I’m 24 and I’m pretty sure I can remember events from when I was 2, but nothing earlier.
It depends on brain development, which would be different for every single person. I am 26, and I have a very difficult remembering anything from before age 4.
I remember falling out of a buggy, and the subsequent trip to the hospital. That took place before I was two.
It seems you got an early start living up to your username. 
I’m 54 years old. I think. 
trying to remember.
I think that many memories are implanted by others on us as “remember when enipla just dumped all the toys out of his toy box and instead put the box over his head”?
I don’t think I can honestly remember anything before 4 years old or so. I remember my first day of Kindergarten, (I made a huge fuss). I was sort of on the cusp age wise to go to ‘school’. I was too young.
I remember some sort of day care before that. Maybe it was just a friend of my Mom’s. Bunch of kids having fun together in a big old house. When birthdays where celebrated, the care giver would bring out a fake, plastic cake that was like a music box. It would be wound up, and then it would spin slowly playing music. Heh. What I remember is I thought it was really lame. No cake for you.
To this day I have a vivid memory of standing on my next-door neighbor’s porch when I was three. I recall it from that perspective - huge steps, giant tall door and so on. It was the first time I was allowed to visit on my own, although I’m sure my mother watched me walk over and go inside.
We’ve had this discussion before. Almost everybody can remember an event from age 4. A few folks come up with age 2. And rarely before that.
A common theme is that the things we remember most vividly have high emotional content, and usually high negative emotional content e.g. Mr. Accident’s injury.
There is also the question of being able to remember an event but being unable to tie it to a specific point in time. Is your recollection really from age, say, 2.5, or was it actually 3.5? I suspect in many cases folks have early memories they can’t date, some of which precede the earliest memory they *can *date.
The earliest event I can remember and date exactly is age 4 years 9 months when Dad was leaving the house to go see Mom at the hospital who was about to give birth to kid #3. I did *not *want to be left alone with some sitter that day & it was a huge deal for me. I suspect I could feel the apprehension & emotion in Dad.
Funny I have zero recollection of the events of the previous day(s) when Mom would have left for the hospital. Mom was stay-at-home then and her being gone overnight or even for several hours would have been very unusual to me. Conversely my Dad traveled for work and him leaving for a couple days would have been routine.
One of my first memories was visiting somebody in a psychiatric hospital. This happened when I was two and a half. I can assure you that nobody asked me “remember when…” about that one! Instead, bringing it up was met with uncomfortable looks and “oh. I’m surprised you remember that.”
I’m 62, and in 1955, when I was 3, the Springfield area of Massachusetts where I lived was hit by one of the most devastating hurricanes in history. The Connecticut River reached a 30 foot flood stage in the Hartford area, and West Springfield, where I lived, was only about 30 miles north of there. Route 5 (also known as Riverdale Rd.) was flooded completely out in areas. I vividly remember traveling the road with my father in the car and coming up to a section where the road had completely collapsed, and watching a car bobbing around in the water where the road had been. What I don’t remember is how we got home again with the road flooded out like that, but obviously, we did.
I think I remember a few things from when I was 2. Although it’s possible that I didn’t always know or care what my exact age was when I was that young, so they may have happened when I was 3. I remember still being in diapers, but not my exact age when that was.
I started school when I was 4, so I remember that. I remember being in kindergarten, and on my first day, I wanted to play with the toys when it was time to do schoolwork, and the teacher told me it wasn’t playtime. I remember how the idea of any time not being playtime was foreign to me at that particular time in my life.
I can remember seeing Mt Rainier and boat races on Lake Washington a few months before turning 3. My family spent a few weeks in Seattle for my father’s job, so the dates are known (I had thought I was older and I didn’t return to Seattle until decades later).
That’s my first memory too but it was my mom leaving and a neighbor girl was babysitting. I don’t know how old I was, only how tall I was compared to the low window sill as I peeked over it and out the window to watch my mom pick up the neighbor across the street on her way out. Based on how tall my own kids are compared to that window sill I was definitely less than 4, but can’t be any more precise than that.
I was crying and I had this feeling of being sad and the baby sitter tried to distract me by trying to give me some candy and I remember thinking/feeling zero interest in candy (compared to wanting my mom not to leave).
I have several genuine memories from around 18 months. I remember my older sister’s first day of preschool and how happy I was to have our mom all to myself.
From 1-2 we lived in another country and I spoke another language. I have very little memory of this, but from 2 on my memory is pretty complete. Nobody told me stories about the furniture layout my of room when I was 2-3, and no photos were ever taken, but when I describe it, my mother confirms the memory. I think I started narrating my experience to myself at an early age. Not surprisingly, my professional jobs have all relied on good memory, attention to detail, and descriptive language.
When I was a baby, someone was pushing me in an old wicker stroller, across the street from our apartment. There was a pond containing large goldfish, with a stone path crossing it. I remember sitting in the stroller and looking at the fish to the left and right, as we crossed the path. We then entered a greenhouse.
I was less than a year old when we moved from there, and we never returned. I’ve asked both my mother and aunt (who lived with us) about this, and they both verified the details.
I remember stuff from when I was three. I remember the way the daycare center smelled. I remember how they’d give us pineapple juice and buttered toast upon arriving in the morning. I remember seeing kids crapping themselves. I have tiny fragmented images of the “old house”, and the way the “new house” smelled when we moved there.
I am sure that I have some vague memory of the world before then, but they wouldn’t be something I could put to words.
When I was eight months old, we moved from Ft. Lewis to Spokane. In Ft. Lewis, we lived in a fourplex, with our apartment being on the right end. I remember a fire at the apartment next to ours. I remember my mom grabbed my brother and jerked me up by the arm and ran outside with us. I can remember a bunch of people standing and watching and I remember the firetruck and the flames, but I don’t remember anything after the fire was out.
I remember several things from before I was two, but I don’t have really vivid memories of anything from before I was two and a half to three. My older brother, who’s two years older than me, can’t remember anything from before we moved to Oklahoma when he was five, and he only has very vague memories even then.
The earliest memory I can tie to the date is my 3rd birthday.
I ,too, remember age 2. Also I have read that age 2 is most likely the earliest age of
memory.
I’d guess probably about 2-3. I was sent to my grandparents by my mother at 3, but I remember living with her and her boyfriend at the time, and the day care they put me in. After I moved in with my grandparents things get clearer because I went to a preschool that was focused on swimming and I had a few stressful moments there.
Dopers probably are better at this than most. Most people I’ve talked to can’t remember anything before 6 and some not even before 8. That seems weird to me though, because once you start going to school they are teaching you stuff and you should remember at least a little bit of that stuff.