Strange beliefs you had as a child.

Ok, tell me about some odd beliefs that you held as a child. Like, what was your reasoning behind how reality worked and stuff? Im not really looking to go into detail about god, or religion. Im looking to go in-depth on more mundane ideas. Heres a few of mine this should be a good starter as to what im looking for:

1) I used to believe that dead bodies were people who could still hear, feel, and think, and that being dead really sucked ass because you cant see, or move.. And you cant breath either, so your feeling the effects of suffocation non-stop for all eternity cuz your loved ones stuff you in a box and bury you and you stay there like that all eternity. I always tried thinking things like, "im a child I will never die!" because, for some odd reason I felt like I was going to remain a child forever and that it was physically impossible for children to actually die. And if someday I did ever happen to be an adult.. I would just be real smart and careful so that i'd never get killed. Yea, I would watch movies and think from then on that all the people who died were just stupid and didnt know how to avoid death. Then I thought if for some reason I did die, I could just have someone who knows me real well keep me in their home instead of burying me in a box when I died so they could read me stories and play video games and tell me what goes on so that I wouldnt have to be bored like all the other dead people.... What would I do about constantly having to suffer from not being able to take a breath though?? Hmm...
2) I used to be scared of digging a hole too deep in the ground because I thought I would fall into outer space, and then the rest of eternity after that would just involve non stop falling in pitch blackness.
3) Whenever I saw arnold schwarzenegger in the news talking back in the early nineties I thought he was actually a cybernetic organism.
4) I used to think barny was real. I was hoping to meet him someday.
5) I used to think that santa actually came down the chimney and gave me all my gifts each year during christmas and that bad children got nothing. So any kid at school who told me santa wasnt real was actually bad and didnt get any presents. It also had a very strong influence on my reactions when I did happen to become very upset at someone else. I'd still be naughty once in awhile, but the closer I got to christmas the nicer I became. And I would always try to make up for being naughty by doing good things as it got real close to christmas time.
6) I used to believe that war did not exist anymore, because as a child growing up back in the nineties I was exposed to a lot of war movies from the 1940's up to the 1960's and they were all based on WW1/WW2 era. Either that or it was things that happened before christ. I never saw modern day 90's warfare on television because I never watched the recent news(and what kid ever does?) so I thought that people had just gotten too damn smart to have wars.. I looked at the war movies and thought things like "Yea, now that we can make movies about it we can look at it from a different perspective and see how shitty it is...well... its kinda cool, guns and explosions and all, but still it makes a lot of corpses. And yea, being a corpse sucks cuz your gonna be blind and unable to breath forever which aint no fun. So if we just dont build stuff that blows us up, or kills us we wont need to worry about dieing which would be awesome! Exactly why my life is so awesome! But so is the terminator and that liquid metal guy... Oh well!".
7) When I first saw the movie paulie, I actually thought that there was a parrot "acting" the role of paulie, doing the voice and all no editing or voice over needed.
8) I had no idea the few anime shows I saw as a child were actually from another country, since all the characters in them looked white, and the names of the characters were all white.
9) I used to think that everyone... and I mean EVERYONE had a penis and stood over the toilet to pee.
10) I used to think that when I played super mario bros on the NES, that it was all basically like an MMO. That each goomba in the game was some other kid on the block somewhere playing there NES game, but instead of super mario bros their parents bought them super goomba bros or something. And if they were the koopa troopa's (the turtles) they were playing super turtle bros. And when I flattend the goombas by jumping on their heads that they were all pissed off and going "god damnit that asshole just jumped on me and killed me" and that I was just the best mario bros player in the town, that I had bought the best character, which was mario.
11) Speaking of mario bros, I once was at the mall with my mom and saw this bubble bath that had mario on it. I thought mario was either gonna come out of the bottle and help me take a bath or that a bunch of marios would come out of the bubbles and end up being much more entertaining than a rubber ducky! No! nothing sexual about mario joining me in the tub I was a child for fucks sakes!

Anyway im typing too much, what odd beliefs did you all have as children?

 

Hello,

well, as a kid I thought that if I work hard and become an engineer, everyone would like me, I earn the big money and get all the women. You get the idea. And guess what! Everything has become true .

Regards
Gyro

 

I wondered where all of the women went - quit being selfish and send some my way, haha.

When I was a kid I used to believe all adults were mature acting, responsible, all knowing, infallible and nice to everyone else. Boy was I in for a big surprise.

 

I used to think this was the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave....

 

Hello,

they are all stored in the attic. I can send you a few, but you have to inflate them by yourself .

Regards
Gyro

 

:rofl:

 

1. I thought everything was black and white when my dad was a kid because all of the pictures were black and white. He got a good laugh when I asked him that.

2. I also thought I was adopted. If you knew my family story you would understand. He also got a good laugh out of that when I asked.

3. I thought parents knew everything. Now I know they were just guessing and doing the best they could.

4. I thought I was going to marry Jon Bon Jovi. Talk about a heart broken 8 year old! I cried when I found out he got married. I'm over it now. It took years of intense therapy and a restraining order but I'm better now (jk...not about the crying part. I did cry)

 

I thought once as a kid it would be smart to recharge the car battery with the rotation of the wheels when the car drives. I told my dad and he said it was already invented. It's one of the first things I remember that I thought I invented it (well technically I did, I just wasn't the first) :biggrin:

 

nevermind.

 

I also used to believe you didn't need to have money if you had checks.

 

When i was a kid my grandmother was my favorite person in the world. I knew she was old and would die one day, but i always thought i would see her soul leave her body and i could just grab her soul's sole,or foot, and catch a ride with her straight to heaven. I was pretty devastated when she passed away because i never so much as caught a glimpse of her soul floating away.

 

i used to believe in paragraphs..

 

I was super pissed off at my mother once when I was like 5 years old so I ran outside and stepped on a crack - but it didn’t break my mother’s back


hotwater

 

I also had this delusion as well as a child. =)
Whenever I saw educational shows about evolution, dinosaurs, and how the earth came into existance I thought that color was like part of "evolution" of the world and all of reality and that it didnt start coming around till about the 70's. I based my beliefs of the world on movies and video games hehe. I just remember the old movies and how you can tell there old just by watching them and not by the "style" alone, but by the picture. The old fashioned technicolor or whatever. And I thought that it was part of color in the world evolving into the color we have today or something.

 

That's funny. I once told my kids, when they asked me how old I was---that I remembered when everything WAS black and white until color was added.

I can remember how I thought parents were supposed to take care of and guide me through life. I guess they showed me!

 

I thought I was the only person that was truly a human and everyone was just pretending I was normal so that I wouldn't feel upset.

 

I had many strange beliefs as a child, none of them significant enough to come to mind just now but they all can be pretty much summed up as "I didn't know shit!".

 

I was just telling my kids that when I was a kid I used to tell all my friends that mosquitoes were god and everytime I saw one I would just stop and listen to god talk to me...or follow them because I knew god had something to show me.

I also believed an evil witch lived in the woods behind the house.

 

I use to think that the singers on the radio were actually in the radio studio singing.