Why do some people have memories of their early childhood and others don't?
102868
Because they had very bad memories of their early childhood. Their mind is blocking them from remembering from their early childhood.
263474
NO! There are a lot of things that people think they want to forget but these are part of who you are. They will help mold your future, help you figure out how you want to raise your children and just live your life. I myself went through 3 separate kinds of abuse when I was growing up but it helped make me who I am. And my sons will change things in thier lives that I goofed up on too. Nobody's perfect!\nI guess if you've seen something that gives you nightmares then I would understand wanting to forget but maybe there's a place for that fear to shape your life also.
183988
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."\n\nEverything we do today has been done in the past -- not in the same form, of course, but with the same patterns.  If you study history, you find these patterns all over the place, and the more you know of history, the better you will be at avoiding the pitfalls our ancestors fell into because they were doing it for the first time.\n\nOr perhaps they didn't have access to history books.  Though of course you must also remember that "history is written by the victors."
1126422
it is an innate protection mechanism, we don't really forget we just put them into a deeper level of memory, in time these memories are slightly changed until to us seems that only the good parts of it are left, and only with a big effort we can actually remember what reaklly happened.
37260
Yes.  I had a repressed memory that only came back last summer.\n\nBut sometimes I do wonder if it was a real memory?\n\nBut that's just because I wish it hadn't happened
47644
Memory is not well understood in humans. It doesn't seem to work like a computer, for instance. It isn't clear why some more or less random events are remembered, but other more significant ones are not.\n\nAlso important are the slow creeping in of false memories. This can happen in cases where a person tells the same story over and over. Slowly new details are "remembered" which in fact did not occur.\n\nThere are ways, I believe, to inhibit short term memory. But that won't help you. There are also people who have stopped the process which converts short term memories into long term ones, which is a terrible condition as they can remember their past but every thing that happens after a certain date is quickly forgotten.\n\nECT - electroconvulsive therapy, commonly called "electroshock therapy" can remove memories. ECT is not as bad as it sounds, but still isn't something to take lightly.\n\nUnfortunately there is no way to erase specific memories. What are lost are bits and pieces of things, without any real pattern connecting them.
776920
just coz u'r missing many pieces of the puzzle doesn't mean the end picture doesn't exist. \n\nsome people do remember their past lives and other people have used hypnosis to call these memories up. and others still who walk the peaceful path, like me, spending our hours learning to listen to our own hearts, we do learn to remember bits. i don't remember details of my past lives but i believe i came into this life already knowing things that others are learning for the first time or, in many cases, things that others are not even ready to learn yet. but i'm not an advanced soul, maybe not even intermediate. i've been thinking of undergoing past life regression, especially in my low days, but i'll keep putting it off until i can find a good enough reason to coz we're meant to figure it out for ourselves, that's why we're here in the first place. \n\nof course i asked the same question of the amnesia, who doesn't? the answer i received was that it's necessary so that we enter each new life with a clean slate. but even so it's only part amnesia. the soul retains everything through all the lives and in fact there are some people who suffer from injuries or traumas sustained from a previous life.
545421
Usually when i daydream or recall memory it is usually in third person also. Most of the time when i recall memory it is to think to myself "What if i did this" or "Maybe it wouldn't have happened that way IF" its nothing to be worried about. deep down, subconciously you probably want to see yourself as others saw you at the moment in time.
921528
Well, some do and some probably do not. It is just like asking somebody if they remember being born or being a baby. You really can't remember. But, a lot of people can remember childhood and being a toddler.\n\nThey probably do remember muching leaves and turning into a butterfly, but no one really knows for sure, right?\n\nI'm sure they wouldn't think caterpillars are a different species because they used to be caterpillars. That's like someone saying,"I think babies are a different species then humans." You know that you used to be a baby. Even if you only remember bits and pieces.\n\nI hope this has helped you!
635802
I've been accused of having "selective amnesia". I've forgotten by whom. But given what I know of amnesia, some people remember some things and not others. Some people remember nothing at all. So ... The correct answer to your question, given amnesia and the way it works with various people, would be ... Yes & No. And I'll trust that we all remember that fact in the future. lol ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
901896
Somewhere in that age range is the time when a child's brain has formed enough synapses to reliably store long-term memories.  The brain isn't fully developed at birth, and continues to grow and change well into puberty.\nIt's EXTEMELY RARE for anyone to have actual memories before 2 years of age.  Many people think they remember things before that, but it's been found that what they really remember are things that other people told them about their early years when they were old enough to actually remember, and they don't have actual memories of events before 2 years old.
533812
ppl with that condition prolly had a traumatic childhood and anything that reminds them of it brings back those feelings.
124695
The mind has the power to suppress bad memories especially if you were told to suppress them as a child repeatedly by an adult. But just like "Me, Myself, & Irene" they come back to the surface. Some memories are in your mind just like treasure in a locked box, when you find the key it all comes back. One day if you do have repressed memories you'll see or do something that isn't usual or is and in a flash it'll hit you like a mack truck. If they are bad I will hope that they won't destroy you.
1075215
It's not impossible, but why would you want to try to recall those memories?  Would it change the person you have become?  All I can see it doing is causing you pain.  I would chalk it up as just a weird dream you had because you used to have a crush on him.  And, if you were six when he moved way, maybe your recollection of how and why he moved are a little blurry.  Would you even really know if he had moved away in a "panic?"
264521
People's memories are different. I can remember hundreds of songs, stuff I used to sing when I was little or when I was a teen but there are times when I can't even remember where I put my wallet.
755106
i think its your brain somehow writing your current experiences on some previous date in its journal of memories, and then seeing that it has already gone through this before.  Then, its a really weird feeling\n\nbut i really have no clu
935779
Of course.... I do remember well. My childhood was dark, sad, lonely, unhappy and full of emotional and physical abuses. I just had the feeling of lack of love cuz my parents neglected me.