How to bring back childhood memories?

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Jimmy ,I think you have described a method by which you process current info or relate questions to your minds processes. Whereas memories are or can be quite distinct . And ever slightly lineal , when you allow your mind to , (lack of a better term) regress . Memories can be connected to triggers I feel . And one memories can trigger a flow , imho . These memories are available to the present tense, but allowing them to come forward or up , to your current
Level of awareness . I do not think this is necessarily a function of sleep cycles . Just my own humble opinion .

I remember my parents leaving my sister and I in an orphanage. And I remembered quite a few details about the event including details about the building, that strange garb worn by the women who worked at the orphanage. I knew this was an orphanage and we were being abandoned. But most of what I remember was my severe frustration with being unable to communicate to my younger sister (who was 1 year 3 months old) the danger we were in. I was her big brother and I had to take care of her. So around 50 years later, I asked my mother why she abandoned us. She said WHAT! It never happened! Then around 6 months later, she asked me how I remembered that. She said it was true and gave me the back-story.

My mother was expecting her third child, David. We lived out in the country, 30 miles from Buffalo, New York. My dad bought a farm for $10,000 of over 300 acres. He used the nest-egg money he saved from being a soldier in the Army during World War II to purchase this foreclosed farm. The land was immense. It stretched from one small mountain to the next with a valley down below. There was a farmhouse and a creek. Dad always bought old junk cars on their last legs for $50. He worked on them and squeezed 6 more months of life from them before they were sent to the scrap heap. Winter was fierce in Buffalo with some snowstorms producing 6 feet of snow. It was December and winter was coming on and mom was scared. What if the child came in the middle of a snowstorm! What could she do if she was alone and my dad was far away at work! She met with her relatives and tried to arrange for one of them to watch her and the children as time was getting close to delivery. But they all refused. They told her they would take my mom in but not her children. In desperation, she went to a Catholic orphanage and arranged for them to watch my sister Kathy and I for a few weeks until the baby was delivered. We were brought to the orphanage and dropped off. It was horrible. I was just old enough to know what an orphanage was. All I knew was one day I was a happy boy in a happy family and the next day I was abandoned and an orphan. The orphanage was a nice place full of children and toys. But I would have none of it. I tried to explain to my younger sister Kathy our predicament but she didn't understand. She ran around having fun playing with the other children. And I was so frustrated that I couldn’t convey to my sister what was going on. So I did the only thing I knew how to do. I cried and cried. I cried hysterically all day, all night, the next day, and the next night. And then on the third day the nuns in the orphanage contacted my parents and told them to come and get us. My parents came back for us and I was glad.

But then again why did this memory come to mind 50 years after the event? This I am a little uncertain about. I have an INTJ personality. As a result I trust my first hand experiences above all others. So it is common for me to perform experiments on myself to measure cause/effects. And around a few decades ago, I was experimenting on reducing my high blood pressure by using a chemical to clean out my arteries. The chemical was EDTM and the process was called chelation therapy. Chelation therapy is a treatment for heavy metal poisoning: iron, mercury, arsenic, and lead. But it also cleans out calcium in the arteries. Arteries harden as calcium becomes deposited in the elastic walls of the vessels, a process that happens as we age and is exacerbated for patients with diabetes or kidney disease. Stiffening can also occur as calcium becomes deposited in fatty plaques in the arteries – a condition called atherosclerosis.

So I performed a simple experiment for around 4 weeks. To begin with I filled up a small jar with my urine put a lid on it and put it on a shelf in the garage. The urine was very dark and had a bad odor. After a few days, small white particles (calcium) precipitated to the bottom of the jar. It was about an inch thick. Then I began taking one 625 mg of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) in pill form each day. About once each week I would repeat the process of collecting my urine in a jar and placing it on a shelf. So in the end I had four jars. Each week the urine produced less small white particle, and it was cleaner moving from dark yellow towards clear. And also the odor of the urine disappeared. After 4 weeks I considered the experiment complete and ended it.

My high blood pressure was dramatically reduced and remained low for about 5 years.

Plaque in the arteries not only impact blood circulation in the body but also the blood circulation going to the brain. So at the same time I was removing calcium from my arteries, I was also opening up blood flow to my brain. Towards the end of the experiment, I was experiencing a strange sensation, a sensation of doom. That is why I discontinued the experiment. I didn't realize this brain connection until years later. But it was during this time that my earliest memories were revealed.

