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| Quagmire Offer Upgrade  User ID: 7089700  United States11/13/2012 01:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward 11/13/2012 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pushing back farther than my earliest memory doesn't feel or show me shit. My earliest memory is a playing with a wrapped present at Christmas time... I was maybe a year and a half. I remember the view from my perspective and looking at the dress I was wearing... basically wondering WTF it was. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4386039 United States11/13/2012 01:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree completely. I used to think this is my memory of inside the womb, and I used to tell people it was just that. But I think it may be more than that now that I know you don't retain many recallable memories until you are about 5 years old. I am glad that someone shares this same odd memory, I have always thought it was my overactive little kid imagination. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States11/13/2012 01:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree completely. I used to think this is my memory of inside the womb, and I used to tell people it was just that. But I think it may be more than that now that I know you don't retain many recallable memories until you are about 5 years old. I am glad that someone shares this same odd memory, I have always thought it was my overactive little kid imagination. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4386039 Perhaps, but I assure you I have memories of younger than 5 years old. And I would assume the memories of, say, a 6 year old would be quite vivid of what he had been doing just a few months prior. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4386039 United States11/13/2012 01:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree completely. I used to think this is my memory of inside the womb, and I used to tell people it was just that. But I think it may be more than that now that I know you don't retain many recallable memories until you are about 5 years old. I am glad that someone shares this same odd memory, I have always thought it was my overactive little kid imagination. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4386039 Perhaps, but I assure you I have memories of younger than 5 years old. And I would assume the memories of, say, a 6 year old would be quite vivid of what he had been doing just a few months prior. [link to children.webmd.com] "The researchers found that children between the ages of 4 and 7 during the first interview showed very little overlap between the memories they recalled as “first memories” during the first question session and those they remembered two years later. “Even when we repeated what they had told us two years before, many of the younger children would tell us that it didn’t happen to them,” Peterson says." |
| Quagmire (OP) User ID: 7089700 United States11/13/2012 01:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a shitty memory and all my memories as a child are just foggy dreams and images at best. Anything much earlier than 5 years old is just a blur. For instance, as a kid I was pretty sick with a few minor surgeries and multiple visits to the doc; the only memory of any merit during that time is an image of sitting in a hospital bed looking over at the young boy in another bed in the same room. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States11/13/2012 01:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to children.webmd.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4386039 "The researchers found that children between the ages of 4 and 7 during the first interview showed very little overlap between the memories they recalled as “first memories” during the first question session and those they remembered two years later. “Even when we repeated what they had told us two years before, many of the younger children would tell us that it didn’t happen to them,” Peterson says." There's a difference between attempting to measure memory and being unable to measure it due to the subject's lack of attention span, introspection, and due to the various cues that can elicit memories. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States11/13/2012 01:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to children.webmd.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4386039 "The researchers found that children between the ages of 4 and 7 during the first interview showed very little overlap between the memories they recalled as “first memories” during the first question session and those they remembered two years later. “Even when we repeated what they had told us two years before, many of the younger children would tell us that it didn’t happen to them,” Peterson says." There's a difference between attempting to measure memory and being unable to measure it due to the subject's lack of attention span, introspection, and due to the various cues that can elicit memories. |
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