How Far Back Can You Remember In This Life?

[TheCuriousOne]

I know this doesn't belong here, but for some reason I am unable to create a poll in the Tea and Coffee Palace.

I can remember being 1 year old at Christmastime and trying to play with a toy, and being annoyed that it was continually taken from me (my parents were trying to direct my attention to other toys).

I also have a memory from maybe earlier than that where I am chewing on a book, and I can remember how it tasted (very bitter).

PS I should have written "Childhood" not "early childhood". Sorry!

 

[ChrisR]

I had to go in hospital for surgery when I was 2, so being a traumatic experience, I can remember it vividly.

 

[argonne1918]

On my third birthday I remember looking at a card that I got. It had a bear on it holding a ball with the number 3. This was before I knew how to read. Later in first grade at school there was a sign on a telephone pole next to the fence. There was a boy in the class who had been held back from the previous year. We all were begging this boy to tell us what the sign said. We thought he should be able to read because he had already been in first grade. LOL Years later I went back to visit the school and it was still there. The sign said "Danger. High Voltage".

 

[dking777]

I think I have share this before – but I can recall the day I was brought home from the hospital a day after being born. The memory came to the surface again during my encounter with amnesia at the age of 18. I told the memory to my Mom and she argued that it couldn’t be a memory because I was a day old. To me, it was like a ‘recorder’ that I had hit the play button to similar to as if a ‘video camera’ had been recording in my mind at that day and age. I couldn’t think in words or thoughts at that age, but – I could look back on the ‘recorded’ memory and decipher what was said and done. I was told later by a doctor who I shared this memory with – that the mind does record every sense and sound that it processes. It was just a matter of accessing it again. The fact that I had found it was unusual according to him and my Mom. I still have a vivid memory of it to this day.


I spoke to my Dad about this and he referenced another time in childhood when I spoke to him about being I the waiting room with him prior to be ‘coming out of the tummy’ of Mom. I couldn’t recall this conversation when my Dad brought it up – but I have since recalled the conversation in vivid detail. I told my Dad that Mom had been screaming and I didn’t like the ‘screeching’ sound she was making – so – I hung out with him and his friends. I kept going back and forth between the delivery room and the waiting room – waiting for the right moment to ‘come inside’ of my physical body after the moment of birth. I can recall talking about this many times with various relatives who had been in the waiting room when I was born. I don’t have a memory of being in spirit prior to birth now – but – I can recall the conversations (in childhood) I had about a memory of it with vivid details. As a child, I described the delivery process with ‘graphic details.’


I can recall seeing a 'delievery' portrayed on TV once and it triggered slight recall. I told someone that I had seen that in real life - but yet - couldn't recall a time in my adult life where I had witnessed an actual birth. It bothered me for a few days and I let it go. Now, I know why I was triggered to that sort of scene. It wasn't something I witnessed as an adult, but something I recalled vividly as a child as a spirit prior to my own birth.


Sincerely,


DKing

 

[TheCuriousOne]

Very interesting Dking. This is slightly OT, but did you remember who you were before? Or do you only remember being a spirit?

 

[Ehrenbreitstein]

I have memories of my second birthday and other memories around that time.

 

[Mere Dreamer]

I have a few scattered high school memories. If I remember earlier times it's rare and only triggered by events or experiences, not something I can draw up when I want. (I can't access the poll, though.)

 

[dking777]

Very interesting Dking. This is slightly OT, but did you remember who you were before? Or do you only remember being a spirit?

Currently, I don't recall being a spirit. Currently, what I recall is talking about being a spirit when I was 4 years old. My Mom told me that the first topic of dialogue out of my mouth when I was able to formulate complete sentences as a young child was the subject of reincarnation. There were periods of 'flair ups' in childhood and my teen years where the subject would 'flair' up (as my parents referred to it.) This conversation took place in the middle of a 'flair up' period. As my parents put it - I would start talking about 'living in a different' body - and they would get the idea out of my head and the subject would disappear for while - and then flair up again.


My Dad's side of the family were pranksters - and his friends were all pranksters. It is strange now to look back on it and recall how many times my parents thought one of my uncles, aunts, or a family friend had 'put me up to it.' As in the case of my describing the 'birthing' process when I was only 4 years old. (The stork story didn't fly with me.) I talked about being covered in 'blood' and the mess it made. I also spoke about the 'cord' that had been where my belly button is.


I don't recall at this time if I ever spoke about the 'past life' that was prior to this life - but - I did speak about several from ancient times. I spoke about many past lives prior to the age of 7 but after 7, the focus was on one particular past life. One particular past life from ancient times was spoken about from the age of 3 to the age of 19.


I don't feel 'memories' are totally associated with the 'brain' and that everything that is said or done is recorded in a spiritual process as well. How else do so many people who have a 'near-death' experience speak about a 'life review?'

 

[tanguerra]

I can remember being in my crib, listening to a musical toy, but it's pretty vague.


The first clear memory must be before I was 1 year old. I was carefully trying to get down the verandah stairs, using the classic baby maneuvre of going down backwards on the belly. Our dog, who was under the house, stuck his nose up between the steps and barked at me, giving me quite a fright. My mother whacked him with a broom. She later told me the dog was dead by the time I was 1, so it must have been pretty young. I remember quite a lot of other things from that period and that house, which would all have been before I was three, when we moved.

 

[Demi]

I remember being 6 months old, something big happened in my country only that time, I told my mom what was happening the day, including weather and where we went, and she have confirmed everything.