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* In Barbara Kingsolver's ''Animal Dreams'', protagonist Codi has a recurring nightmare of a "[[HellIsThatNoise shattering pop]]" and a [[BlindedByTheLight blinding flash]]. [[spoiler:Turns out that it's from the flashbulb on her father's camera when he took a picture of her as a newborn.]]

* One theory accounting for the images associated with alleged AlienAbduction experiences is that they're actually a foggy memory of the abductee's own birth, with "Grey aliens" being masked, white-coated doctors as perceived through a newborn's as-yet-unfamiliar vision. Fully justified, since newborns have an eyesight of about 20/400, according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]].

Often associated with characters with an unusually, or even supernaturally, good memory or high intelligence, such as an [[ElephantsNeverForget elephant]]. Compare BrainyBaby, a character whose mental development may skip over the infantile phase entirely. Overlaps with PregnancyDoesNotWorkThatWay if the character remembers being in the utero.

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheThirdWheel'', Greg claims to be able to remember stuff as far back as the womb. Given how he can be an UnreliableNarrator, though, he's most likely making it up.
* In the Robin Cook thriller ''Mutation'', the genetically-engineered super-genius child says that he remembers being born.

* In ''Literature/TheDemonata'', [[CreepyChild Bec]] is stated to have a memory so uncannily accurate, she not only remembers being born, but ''[[UpToEleven being in the womb itself.]]''
* It was clearly hyperbole but, according to the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, there are chemical interrogation techniques so effective that the test subject will remember things that his/her [[UpToEleven mother forgot]] while the subject was in utero.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', all the main character really remembers was [[spoiler:his biological father]] Papa Smurf leaving him in Psychelia when he was an infant -- before he felt the searing pain that was the Psyche Master's {{Mind Rape}}y mental probe that erased everything before that moment.
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Fanfic/BetterOffNotKnowing'': The protagonist's neonatal memory seems to be limited to the "bone-crushing cold" [[spoiler:of [[TheBrute her biological mother's]] TailorMadePrison at the North Pole]].
* Like in canon, Dexter in ''Fanfic/InvisibleSun'' was a BrainyBaby who understood adults from a very, very young age. He still remembers much of his infancy. Unfortunately, he remembers things he wasn't supposed to understand, such as [[spoiler:how he was an unplanned pregnancy]]. He also remembers his parents [[spoiler:frequently complaining about him]].
* In ''Fanfic/HumbleBeginnings'', Zwei can remember things from his first day of life.

* Narrator Greg Heffley claims this applies to him at the beginning of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheThirdWheel''. Turns out that even his gestation had its annoyances, thanks to Mom's prenatal speakers...

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Greg claims to be able to remember stuff as far back as the womb. Given how he can be an UnreliableNarrator, though, he's most likely making it up.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} young Witch Rebecka Smith-Rhodes gives her mother great big flashes of guilt when she remembers seeing a line of four men dangling from ropes, but can't quite remember when or if it happened at all. Her mother clearly remembers [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/4/Strandpiel attending the execution of four men who tried to kill her]]. She took Bekki. Who was only a couple of months old at the time. [[note]]The fic is ''Strandpiel'' by Creator/AAPessimal]]

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} young Witch Rebecka Smith-Rhodes gives her mother great big flashes of guilt when she remembers seeing a line of four men dangling from ropes, but can't quite remember when or if it happened at all. Her mother clearly remembers attending the execution of the four men who tried to kill her. She took Bekki. Who was only a couple of months old at the time.

* ''ComicBook/XMen

* ''ComicBook/NewXMen'': In issue #121, Cassandra Nova, a Mummudrai from the astral plane, copies Charles Xavier's DNA and grows as a twin in Sharon Xavier's womb. Charles, as a fetus, can sense the evil within Cassandra and psychically attacks her.

Characters in fiction have improbable memory spans; specifically, they can recall events that occurred before the age of three with detail, and their "memories" are true, real, and accurate -- not just memories of the event as it was told to them later, and not twisted by suggestion. Remembering one's own birth is particularly common.

This trope is quite far from TruthInTelevision: not being able to remember one's infancy is the standard (called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia Childhood amnesia]]). What's worse, most people can be easily tricked into "remembering" stuff that never happened (as demonstrated by, among others, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus Elizabeth Loftus]]).

* ''I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President'': Oliver Watson was fully aware when being born, and remembers the color and smell of the birth canal.

Often associated with characters with an unusually, or even supernaturally, good memory or high intelligence. Compare BrainyBaby, a character whose mental development may skip over the infantile phase entirely.

** In ''Stu Makers Evlves'', Chuckie describes a recurring nightmare which the viewer will realize is his birth. Oddly, as shown in ''Mother's Day'', even though he's about two, he doesn't have any memory of his mother [[spoiler: Melinda]] before she passed away but he does remember her as "the nice lady from his dreams"