Not sure the exact age, but must have been somewhere between 1 and 2, because it was potty training time. I failed at the task and got locked outside. I remember trying to reach the door handle and crying for my mother to let me back in.
Two others come to mind. Not sure exactly how old I was, but must have been somewhere between 1 and 3, because I was still in a crib.
One is that I woke up, realizing that I'd had a dream in which Native 'savages' had invaded our house. I still remember the warrior chief's face! My parents watched a lot of westerns.
In the dream, all my family scattered and hid from the 'savages.' (I put that word in quotes because obviously Native peoples aren't savages, but that is how they were portraying on tv back then.) But they forgot about me and I was left out in the open. One of the warriors had me cornered. I was standing with my feet at an odd angle and looked over my shoulder at him, then woke up and realized that my feet were in that same position, but I was in my crib. That was my first realization that a dream reality existed.
The other is that I 'lost' my stuffed monkey. I called it Mim-Mim. I remember my brothers and sisters were all looking all over the house and yard for my beloved Mim-Mim. They never found him! I was inconsolable! Finally my mother presented me with a new monkey, one of those black and yellow ones with the banana.
I never liked that new monkey. He wasn't as cuddly as Mim-Mim and had a different personality. Later I realized that my mother probably threw away Mim-Mim because he was dirty and ratty, and tried to buy me off with the new banana-monkey.
I did also have past life memories, which I can trace back to around that time or so.
When my son was 3, he told me his memories of being in the hospital. I was blown away that he remembered being a newborn. I knew they were real because he described things from his perspective, that he couldn't have known otherwise. He didn't retain the memories later, though. I wonder how many toddlers have early memories but the parents don't take them seriously, so they just forget. Lots of toddlers have past life memories but they fade away because they're told it's just their imagination.
Two others come to mind. Not sure exactly how old I was, but must have been somewhere between 1 and 3, because I was still in a crib.
One is that I woke up, realizing that I'd had a dream in which Native 'savages' had invaded our house. I still remember the warrior chief's face! My parents watched a lot of westerns.
In the dream, all my family scattered and hid from the 'savages.' (I put that word in quotes because obviously Native peoples aren't savages, but that is how they were portraying on tv back then.) But they forgot about me and I was left out in the open. One of the warriors had me cornered. I was standing with my feet at an odd angle and looked over my shoulder at him, then woke up and realized that my feet were in that same position, but I was in my crib. That was my first realization that a dream reality existed.
The other is that I 'lost' my stuffed monkey. I called it Mim-Mim. I remember my brothers and sisters were all looking all over the house and yard for my beloved Mim-Mim. They never found him! I was inconsolable! Finally my mother presented me with a new monkey, one of those black and yellow ones with the banana.
I never liked that new monkey. He wasn't as cuddly as Mim-Mim and had a different personality. Later I realized that my mother probably threw away Mim-Mim because he was dirty and ratty, and tried to buy me off with the new banana-monkey.
I did also have past life memories, which I can trace back to around that time or so.
When my son was 3, he told me his memories of being in the hospital. I was blown away that he remembered being a newborn. I knew they were real because he described things from his perspective, that he couldn't have known otherwise. He didn't retain the memories later, though. I wonder how many toddlers have early memories but the parents don't take them seriously, so they just forget. Lots of toddlers have past life memories but they fade away because they're told it's just their imagination.
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