What's the only thing you can't recall in life

[malaise]

the way you can conjure up memories of most other things

[panader0]

1. The 70's

[tk2kewl]

2. ha

[malaise]

16. I have great memories of the 70s and can recall most of them

The thing about it is that you remember things about it but you simply can't relive it in that recall sense.

[liberal N proud]

27. If you remember the 70's, you didn't live the 70's

No when we are all 70, we won't remember that either.

[daleanime]

3. My time at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans....

and one particular bachelor party.

[malaise]

15. You folks are cracking me up here

No drunken escapades will do

[In_The_Wind]

4. My mother.

[malaise]

17. I'm assuming she died while you were young

or you were separated. Not that

[In_The_Wind]

19. The silly woman left me when I was 18 months old.

She missed my whole life.

Oh, and I missed knowing if I have any brothers or sisters.

[malaise]

22. Damn that is hard

Geez.

[MineralMan]

5. My first four years of life.

My first memory is after I was four years old. From that time forward, I have a clear memory of almost everything.

[malaise]

8. My first memory is at age three

but it's not our first memory I'm looking for

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Same Here

I've heard it's very common that clear memories start when kids begin living life as a routine. IIRC, the surmise was that at age 4 or 5 most kids are starting school so that get into a routine then and start compiling memories in a more orderly fashion.

I'm certain i read that somewhere along the way, but can't remember where. (Kind of ironic, huh?) Could have been in some psych class that even science majors have to take in undergrad. Maybe it was just Time Magazine or something too.

[laundry_queen]

48. That's really interesting

I've always wondered why I had such clear memories from such a ridiculously young age (I pretty much remember everything from 18 months on, and have many memories before that even, back to 6 months old). My parents were almost OCD with their daily routines so perhaps that is why. I am not a person who likes routine, and my 4 kids are 'normal' and have memories for the most part that start when they started school. I'm pretty sure I'm not that much more unusual or more intelligent than my kids are, lol. The routine thing makes sense.

[malaise]

60. Four or five is average but some of us have earlier memories

Mine was of the crap celebrations related to the coronation of Elizabeth and the arguments - pro and con among my parents, aunts and uncles about colonialism in general and celebrating this nonsense. It was the foundation of my profoundly anti-colonial and anti-imperialist stance in life.

I think having three older siblings was very good for my development. I soaked up everything earlier than they did - I was even allowed in school before my fourth birthday.

[malaise]

6. ROFL

It's much easier than you think . Keep going

[jwirr]

7. Our birth?

[malaise]

10. No

[malaise]

18. That's for real

but not the answer

[jwirr]

25. Okay. I am looking forward to the answer.

[malaise]

26. Answer coming up at 3.30ET :-) n/t

[Solly Mack]

9. My death.

[malaise]

11. LOL

Hahahahha - that too, but not the answer

[Solly Mack]

14. :)

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

12. Prosperity under Republicans

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah this one isn't political except

in a metaphorical sense.

[me b zola]

20. The fifteen minutes that I was allowed to be with my mom when I was 3 days old

[malaise]

23. Wow!

Another DUer whose mom wasn't there
Not the answer.

[femmedem]

21. the present moment? n/t

[malaise]

24. LOL

Sorry

[femmedem]

28. sleep?

[malaise]

31. Interesting

but not the answer

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. Scott Walker.

[malaise]

32. Wrong answer but you win the thread

[dmr]

33. I get brain farts. Does that count?

[malaise]

34. Sorry

No

[malaise]

35. The answer

Physical pain - you can remember that you had been in pain, but you cannot conjure up the pain itself - thankfully.

[horseshoecrab]

37. Ah!

Thankfully is right!!! So true!

[femmedem]

38. Ha! Thanks for the afternoon fun, Malaise! n/t

[malaise]

39. You're welcome

We do need to lighten up in these crazy times

[In_The_Wind]

43. Indeed ... and that's a very good thing.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

44. In that same way, can physical pleasure be recalled?

[csziggy]

47. True - but you can remember the shock and disruption that physical pain causes

I've been injured a lot of times and gone through excruciating pain, sometimes for long periods of time. The experts are right - you cannot recall the actual pain.

But I can remember going into shock, remember the nausea the pain caused, and the way it prevented or interfered with attempts to do basic everyday tasks. I think those memories are as horrific as the actual pain was.

[malaise]

57. Yep you can remember a lot around the pain

but not the pain

[MagickMuffin]

40. I don't remember, I don't recall I got no memory of anything at all

Tip of the hat to Peter Gabriel!

