Does anyone remember anything before they were born?

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I think I do. I remember being inside something, not knowing what it was, and suddenly aware something existed outside. I can remember detecting light through muscles and skin and very curious about where it came from. It was like I couldn't stand not knowing however, at the time, it was impossible to find out.

I have vivid memories of being a snail, and getting eaten by a bird.

Next time don't crawl into the sleeping bag after eating shrooms.

It could be possible to have a rudimentary memory and a sensation like intense curiosity. I also remember certain things from infancy and this intense curiosity. I would stare and try to figure it out. I couldn't walk or anything, just lay there and stare at stuff. Once I learned to stand, I recall standing in my crib before my parents awoke, seeing curtains and whatnot and just being curious about what they were and it was obsessive. I had this urge to go to them and mess with them.

You must have a good memory. My memory is quite bad.

That's why I am wondering if anyone else experiences similar memories.

I think it is possible to have a memory that may be from a time before birth. However, it is thought that although the memories may be present the person will not associate those memories as being their own, or of events that happened to them.

This is assumed to be because prior to the age of 3 we do not have a great sense of ourselves, and it is only after age 2-3 that we start to store memories as things that happened to us.

Three years old- thats as far back as I can go.

My mom yelling at me when I picked up a telephone reciever to play with it- thats the earliest specific event I remember. Have vague memories of playing in the yards in the apartment complex we lived in back then in about the same era.

A friend remembers standing up in a playpen when his parents broke out into a physical fight involving fireplace pokers right in front of him (its quite a story-but its another story). I dunno- less than two maybe? He was definetly still in the baby category at the time (probably in diapers still).


Ive heard someone claim to remember her parents not responding her when she was crying in a crib as an even younger infant.

But Ive never before heard of anyone claiming to remember being in the womb.

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My earliest memory is some sadistic sod holding me upside down by my ankles, smacking my arse then saying to my mother "You've got a boy".

I don't remember pre-birth, but I do have a few images stored in my brain from when my arm was broken at the ripe old age of 8 months. I also remember some screaming and a slap in the face from my mother, but I only know that they are from before she first shaved her head (so somewhere between birth and age 2).

Apparently I was born unconscious so I won't remember it even if it were possible to remember that far back. But I think I remember being in the pram.

I can't remember much from childhood, certainly not from infancy or before.


My 4-year old daughter claims to remember events that happened on the day of her birth. I have never believed her, but perhaps I should just in case. She was abnormally aware at birth, smiled the day she was born, and reached for me when she was still in the hospital. (She is NT, in case that matters).

I can't remember what happened at birth but I do remember being placed on a bed and seeing my mother further away in the room while still an infant and I also remember once my father took me to a bar with him while I was still a tiny infant and he had me in this little infant carrier and placed me on the floor or seat or something beside him. This was in the deep south and at the time, parents could bring their small children and babies to bars. I remember seeing my dad talking and being really loud, laughing while others followed his example and I am pretty sure that's when I began to cry because I remember being annoyed by all the noise they made but not anything after being annoyed.
Later, my mom told me my father would lie and tell her he was going to the store with me then he would disappear all night and she was worried. Maybe this was one of those times and we were at a bar.

No, nobody does. It is neurologically unpossible.

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It might be for some. Not everyone.

Well, we do have prenatal awareness, and prenatal experiences definitely shape us psychologically....

but it ain't memory in the strictest sense.

http://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_p ... we_re_born