The reason we don’t remember being born — or even much from our early childhood — has everything to do with how our brain develops. When we’re born, the parts of our brain responsible for forming and storing long-term, detailed memories (especially the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex) aren’t fully developed yet. We can feel things, sense the world, respond emotionally — but we don’t yet have the ability to take those raw experiences and turn them into memories that are connected, stored, and retrievable like a story.
On top of that, we don’t have language in those early years, which is a huge deal. Memory is deeply tied to language — we use words to process and organize thoughts. Without the ability to put what’s happening into words, our brain can’t form the kind of memories we can later reflect on. That’s why most people don’t have clear, episodic memories from before the age of 3 or so.
Even if some kind of memory was formed back then, the brain is so plastic (meaning constantly changing) in those early years that a lot of that information gets reshaped or overwritten as we grow. It’s like trying to save a file on a computer that’s constantly being reformatted.
So it’s not that nothing happened to us — it’s that we didn’t yet have the mental tools to fully capture and store it. The experiences might still be in there somewhere in the form of emotional responses or gut feelings, but not in a way our conscious mind can easily access.
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