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Is it weird that I can remember things from before I was born?

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Misty Avich

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It's weird, whenever I hear certain Christmas songs I get reminded of Christmases in the late 80s when my brother was a baby - and this was before I was even born. I wasn't born until 1990.
My parents didn't even live in the house I grew up in, they lived in an apartment where I spent the first year of my life but don't remember the apartment. Yet I get a clear picture in my mind of my parents at Christmas in the 80s, with my brother as a baby, and the environment in the typical 80s style.

Can this happen? Can you get memories of life before you were born? Or is it that I have a strong imagination where I can only imagine what it was like?
 
Do the science of it all. List the details, and if possible, draw out scenes that you have vivid thoughts about. Then start trying to match them with the facts however you can. Be careful to not "make things fit" - a skeptical mindset the entire time will serve you better (and wow you more, if things are accurate).
 
Are you piecing a memory together from old photos or conversations? If "memories" are just "flashes", versus, time, place, smells, voices, conversations, etc. it's questionable if it is actually a memory.

The only way you can have a "memory" of something before you were even 2 cells in your mother's womb is if you later were having some sort of psychic connection with your mother, father, or someone else who had experienced this, and they were the one actually remembering. I am not ready to believe any of that though.
 
Neonatal RRT said:
The only way you can have a "memory" of something before you were even 2 cells in your mother's womb is if you later were having some sort of psychic connection with your mother, father, or someone else who had experienced this, and they were the one actually remembering. I am not ready to believe any of that though.
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This is probably it.
 
Maybe a psychic 'feeling' of some kind, like how we can sense other people's emotions (Empathy) or how psychics can apparently see who you were in past lives, etc.

I was originally going to suggest Anemoia (something I have for the 1980s) but I don't think that would cover this particular scenario.
 
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Maybe a psychic 'feeling' of some kind, like how we can sense other people's emotions (Empathy) or how psychics can apparently see who you were in past lives, etc.
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Yes this is probably it.


I wasn't trying to force beliefs on to others (which judging by some of the replies in this thread I sensed a bit of "ask a stupid question" type of thing) I was just sharing an odd experience and wanted to discuss.
Plus nostalgia is an interest of mine.
 
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I suppose that depends upon just how far you are willing to delve into the concept of "Cellular Memory". And whether such memory might be indicative of a life earlier than the one you are living presently.
 
Misty Avich said:
I wasn't trying to force beliefs on to others (which judging by some of the replies in this thread I sensed a bit of "ask a stupid question" type of thing) I was just sharing an odd experience and wanted to discuss.
Plus nostalgia is an interest of mine.
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Point taken. Sharing unusual experiences should not be mistaken for advocacy.

And on occasion it can be a method of discovering that you are not the only one with experiences you might otherwise consider to be unique, and not necessarily in a good way.

When some may feel as enlightened witnesses, while others victims of circumstances beyond their control.
 
There is a bit of a pseudo-science study of memories passed from mother to child. It's interesting.
 
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Meant as an explanation to a previous poster.
I think it is part of imagination based on stories and pictures you have seen. I have the same, but from when I was very little. They do feel like nice 'memories' eventhou I know they cannot be memories. Only difference is I actually know people told me about it, and that is why I created the images around it.
 
I had a very close bond with my mother (sadly she passed away last year from cancer), so maybe I am sharing her memories, or at least "feeling" some of her memories.
Sometimes I think "I miss the 80s so much", then I'm like "but I wasn't alive in the 80s."
My mother talked a lot about the 80s, and some Christmas songs just bring me lots of memories of every Christmas I can remember in my lifetime, so maybe the nostalgia overflows and I start imagining memories that I don't have myself but did happen before my time.

I think empathy plays a part too.
 
Misty Avich said:
It's weird, whenever I hear certain Christmas songs I get reminded of Christmases in the late 80s when my brother was a baby - and this was before I was even born. I wasn't born until 1990.
My parents didn't even live in the house I grew up in, they lived in an apartment where I spent the first year of my life but don't remember the apartment. Yet I get a clear picture in my mind of my parents at Christmas in the 80s, with my brother as a baby, and the environment in the typical 80s style.

Can this happen? Can you get memories of life before you were born? Or is it that I have a strong imagination where I can only imagine what it was like?
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I have memories which, after hearing audio recordings made in the womb, I realized were womb memories. I also have vivid early childhood memories that, after talking with my parents I found happened in my first two years.
 
My earliest memory is from being in a cot as a baby, but memories from back then are only fragments that don't seem linked to each other in any way. I didn't have contiguous memory until I was 4. I shocked a few relatives with just how much I can remember though.
 
Could it simply be that you have seen pics and/or video of your family from the 1980s? And your mind use that info and imagination when you are reminded of the 80s.
 
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My earliest memory is from being in a cot as a baby, but memories from back then are only fragments that don't seem linked to each other in any way. I didn't have contiguous memory until I was 4. I shocked a few relatives with just how much I can remember though.
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I can remember photographs being taken of me when I was maybe a year old and finding the flash bulb going off very distressing. The first one blinded me, and I crawled off in search of my parents, that from my perspective, had just disappeared.

I crawled into the wall and I have a distinct vivid memory of a hatched pattern popping in like a slow computer rendering mine craft. I noticed in a photograph the exact same pattern in a photograph of me, it was the pattern on the wall paper in the living room!

In other picture I'm pointing at something while my dad is holding me. I know what I was pointing at as I have a vivid memory of being held by my dad while I pointed at the floating, rectangular retina burn in the distance that only I could see.

People are amazed I can remember that far back too!
 
I figure I can recall things in bits and pieces as far back as the age of around three...but no earlier.
 
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