Sidheag McCormack wrote:
Can't answer the question about what science says, but I was briefly
hospitalised when I was young. I have a memory of the layout of the ward,
of where my cot was in the ward relative to the doors, the windows, the
other beds and cots, etc., and I remember standing at the bars and people
talking to me and something about how I felt. For years I thought I must
have made these memories up, because I was "obviously" too young to
remember. Recently I checked with my mother: she confirmed that the details
in my memory are actually right. Whilst of course we had talked about the
fact that I'd been in hospital as I grew up (I have a scar from it), she's
pretty sure neither she nor anyone else would have talked about the layout
of the ward etc. - no reason to. I tend now to believe that it's a real
memory. It's not inconceivable that I could have coincidentally imagined
the right details, but there are quite a few of them - it seems more
unlikely that I'd have got them all right by chance.

I was 14.5 months old!

That was very much a one off, connected with an experience that must have
been stressful. After that, the next thing I'm pretty sure I remember is a
mental event from when I was a bit over 2 (maybe 26 months), and "fullish"
memory starts at the birth of my brother, when I was 3 years 2 months.

Sidheag
DS Colin Oct 27 2003

Are there any sound that bring back your infantile memories. As I said,
certain songs bring back memories for me. But not just songs. The tones
on the AM radio [caused by electric/magnetic disruptions], the tones
you get on the telephone when you dial numbers for TDD, and dail-up
modem also give me a strong feel of the house in Stamford. Many
electronic sounds tend to give this feeling of that houses. We had a
radio receiver that was built-in to the house, so maybe this does make
sense. The AM radio is usually full of audio interferences from
surrounding electronic devices [be it from telephones, modems, fax
machines, teletype machine, even a switch].

I have a Casio SA-11 Keyboard, it has some nice electronic sounds
resembling that of common day electronic devices.