It's because we associate events with words and speech. We are unable to speak and can't attach memory to words or words to events. We really only start to grasp long term memory after we start thinking in full sentences.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

What about people with no internal monologue.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

I think that since our brains aren't as developed, we don't have as much ability to store memory, so therefore we only have bits and pieces at this point

by Anonymous 4 years ago

I've only ever seen pictures of "myself" as a baby, there's no way to confirm if the person in the pictures is me besides second hand accounts. This is ridiculous, I don't think I was ever a baby

by Anonymous 4 years ago

I recall toddler age interactions but definitely not baby age. Super interesting!

by Anonymous 4 years ago

The memories are wiped out by drinking milks

by Anonymous 4 years ago

The reason we don't remember coming down from heaven and being birthed in a spray of blood.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

There are rare cases of exceptional memory and hyperthymesia like Solomon Shereshevskii but more often we don't realize just how much we forget, either by the mind not copying it to long term storage or the gradual failing process of re-remembering and encoding the memories back into our brains. On a side note there is a beautiful fairy tale of babies being told the mysteries of the universe before they are born and then the knowledge being wiped from their minds just before birth so they can be excited to relearn it all.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Fairy tales are based in fact. The government is mind wiping us

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Hahahah

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Have you ever heard of the Matrix?

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Exactly dude, what if they're wiping our memories so we don't remember what life was before birth

by Anonymous 4 years ago

In some states life before birth isn't considered life...

by Anonymous 4 years ago

The government knows...

by Anonymous 4 years ago

What government? It's all a simulation...

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Transhumanist lizard people want to keep us complacent

by Anonymous 4 years ago

It's so they can appease the aliens

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Makes me sick

by Anonymous 4 years ago

I'm left with one last question... Red Pill, or Blue Pill...?

by Anonymous 4 years ago

My fat nuts

by Anonymous 4 years ago