I've had this debate with my wife quite a bit about when we are humans become "conscious". I am watching this unfold with my child as we speak. He seems conscious to me but I know he will not remember any of it at his age. But I notice as his hands get more agile and he discovers his feet and that he is alive it makes me try hard to think of these things - did they happen to me?

What is your earliest childhood thought? I can only remember vaguely the first time I was able to hold the bottle entirely on my own without my mom. I remember being in a carrier of some sort. I also remember being about 3 or 4 and wondering "who am I?" and feeling depressed about it all. There are all sorts of small little memories. My first nightmare was about a policeman chasing me and shooting me. My first dream was about a rattle or some baby toys.

But one really odd attached dream is of me flying around a house and feeling excited and almost ecstatic that I was coming into the world again. It feels like "again" but this was after I had already been born. I remember liking the the kid who I was going to be and loving my parents and being extremely excited about it all. Do we really enter the brain / body when we are born, or are we developed like a seed creates new life? That feeling of the earliest memory I have is of pure joy and it is beyond description. It is very very difficult to remember but there are times I can get pieces of it. This really makes me wonder was it just a dream maybe of my father making me fly as a child as I do with my son? Or was I really outside my body?

What is your earliest memory?

I'm not sure what my earliest memory is.
I want to say it was watching tv, which was showing me images of this guy walking around on the moon.
Or maybe trains, I loved trains. Back in the day when people were going to the moon trains were everywhere (here on Earth at the time I mean). The railroad even went along the outskirts of every little village, like the one I grew up in, you couldn't go anywhere without coming to a railroad crossing. Or maybe lp records, I had a little box of a record player, I remember Johnny Cash (live at San Quinton, I think), and The Rolling Stones, Big Hits-High Tide And Green Grass (for some reason, as a child I loved the songs "Get Off Of My Cloud", "19th Nervous Breakdown", and everything by Johnny Cash).

LoneCrowe:
My earliest memories of tv I remember quite clearly, Dad Sitting in his chair, I would be playing with my hot wheels cars on the floor, then I'd notice something on tv.
Not only that, I've found that most 'coincidence' I experience is some odd synchronicity, some odd connection to something I experience in the 'real world' and something in some form of electronic media, radio, television, or the internet.

Synchronicity in respect to books seems to be one that surfaces as an anecdotal story a good bit.

I have no basis to really substantiate this in any objective manner, but over the years I've had this gut sense that a lot of my book collection I've been lead to acquire as essentially "course curriculum material".

Okay, here's an anecdotal account:

I did this significant purchase of books in the late '90s - like non-canonical ancient religious writings (e.g., Book of Enoch). One amongst these was Elaine Pagel's 1979 book on the Nag Hammadi Gnostic writings. For some reason I really wasn't interested in reading it at the time, and it eventually went into the garage stored away. Then over a decade later I go through those books and put some on the book shelf because I had new book space capacity. So then it sits on the book shelf a few years. Then one day I'm surveying the books on the shelf and realize I hadn't read this one yet. And I was thinking I didn't really know enough about historical Gnosticism. Quickly devoured that book, several more by Elaine Pagel, and several more by other authors.

At this particular time I was really ready to read about this whereas in years previous I wasn't at the right place mentally yet. However, in now having direct experience of strange stuff, I was relating to these ancient Gnostics - the Demiurge, the Daemon/Eidolon, Archons, direct ecstatic/gnosis experience, etc. These things were all lining up directly for me and corresponding to my personal gnosis and/or years of prior research.

IOW, me things our Higher Self steers us through a course curriculum that is tailored to our particular pathway/growth.

Mom and Dad tell me I would throw a fit if we missed Gunsmoke.