Comments on: Early Memories

By: angelica

angelica — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:56:38 +0000

I recently saw Ray Bradbury at a panel, and he also said that his first memory was of being in the womb, though he described it as floating in red light. He also says he remembers his birth as well.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:57:49 +0000

My son also claims to have such memories. But no memories of being an infant.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:17:02 +0000

(The drawing is by DaVinci)

By: you need this like a blow to the amniotic sac. « citizen mange

you need this like a blow to the amniotic sac. « citizen mange — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:14:50 +0000

[...] This blog entry by Shannon Larratt really got me thinking… what IS my earliest memory? I dunno… I have a sea of pictures in my head but mostly what I feel is, well, feelings. So I started searching those feelings and interwove those emotions with the pictures in my head & the facts of my past and it all sorta started making sense. Actually, it started making a LOT of sense. [...]

By: MARK

MARK — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:35:30 +0000

when my daughter was about 4 she told me that she remembered being in her mams belly, when i asked her what it was like she looked at me as if i was stupid and just said dark of course. i just thought it was really cute, don’t know if was a true memory. on a slightly differant memory subject, the son of a friend mine many years ago and aged about 3 was hit down by a car. he was in a coma for a couple of months before waking up and making a full recovery. a few weeks later he told his dad that while he was in hospital baby jesus and came to see him but would not let him go with and told him to go back to his mam and dad. shocked the hell out of me then and still gives me goosebumps when i think of it now, bet it has the same effect you!

By: ed

ed — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:44:46 +0000

That’s old school writing. Possibly latin? And reversed?
And the designs on there remind me of Vitruvian Man via Da Vinchi

Good Luck with the book!! :)

By: indigo

indigo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:19:29 +0000

I believe it’s entirely possible – babies do recall songs, voices, sounds etc. that they heard in the womb, well after birth. I do agree with the genetic quirk possibility. My son and I are both autistic; he’s very severe, I’m very high-functioning, and my other child is ‘normal’ with a few quirks. However, we all share, to different degrees, various enhanced senses, and rather astonishing memory capabilities that others cannot comprehend or believe until they witness it themselves. I couldn’t say what your genetic makeup is, that could be responsible, but I do know that in my case, it definitely qualifies as a “serious neurological anomaly” (I, and those who know me, prefer to think of it instead, as “just pretty effin’ cool”). My kids and I also “interacted” a lot before birth, and both appeared to show preferences for very specific things that they were exposed to in utero, over things that they had no exposure to. I think the human mind is sadly underestimated; in my opinion, newborns are utterly brilliant, but much of how that develops depends on genetic and environmental factors, the main one IMO being how babies are exposed, or not, to things that encourage this capacity for memory and learning, rather than assuming a baby is a little blob, and allowing the senses to basically stagnate for several valuable months. I hope I made some sense there – if not, let me know and I’ll gladly clarify :)

By: peteD3

peteD3 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:33:10 +0000

awesome drawings!

By: TheWomanMonster

TheWomanMonster — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:36 +0000

That’s a beautiful image… Purple water.

My earliest memory is from age 3-9 months – I remember the popcorn stucco ceiling of the stairwell I was carried down each day.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:16:51 +0000

I often think that ideas about heaven (being one, and yet not one, being fully fed and satisfied, the music etc) is a memory of the womb.

My youngest says he can remember flying around the room right before he was born. He remembers who was there (it was a home birth) and he started talking about it as soon as he could talk.

By: Jenna Fox

Jenna Fox — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:32:40 +0000

Yeah, science wise, most people’s memory system is not at all operating that early in life, usually only starting to function well after they get out of mum’s belly.

Perhaps you have a little genetic oddity in your family that makes these things develop a little earlier than usual. The proposed reason why most people don’t have much self awareness or memory or anything really at birth in the human race is that our heads are so big, they need to remain soft for the birth, and during the birth, the brain is squished and squeezed and so nonessential functions are suspended for a while during and after that time, so the brain has time to heal before things start up. If you look to other animals, like horses for instance, with relatively smaller heads for their bodies, they are up and galloping within an hour, fully self aware and active children. These animals probably have a much easier time remembering the womb. :)