When my dad was around I was maybe like 6-7 years old and he’d take me with him to trap houses to score and have random women there watch me while he did his drug then on the way home tell me no to tell my mom where we were at… fucked me up as I got older because I never had proper guidance as a kid and now I’m a adult dealing with my past on being honest with ppl..
Briefly meet Alice Cooper in 2012, he signed a autograph and took a picture with me. He was so friendly and didn’t seemed bothered at all that I approached him. Hell of a nice guy
Lmfao so I started to type something out and then I realized that it’s actually traumatic so it won’t fit the prompt.
Easy though, I’ll just talk about that time that… no that’s actually trauma too.
Well when I was 22? This one time… oh no wait, yeah that’s trauma too. My b.
Anyone else? 😂
Edit: I wonder if I’ll never forget the fact that I had to edit this post to fix an autocorrect mistake. Hey OP, if I always remember this edit, does that count?
Near death experience. Flat lined while in the hospital. The stuff I saw while I was “gone” was incredible. Surrounded by love and acceptance. It was amazing. Changed my entire outlook on life and death.
I remember holding my child close on a windy beach on our 1st family holiday thinking just how intensely I loved this little person and that I wanted to remember that moment forever. The cool wet sand under my feet, her little woolly cardigan, the smell of the sea, sea birds calling. I can just remember it all so clearly. A moment of true joy.
I helped a man to get into a cab at the hospital after he had knee surgery. The driver didn’t get out of the car. I let him use my shoulder for support while he lowered himself onto the seat and held his crutches while he got comfortable. It seemed like the right thing to do so I didn’t really think about it.
Once he was on his way I was approached by a group of people telling me I was a wonderful person to step up and help him when no one else would.
I will never forget how sad it made me feel to know that they would rather congratulate me instead of helping that man to get into a cab.
Getting my first boxer and second boxer. Was in 7th grade and our mom had a stomach virus and she told our dad to take me and my brother and sister for ice cream. Well it just so happened there was an adoption event happening right next to Friendly’s and there was a boxer puppy there. We were playing with him and my dad called our mom was telling her, he’s so cute the kids love him and she said don’t come home with a dog. Click. Well he came home with us and my mom asked what flavor is this mocha?
Then 2 years later i had the day off before thanksgiving and i was out to lunch with my mom and again same location was having an adoption event and what’s there again? Another boxer puppy this time a female. So im playing with her and im begging my mom for her and she said call your father and he comes up to meet us, sees her and tells my mom it’s up to her. And she becomes our second boxer.
Spending an entire day with Jim Carrey for my make a wish.
Total solar eclipse, 4 minutes of totality. Just unreal. We happened to live in the zone so we didn’t have to travel. Just felt so surreal with muted brightness and then bam, night time. Just incredible and I understand now why people would get emotional over it, it’s just an indescribable experience
My dad would take me to the park as a kid and he’d be the ‘Monster’ and chase all of us kids around the climbing frames and bridges while everyone squealed in delight as their parents played on their phones on the benches. I was SO PROUD that MY dad was the “fun” dad that everyone wanted to play with and when we left the other kids would look sad and say “Aww”.
I remember this like it was yesterday, I feel so proud and try and parent like this now because it was a core memory for me.
1972, 18 years old. In the Gulf of America, wearing a safety harness tied to the boat as we transited through a hurricane and watching the 35–40-foot waves crash down from above us. Thinking “I’m completely ok, but if I were to fall off this boat I would never be found.”
I was sat on a bus and thought about the time someone close tome called me a cynic in an authentic way. I watched the sun over the hills and immediately decided I didn’t want people thinking that anymore even If I had to change my entire outward behaviour.
It’s a small thing but I don’t know it affected me
A New Year’s Day on a quiet spot on the California coast. Husband and I had gone for an early morning walk, watched the morning light on the ocean. Talked about our ideas for the year. We decided to take the plunge and commit to a big lifetime dream. I said, “So we’re on!” and he said, “We’re on!” and we high-fived.
At that exact moment, a bottlenose dolphin leapt out of the water, did a huge vertical backflip, and dove back down.
“Oh, WOW!” we both said, and then, “Looks like the universe just blessed the plan!”
