Why Can't You Remember Being a Baby?

You're pretty sure being a baby was awesome, but why can't you actually remember any of it?

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[hackprefect]

I remember my first birthday party. It happened when I was 15.

[Aeronor]

*immediately heads to the comments to read about people claiming they remember their first birthday*

[deluxeedition]

I'm pretty content with not being able to remember being born

[eor]

I swear the first memories that I remember felt more like a fever dream than something that actually happened.

[killgriffinnow]

I remember being 2 years old. Every time I saw a sunbeam through my window I was struck with an intense happiness that I rarely experience any more. I know it sounds sappy but it's true.

[mbanana]

Being a baby? Hell my memory of just being 7 is spotty as hell, anything before that is all blended together

I can remember quite a lot of my years 1-4. Tiny little slivers of memories. I distinctly remember being washed in the sink as an infant, seeing the kitchen flooded. Getting a packet of crisps from the cupboard, holding a crisp really close to one eye and thinking about how how I could see the crisp but also kinda see through it. All kinds of tiny slithers of memory from the first house I lived in for the first three or four years of my life.

[ashmckinlay]

I remeber LOTS after the age of 2, I find it strange that everyone else seems to have forgotten

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

I can clearly remember memories from when I was younger than 3. I know this because I left the Soviet Union when I was three years old, but I have memories from the Soviet Union. By the way, I was born in 1975.

[RonaiHenrik]

I *can* remember my first birthday party. I was 7.

[anbien]

I read "Why can't you remember eating a baby?"

[syandalla]

Once you remember, remembering a memory you will remember it forever.

[rossyboyw]

How do you know if the mice forgot or remebered things...? stupid question i know but..

[Zethany]

I remember riding in a limo as a baby, the first house I ever lived in, my crib, being the flowergirl to my uncle's wedding when I was two - also entering the church and being scared to death by the giant crucifix statue at the end of the building... Most of these memories are taped, so it was crazy to find out I didn't just dream up these situations XD My parents are constantly baffled by the fact that I can remember so much. I may not be able to remember everything, but I can remember a lot.

[winterx]

i can't even remember what i had for breakfast this morning

[_veshma_]

Sometimes I think that the *only* reason I have memories of specific events from when I was 5 and younger is because of the pictures and/or back-stories of these events. Thus, causing an older me to create these 'memories.'

[Rakshasa]

I don't remember anything because I don't exist.

[herpaderpz]

I can remember a couple specific events from when I was 2 and 3.... Prob because I talked about them when I still could remember as I was a older child and then kept talking about it and remembering how I talked about it....

[CW]

I have a few memories from before I was 3. They aren't terribly vivid, but they exist.

[MindeKing]

I can very easily remember, in detail, events from when I was an infant. Is it possible for there to be an exception to childhood amnesia?