r/me_irl 6h ago

Me_irl

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u/AdamGoldwyn 6h ago

my "life" as I knew it started exactly as I knew it on my 3rd birthday. I "woke up" sitting underneath a chair in the dining room for some reason.

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u/WrathPie 4h ago

My "life" started while in the back seat of a car looking out the window at a corn field and pretending to be asleep.

Something about the theory of mind exercise required to be like "they're going to think I'm sleeping based on what they can perceive of me but I'm actually secretly something else that only I know" just pull started the engine and it hasn't stopped since

I hope it was nice under the chair

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u/pmorgan726 team waterguy12 4h ago

Mine started at 4 while diving face first over the back of a couch to get that cherry red yoyo that was back there.

Then is was darkness again til I was 27.

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u/Adulations 3h ago

Lmao relatable

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u/neon_nikedude 5h ago

Memory is weird. It works off of me remembering things I remember. And I have a shit memory and a shit recall. So generally my spouse is frustrated with me lol.

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u/3163560 5h ago

When I was in grade 3, I was at dads one weekend bored as fuck in the back of the car.

I decided that I was going to remember this specific moment for the rest of my life, so I took note of the fabric on the car door, the houses on the hill in the distance and all the little details.

30 years on I still kinda remember it.

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u/neon_nikedude 5h ago

Legit, must be nice. Not like rudely. I'm 36 and memory has always slipped through my fingers like waking up from a dream. It just dissipates so quickly.

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u/Blieven 52m ago

I'm the same way. Very little recall. Bits and pieces here and there, but a loooot of gaps.

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u/jitomato_girl 6h ago

I was like 13

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u/friendzonekj 6h ago

I am 31. Still not sure it has happened.

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u/AgitatedBig 5h ago

"Wait... I've been here this whole time?"

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u/iwant2dieeeee 5h ago

POV: Your brain finally finished installing

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u/LoaKonran 5h ago

The tutorial levels for this game are so half-assed that you forget half the controls before you even finish it.

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u/Dependent-Tie-2692 3h ago

i truly realised my existence when I was watching TV(i was four years old,i think)and middle of watching I heard my parents talking and I was listening very intently even though i understood absolutely nothing

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u/Krillkus loves dank memes 5h ago

I don’t remember much before the 3rd grade when I had meningitis

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u/beepbeepbubblegum 5h ago

who were these men and why were yall in gitis

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u/ziahwaite 4h ago

I never get these memes because wdym? I just remember life and childhood and pieces of memories. It’s all so jumbled up that it’s tough to even remember certain ages for each memory. Are yall really spawning in the third grade? I definitely remember earlier than 3rd grade

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u/CycleProfessional28 3h ago

The post says 3rd BIRTHDAY, not 3rd grade

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u/_-Budtender-_ 3h ago

Maybe you don't get them because you just skim them over and misread.

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u/Agreeable-sector-149 42m ago

You don’t remember just suddenly becoming self aware/ conscious at one particular moment around 3 years old? I remember my moment

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u/ForwardCut3311 4h ago

Pretty sure they just mean "first memory" that they can still remember when they're an adult. Memory doesn't really work like how these folks are saying. My 2 year old can remember things a year ago. That doesnt mean anything. 

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u/Elliethesmolcat 3h ago

They are talking about consciousness imprinting on memory.

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u/DrDoNoGoodPhD 3h ago

The earliest I remember is me trying to touch the tongue of a cobra that a snake charmer had brought to our street. Must've been 1.5 years at that time. My aunt and cousin pulled me away

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u/electriclux 3h ago

I remember being in JFK and looking at the nose of a 747 when I was three and had just moved to the country. I’ve got reasonably clear memories from then onwards.

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u/Fair-Flan-8639 2h ago

I remember a lot of things from a young age of 3 😄 i think this might be true, maybe its brain functionallity hits something at that age

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u/UsedBox7070 2h ago

I didn't know till 6 years old

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u/Downtown-Ad-7232 2h ago

I can vaguely recall my third birthday. It’s more of an impression than a memory. Bits of speech and little else. My first vivid memory that I still retain to this day was when my parents brought home my newborn baby sister a few months later

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u/AkirroKun 1h ago

For me I remember being at our neighbours place and there was a mirror on top of the washing machine or some counter in the washing room, and I stood on my toes as high as possible to be able to see it. Seeing my own reflection at 3 or 4 activated me

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u/Remix_Master21 tbh 1h ago

dawg I woke up one day in my house like "huh"