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Vague Memories

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LoathesRaisins
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What is the vaguest memory you have from being a kid or that you have in your life?

I think mine is being sick, getting out of bed and getting dressed. I walked out to the garage and my mom was doing laundry. As far as I can think of, this is the only memory I have of her being able to walk.

The second most vague memory would be her taking me to the bus stop in kindergarten on her Hoveround scooter. She would always let me sit on the bottom or our parrot would sit down there and I would just walk.

Its weird how your memory can salvage pieces of your life that you most desire to be reality again.

Aug 8 2013 2:39PM
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HolySchimmel
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No clue really. Those things always come to wind when something in your environment triggers your memory and you suddenly remeber stuff you haven't thought about in year and maybe even totally forgot up to that point. Right now, I couldn't really name anything specific.
Aug 8 2013 3:02PM
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Dwarftosser1
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There is this smell, impossible to explain but when I smell it it vividly triggers a memory I have of a daycare when I was two, its really strange
Aug 8 2013 3:06PM
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CaptainObvious.
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You cruised with a parrot?!??

Dude....badass.
Aug 8 2013 3:07PM
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timmi
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The earliest memory I can think of is walking around kindergarden with a macaroni shaker in a congo line.

I also remember Billy Wagg making fun of me because I forgot to draw arms on my stick man. Fuck you Billy.
Aug 8 2013 3:08PM
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yourthemannowdog
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Puking in my Dad's Mitsubishi Eclipse as we were driving threw a toll booth on our way back from a trip in DC after eating one of those Italian cigar shaped candies (they come in a cylindrical tin).

I was 4 years old I think
Aug 8 2013 3:14PM
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humpty
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playing super mario world and telling all my daycare buddys not to eat seeds from green beans or youll die
Aug 8 2013 4:28PM
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JAHpow
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I remember going into surgery for gull stones and having an anesthesia mask put on me at age 3.
Aug 8 2013 4:30PM
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feihlination
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just sitting in the car, looking at my feet at thinking "i am four years old". had a fancy alfred j. kwak jacket on i think.
Aug 8 2013 4:31PM
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Peter.
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when i was 4 i think i ran into a corner in my house and my dad stitched me up
Aug 8 2013 4:51PM
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feihlination
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oh, i have another one, might not have been much older than the one above. for some reason i stood on the second step of the stairset in our "old" house and (seriously) jumped HEAD FIRST onto the tiling floor. like not even using my hands to protect myself. i know that i kind of did it concsiously. maybe i didnt hurt myself falling from somewhere before that and wasnt aware how much it will hurt or whatever. fun shit.
Aug 8 2013 4:57PM
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humpty
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i also remember thinking i was a vaccum so i dragged my forehead on the carpet for about 30 minutes straight, got the worst rug burn
Aug 9 2013 8:44AM
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.Hugo.
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Don't know how old I was but I was super young, I either couldn't walk or barely could. But it was winter and I was outside playing in the snow with my old dog. Only reason I remember that far back is because there is a picture of me with her in my house that I have looked at ever since then.
Aug 9 2013 10:27AM
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SterlingArcher
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I remember the days of daycare... We had a day where our parents came and we sang for them and then ate lunch. I remember my brother putting road tar in my hair.. and i remember holiday get togethers at my grandparents olds ranch
Aug 9 2013 11:18AM
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_Garagely_
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I remember eating copious amounts of spicy cheetos and staring at a newspaper when I was three. Maybe the earliest was when I accidentally made this super picky and whiny kid called Michael cry at preschool because I wouldn't share toys.
Aug 9 2013 11:25AM
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fortyvalve
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Not sure how old, but it was in elementary school. I remember waiting for the bus at a friends house a few houses down from mine the morning my cat died and i remember my parents driving my with my mom holding the cat in her lap and the look she gave me as they passed. Also from around the same time when my first dog Kiki was sick with cancer and i remember walking out on to the back deck and seeing her laying there and i hugged her and ran off to play and told whoever i was with that "she was really sick." Mine are depressing and only about animals for some reason.
Aug 9 2013 11:32AM
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t_rob
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When I was like 4, I used to cry so hard I'd throw up. I can remember cry yacking on the rug in my parents dining room. Not sure why i was crying, I'm guessing my brother was being a fucking asshole.
Aug 9 2013 11:33AM
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Filet-O-Fish
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my earliest memory is of my step-mom yelling at me on our first christmas with my dad.
that chirtmas sucked major balls.
I was 4 and she made me cry because i left raping paper on the floor when i was playing with my new lego's.
Aug 9 2013 12:58PM
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LoathesRaisins
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Sounds like my girlfriend's mother.
Aug 9 2013 1:28PM
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DizzyG
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I was messing with an umbrella in the car on the way to preschool and it got snagged and I bent it while I was getting out into the rain. I still have that umbrella and I remember that when I see it, pretty much just one image of the umbrella in the door of the car.

