Images, motion and memory

[warch]

Here's a very (kinda tired) random thought and I wonder what y'all think....

Ok, you see yourself in a photo and you're 2 yrs. old. You recognize it as you, or have just been told long enough that it *is* you. You may even have some real or constructed memory of the place or event included..You can kinda see yourself in that figure. (that's my experience).

I've been thinking about how amazing it is to see motion pictures. 1980s it became very very common to videotape your children. So these individuals, younger than I, have this mass, common experience. They have a distanced documentation of themselves as babies, maybe even being born, kids, moving, making noise and being alive. Do they have a completely different understanding of their past and identity? It seems a subtle but rather amazing experience. What do the elements of time, sound and movement add to this recognition and memory?