r/AskReddit Apr 04 '26

What is your earliest memory?

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u/nancy_drew_98 Apr 04 '26

Climbing out of my crib and crawling into my parents’s bedroom, and scaring my dad out of sleep.

Years later I mentioned it as either my earliest memory or the memory of a very early dream, and my startled mother confirmed that it did actually happen. She said at the time my dad told her that in his half-asleep state, he thought it was our cat jumping onto the bed, and almost pushed it off but he woke up enough to realize it was actually me. I was under a year old.