What's your earliest memory?

[Eddie]

(I just read through page 1 of this thread and realized that I had already posted this memory in post #7, so I'm deleting it....)

....and I'll replace it with a memory from very long ago, but not from this incarnation.

I am sitting on the shore of an ancient sea.  The shore is bare soil, but it isn't sandy; the soil is more fine-textured, and intensely red in color.  It's bare, there is no visible plant or animal life anywhere.  The sea is quiet, only the faintest, meagerest waves (maybe an inch high) lap against the shore.  The sky above is clear and cloudless.  It isn't light blue, like ours here on earth, but a very deep color that is somewhere between indigo and purple, an extraordinary color.  The color of the sky is quite dark, but I can see perfectly.  The water is a very deep blue in color, almost black.

The most striking thing about the memory is the sense of unfathomable age that accompanies it....it must date back many billions of years, long before our solar system here existed.  Maybe tens or hundreds of billions of years.

I have had this memory all of my life, and it's one of my most vivid memories....but I have no explanation for it.