"I Don't Remember"

I got no means to show identification
I got no papers show you what I am
You'll have to take me just the way that you find me
What's gone is gone and I do not give a damn
Empty stomach, empty head
I got empty heart and empty bed
I don't remember
I don't remember

I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything
-anything at all

Strange is your language and I have no decoder
Why don't you make your inentions clear
With eyes to the sun and your mouth to the soda
Saying, "Tell me the truth, you got nothing to fear
Stop staring at me like a bird of prey
I'm all mixed up, I got nothing to say
I don't remember
I don't remember

I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything
Anything at all

I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
I don't remember, I don't recall
i got no memory of anything
absolutely anything at all
I don't remember

[malaise]

41. Very nice - Who are you?

Alberto Gonzales??

[MagickMuffin]

42. I don't recall (ad nauseam)

[valerief]

55. That's not Peter Gabriel. That's Alberto Gonzales.

[ProfessorGAC]

69. Side Note On That Song

The fretless bass work by Tony Levin on that song is absolutely stunning.

[Brother Buzz]

45. I can't remember my high school gym locker combination

[Gabi Hayes]

46. I went to a neurologist in December. I told him that I

had a very difficult time remembering my immediate past, to the point where I couldn't find anything if I didn't put it in a specific place. I couldn't remember anything people told me. I couldn't remember what day it was a good deal of the time.

He then asked me how long I'd been having this problem.

My response: what problem?

[malaise]

58. ROFL

[LiberalElite]

49. Anyone here recall being born? nt

[malaise]

61. No and in hindsight I think I should have

included that common exception, but there are others on the thread. We don't remember sleep either

[struggle4progress]

63. Being circumcised immediately afterwards was such a trauma

that I can't remember actually being born

[lpbk2713]

50. I don't remember much about Marilu Henner.

[malaise]

62. Who was she???

[LiberalElite]

51. Supposedly if anyone says they "remember Woodstock"

they weren't there.

[HassleCat]

52. The things I actually did.

The stuff I didn't do is quite clear.

[TlalocW]

53. Normally I'm really good at rememering things I've said

But not necessarily humorous things I've said because I say so many (or attempt to, at least).

I've had several conversations that went along the lines of...
Me: *Talking about something innocuous.*
Friend: Oh, that reminds me of the time you said *describes a situation where I said something funny and most likely inappropriate*
Me: I said that? To the local Bishop? Right after Pope John Paul II died?

TlalocW

[malaise]

64. My closest childhood friend reminds me of stuff I said or did

when she was very ill that I don't recall.

[valerief]

54. I remember being a baby and waking up in my crib from my afternoon nap.

I remember thinking how I was bored and could yell to get my mother to get me out of the crib, but I could also wait. She'd come. I waited.

I've remembered this my whole life. It might be my first memory. I had to be at least two, maybe even three.

Anyway, I'm not sure if it was at time that I decided to decorate the wall with my feces. My mother told me that was something I'd done as a baby.

I know it's a stupid thing to want to remember, but I do.

[malaise]

65. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

You are hilarious valerief

[SheilaT]

56. My earliest memories go back to shortly before I was two.

I recall falling down stairs, knocking out a tooth. About a month later I apparently climbed out of my crib (this part I don't recall) and fell, chipping the bone on my elbow. What I do recall is wearing a sling, my sister trying to talk me into giving it to her ("No", I told her, "Mommy said not to.&quot -- and more than fifty years later talking about the incident in front of the sister and she remembered it EXACTLY as I had. I also recall, connected to that, being at the doctor's and waving bye-bye. All this shortly before my second birthday.

[malaise]

66. That's amazing

I guess that folks do remember traumatic events.

True story - I was twelve - playing netball at school and this very heavy girl fell on me and I dislocated my collar bone. Mom made arrangements for me to go to the doctor the next day (the only day I ever missed school) but that night I made the mistake of eating a sister's chocolates and the hit she gave me hit it right back in place.

[Warren DeMontague]

59. The name of that guy

You know, that guy... The guy! The guy who did... That thing

[malaise]

67. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

hahahahah

[bigwillq]

68. My first semester of college

[SheilaT]

70. I had a friend who couldn't remember anything before she was ten years old.

At the time we were in our early twenties. She had no explanation for it, had not had a traumatic childhood or anything like that. We worked together for a while, and then when I looked her up about ten years later, she could barely remember me. It was as if she could only remember things about ten years back, which struck me as rather bizarre.