> I've thought a lot about this over the years as it feels like I can remember a lot from before the age of three. Some people can, some cannot. My first memor

> I've thought a lot about this over the years as it feels like I can remember a lot from before the age of three. Some people can, some cannot. My first memory is when I couldn't yet speak, could barely walk, was near some big pot, wanted to go inside, dad put me inside, then immediately started crying because I couldn't get out myself, dad took me out. We had that pot until about 5yr ago, it was about 30L. But overall, I had maybe only a dozen total memories up to middle school that I can remember last time I wondered about this (when pondering Johnny Mnemonic plot). I have overall pretty bad memory. I was even on one memory training course, but it didn't help. Our memories work associatively, so probably we have a lot of memories which we can't access just because they are not associated properly or we don't remember the triggers. Probably there is some "list of triggers" association with some memories working like an index.