What's the weirdest thing you truly believed as a kid?

What's the weirdest stuff you truly believed as a kid?

I believed:
* That if I got a new toy, as soon as I took the price tag off it was like cutting an umbilical cord and the toy would "come to life".

* That if you ate bread crust, you'd grow hair on your chest

*If you pulled a face and the wind changed you'd be stuck wearing the expression forever

*If you picked your nose your head will cave in (still hasn't happened)

*That if I flashed my wizza at two boy bullies in year two they'd get scared and run away. (they actually dobbed on me and I got grounded from watching The Simpsons for a week)

* That I'm alive for a very special purpose

* My dreams were real worlds I visited at night

* The outhouse dunny was the most terrifying place on the face of the Earth (tbh I still do when it's night)

*That the fungus that grows on trees was monkey poop. A cousin told me that they just climb the tree and sit their butts on the side of the tree, then take a crap and it just stays and dries there.

 

I believed Jesus died for my sins and afterlife consists of a heaven and a hell. On the bright side I never believed in saints (except for the original santa clause of course, an imposter climbs the roofs here in holland every december so I can live with this misconception very well) and the pope

 

We used to have this old fashioned battery charger, with a big brown box at one end. (Presumably full of electrical stuff). Me and my older sister were firmly convinced this box contained a dead mouse, which somehow helped charge the batteries.
No idea how this belief started...but we were without doubt!

I also had a weird belief that Australia was a large red box with wheels on...and not a country at all. (I grew up in the UK, so I didnt know much about what Australia actually was!)

Apparently, when I was a baby...I had an irrational fear of men with beards. I dont remember this, but apparently it was quite problematic, as I grew up on a type of hippy commune....so there were LOTS of beards around!

 

I really thought I could fly and I jumped off the fence and got a scar on my chin

 

I had the belief that somehow all this would make sense someday... It doesn't.

 

Maggots are baby dragons.

 

I'm *** Years Older Than You, And It Still Doesn't Make Sense....



Cheers Glen.

 

Oh well, I also remember me and my brother would break down electrical toys (generally toy trucks and cars etc.) because we believed we could put it together and build a large new vehicle out of it someday later...

I remember it was quite the opposite with me as a kid. Probably because my dad has a beard. I never saw my dads chin

 

I would not be so disgusted in flies and maggots if I had believed this, you lucky bastard

 

That poop was stored in our buttcheeks and if you got kicked or fell on your butt too hard a poopy mess would be the result.

 

No Wonder In Your Avatar, You Give Your Location, As "In The Bowels Of All Mankind"....



Cheers Glen.

 

My brother used to tell me that I was an alien and that my parents found me on the side of the road. He said that if you peeled of my human skin I would be green underneath. My head was a little on the biggish side as a child- so this was his "reason" why. So for the longest time I was afraid of getting scratched and hurt because I thought my green skin would show. hahaha oh boyyyy hah

 

The belief was anything but comforting. I had never seen maggots before and saw them in a pile of garbage. An older person told me that they were baby dragons and because I was poking around the garbage looking at them, the mother dragon was becoming upset and would shortly be upon me in retribution. This person began to surreptitiously thump on the ground as if to mimic the approaching dragon and I became tearfully terrified and began to run away as to flee for my life. As I was running blinded by tears I was nearly struck by a car. The driver stopped to investigate and fortunately I was coached as to the real identity of maggots. In that moment I developed a great affection for truthful observation. The belief was forged in and lasted but a few minutes, yet was so convincing at the moment as to turn my life upside down.

 

That Jesus and God existed, and that drug users were evil people.

 

I also had a great disbelieve in how people could sleep all morning. As a kid this seemed nearly impossible.

This is a classic by the way :2thumbsup:

 

It's still nearly impossible... Just sayin'

 

Not for me.

 

This. Exactly this.

I was told if I lied I would go to hell. I always felt so bad when I lied not because of the lie, but because I was going to the fiery pits of hell when I died.

 

I believed in 'bubble gum ett"

My grandparents convinced us they lived in their heat/ac system after my sister fell asleep with gum in her mouth and it ended up in her hair, and they told us that if you do that bubble gum ett comes out of the vents and cuts all your hair off to steal your gum lol

 

my father explained to me that the garbage dump was a hole in the ground they put garbage in...so I imagined there was a small hole and a guy dropping the garbage in it

I was disappointed when i was finally old enough to go with him