is a memory of looking out my parent's bedroom window and seeing someone put the two little girls next door in the truck of their car. I've never been clear if its the memory of something I heard adults talking about (car in memory is from 40's or 50's - house we lived in at that time was built in the 20's), memory of something I saw my Mama watching on TV or just a memory of a bad dream. One of these days I'll contact the police department of my hometown and ask if there was such a case or just research old newspapers to see if there is anything there. Or it could have been a mix of things. When I was 4 one family moved out of the house next door (had one child) and another with two little girls moved in. I'm still friends with them but maybe what I remember is just a dream brought on by thoughts of them and our being taught not to talk to strangers or hearing of something bad happening to someone. I could never ask my Mom about it because she'd never take me seriously. I don't know half my family (Dad's side) because she chose to stop spending time at those family functions when I was a toddler. I've always thought there was something there she's keeping from me too but I'll never know for sure since most of them are gone now.
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Post by tractor on May 12, 2014 10:09:01 GMT -5
My memory sucks, so the earliest one is from last week. Everything else is based on pictures I saw of my childhood, doing things I don't remember doing.
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Post by billisonboard on May 12, 2014 10:24:10 GMT -5
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 12, 2014 11:03:02 GMT -5
Earliest memories? I'm assuming you mean during this life? You can expound upon previous lives if you so desire.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 11:24:37 GMT -5
Earliest memories? I'm assuming you mean during this life? You can expound upon previous lives if you so desire. Been there, done that and get teased for mistaking my memories for having a vivid imagination.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 11:32:07 GMT -5
Who cares if other people don't believe you?
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 12, 2014 11:36:35 GMT -5
You can expound upon previous lives if you so desire. Been there, done that and get teased for mistaking my memories for having a vivid imagination. That's unfortunate. While I don't believe in reincarnation, it's always been an interesting concept to me and I always like hearing others talk about it. It's up to you though, I can respect differences in spritual beliefs. And as beerwench said, who cares if people disagree with you? If you know you're right, isn't that all that matters?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 11:57:06 GMT -5
Who cares if other people don't believe you? I shouldn't care, but it's not fun being laughed at for what I believe to be true.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 11:58:54 GMT -5
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for everything. ~Alexander Hamilton So which one are you going to be?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 12:50:32 GMT -5
Been there, done that and get teased for mistaking my memories for having a vivid imagination. That's unfortunate. While I don't believe in reincarnation, it's always been an interesting concept to me and I always like hearing others talk about it. It's up to you though, I can respect differences in spritual beliefs. And as beerwench said, who cares if people disagree with you? If you know you're right, isn't that all that matters? I was raised an atheist and didn't believe in reincarnation either until I got older. Then, I started making sense of the things I had always been remembering. For instance, starting at the age of about 4 or 5, I started having memories (not dreams) of wading in the waters of a huge stone built room. The water wasn't deep and it was warmer than the air. I now believe that my memories were of Roman baths. I just recently learned from the History Channel that those water rooms (what I called them when little) were heated from below with wood fires. Here is a photo I found of what my early memory looked like, only in my memory there was a ceiling and it was rather dark inside. What's odd and I haven't put it together yet, is that later in my life (now) I began having memories of what I believe to be my most recent past life. In the South...hot, sticky, heavy dresses, bugs everywhere... Why wouldn't I have had memories of my most recent past life at the age of 4 or 5? Why later in my life? It was backwards. Okay, now someone go PM Weltz so she can have some fun with this and tell me I'm nuts.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 12:53:32 GMT -5
for your bravery!!!
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Post by michelyn8 on May 12, 2014 13:03:49 GMT -5
@lonewolf - I don't know if you read my post about the "dream" I had that has stayed with me. I've considered that it may actually be a memory of a past life because of the type of cars in the dream and because it is something that has stayed with me. I haven't had any other experiences to make me think I've experienced past lives but I don't discount that they are possible.
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Post by raeoflyte on May 12, 2014 13:18:56 GMT -5
I remember "remembering" my real family in China. Around the age of 2 I started telling my parents about my real family in China. My folks are super mellow and they would ask questions sometimes but figured it was a phase and didn't worry/care about it. My sister remembers me repeatedly telling her why my real sisters were better than her. I also remember when I realized that it didn't make sense that I could remember my real family in China and obviously my family/same time frame here which is when I stopped talking about it when I was 7.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 13:20:39 GMT -5
My daughter has insisted since she could talk that her great great grandma (who died when she was a few months old and for whom she is named) didn't die, but turned into a baby...
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Post by raeoflyte on May 12, 2014 13:41:16 GMT -5
My mom ran an in-home daycare until I was in kindergarten and I remember the kids in the daycare. I remember one little boy eating the top of all the markers--he kept asking for more colors and we all just kept passing more and more down and then realized that none of the markers had the nubby part left. I was friends with 2 girls and I remember going to their parents restaurant and being in the kitchen. Seemed scary and like we would get in trouble for being there. I had another friend in elementary school and I could always "see" those double swinging bar type doors on her stairs even though they weren't there. Found out later that the girls from daycare lived in the same home that my other friend in elementary school and they had those doors.
