Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?

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by DanielVZ • 27 days ago

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rendx• 27 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_therapy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_and_perinatal_psychol...

throe9393i44i• 24 days ago

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stavros• 24 days ago

Yeah I'm not sure you should do surgeries without anaesthesia on newborns either way.

canjobear• 24 days ago

It was standard procedure to do invasive surgeries on newborns without anesthesia until the 1980s, on the theory that they can’t feel pain. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/long-life-early-pain

margalabargala2• 24 days ago

Surgery on infants without anasthesia is not something done any longer in any country that particularly cares about the health of its citizens.

IAmBroom• 22 days ago

Circumcision sans anesthesia is commonplace.

tomhow• 23 days ago

We've banned this account. Please don't introduce generic tangents in HN threads. The guidelines explicitly ask us not to do this. The guidelines also ask us not to register serial throwaway accounts. Please stop, it's a waste of everyone's time. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

_def• 24 days ago

It's kind of fascinating trying to think back of the earliest memories I still (or used to) remember. I'm not "old" at all but still these distant memories are literally from another world (in the sense that my mental model of the world was very different, as well as all the changes it went through)

freehorse3• 24 days ago

Wait till most of your life feels "from another world"...

I visited places I lived in the past and it feels like a place somebody else lived, who were close to me, but still not "me".

microgpt• 23 days ago

I'm 33 and this is already happening to things I did at 31. But not much before that, because before that my life was much more boring, and most of my old stuff was saved on a computer where I could recall it at any time of I wanted to.

Man... I swear, my first time at Fusion Festival changed me and I'm not sure if it's for the better or worse. The curse of knowledge and experience. (This year I don't feel much about it. The change already happened.)

dec0dedab0de• 24 days ago

My oldest memory is a clown holding a bunch of balloons flying over the fence at my first birthday party. I then tried to fly with the baloons when i got them.

I told my mom about it decades ago, and she said there was a clown that jumped over the fence. Then I spent the rest of the party running around the house holding the balloons.

Calavar• 24 days ago

Similar situation. I have no doubt that a large fraction of my childhood memories are fabricated, but there were a few that I kept to myself until I was over the age of 30 and were later confirmed by a parent or aunt or uncle.

There's also the phenomenon of having a memory of a memory. At age 10, I had a very solid recollection of my life at ages 5 to 6 (not so much of age 4). Now all I remember is that I used to remember a lot more than I do know.

cue_the_strings2• 24 days ago

There's also the phenomenon of having a memory of a memory. At age 10, I had a very solid recollection of my life at ages 5 to 6 (not so much of age 4). Now all I remember is that I used to remember a lot more than I do know.

I have exactly the same thing. It can get very detailed, too, but it really feels like remembering reminiscing about those memories at like 7-10.

simplicio• 24 days ago

Yea, I have a couple of early memories that I can date from ~1-2 years old (early bday party, birth of sibling). And presumably a few more early memories are from that period but don't involve events I can assign a date to?

I kinda suspect this is true for a lot of people, but since memories aren't time-stamped, they don't realize how early they are.

blurbleblurble• 24 days ago

Refreshingly not llm generated

DanielVZ2• 23 days ago

To be fully fully transparent I did use LLMs (asking stuff in the google search bar) in some phrases I was having trouble to find the right words since English is not my native language.

But I’m glad you noticed I did try to write it all by my own with my own style as flawed as it could be

mateenah• 24 days ago

what a great artcle!

kelvinjps10• 24 days ago

There is also when you parents or family members tell you stories of when you were kids and many years later you remember them but now you can't tell if you actually remember them or someone told you about it

freehorse3• 24 days ago

Which is also why I am more confident on my considered oldest retained memory being real, as it was a rather ordinary event that nobody else remembered. Other "memories" I have from when around 3 I don't really trust as they have been replayed by others too many times.

Of course, maybe I just remember the memory me replaying the memory to myself. Is there a meaningful difference even? Maybe all our memories after some time become blended with our re-narrating them and re-interpreting them.

tough• 24 days ago

Every memory is a "story" you re-tell yourself each time you "remember" it.

