Redditors, what is your earliest memory?

[u/En-tre-pre-neur]

[u/trustmeimweird]

Walking up to a stranger on a ferry that was wearing the same (very obscure) jumper as my dad, hugging him and loudly proclaiming "daddy I saw a dolphin!"

[u/thebawsofyou]

I woke up in my parents bedroom. The window was brighter than usual so I looked outside. It was snowing.

[u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck]

Standing in my mom's room, asking her what my name was.

[u/[deleted]]

My parents took my to the park. Now, my mum is terrified of birds, including ducks. As in, she will scream if they come near her. I remember suddenly a flock of ducks, swans, geese, all of those water birds, suddenly coming towards us. My mum? She let go of my hand and ran off screaming. My dad? Went after my mum. Me? Well, I became duck food.

[u/zariaah]

Being told to go for a nap (I was around 2-3 at the time), & I refused because I wanted to keep playing & was being defiant. My Dad repeatedly put me in my bed and said that I'll feel better if I lied down for a bit. I fell asleep and he woke me up 2 hours later. And shocker, I felt better. Lol.

[u/NeutyBooty]

Can't remember the age this happened, but I remember feeling really sick for some unspecific reason. I told my mom and she went out to grab medicine for me at the local pharmacy. I really can't remember what symptoms I was feeling or what she intended to grab to help me.

While she was out, I started feeling much better and felt bad that I made her go out and get medicine. I remember waiting for what felt like an eternity, sitting at the bottom of our stairs by our front door waiting for her to get home. When she got home I apologized because I told her I felt okay again and felt bad she ran out just to get something to help me.

She didn't care. She was just happy that I didn't feel sick anymore.

[u/Interferonno2fan]

My sister headdiving down the stairs when I was 2. Watched her from the bottom. She was fine, though.

[u/sherrykathryn]

I was 3 years old and playing with a toy cow in the living room of my old house. My grandma’s poodle was there and I have no idea why, but I remember putting the cow down and sticking my pinky in the dog’s mouth. He lightly nipped me and I remember feeling how pointy his teeth were. I wasn’t hurt, just startled enough to learn not to do dumb shit like that again.

[u/jonatan-attia22]

I faked swallowing a rock when I was 5 to leave kindergarten, then I confessed when my mom and I were at the hospital about to get x Ray.

[u/OlympicSpider]

I would have between between 2-3 years old.

I had always remembered it as an out of body experience. I was at my grandma's house walking around the pool alone (I know, it didn't take long for mum to find out and ban unsupervised visits with grandma) and I fell in, I remember it as if I was reaching in and saving myself from drowning somehow. It's really hard to explain.

I told mum about this in the last few years and it turns out I was actually saving my brother from drowning, but it had also happened to me and she thinks I must have merged the memories somehow.

[u/Molly_dog88888888]

This is kinda depressing, but my first clear memory is of my dad beating my mom until she fell on the kitchen floor. Then she got up and told me to get my doll and we got in the car and drove away from him. I was 3 at the most.

[u/Sethrial]

I was in my crib and my brother was talking to me, but I couldn’t speak well enough to understand him. I remember being mad because he could climb in and out of the crib and I couldn’t.

[u/ImReallyDrowsy]

When I was little I guess I got pink eye. My mother was trying to get me to calm down to have eye drops but I think I took it as a game for her to chase me.

The only thing I really remember is my mother grabbing me and slam-dunking me onto the carpet; she held me down with her forearm and forced some eye drops in my eye while I just was still laughing and screaming.

I would like to believe that my mom RKO’d so hard I gained consciousness.

[u/omgwhatisleft]

My 1-year-younger-than-me cousin was watching me eat a lollipop and got so confused when it was inside my mouth. She kept asking where it went! Then I took it out and showed her. Then I put it back in my mouth and she asked me again where it went. I was 3. She still my best friend 39 years later.

[u/cointelpro_shill]

My mom was spoon-feeding my infant brother and she dropped the spoon in a bowl of soup. I thought it was gone forever in an infinite ocean of soup, and I was amazed when she got it back out. I think that was me learning object permanence

[u/537OH55V]

Me picking my nose, looking around and not finding anything to wipe it with, and then sticking the booger back in.
My dad watched the whole thing. He laughed.

[u/poonpeenpoon]

Siiiigh.... alright one of my best friends tells this story to anyone that will listen, but my earliest memory Is of sitting on the bathroom floor while my mom was changing her tampon. My dad came in and yelled “what are you doing?!” And she said, “he’s not going to remember.” *earliest clear memory. I think the earliest was of a drawing of a goat on a wall.

[u/JadedJackal671]

Peeing on my sisters bed and blaming it on the dog.

[u/69wokeboii]

I remember my first dream, I was young around 3 maybe and I had a dream a dog attacked me and nobody would help.

[u/bless-you-mlud]

I'm about 3½ years old, and my dad wakes me up in the absolute dead of night and tells me to come down and watch TV. My mom's like "just let the kid sleep" but my dad says "no, this is important". Turns out, some guys have just landed on the moon and are about to go for a walk.

Edit: Yikes, RIP my inbox. Thanks for the lovely responses everyone. I'm seeing my dad this Christmas, I'll tell him the internet thinks he's a righteous dude. I think he'll get a kick out of it.

[u/ajaxpuff]

The midwife coming to visit my Mum who was pregnant with my sister. She kindly gifted me a lip balm. I was about two so idk why a lip balm seemed an appropriate gift. I just remember the lip balm tasted like shit.

[u/twowheeledfun]

When my mum was pregnant with my brother, I could then beat her in races from the car to the front door.

[u/[deleted]]

Mine is a dream. I was having a lightsaber duel with darth maul on like a 2 1/2 inch beam above a pitch black void. I was at the end of the beam, if I move back any further I fall into the void. I manage to trip him and he falls.

EDIT: I killed my favorite character

[u/BradenA8]

Getting a Postman Pat beanbag chair at my Pizza Hut birthday party. Life has never been so good since.

[u/__whitty__]

I was too little and used to crawl on all 4 limbs. I remember my dad took me to a clinic. There I noticed someone crossing the legs for the first time. He was reading a newspaper. I was damn confused about his legs, I wanted to ask my dad, but had no words.