My dad has a lazy eye. He was in a car with friends when the driver decided to drive off a cliff injuring everyone in the car. Illicit drugs were involved. That’s the story that keeps me off drugs.
Watching the movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron in theater with my Grandma when it first came out. It was awesome and still one of my favorite movies.
Wholesome one…
First time I saw my girlfriend (now my wife) dressed up for a party. She looked so amazing I wasn’t even sure I was allowed to touch.
Not quite traumatic…
As a teen/young adult, walking down the street (in the UK) and the road literally exploded. The gas and water pipes under the road had frozen in the abnormally cold winter we’d had and when they defrosted, they fractured and the pressure literally exploded the tarmac from below. A piece the size of my head missed me by a few feet.
Funny one…
As a high schooler (15 yrs) walking into town from school for lunch. A hearse was parked and as we walked past it, a hand reached around the coffin.
Everyone else (boys and girls) screamed. I burst out laughing and couldnt stop. When we got further down the hill we could see it was actually someone sitting behind the coffin, but from our original viewpoint it looked like it came from inside the coffin.
I was breaking up with a guy after dating for a while, and I was sad because he was a nice guy, but I realized I wasn’t in love with him. He noticed I was sad before I even said anything, and he asked why. I asked him how he knew, and he replied that whenever I get sad, my lips go soft. It was so sweet I never forgot. He is now married to my best friend, and they have two kids.
Being mega bored in 7th grade and absent mindedly put my finger in my nose and the moment I did I made eye contact with the teacher for a brief moment. She didn’t say anything, thankfully but I still felt the shame lol
My extended family rented a beach house, I was maybe 12 or 13. A few of us cousins decided to walk down to the beach in the middle of the night because we’d heard you could see the Milky Way. We were laying there in the sand, just talking about whatever, and then all of a sudden, we saw a shooting star. Then another, then another, and a full on meteor shower started. None of us knew it was supposed to happen, I don’t even know how long it lasted for but it was amazing. I wanted it to last forever.
Waking up super hungover and seeing the little miniature pincher I was babysitting joyfully hopping around with something in its mouth. I reached in and pulled it out. Was a patty of cat poo from the litter box he was munching on. 🤢🤮
When I was really little, we lived about 5 minutes from this fantastic park. It had an amazing playground, a train ride, a carousel, a big lake to walk around, a small zoo! And it’s so cheap. The train and carousel cost $2 each. The zoo is $2. Food at the snack bar is cheap.
In the summertime, my dad would take me there almost every night just before the park closed. I LOVED the train so we’d ride it and because they were closing and we came so frequently, they’d let us ride multiple times for free. Then we’d go to the snack bar and get Icees. Core childhood memory.
The first time I held my son. I couldn’t get over how abaolutely beautiful he was. I couldn’t stop looking at him.
The first time I met my husband. He was just so damn hot 🥵
And I couldn’t get enough of him. Our first date was 10hrs long lol. We just never wanted it to end. And now it never will 🥰
That time when I was four and I was determined not to fall asleep so I stared at the ceiling. It felt like I blinked and it was morning, so I legitimately thought I’d stayed awake all night.
The time my mom picked us up early from school and took us to a carnival. We stayed til it closed. We went on all the rides, and she let us have all the snacks and toys we wanted. I remember driving home in the car so happy, exhausted, sticky hands, a lapful of random toys and a belly full of cotton candy. I have kids of my own now, and I live to recreate memories like this for them
MY FIRST TIME DOING SHROOMS OR PSYCHEDELIC. An experienced that I will treasure in mylife time and hoping to share it to my kids someday. I have lost my faith in life, suffered existential crisis and dont know what to believe anymore or I keep questioning about life how cruel and unfair the world were living in. It helped me open and see the beauty of everything. I wish everyone would have the privilege to try it
On a crisp cool fall day I was a lone paddleboarder in a quiet open bay. The air was still and you could hear the soft mumbles of voices from a few people on the shore in the distance. As I started to paddle out I was hearing strange sounds from the ocean in front of me. I stopped to figure out what I was hearing. It was hundreds of dolphins swimming in a big circle around the bay as they fed. It was the puff of air they make as they surface that I was hearing. I quickly paddled out to the centre of the circle and stood there for 20 – 30 minutes and watched as these dolphins continually swam around me. The closest they came to me was about 40 feet. Such an awesome experience. I remember laughing out loud as the joy of the moment overtook me.
