Mine is when I was around 3. Can’t seem to remember anything before that. I want to know the usual range as I would need to make some lifestyle changes around home once my son touches that age 
Listening to the tall ones talk in Charlie Brown style teacher voices.
Jumping in puddles.
The smell of coffee and cigarettes.
Haydn on the record player.
Sunny afternoons idly spent.
Puking on some foreign jaunt.
A beach in Ghana, a castle in Ireland, and a frozen canal near Ottawa.
All before 5, av kors…
3 is typical. After that your brain starts storing memories in a different way. It’s a kind of OS upgrade. I don’t remember the details … I guess I paid a lot less attention to lectures at uni than I should have. Some people do purport to remember their dad watching porn on the PC (for example…) at earlier ages, but it’s uncommon.
Mine is a trip to Montreal when I was 4. When you grow up in northern Canada every day is the same so you never know when your memory starts. If I hadn’t left every now and then I’d probably be telling you my earliest memory was high school grad.
Why is this in temp?
My absolute true earliest memory was reaching out my hand whilst my dad was carrying me. I was after some milk from my nan, but I couldn’t yet talk properly. I had earlier memories than that, but I can’t place them. Usually tactile or to do with smells rather than sight. One was of an empty room with just a bare light bulb -I have the image now - like a garage, but it is very vague.
I have extremely vivid memories. Of very early on. I remember solid things, like the black phone, a paper weight with Albert Einstein’s face on it. I even remember being told that his name was Albert Einstein. I remember my dad’s chin being bandaged (later ma told me it was a boil) but I remember being in his arms and kissing it and his stubble against my cheek with my mom looking on. This was all around two years of age. 3 onwards I have very very clear memory. I remember all my neighbours, their faces, how my mum would tell me not to dirty my frock and I wouldn’t, while playing. Somehow I don’t like to think about it. Like right now, images just stream in and they’re just too much emotion for me to handle.
I just got a headache from it. Weird.
About 4 years old…the smelling (or seeing?) of teargas in Berkeley.
Quite the terror you were, eh?
2.5 years old. Skating at the community lake in Calgary.
I have memories…vague, but memories still…of laying in a bassinet (look it up) and being very annoyed by people thinking it necessary to constantly ‘rock’ or ‘shake’ it.
All I wanted was a quiet lay down and these people seemed to delight in disturbing my peace.
Also annoyed by the constant shaking and patting that goes on when being held.
Never did understand that bit. A hug and a cuddle would have been just fine. No need for all the “shake the baby…pat the baby.”
People were also amazed that I didn’t cry. Thought that was strange.
Had no real reason to cry. Things were going along pretty well. Food and the change of diapers were all on schedule. Well, there was that shaking thing;but I learned early on that any tears or screams just made that happen all the more. Pavlovian connection I guess.
I do remember my first beer…but that’s another story.
Probably 3rd or 4th birthday. Had an elephant-shaped birthday cake and was devastated when Grandma started cutting it: “Don’t hurt elephant! Don’t hurt elephant!”
Depending on the lifestyle changes you’re thinking of making, you may want to make them well in advance of potential memory retention. Some things will be learned and more or less fixed in place before they’re available to recall.
Interesting thread. 
Ages 3 and 4 in San Antonio, Texas and Montgomery, Alabama… base housing and off base, respectively.
1965 - I remember my frend, Rusty, getting fire ants in his pants and screaming and dancing like the Devil had possessed him… we used to play out in a field behind the housing, and it being Texas, there were fire ants and tarantulas and rattle snakes. I don’t recall ever seeing a rattler, but do remember catching (watching the older kids, actually) tarantulas in shoe boxes. I remember this one kid showung me how to make pop corn on the stove… put the corns in a plastic bowl and then onto the burner… mistake/fail.
1966 - I remember living off base in a small house in Montgomery, Alabama… We had a fenced-in yard and an above-ground swimming pool. We used to put the pook ladder over the fence so that the neighbor kids could visit, and so that we could go see them at their house. We had a dog, and I remember walking into a neighbor’s house when they were away to look at their bitch’s new litter of puppies. I remember being in the backseat of my Dad’s car looking at my brother in my Mom’s arms as we brought them back home from the hospital after his birth…
I actually remember quite a few incidents from back then. We moved back to San Antonio and base housing until my Dad got out in 1968, so I know that all of those memories were from before the age of 5 years. We moved back up (for my folks, t’was my first time) to Pittsburgh when I was 5… remember my first experience with snow… dreadful stuff… went to my first STEELERS game when I was 6.
I remember this very clearly indeed. And the smell of peat smoke.
[quote=“sandman”]I remember this very clearly indeed. And the smell of peat smoke.
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OMG!!! What a gorgeous baby!!!I Absolutely beeeeeyooouuu teeeee fulllll. Those eyes!!!
@Super Hans: I started it to have an idea about age and details of earliest memories but now this thread has become a beautiful collection. Hope mods will make it permanent 
… I would hate to see it deleted.
@Tainan Cowboy: bassinet days! seriously? If my son remembers those days, even current ones… I am doomed 
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@Sandman: beautiful kids have to work too
My earliest memory is playing around buffaloes with other kids. I remember it so clearly probably because I was scared of buffaloes. I was around 3 at that time.
I think I was 5 or 6 in kindergarten and these girls were hiding behind me because the boys were bullying them. I was probably scrawnier than all of them, but was the only one mouthy enough to stand up to the boys.
Some of you have reallllly early memories, it’s a bit unsettling because that means my boy could possibly remember things that are happening right now around him. Shit, better watch it, 914…
[quote=“Super Hans”]Why is this in temp?
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I guess the OP started it there. It’s a great thread. Consider it moved.
I was talking to a guy a few weeks back about this - he was insistent that he remembered being inside the womb, and kicking back at his mom. Is that possible?
Also he had clear memories as a new born, and he’d verified those were right with his mom.
Mine? 4. Boring.
[quote=“Nuit”]I was talking to a guy a few weeks back about this - he was insistent that he remembered being inside the womb, and kicking back at his mom. Is that possible?
Also he had clear memories as a new born, and he’d verified those were right with his mom.
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World is full of weird people 
Have you been asked this question before? If so, you may have changed the memory as you refiled it in your brain. That’s the way memory seems to work according to what I’ve read. Each time you bring back a memory, you are in danger of changing it.
What’s the oldest memory you have that you’ve never recalled until right NOW? 