Also smells, every once in a while I smell something and I have know idea what it is but I know I've smelled it before and it reminds me of something but I can't figure out what.

Memory is fucking weird
Aug 9 2013 1:29PM
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Malcolm
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My earliest memories are from my home in Kitchener. I had to have been around 3 or 4 because we moved to Quebec when I was 4. I remember there being a bat that lived in a tree near my sister's elementary school. I also remember getting really close to a huge hole on the side of my house and one of my parents grabbing me. I was also deaf until I was 4 and I'm pretty sure my parents thought I was slightly retarded.
Aug 9 2013 1:37PM
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bigbromskier
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had meningitis when I was three. remember lying on our super old natty couch and our doctor neighbor coming over saying I wasn't healthy. then I remember being in the hospital and seeing a gurney rolling by through a doorway. then I remember being taken into another room with a little table and getting a spinal tap.

don't remember specific feelings or emotions, just pictures and the context of the situation. can't imagine the stress that put on my parents and I'm glad I don't remember more than that.
Aug 9 2013 1:48PM
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Caucasian_Asian
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Sounds like fun stuff
Aug 9 2013 2:08PM
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Skibumsmith
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my second birthday my dad filled my room with pink balloons. i remember waking up and looking over the edge of my crib and wanting to play with the balloons so badly but I was stuck in my wooden cage until my parents got me.
Aug 9 2013 2:17PM
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yourthemannowdog
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Wow. Everything starts to get real fuzzy around the age of 12. I can't imagine remembering being 2 years old.
Aug 9 2013 2:31PM
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triss
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Getting raped...it's all a blur now
Aug 10 2013 2:35PM
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270on420out
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I remember getting shots for something, when i was 3. Cant remember anything past that.
Aug 10 2013 2:49PM
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MYNAMEISCARSON
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i have a really vague memory of seeing really bright lights and a lot of people looking at me. Being born maybe?
Aug 10 2013 3:02PM
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profa_212
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I remember ripping some kids bible in half when I was in preschool. I felt horrible....
Aug 10 2013 3:11PM
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Bart.Man
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THis is a great thread.

I have just a faint memory of my dad and I playing at our old house in the boonies. He was lying on his back and I, being ~3-4 was laying chest down on the bottoms of his feet. He would kick up in the air while holding my hands and it felt like I was flying. I just remember looking down and seeing his smiling face and feeling insanely happy. That may be my earliest memory...

Another one was me and him at the same house just after a snow storm. He had bought a pair of peewee cross country skis and put them on me and tried to teach toddler me how to cross country ski. He must have done something right, because I still xc ski to this day.

Lastly, I remember being 4 and having my tonsils removed. I was lying on the table and they put the anesthesia mask on me. My mom was standing over me and just before I went under she smiled and said, "I love you thiiis much!" while holding her index finger and thumb apart about an inch. It sounds mean, but she would say it in a super high pitched voice and even at that age I knew it was a sarcastic joke. She used to do that all the time and I would laugh and laugh.
Aug 10 2013 4:26PM
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Crispy.
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I was at daycare and i was getting into the car and my little brother was in a car seat and my mom dropped him. I then remember him crying and it just being a tense situation...