[I am not advocating anyone try this experiment. All experiments have risks. But I personally have learned to take measured risk.]

Amazing experiment ,, amazing recollection ability .... very impressed. If could find a proper practitioner would like to due same experiment. Or treatment . Have experimented on myelf a bit Aswell .. with consistently. Fairly good results. But am very cautiously reserved in my practices. , what age where you when you performed this treatment on yourself? Amazing detail on the memories . Have had similiar detail in some of my earliest recollections . Am also beyond my 50th year of life. Plus . Sounds fascinating am very sorry that was a bad memory to recall .
Oddly those more traumatic ones seem to be ingrained very deeply . From my experiences .
Thank you for sharing this.

"How to bring back childhood memories? "

Why on earth would anyone want to do that?

Those. Who do not study the past are doomed to .........? Or some such saying ? ????? Prolly doesn’t apply here ,
But it sounded good ?

To understand the present. Early experiences create strong impressions that can become handicaps or strengths later on. One time, I was given a set of odd-shaped wooden blocks in a flat box. I played with them for a while, and then had trouble getting them all back in the box. When I found the original, most compact arrangement, my grandmother remarked, for the benefit of the other adults, that I should get a job packing chocolates in boxes. To me, it was a rare bit of sincere praise. My subsequent career always featured compact designs. Today, I was busy taking pictures of something I just made for myself that someone wants in their book because it is the smallest in its class.

No offence, but I was referring to unpleasant memories.
I really have nothing good to recall, in my past.

God created dissociative disorders for a reason.

^^ Well, sometimes what seemed overwhelming to a child can lose it's sting from an adult perspective. I've managed to find the roots of several other strong habits that were less benign.

Thanks guys again for the many comments, Jimmy your memories and experiments were a delight to read (even though some were sad).

Well, you need childhood memories for diagnosis. Whether they are good or bad for me it doesn't matter for diagnosis point of view. The first diagnosis I got in January was kind of half assed one as both my mom and I couldn't remember too much and there was not enough data. But for Autism or Asperger you need to have certain traits early in childhood. It's not enough that as an adult I have the traits. So I had to recall them.

What actually worked for me now was visiting the places, it brought back some sensory experiences (yes, unpleasant ones too) and talking with mom about my visit, she remembered some other stuff as well. She is 77 yo and I was mainly with my grandparents, so it's not only not remembering but also not being part of my life all the time. That's why I am the one who had to travel back in time.

I have one more session tomorrow to evaluate the tests together that I filled in and sent to her.

And also what Dear_One said: it's a good learning starting point, educational or some memories might not affect you as badly as an adult. I guess most of us had a pretty bad childhood, at that time it was terrible, but now looking back it's like a distant picture or someone else's life. Maybe this is how I learned to cope with it (it is actually a psychological technique to overcome pain, I learned from a hypnotherapy book).

Bringing back childhood memories could be good, bad, both or neither

Depression occurs for a good reason

However if bringing back memories is your goal:. Hypnosis

I was around 50 years old at the time. I think when we are very young children, we experience many things that frighten us. Things that are minor in nature can become very traumatic events to a very young child. As a result as we grow from infant to child, most of these memories are sealed shut never to see the light of day again. So by experiencing these lost memories we bring back the same feelings we had as an infant or young child. Thus I was overwhelmed with a sense of doom.

Personally as time passed and small events triggered memories of passed events ..have been actually ,
Able to recall events from time in the crib , including the mobile that hug above my crib .and also when in
That same crib and when it disappearEd from my sight and was only able to stare at a blank ceiling .Later on as I married , Being married had cause me to recall certain sequences of memories that literally trigger one after another all the way back to events of things that happened while I was in the crib . And not being able to chronologically assign precise ages after that was able to assign time frames to certain feelings and the actually size of my body as compared to items that were around me in the house . Thereby approximating my ages during some more traumatic events . And some fascinating events , all the way through 5. Yrs and on... Have now found it not to be unique as
So many years prior to my marriage. A past girlfriend taught me that she was able to recall her infancy quite clearly.
Which surprised me at the time . That time was lost to me as with out proper triggers. My memories appear to have stopped at the time just before when I had learned to walk . Cannot give a good linear progression of all precise event during those very tiny years. But do have clear images . Had found very often around 5 yrs old preferred myself to company of the family most often .Blocking out the outer world as was in abject focus of what was engaged myself in for play .