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Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-12-08 01:12am

I've been looking into this, and I found this too bizarre not to share.

I was born premature. To keep me alive, they stuck needles in my stomach among other things. I didn't know the exact details until I saw a picture of myself in the preemy ward when I was little. But then a memory I had carried all my life became very clear:

I remember being in a tiny enclosed space (like a crib), and a woman in some kind of uniform standing over me, and my mother. My mom said "She's going to (gibberish) you." I remember the woman reaching to my stomach, sticking me, and me screaming and writhing around.

This should be impossible, but after talking to my mother about it again recentlky, she doesn't know of any other incidents that could be. But then again (according to my mother), both the priest who baptised me and the doctor who circumcised me said that I screamed more than any child they had ever seen. So maybe this one time the pain was intense enough for my infant brain to retain a single memory. My next memory wasn't until I was about three or so.

But if this is true (and I would say it IS impossible if it wasn't my memory) I have a single memory from BEFORE I should have even been born.

Anybody have any other bizarre tales that they can't find a proper context to tell them in?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-08 01:15am

I don't see that as being remotely possible, so I can't belive you.

No offence.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-12-08 01:19am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:I've been looking into this, and I found this too bizarre not to share.

I was born premature. To keep me alive, they stuck needles in my stomach among other things. I didn't know the exact details until I saw a picture of myself in the preemy ward when I was little. But then a memory I had carried all my life became very clear:

I remember being in a tiny enclosed space (like a crib), and a woman in some kind of uniform standing over me, and my mother. My mom said "She's going to (gibberish) you." I remember the woman reaching to my stomach, sticking me, and me screaming and writhing around.

This should be impossible, but after talking to my mother about it again recentlky, she doesn't know of any other incidents that could be. But then again (according to my mother), both the priest who baptised me and the doctor who circumcised me said that I screamed more than any child they had ever seen. So maybe this one time the pain was intense enough for my infant brain to retain a single memory. My next memory wasn't until I was about three or so.

But if this is true (and I would say it IS impossible if it wasn't my memory) I have a single memory from BEFORE I should have even been born.

Anybody have any other bizarre tales that they can't find a proper context to tell them in?

You sure that wasn't a dream?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-12-08 01:20am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I don't see that as being remotely possible, so I can't belive you.

No offence.

I wish you would say something like: "You must be mistaken."

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-08 01:21am

It would have to be a dream. It takes babies a very long time to psychologically develop identity of self, and seperate their environments and people/things in them from their own bodies.

Besides, memory generally cuts off at around two years of age on average, although from a general observation, that seems to be not too common.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-12-08 01:25am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It would have to be a dream. It takes babies a very long time to psychologically develop identity of self, and seperate their environments and people/things in them from their own bodies.

Like I said, I wouldn't believe it if it was someone else telling me this, but it's haunted me my whole life.

Maybe I simply had a nightmare as a little kid upon being told about what they did to me. But it's so deeply ingrained I don't know what to think.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-08 01:27am

Well, I've been rather freaked out by the sighting of a demon back when I was about four (not a monster, mind you; I mean a demon!)...

But over time I was able to figure out it was a dream.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-08 01:31am

Human memory is a malleable thing. It is possible for people to "implant" false memories by thinking about something enough times. In other words, if you imagine something enough times, or dream about it enough times, eventually your brain has trouble distinguishing its recollection of the dream or vision from its recollection of real events, and you can believe that it actually happened.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-12-08 01:48am

Indeed. I know I have had some "false" memories that I thought were truely genuine, until someone told me "Wait, you weren't there".

David · Post by **David** » 2003-12-08 02:11am

The human eyes do not function well enough right after birth for you to see anything but a blurr from what I remember.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-08 02:17am

Darth Wong wrote:Human memory is a malleable thing. It is possible for people to "implant" false memories by thinking about something enough times. In other words, if you imagine something enough times, or dream about it enough times, eventually your brain has trouble distinguishing its recollection of the dream or vision from its recollection of real events, and you can believe that it actually happened.

On a similar note, if something DOES happen and you remember it, if you start to question your own memory you start to wonder if it was just a dream and such.

The process goes both ways.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-12-08 02:23am

It sounds like you were given enough information to come up with a scene of what it might have been like. Think of it long enough, and in dreams, and you'll start to think that maybe it really did happen that way and it was really a memory.

Especially given the photo. And if you're parents ever told you about it before you started remembering it.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-12-08 02:25am

I have a memory that has haunted me my whole life too. I must have been a year, perhaps a little more... I was in my original house in my bed. I looked out the window and saw a man in a red fireman hat kill my dad. I swear I remember this as plain as day...

The thing is that my dad is still alive...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-12-08 02:49am

I doubt it's possible. Most people's earliest memories tend to be from 2-3 years.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-12-08 03:07am

My earliest memory is from when I was about two. I remember I had eaten the cat food and my dad was standig over me telling me to spit it out. The catfood was dribbling out with spit all over it.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-12-08 09:50am

my earliest Clear memory, i have hazy memories from earlier, happens to be me getting chased down a street by a dog, while on holiday in spain.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-12-08 11:14am

Hethrir wrote:My earliest memory is from when I was about two. I remember I had eaten the cat food and my dad was standig over me telling me to spit it out. The catfood was dribbling out with spit all over it.

you ate cat food. haaaahaaaa!!!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-12-08 11:37am

I think my earliest memory was of my dad holding me up in our shower. The only thing is, when I first remembered it, that shower was no longer working (it had a cracked pan so we stopped using it).

It must have been when I was around 2, because that was the last time that shower was working.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2003-12-08 11:59am

Darth Wong wrote:Human memory is a malleable thing. It is possible for people to "implant" false memories by thinking about something enough times. In other words, if you imagine something enough times, or dream about it enough times, eventually your brain has trouble distinguishing its recollection of the dream or vision from its recollection of real events, and you can believe that it actually happened.

This has happened to me sufficently enough that I now regularly question my recollection of my past.

That and my regular injections of deja vu is enough to send me questioning my sanity on a good day.

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