moonbeamdanser wrote:
I honestly have said from the time I was able to convey such matters, that I can remember before I was born. Not that there was that much going on at that time, but I remember the sounds around me, occasionally being able to see my hands and such (when the light was bright around me on the outside I would imagine), thinking about stuff in general, and being born.
This is amazing! I never heard of anybody whose memories go back that far. It is said that a childs brain is "reformatted" at an age of about one to four years. My earliest memories (the ones I'm sure to be real ones and not stuff my parents told me later...) start when I was about two and a half e.g. at an average age. Obviously you kind of skipped the "formatting"...
Can you remember how your perception of other people, especially your mother, has been? I ask this question because there is a theory, that the stoneage venus statuettes are actually depictions of the memories of new-borns (their strange proportions would have an explanation by the distortion resulting from the point of view of the baby lying on it's mothers belly). Than the ancient humans would have tried to solve the mystery of the beginning of live referring to their own experiences, what would be a very interesting viewpoint about the beginnings of religous belief...
As this is strongly connected to my studies I would be very glad about coming to know more about your in-utero- + baby-memories!
I have heard of it once before - Kenneth Hall, author of "Asperger's Syndrome, the Universe and Everything" mentions having a few seconds of pre-birth memory. Here's a link to the book:
11 Jul 2009, 7:59 am
