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I think according to neurobiological research children are not able to form autobiographical memories at that age. But I can definitely see how it could be expressed emotionally or physically. I'd think that any visual/autobiographical memories from infancy would be more metaphorical than anything (images imposed from an adult mind, but expressing feeling from infancy). I think it would be useful to talk about those images that come to mind and what they mean for you. They may also reflect how you feel about your childhood, infancy or not.
I had an experience in therapy where I reacted very bizarrely to something out of nowhere, hard to explain, and frankly I don't remember it very well. In any case, my therapist mentioned it might be a pre-verbal memory. Have never wanted to revisit it, though. Awful experience, and I feel like since I can't actually *know* what happened as an infant, I don't want to go there with suppositions. For me, there being a possibility I was mistreated in one way or another as an infant doesn't help me, it's impossible to know how, why, by whom, or even if something ever happened at all. Don't like that limbo.
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