however, I don't know if this actually happened, or if my mind kind of made it up, or if it was a dream.
Aug 10 2013 4:41PM
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KimJong-Illest
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I remember when I was at my grandmas house for some easter party or something when I was two and i had some little toy golf club trying to hit a golf ball and my dad was helping me.
Aug 10 2013 9:59PM
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steezyjibber
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A lot of times, seeing a home video or a picture will trick you into thinking you remember the time, when really, you're just creating it in your mind.
Aug 10 2013 10:54PM
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Benson.
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Threw an iceball at my sister's face as hard as I could point-blank when I was 4 and she was 2. She cried for hours and it left a HUGE red mark on her cheek. I felt horrible, plus I got an hour in time-out. Also I remember eating Mac and Cheese directly after that.
Aug 10 2013 10:59PM
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When I was 5, I went to Disney World and it was my first time on a plane and my ear drums hurt so my dad said he'd talk to the pilot and tell him to fly at a lower altitude.

It cracks me up today thinking about this and believing him back in the day.
Aug 10 2013 11:25PM
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Balto
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Dont remember shit till I was in like 3rd grade, woo head injuries!
Aug 11 2013 12:00AM
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NinetyFour
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Sitting on the porch on a hot summer night with a really good family friend when I was probably 3. He'd sit their smoking his pipe. I had this plastic kazoo that he would collect some smoke in, and then give it to me to puff on.
Aug 11 2013 12:22AM
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NinetyFour
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Another early one would be my big cousin picking me up by coat and pants like a battering ram, and tossing me from the top to the bottom of snow filled ditches at my granny's ranch house.
Aug 11 2013 12:29AM
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Phil-X-
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When my uncle always made me play cave explorer. I only remember playing a couple times but my older sister says we used too play every time we'd go over to his house! He always told me
"Remember, your mother and father hate this game! Make sure you dont tell them about it when you go home!"


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Aug 11 2013 12:35AM
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No.Quarter
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When I think of my childhood, i almost always am brought back to Westlands park which is a fucking awesome park in south denver. It had a avesome forested area where we would smash rocks on stuuf to sharoen them. It has a four or so story tree house, and the playground of my cildhood dreams.

I also remember doing a miniature hare scramble race on my Yamaha PW80 and coming in dead-fucking last.
Aug 11 2013 12:41AM
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Titus69
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i dont remember much but i was between 3-5 at my grandmas house. i was pretty damn sick and started to trip my parents tell me that i started talking to my banana its so foggy and hard to remember.

or when i first skied on a trip in Vail i skied for about an hour with my brother but then went to the daycare center i was about 4 or 5 and me and my brother were watching pokemon and i started balling my eyes out so this bitch yells at me in a little room and calls my parents
Aug 11 2013 12:43AM
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JAHBRADOR
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Aug 11 2013 6:02AM
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Filet-O-Fish
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wrapping paper
Aug 12 2013 11:27AM
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RimJobber
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I tried and couldn't remember anything before I was like 6 years old except for one thing. My grandma used to have a house up on the north side of tahoe and I must have only been 3 or 4 years old and all I remember is sitting outside on her back deck in about 2 feet of snow. I just remember the view. I don't think there was anyone else outside then either. I don't know why, that's my earliest/vaguest memory
Aug 12 2013 5:09PM
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Darth.Maul
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Counting to 100 for my mom while walking bak and forth on the carpet/linoleum border between my family and my kitchen when i was around 3ish
Aug 12 2013 5:24PM
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Darth.Maul
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Also my dad throwing me up in the air to dunk a basketball when i was a kid. He used todo it on my little tyke hoop with the rubber basketball. Then one day at my grandparents house for a family outing he threw me up to dunk a real basketball on a full size hoop and my foot got caught in the chain and i was hanging upside down for like 2 minutes until theu got a ladder. My dad says i was just laughing the whole time cause i was so happy that i dunked a full size hoop with a real ball.
Aug 12 2013 5:29PM
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act.resist
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sitting on a couch with my mom and her boyfriend who had a sunburn and playing with the really cool iguana when i was two.
Aug 12 2013 6:27PM
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Lukegnar
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Me and my friend were playing hide and seak and we hid in a room on the third floor and nobody came to look after us so after 30 mins we tried to open the door and it was stuck. I remember looking out the window and teared up bc I thought I would have to jump out. Lol
Aug 12 2013 8:30PM
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