Our first memory

Today we do a little activity trying to recall our first memory.

I remembered that I was about 6, in summer school and there was no electricity. Instead, of being afraid I was happy… perhaps it’s because I’m happy that this is my first summer school.

Then everyone shared their memory. The average age we recalled ourselves was 3-4 years. However, there are some people who recall their age to be around 1-2 years. It turned out to be that it is highly not possible because logically our brains are not fully developed.

Most of the memories are emotional elements. The more tense the emotional we encounter that deeper we will remember. For example, if we get bitten by dogs and its hurts painfully. Mr. Anthony suggests that most of our early memories are reconstructed. Our early memories are malleable, flexible and more likely shape from external factors. We might not remember exactly what happened; instead we remember what our family discusses during dinner, what was told, and we reconstruct the scene. The perspective we see is like watching movie, we see ourselves doing the things told at that age.