Earliest Memories

[ysabetwordsmith]

This article is really about why most people don't remember being babies. 

It doesn't mention the fact that some people DO remember.  But the logical explanation connects to at least one reason for remembering: those of us who come into this life with some memories already in place.  Think of it as a scaffold.  If you already have some memories, then you press that template into the barely-formed brain of your new body.  This makes it easier to attach new memories immediately.  The physical plasticity means you'll probably still lose some stuff, but you are way ahead of people who have to start from scratch.

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[songspinner9.livejournal.com]

My earliest memory is when I was just over one year old. My mom pinpointed it (both time and location) with astonishment one day when I described it...I was looking WAY WAY WAY up at a window, outside of which were fireflies, and the rug under me was blue-green, and there were Fisher-Price Sesame Street people on the floor around me. It is weird what sticks...