And now I know why. He literally has memories from inside the WOMB.
He was on Colbert recently, and he told Colbert about his first childhood memory.
Yep, THE WOMB.
Nicolas Cage remembers being in the womb*.
“Listen, I know this sounds really far out, and I don’t know if it’s real or not, but sometimes, I think I can go all the way back to in utero and feeling like I could see faces in the dark or something," he said.
"I know that sounds powerfully abstract, but that somehow seems like maybe it happened."
“Now that I am no longer in utero, I would have to imagine it was perhaps vocal vibrations resonating through to me in that stage going way back. That comes to mind."
So, there you have it. That's what the womb is like!