My family’s reaction our first time seeing the actual beach where the horizon is just more water. It was epic, and the pure unadulterated joy they were all clearly experiencing was wonderful.
When I was 13 my dad took me to the top of the World Trade Center. I didn’t realize we were making a memory that generations to come would never be able to have.
My first love at 16 years of age. He was… well… everything. We met in college, we were in the same psychology class. But he lived just around the corner from me so we used to walk the long journey together. He became a good friend.
My parents had gone away and I didn’t realise but my mum had phoned him to let him know that they’d be away and she was worried because I was working and would be catching the bus home in the dark. So he showed up at my house to make sure sure I was alright. We ended up spending the perfect night just talking, laughing together through most of the night, until we both got tired. We laid fully dressed on my bed and fell asleep together. He was the perfect gentleman.
U14 basketball finals. Shooting the ball from a bit past the halfway line at the sound of the buzzer. I immediately turned to sadly walk back to my team only to see shocked faces followed by screaming and jumping.
Standing on a beach during a hurricane (far enough from the danger) the wind was insane, the sea was dark, the sand was floating around. Feeling the magnitude of mother nature is insane!
my first sip of coffee. i was raised by my grandparents who were both big coffee drinkers and i desperately wanted to drink coffee as a child but my grandparents were firm in no coffee until i was at least 10, so the morning of my 10th birthday i woke up before the sunrise, reheated the pot of coffee my grandma had made the day before, popped a cinnamon sugar pop-tart into the toaster, climbed up on top of my treehouse and watched the sunrise with my luke-warm day old coffee and pop-tart. it was the best cup of coffee ive ever had and i think about it often.
Seeing breaking dawn part 2 in theaters when I was 9 years old. It came out the day after my birthday and my mom took me because we are huge fans. When Aro Ripped Carlisle’s head from his shoulders and the entire audience gasped/cried, I’ll never forget that moment.
Looking at the grade school that did the pre-kindergarten evals for my school district, from a hill, when I was 5, and thinking, “People learn to read there!”
When I was 9 we did a family vacation road trip to California. My mom said “we are going to drive to the end of the continent”. I 10 does in fact end at a stoplight, that if you drive through the light you enter a state park and can literally step out of your car, over the parking lot curb, and onto sand. It was pretty cool.
First time crowdsurfing at the greenfield festival 2022. Alestorm was playing and I was vibing super hard. During the Fucked with an anchor song which was my absolute favorite by them a stranger just grabbed me and said you and me go crowdsurfing now and before I realized or could do anything I was up and going forward. It felt absolutely amazing.
I climbed to the center of the big pyramid, Cheops, in Giza, Cairo in 1986. On the inside, up a very rickety ladder. What was up there you might ask. Nothing, but a guy wanting baksheesh (tips).
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my first circus performance probably.
Im still pretty active in the circus but you never forget the first show
I even got a picture of it in my room
Eating breakfast.
birth of all my kids
Discovering a relative was a clinical psychopath.
I’m still irritated I have to pay for her funeral cost.
My dad driving me around downtown Detroit showing me where he grew up and hung out and did hoodrat shit.
When my dad was around I was maybe like 6-7 years old and he’d take me with him to trap houses to score and have random women there watch me while he did his drug then on the way home tell me no to tell my mom where we were at… fucked me up as I got older because I never had proper guidance as a kid and now I’m a adult dealing with my past on being honest with ppl..
Briefly meet Alice Cooper in 2012, he signed a autograph and took a picture with me. He was so friendly and didn’t seemed bothered at all that I approached him. Hell of a nice guy
holding my baby sister for the very first time <3 I was 6, nearly 7, and I loved her so much from that first moment
Finding out my husband is a cross dresser.
watching tangled when it first came out in the cinema with my mum when i was 4
Seeing a space shuttle launch in person.
Good question.
5 hours spelunking storm drains while intoxicated in grad school
Playing my first video game.
Lmfao so I started to type something out and then I realized that it’s actually traumatic so it won’t fit the prompt.
Easy though, I’ll just talk about that time that… no that’s actually trauma too.