I remember the yucky blue carpeting we had in the house until I was old enough (and my mom quit doing daycare).
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 13:45:56 GMT -5
I think my earliest was 2 1/2 to 3. We had a black cocker spaniel that knocked me down every time I went out to play. My parents had to give the dog away.
Another early memory, definitely when I was three, was when I had eye surgery to correct crossed eyes. They put bandages over both of eyes, but there was a tiny gap down the middle of my nose. My mother, for some unknown reason, wanted to see if I was psychic. So she asked how many fingers she was holding up. I got the answer right every time! The doctors put some tape over the gap.
I also remember my sister setting the grass on fire and me "playing" with my father's cancelled checks. Both are probably memories of us getting in trouble.
I remember kindergarten graduation perfectly. A month later my father committed suicide. I remember overhearing some of the stuff that I later figured out caused him to do it. I remember the day as if it was yesterday. The bathroom door was locked, but I showed my mom how to open it without a key. She opened it, shut it quickly, and sent me next door.
I remember everything pretty much from that point on . . . as well as we remember stuff (and I have a pretty good memory). I was five the summer my father died.
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 12, 2014 14:25:04 GMT -5
Lonewolf, glad you had the guts to stand up for your beliefs and not give in to the doubters and naysayers.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 14:31:01 GMT -5
@lonewolf - I don't know if you read my post about the "dream" I had that has stayed with me. I've considered that it may actually be a memory of a past life because of the type of cars in the dream and because it is something that has stayed with me. I haven't had any other experiences to make me think I've experienced past lives but I don't discount that they are possible. I didn't read that post. Was it recent? I'd like to read it.
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Post by Jaguar on May 12, 2014 14:39:07 GMT -5
I've been regressed several times and the stuff that comes out is just wild, but it makes sense for this life.
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 12, 2014 14:41:38 GMT -5
I've been regressed several times and the stuff that comes out is just wild, but it makes sense for this life.
By "regressed" do you mean the hypnotic technique of putting someone mentally in the state of their chldhood?
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Post by michelyn8 on May 12, 2014 14:43:14 GMT -5
I have a memory of waking up in my crib and seeing my aunt and cousin asleep in their bed in my room - I might have been 2 or 3. I know they lived with us for a while after my aunt decided to divorce her first husband but have never asked my mom exactly when that was. Its Mama's only living older sister and their relationship is touch and go on a good day. My oldest memory of my second sister is her telling me to go away. Again, I was probably 3 or so. Most fascinating/disturbing to me is a memory of looking out my parent's bedroom window and seeing someone put the two little girls next door in the truck of their car. I've never been clear if its the memory of something I heard adults talking about (car in memory is from 40's or 50's - house we lived in at that time was built in the 20's), memory of something I saw my Mama watching on TV or just a memory of a bad dream. One of these days I'll contact the police department of my hometown and ask if there was such a case or just research old newspapers to see if there is anything there. Or it could have been a mix of things. When I was 4 one family moved out of the house next door (had one child) and another with two little girls moved in. I'm still friends with them but maybe what I remember is just a dream brought on by thoughts of them and our being taught not to talk to strangers or hearing of something bad happening to someone. I could never ask my Mom about it because she'd never take me seriously. I don't know half my family (Dad's side) because she chose to stop spending time at those family functions when I was a toddler. I've always thought there was something there she's keeping from me too but I'll never know for sure since most of them are gone now. @lonewolf - its this one. I also have memories of riding in a police car with my mother looking for a mentally-disabled boy who had wandered away from home in our neighborhood. Mama has never mentioned having helped out like that with anyone so I have no later family stories to tell me if it really happened or not. Another memory of hiding in a car and peeking out the window while my family searched for the neighborhood for me is definately a mixed memory. I grew up hearing about how at age 2 I followed my brother when he left the house to go to a friends and was later found sitting on the drain at the top of our road singing and playing. Apparently it was the only time my father gave me a "real" spanking and because of how upset he was over my wandering away and having spanked me so hard, never did so again. Of course, my siblings got lots of spankings from both parents during their childhood so not having to get any from Daddy made me "special".
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 12, 2014 14:43:48 GMT -5
I've been regressed several times and the stuff that comes out is just wild, but it makes sense for this life.
By "regressed" do you mean the hypnotic technique of putting someone mentally in the state of their chldhood? Some people say they can do this to get to your past lives too. Some days I believe in past lives, other days I don't.
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Post by Jaguar on May 12, 2014 14:45:39 GMT -5
I've been regressed several times and the stuff that comes out is just wild, but it makes sense for this life.
By "regressed" do you mean the hypnotic technique of putting someone mentally in the state of their chldhood?
I've been put back into previous lives on a number of occasions.
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