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Charlotte Dune's avatar

That was a fun survey. I was recently playing the game We Are Not Strangers with my parents, brother, and his kid and my teen, and one of the questions was what’s your earliest happy memory. No one seemed able to come up with one that was specific. Everyone’s happy earliest memory was something they did many times and they were remembering it in general. Which makes me think most early, lasting singular memories are negative.

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Alan Wake's Paper Supplier's avatar

I may not be the target audience, but I've found the form hard to fill in, so I'm not going to muddy the survey waters.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of memories we're talking about. I feel like childhood memories are blurry mixtures of personal experiences, self narrative, and stories from family members. As in, I can't tell apart what I remember doing from what I was told I had been doing. How does this factor into this?

Also, I don't think I remember a "I am a self" moment. Looking back, it all obviously appears from the perspective of someone with a sense of self, but it's nigh impossible for me to examine the raw experiences at the time all these years later. Is a sense of self acquired the moment you start using the personal pronoun in sentences? Is it too superficial?

I'm sorry if this is irrelevant to the goals of the survey, I've just always found it hard to reminisce on these things, so I'm dropping in with questions when I see a forum for it.

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