What is the oldest memory you can remember?

I was about 4 or so years old, and I was in a travel agency before our vacation to Florida. There was a LOT of brown, fake plants, and insanely high counters . I really don't remember much period before age 13-14, i think someone brainwashed me =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Eleo is right. Our brains store memories as impressions, but not necessarily just sensory impressions. Our mental faculties re-assemble this information into meaningful "memories." So it isn't actually remembering, its more like reconstructing a situation based on little bit of data.

Much of this information is still stored, but lies outside of what we are able to consciously recollect. Hypnotism works to some extent to allow people to fish out these memories (although considering they are hypnotised, it doesn't do a terrible lot of good )

But theoretically you should be able to "remember" everything that has ever happened to you.

This is the whole reason why brainwashing will work - we don't record anything like a video camera, we store contextual clues in a manner of speaking, and if one or more of these clues are changed, our brain reconstructs the memory differently.

There's nowhere I can't reach.