In as much detail as you like, including actions, thoughts, feelings and so on. It doesn’t have to be a special day, just a random day, the day you read this. Or perhaps yesterday, to get the whole day. I’ll do mine, of course, if this thread takes off.
I think it would be better to describe your first recallable memory, or the first time you felt like you did something wrong, What is the first time you learned of something that piqued your curiosity, or triggered anger? What is your first memory where it didn’t feel like you felt anything at all?
Think I’ll keep those ones close to the chest, personally. And the one requested in the original post.
But isn’t it interesting that no matter what memory you talk about, even if you’re talking about the now that is no longer here once you mention it, it’s (you are) hovering over … or grasping … an abyss … because the ground has shifted before you even reflected on it?
But the ground is always around you like a moving hamster wheel. Or whirlwind.
My first distinct memory is of wandering into the bathroom at home, that is, my parents’ house, reaching up and finding a tap on the bath. I turned it on, then stuck my arm in the water coming out of it, scalding it, since it was the hot tap. That hurt! I presume I then screamed my head off, but I don’t actually remember that bit.
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It’s interesting that you remember the pain & what caused it, but it probably wasn’t the part that was you that was responding, but the automatic part, so maybe that’s why you don’t remember that. You learned not to turn on the hot tap with your arm under it (antecedent). Nothing about your response to pain (consequent) felt like something you should do differently. Even at that young age you were thinking proactively. In retrospect, yes.
I’m pretty sure that was my earliest memory, anyway. I also have some memories that I’m not sure if they were dreams or not, but that was definitely real, as I’ve discussed more than once with my parents, who also remember it.
Even if it was just a dream, you could have a memory of your first dream.
It would be interesting to see what dream images (not just sights, especially in your case) you couldn’t make sense of until they made sense later on due to being exposed to more life & sense making.
As you say, I don’t have any visual imagery in my dreams, but they are usually pretty vivid with regard to the other senses. One very early one, if indeed it was a dream at all, is of me putting my hands on a car and it was really hot. I don’t know if that was a dream or not, but I think it was, because dreams usually have an emotional element that makes them quite distinct.
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