Leonardo said:

I've spent the last half hour looking up old commercials from my childhood on Youtube.

These were on tv when I was 5, 6, 7 years old. We're talking 1993, 1994, 1995.

I am in shock at how many of these ads I can remember watching. Or rather, I'll see the thing now and realize I have a trace of a memory, or I'll remember the music, or certain lines will suddenly come back to me and I'll remember repeating them.

To put things in context, I look at my childhood as a forgotten time, so far removed from me it might as well been another person. It was me, and some of that guy still lives, but much has changed.

It kind of frightens me..... how much information can a human brain retain?? By the looks of it, some of these memories never leave you. Yet, I've forgotten many, many things that I'm sure are far more important than stupid commercials!

And it really bothers me... how much tv did I watch as a youngster??? (answer: a lot, I'm sure. I never socialized as a kid, never got out of the house)

Most of my memories from childhood are a void. All I remember is television and vhs tapes. My grandpa died in 1995 and I don't remember spending time with him. It makes me sick.

You probably saw those commercials dozens of times at the very least. Their repetition is designed to make them stick in one's memory. Ad agencies had this down to a science well before the 1990's.

Do you have photos or anything else of your grandfather? Sometimes that's all you need to trigger a memory. I think most early memories before 5 or 6 gets a little fuzzy once you reach adulthood. We're not computers after all.