Well when I was 22? This one time… oh no wait, yeah that’s trauma too. My b.
Anyone else? 😂
Edit: I wonder if I’ll never forget the fact that I had to edit this post to fix an autocorrect mistake. Hey OP, if I always remember this edit, does that count?
The time I saw a baby seal just hanging out on the beach. I think about that lil guy almost weekly
Near death experience. Flat lined while in the hospital. The stuff I saw while I was “gone” was incredible. Surrounded by love and acceptance. It was amazing. Changed my entire outlook on life and death.
Holding my first grandbaby.❤️
Holding my daughter moments after she was born. I cried with an emotion I never felt before.
I remember holding my child close on a windy beach on our 1st family holiday thinking just how intensely I loved this little person and that I wanted to remember that moment forever. The cool wet sand under my feet, her little woolly cardigan, the smell of the sea, sea birds calling. I can just remember it all so clearly. A moment of true joy.
I helped a man to get into a cab at the hospital after he had knee surgery. The driver didn’t get out of the car. I let him use my shoulder for support while he lowered himself onto the seat and held his crutches while he got comfortable. It seemed like the right thing to do so I didn’t really think about it.
Once he was on his way I was approached by a group of people telling me I was a wonderful person to step up and help him when no one else would.
I will never forget how sad it made me feel to know that they would rather congratulate me instead of helping that man to get into a cab.
I saw a perfect circle rainbow while paragliding in Hawaii. I didn’t even know it was possible. Beautiful!
I had a fine massage one day. Highly recommend relaxation
I once kicked someone off my bus for taking a poo in the middle of the top deck.
Seeing the aurora borealis for the first time.
Getting my first boxer and second boxer. Was in 7th grade and our mom had a stomach virus and she told our dad to take me and my brother and sister for ice cream. Well it just so happened there was an adoption event happening right next to Friendly’s and there was a boxer puppy there. We were playing with him and my dad called our mom was telling her, he’s so cute the kids love him and she said don’t come home with a dog. Click. Well he came home with us and my mom asked what flavor is this mocha?
Then 2 years later i had the day off before thanksgiving and i was out to lunch with my mom and again same location was having an adoption event and what’s there again? Another boxer puppy this time a female. So im playing with her and im begging my mom for her and she said call your father and he comes up to meet us, sees her and tells my mom it’s up to her. And she becomes our second boxer.
Spending an entire day with Jim Carrey for my make a wish.
My first concert with my dad. He took me to see Spice Girls
Running on the beach during a major thunderstorm in Mayport, FL.
No fireworks display will ever come close. I was in utter awe, and I’ve always liked storms.
Total solar eclipse, 4 minutes of totality. Just unreal. We happened to live in the zone so we didn’t have to travel. Just felt so surreal with muted brightness and then bam, night time. Just incredible and I understand now why people would get emotional over it, it’s just an indescribable experience
My dad would take me to the park as a kid and he’d be the ‘Monster’ and chase all of us kids around the climbing frames and bridges while everyone squealed in delight as their parents played on their phones on the benches. I was SO PROUD that MY dad was the “fun” dad that everyone wanted to play with and when we left the other kids would look sad and say “Aww”.
I remember this like it was yesterday, I feel so proud and try and parent like this now because it was a core memory for me.
1972, 18 years old. In the Gulf of America, wearing a safety harness tied to the boat as we transited through a hurricane and watching the 35–40-foot waves crash down from above us. Thinking “I’m completely ok, but if I were to fall off this boat I would never be found.”
First time I saw a video game and someone was controlling what was happening on the TV…..WTF moment!
I was sat on a bus and thought about the time someone close tome called me a cynic in an authentic way. I watched the sun over the hills and immediately decided I didn’t want people thinking that anymore even If I had to change my entire outward behaviour.
It’s a small thing but I don’t know it affected me
A New Year’s Day on a quiet spot on the California coast. Husband and I had gone for an early morning walk, watched the morning light on the ocean. Talked about our ideas for the year. We decided to take the plunge and commit to a big lifetime dream. I said, “So we’re on!” and he said, “We’re on!” and we high-fived.
At that exact moment, a bottlenose dolphin leapt out of the water, did a huge vertical backflip, and dove back down.
