You Didn't Forget Your First Two Years

In March 2025, a team at Yale slid twenty-six babies into an MRI scanner. Awake. They were looking for the reason you cannot remember being one year old, and they found the opposite: the recording was running the whole time. Your first two years were filed away as they happened. In this video you meet a two-month-old who remembered how to move the world with one kick, a seven-year-old who could describe her second birthday and the nine-year-old version of her who could not, and a mouse in Toronto whose lost infant memory was switched back on with light. You will also find out why the edge of the blackout sits earlier for some people than others, and what your brain was spending everything it had on instead of keeping a record. You are not missing those years. You are locked out of them. If this changed how you think about your own earliest memory, leave a like, and tell me in the comments what yours is and how old you think you were. Subscribe if you want the next one. #AncientHumans #HumanEvolution #Memory #Neuroscience #Psychology