What sights, smells, people, places etc take you right back to childhood memories good ones i hope.
Its always christmas/december that gets my memory triggered x

MUSIC! Especially 70's. Led Zeppelin, The Door's, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Peter Frampton, etc.

When we were 22, my boyfriend died.
It was a very difficult recovery.

One day, about 30 years later,
I was walking down a crowed street,
window-shopping when suddenly I
smelled his after-shave!

My head whipped around because for me,
in that moment before reality struck
like a truck, he was alive.

Man, a smell can trigger long-buried
memories instantaneously.

I've done extensive memory training...even paid for Dale Carnegie classes for memory training and public speaking.

I can command vivid, detailed memories with ease.

I agree, music is a major memory influence as well as discussions, tastes, odors and situations.

Its not really the holidays which cause my memories but more of the look of a decoration accompanied by odors, weather or sounds.

If I talk about my younger days of partying or trippin on acid I can also recall how I felt at that time.

When I see people doing things which I have done or children behaving as I did, it also brings detailed memories of my youth.

Even certain days of the year can inspire memories of days long past.

Memories are reinforced by applying associations to what you want to remember. The only issue I have found is with such a full life, associations overlap and I get multiple distinct memories for similar associations...which tends to make dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc...) challenging.

Degenerative brain disorders do not run in my family. I'll probably remember nearly my whole life until I die...barring head trauma.

The aroma of fresh-cut grass.

The School Life an still theirs a child still alive in each...

yes sir i was born in 77 My dad was big into music so I have tastes that span but you have some good choices there. Music dnot only evokes childhood mems but certain songs are attatched strongly to events in your life all throughout. Sometimes i wonder if people realise how powerful music and vibration are in all aspects of life.
for good guy

sure do. Its incredible when you think about it.
Soufiehere.

Yes you sound as though you may may have some psychology or hypnosis knowledge from what you write about association, I've been practicing hypnosis for a few years and psychadelics for decades lol
for Tom

Easter!!
And my birthday. Always reminds me of my childhood birthday parties, often outdoors as regularly the weather was great mid-May :)

If you ever get a chance you might try a sensory deprivation tank.
I expored those in college.