“Oh, WOW!” we both said, and then, “Looks like the universe just blessed the plan!”
Astonishing moment; will never forget.
🌈 The human centipede trilogy 🌈
Watching a total solar eclipse.
It is simply awe inspiring in ways that are impossible to put into words.
Listening to falling down while raining out
My dad has a lazy eye. He was in a car with friends when the driver decided to drive off a cliff injuring everyone in the car. Illicit drugs were involved. That’s the story that keeps me off drugs.
Swimming with manatees, sky diving, petting and feeding a sloth, the birth of my first nephew
Watching the movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron in theater with my Grandma when it first came out. It was awesome and still one of my favorite movies.
How loving and selfless my mother is/was
Wholesome one…
First time I saw my girlfriend (now my wife) dressed up for a party. She looked so amazing I wasn’t even sure I was allowed to touch.
Not quite traumatic…
As a teen/young adult, walking down the street (in the UK) and the road literally exploded. The gas and water pipes under the road had frozen in the abnormally cold winter we’d had and when they defrosted, they fractured and the pressure literally exploded the tarmac from below. A piece the size of my head missed me by a few feet.
Funny one…
As a high schooler (15 yrs) walking into town from school for lunch. A hearse was parked and as we walked past it, a hand reached around the coffin.
Everyone else (boys and girls) screamed. I burst out laughing and couldnt stop. When we got further down the hill we could see it was actually someone sitting behind the coffin, but from our original viewpoint it looked like it came from inside the coffin.
I was breaking up with a guy after dating for a while, and I was sad because he was a nice guy, but I realized I wasn’t in love with him. He noticed I was sad before I even said anything, and he asked why. I asked him how he knew, and he replied that whenever I get sad, my lips go soft. It was so sweet I never forgot. He is now married to my best friend, and they have two kids.
Being mega bored in 7th grade and absent mindedly put my finger in my nose and the moment I did I made eye contact with the teacher for a brief moment. She didn’t say anything, thankfully but I still felt the shame lol
First major earthquake. Changes your relationship with solid ground.
My extended family rented a beach house, I was maybe 12 or 13. A few of us cousins decided to walk down to the beach in the middle of the night because we’d heard you could see the Milky Way. We were laying there in the sand, just talking about whatever, and then all of a sudden, we saw a shooting star. Then another, then another, and a full on meteor shower started. None of us knew it was supposed to happen, I don’t even know how long it lasted for but it was amazing. I wanted it to last forever.
The moment I got my college acceptance packet in the mail. I can still smell the post office and remember the feeling of nervous excitement.
Waking up super hungover and seeing the little miniature pincher I was babysitting joyfully hopping around with something in its mouth. I reached in and pulled it out. Was a patty of cat poo from the litter box he was munching on. 🤢🤮
Doing lsd with my gf and wandering around the city, watching the sunset. It was just one of the best days I’ve ever experienced.
When I was really little, we lived about 5 minutes from this fantastic park. It had an amazing playground, a train ride, a carousel, a big lake to walk around, a small zoo! And it’s so cheap. The train and carousel cost $2 each. The zoo is $2. Food at the snack bar is cheap.
In the summertime, my dad would take me there almost every night just before the park closed. I LOVED the train so we’d ride it and because they were closing and we came so frequently, they’d let us ride multiple times for free. Then we’d go to the snack bar and get Icees. Core childhood memory.
The first time I held my son. I couldn’t get over how abaolutely beautiful he was. I couldn’t stop looking at him.
The first time I met my husband. He was just so damn hot 🥵
And I couldn’t get enough of him. Our first date was 10hrs long lol. We just never wanted it to end. And now it never will 🥰
That time when I was four and I was determined not to fall asleep so I stared at the ceiling. It felt like I blinked and it was morning, so I legitimately thought I’d stayed awake all night.
The time my mom picked us up early from school and took us to a carnival. We stayed til it closed. We went on all the rides, and she let us have all the snacks and toys we wanted. I remember driving home in the car so happy, exhausted, sticky hands, a lapful of random toys and a belly full of cotton candy. I have kids of my own now, and I live to recreate memories like this for them
Dancing with my husband at our wedding
This can be traumatic if you’re super young, but I was already an adult.
The first time someone told me they were attracted to me.
