> But when there are those early memories, they are short, strong, and associated with fear. Yep, although I'd expand that to any strong emotion. I have early

> But when there are those early memories, they are short, strong, and associated with fear. Yep, although I'd expand that to any strong emotion. I have early memories of embarrassing moments and times when I had a lot of fun also. But the first thing I can still remember was definitely fear, as it was of me drowning, at age... I want to say 3, but I'm not sure exactly when it was anymore, maybe it was 4. We were on vacation visiting my grandparents in another state, and were in their pool. I was to stay against the side 'cleaning the pool' by using a scrub brush and rubbing it on the ledge of the pool, and apparently at one point I didn't stick to the ledge, because I remember going under and swallowing some water and my parents noticing and coming to my rescue. I ate cheese and crackers at their table afterwards. He also had a golf cart and I remember driving that up and down the block. That's pretty much it for that young. Next thing after that is while I was in pre-school, and I only remember a few things from that time. And for anything earlier than like, high school, I don't have a lot more than just a few images I can mentally pull up of any given memory, and the knowledge of what happened on a kind of basic level (anything too detailed is pretty much gone now). And if there are pictures that helps a lot. I can remember a few details not present in the pictures, but without the pictures I doubt I'd remember that happening at all.