Weird things you believed in when you were a child but were proven wrong...

Okay, here I go...I am about to embarrass myself, again. *sigh*

So, around the time I was...oh, I'd say about seven or eight, whenever I would hear a very loud motorcycle or a car without it's muffler, I always believed that a skeleton man, wearing a motorcycle helmet was driving by my house. I do not know why I thought that but I did. I would hear it coming towards my home and I would run to my bedroom and climb up on my bed before it could get to my house. My mom would laugh at me. :redface:

When I was about six, I believed that football players were a unique group who came from another part of the world. I honestly believed that the pads and such, were part of their body. I saw them as unique beings instead of humans. I would say, "Look mama, football man". Yeah, they still laugh at me about that.

When I was very young, I believed that Walter Cronkite could really see me through the TV. When he would speak directly into the camera, I would get up and run out of the room. While we are on this subject I might as well admit that I honestly believed little men lived inside the stereo and played music. I would always ask my mom where they went when she turned off the music.

A few other honorable mentions, I believed a monster lived behind the shower curtain at my grandmothers house, the Easter Bunny loved to give me lacy ruffled dresses and matching socks because I was special, and the beach could magically move me down it's shoreline.

Looking back on all of this, someone should have had pity on me and told me the truth.

 

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I agree with Cogito. C'mon, y'all, this is supposed to be fun! =D

Now, where are some more things I used to think...

(a) I used to believe that the TV had a small facility with small people inside that ran all the shows. It was kinda like Chimmy's.

(b) With shows like "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Shining Times Station", I used to believe those trains were life-sized. Basically, everything was being filmed in some remote part of England (They had British accents). Yeah, don't ask me how I got that conclusion.

(c) I used to think romance in real life worked just like a Disney movie. Boy, I was disappointed when, after reading a biography of Helen Keller, I learned that Helen wasn't whisked away by a prince to live happily ever after with him.

(d) When I watched the Lion King, after the "Elephant Graveyard" bit, I was convinced that when elephants died, the other animals took them to that spot.

 

Sorry about that, Cogito.

I used to think the Moon was literally a flat disc. XDDD

 

I used to get scared whenever the song "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" by REM came on the radio because I literally thought it was the end of the world
I was a strange child

 

One more belief...I always knew my grandmother was going to live forever...I still want to believe that but after today I know it isn't true. That is the only belief I wish I could hold onto and never lose my innocence over.

 

Heres one. I used to think that West was North and East was South and well you get the idea.

My house faces East and I used to think that because it faced that way, it had to be south. It wasn't until I was like 10 did I realize the truth. The worse part is, I still at times think West is actually north and have a really difficult time trying to picture North as being, well North. It just seems to weird.

So my sense of direction seems to be broken.

 

LOL, same here...


My sister once told me there were sharks in the river that runs through my hometown. I believed that for more years than I care to admit.

I used to think that the when you read a book for the first time you had to read it straight through, start to finish, with as few breaks as possible. Otherwise the story would change on you.

 

1. I was convinced that my sister was a werewolf and would turn in her crib when the moonlight hit it. (My Dad was responsible for that one. Thanks Pa.)

2. I was pretty sure that something lived in my closet and under the stairs of the basement. Maybe Count Dracula. Or Freddy Kruger.

3. I believed that if we dug enough we really could dig to China. And take their cookies.

4. I believed that my dog Sidney could be rode like a horse for more than .5 seconds if I just trained him right.

 

I used to think that Green Bay was somewhere up in Canada. Don't ask me how I got this idea, but I had the remote idea when I was about 6 that the Packers played someplace in Canada. Until we went to the reopening of Lambeau Field in 2003 and I got to see Green Bay and Lambeau for the first time did I realize it's only an hour's drive away from where I live.

I have no idea where I got that idea from.

 

A kid who was in my class from kindergarten through fifth grade had diabetes and a severe allergy to peanuts, so I thought - for many, many years - to me, at least - that the two were inevitably connected.

 

I used to believe that people were basically good.

 

Me too.

I also believed that cartoon characters lived in their own private world and came over to ours to make movies and TV shows (curse you Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

I used to think that you could read by osmosis and that if you stared at the page long enough the words would just pop into your head. When I was about five I used to go find the thickest books in the house, and while away hours turning pages, and then breathlessly explain the plot to anyone who would listen.

I actually thought clowns were funny, as you can tell I was one very messed up kid.

And yes I too had a monster in the closet that only my blankets could protect me from. Mine was the Terminator. T2 cured me of that (for Christmas that year all I wanted my own personal terminator like the John Conner in the movie), though it did endear in me an irrational fear of shiny liquids and hospitals.

 

I used to seriously believe I had a shot at a career as either Balto, Simba, Little Foot the dinosaur, Max from Goofy movie, or John Smith from Pocohantas. Needless to say I was disappointed when I found out that not only were they all fictional cartoon characters, but also all male.

Too bad too, I could have made a pretty awesome Simba.

 

I used to believe that if I thought about something hard enough, I could make it happen. Like if I thought about a shark really hard, I could make one appear in the pool. My mom could never figure out why I wouldn't get off the floats. I also believed that if I got hurt or sick, if I used my mind, I could make myself better. I got that one from my Dad. Sometimes I think it really works. haha

 

Are you Hobbes or Rousseau? Authoritarian or revolutionary?

 

I used to think Pluto was a planet...

 

I used to run from my bed into the hallway really quickly, because the carpet was blue in my room, and all I could imagine was this mahoosive shark coming at me right under my feet.

I later went on to struggle with maths and dribble whilst both awake and asleep.
Oh yeaah.

 

I used to think that if I took a bath for too long and got too wrinkly, I'd turn old faster.

 

I used to believe that people that I saw on television could see back out at me, I would not say anything bad in front of the TV or even get undressed if I was in view of the television.

 

^ I have a friend who makes big signs to wave at the TV during basketball games. It's not really a tube, you know. . . .

 

This one is kind of embarrassing now, but it's the truth:

When I was about 4, one of my Dad's friends told me that their TV didn't work, and that the reason for this was because the tv needed to be filled up with orange juice to keep working. Like a car needs gasoline, I remember clearly him having said that. Well, long story short. I also knew the next door neighbors, SO being a nice little kid I went over there and got some OJ. Next thing you know, I had dumped it into the TV and turned it on. Sparks and the smell of frying circuits filled the air, and everyone was mad at me.

Moral of the story:

Don't lie to a kid when He-Man is coming on in 10 minutes.

 

Ooh, just remembered one!

When I was little, I used to watch Back to the Future all the time. I just loved the idea of time travel. Well, I loved it when Marty rode on the hoverboard. I was told by my dad (foolishly) that hoverboards were actually real and I could ride one. Since I loved the idea of being able to fly high on a board or just fly in general, I spent the next year or so looking for hoverboards in Toys R' Us. Because my dad told me they were real. *facepalm*

Someday they will be, though, and they'll be the hottest toy out there and I will HAVE ONE!!!!

 

When I was about five or so, during a hernia operation, a doctor hovered over me and asked, "Are you ready to fly to the moon?" before I was put under. For many years afterwards I thought I had actually taken a trip to the moon.