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Tell me some of your earliest memories as a child!

1. I can remember being 4 years old and kicking my kindergarten teacher in the leg because she wouldn't let me go out to recess unless I drank white milk instead of chocolate like I usually drank. I had to sit in the corner for a week.
2. I was 5 years old and got my tonsils and adenoids removed and plugs in my ears and I can remember being on the gurney. I remember all the ice cream afterwards.
3. I can remember being about 6 and my neighbor got his stomach blown out by a firecracker and I was terrified of them ever since.
4. I can remember when I was a kid and all the neighborhood kids would come to our house to play because we had a treehouse, basketball goal, big trampoline, etc. There was a little boy a lot younger than all the other kids and everyone was really mean to him and used to throw cicada shells on him because he was so scared of them.

What are some things you remember as a kid?
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SarahAndSamantha · 51-55, T
1. Very very fuzzy memory, but I remember we were standing outside, mom was holding and sister was to her side. We were watching dad putting stuff in the car. I didn't understand what was going on, but I could feel that things were different. Dad was tense, in a hurry. He gave sis a kiss, then me on the cheek. He needed a shave because his stubble was very scratchy, painful even. Then he got in the car and drove off. That was the last time I saw him until I was 11. I was so young, I really shouldn't remember this at all, but it's there.

2. Probably 3 years old, but I remember a dream I had. The entire dream was somebody reading me a book, but the only thing I saw were the pictures in the book. It looked like someone had dipped a house paintbrush in a yellow ochre paint, ran it across the page and then drew highly detailed line drawings on top of that. I remember one of the characters looked like Andy Griffith. Oh, and all the line drawings were animated.

3. Being told I couldn't leave the table until I ate my peas. Woke up the next morning still at the table and not a single one of those disgusting green globules of slime being eaten lol
Mardrae · 61-69, F
@SarahAndSamantha so sad about the memory of your dad leaving! Did he come back into your life when you were 11?
I remember a nightmare I had when I was very young and I still remember it. I was sitting at the dining room table eating fruit loops and I felt something touching my foot and I looked down and it was a huge tarantula and I picked it up and put it in my mouth and ate it and it was wiggling going down. I woke up gagging and still haven't forgotten that nightmare.
SarahAndSamantha · 51-55, T
@Mardrae Dad was very on again off again in my life. around that time, I'd see him at Christmas and mayybe a day or two when I went to visit the grandparents in the summer. The whole situation was bizarre and...let's just say mishandled. it is what it was.

I do remember another dream from...I dunno, about 5 years old. It was the first of my recurring nightmares of what I call the Dark Basement. Never the same dream, or the same actual location, but it's always some gigantic, underground place. Very gloomy, any light source is muted, barely illuminating anything. The entire place radiates sadness, hopelessness, despair. In the first one, I remember it being like a cave. I was standing on an outcropping that was like a pile of gravel, probably about 10 feet wide. beyond that, it was just a drop off into pitch blackness. about 200 feet away, I could see another outcropping, barely illuminated, but I could see a little girl with black hair. She was crying and cradling a doll with green skin. I thought if I could get to her, we'd both be okay and could get out, but I couldn't figure out a way to her. So we were both stuck here, forever.


I've had Dark Basement dreams at least twice a year every since, always with that feeling of being trapped forever.....until I was 42. I had a Dark Basement dream that I was searching through the Basement for something specific, with that hopeless feeling that I wouldn't find it. Tripped over something in the darkness, reached down and picked it up and suddenly the whole place lit up, became vibrant, fun. There were carnival rides and bright lights, the hopelessness lifted and everything was just...right. comforting. I looked at my hands, and what I had picked up was that doll. I haven't had a Dark Basement dream since.
Mardrae · 61-69, F
@SarahAndSamantha wow!! I bet the Dark Basement represented something significant in your life and you resolved it somehow.