Soloing and airplane for the first time. It was January 17th 1992 in a Piper Cub (I still remember the tail #) on a grass field. Awesome memory.
MY FIRST TIME DOING SHROOMS OR PSYCHEDELIC. An experienced that I will treasure in mylife time and hoping to share it to my kids someday. I have lost my faith in life, suffered existential crisis and dont know what to believe anymore or I keep questioning about life how cruel and unfair the world were living in. It helped me open and see the beauty of everything. I wish everyone would have the privilege to try it
On a crisp cool fall day I was a lone paddleboarder in a quiet open bay. The air was still and you could hear the soft mumbles of voices from a few people on the shore in the distance. As I started to paddle out I was hearing strange sounds from the ocean in front of me. I stopped to figure out what I was hearing. It was hundreds of dolphins swimming in a big circle around the bay as they fed. It was the puff of air they make as they surface that I was hearing. I quickly paddled out to the centre of the circle and stood there for 20 – 30 minutes and watched as these dolphins continually swam around me. The closest they came to me was about 40 feet. Such an awesome experience. I remember laughing out loud as the joy of the moment overtook me.
My family’s reaction our first time seeing the actual beach where the horizon is just more water. It was epic, and the pure unadulterated joy they were all clearly experiencing was wonderful.
When I was 13 my dad took me to the top of the World Trade Center. I didn’t realize we were making a memory that generations to come would never be able to have.
My first love at 16 years of age. He was… well… everything. We met in college, we were in the same psychology class. But he lived just around the corner from me so we used to walk the long journey together. He became a good friend.
My parents had gone away and I didn’t realise but my mum had phoned him to let him know that they’d be away and she was worried because I was working and would be catching the bus home in the dark. So he showed up at my house to make sure sure I was alright. We ended up spending the perfect night just talking, laughing together through most of the night, until we both got tired. We laid fully dressed on my bed and fell asleep together. He was the perfect gentleman.
The day my daughter was born.
Fairly traumatic for my wife, though.
Sunrise in Matobo park in Zimbabwe.
Nature was just humbling, the moment was a true reminder of my less than tiny place in the grand order of things.
U14 basketball finals. Shooting the ball from a bit past the halfway line at the sound of the buzzer. I immediately turned to sadly walk back to my team only to see shocked faces followed by screaming and jumping.
Super proud, never to be forgotten, moment.
Standing on a beach during a hurricane (far enough from the danger) the wind was insane, the sea was dark, the sand was floating around. Feeling the magnitude of mother nature is insane!
Picking up my first dog, she’s almost eight now but I remember the day I brought her home well
my first sip of coffee. i was raised by my grandparents who were both big coffee drinkers and i desperately wanted to drink coffee as a child but my grandparents were firm in no coffee until i was at least 10, so the morning of my 10th birthday i woke up before the sunrise, reheated the pot of coffee my grandma had made the day before, popped a cinnamon sugar pop-tart into the toaster, climbed up on top of my treehouse and watched the sunrise with my luke-warm day old coffee and pop-tart. it was the best cup of coffee ive ever had and i think about it often.
Seeing breaking dawn part 2 in theaters when I was 9 years old. It came out the day after my birthday and my mom took me because we are huge fans. When Aro Ripped Carlisle’s head from his shoulders and the entire audience gasped/cried, I’ll never forget that moment.
Looking at the grade school that did the pre-kindergarten evals for my school district, from a hill, when I was 5, and thinking, “People learn to read there!”
When I was 9 we did a family vacation road trip to California. My mom said “we are going to drive to the end of the continent”. I 10 does in fact end at a stoplight, that if you drive through the light you enter a state park and can literally step out of your car, over the parking lot curb, and onto sand. It was pretty cool.
Legoland
First time crowdsurfing at the greenfield festival 2022. Alestorm was playing and I was vibing super hard. During the Fucked with an anchor song which was my absolute favorite by them a stranger just grabbed me and said you and me go crowdsurfing now and before I realized or could do anything I was up and going forward. It felt absolutely amazing.
I climbed to the center of the big pyramid, Cheops, in Giza, Cairo in 1986. On the inside, up a very rickety ladder. What was up there you might ask. Nothing, but a guy wanting baksheesh (tips).