There's no meaningful difference on how you experience it as "real" even if its just a "re-enaction" of such reality, but it might help explain why so many humans remember things from their past slightly differently than they actually happened.

This can also serve as a trauma-recovery mechanism, allowing one to not remember stuff too traumatizing etc, the brain blocks it out or rewrites it as a dream, or whatever

James_K• 24 days ago

I've always doubted this stuff because I have some memories of things that happened when I was 2.

rf15• 24 days ago

I do not remember the floor time much at all.

I do remember a dog sticker from my crib. I know this because when I was 10, I visited a faraway aunt and asked my dad about the sticker on their bathroom wall. "I have seen this one before! Where did I see it?" He said they both bought a sticker pack when I was just born, and she put it in her bathroom and he put it on my bed.

I remember an absurd amount of things from 3 onwards, like not liking it how I was occasionally the last one to be picked up from Kindergarten, or that there were two parallel glass tunnels connecting buildings in my kindergarten, and I always wondered how to get to the other one (it was just for staff).

I do remember the first time I got brought to kindergarten, and how later I wished to go on my own and my mother was against it.

I do remember being told by my dad that I will lose most of my memories of this age, and it made me sad: how can I just erase all these wonderful memories of my friends and all the toys and things we have here? I wished for my last birthday, as I was turning towards 6, be remembered by me like it is, for the rest of my life.

I remember the way to my kindergarten from the flat we lived in, I remember the layout of the place, I remember a lot of the toys, I remember a climbing rack, I remember the carpets and other floor covering, I remember every room, including the long table they set up for birthdays with you sitting on one end.

All rooms are empty of people. I don't remember a single face.

bombela• 24 days ago

Very similar experience for me. Also no faces, but a feeling of who the person is relative to my self anyways.

DanielVZ2• 23 days ago

Ohh I don’t remember adult faces either. I do remember some my best friends face but nothing else

ggdG• 24 days ago

That night my family watched a war movie on the VCR, maybe saving private ryan or something similar, and the helicopter struck me.

If there was a helicopter in the movie, then we can confidently exclude Saving Private Ryan.

darepublic• 24 days ago

I am positive I have episodic memories from when I was two years old

taffydavid• 24 days ago

What about electric babies

cue_the_strings2• 24 days ago

I've had a very detailed memory of the surroundings of my childhood home, which changed when I was 3-4 (major construction in the neighborhood, rerouting a street).

We never had any family pics showing any of the stuff that I remembered, or remembered remembering... Well, some time ago I went searching for other people's pics and videos of the area from those years, and I actually found a couple, and they were exactly what I remembered.

But it all feels to me like I'm remembering reminiscing about these things at age 7-10, not really direct memories, a retelling. Surprisingly good one, too.

tibbydudeza• 24 days ago

Your memory encoder/decoder manager the hippocampus must be working otherwise you would not be able to be learn.

I reckon that these memories are pruned by not being recalled strengthening the neurons making it up because they are not as important and take up bandwidth for the more important stuff like surviving as an infant in a physical world filled with your care takers.

ezoe• 24 days ago

I remember I grab and hold a vacuum cleaner and stand up and my parents are shouting "Look! He is standing the first time!" and I was puzzled what is so fuss about me standing.

But if it was my first time standing on my own, that must be 6-12 months old. If so how can I recognize my parents language so clearly?

Another memory was, There was a plush toy I really wanted, A gorilla holding banana, at a local supermarket called SATY. So I demanded my parents to buy it by speaking fluently.

Later, my parents told me a totally different story. Suddenly, I started shouting "Gori! SATY! Banana!" endlessly. It took them a while to figure out I wanted a plush of Gorilla holding banana sold at SATY.

kgeist• 24 days ago

I have a memory of myself lying motionless for what felt like forever and staring at a wallpaper featuring Disney characters. Years later I found photos from when I was around 1 year old and the home had those wallpapers (we stayed there for a few months). I remember feeling somewhat self-aware, like I was trying to understand why I was lying there, what those characters on the wallpaper were, what I was doing there at all. And I strongly felt the passage of time, like the whole episode dragged on forever. Maybe I had just woken up while my mom was in the kitchen? It's like I suddenly became self-aware, maybe that's why I remembered it :)

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