weird stuff you believed as a kid

[Glen]

when i was young i asked my dad what a red license plate was for, and he told me that they belonged to diplomats, and that they could do whatever they wanted to with the only consequence being deportation

for a few years afterwards i was convinced not only that these people could run me over with no repercussions, but that they wanted to, and whenever i saw a red license plate i got really freaked out

 

[Vintage Books]

when i was little i thought cats were all girls and dogs were all boys and they sorta got together. smart kid

 

[kd24]

the sun and the moon were the same thing, and that the MUN would slowly revolve around and face us moonside at night, sunnyside during the day

also santa

 

[VKCA]

i've seen similar threads like this on other forums

you don't browse other forums
just say reddit

when i was little i thought cats were all girls and dogs were all boys and they sorta got together. smart kid

how unoriginal

 

[Every1XplodeNOW]

I remember the first time my parents showed me an old movie that was in black and white I thought that the world used to be all black and white and that color was "invented"

I also believed this.

I use to believe:
That there were no more numbers past ten, so when 1st grade rolled around and my teacher asked what number is this 11, I smugly raised my hand and said "one one". fail

I use to think that my life wasn't real and that people were watching me. I would spend hours trying to find the cameras. >_>

This girl convinced me pokemon where real and they were actually on another planet. So, I believed pokemon were aliens. lol


I'm sort of surprised that someone hasn't mention Disney yet...

 

[Django]

Oh I also didn't think (and still don't believe) that girls take shits

 

[v]

when I was 10 I masturbated for the first time and thought it was a superpower so I continued to do it covertly for years until one day I watched real porn and discovered that the gross-smelling White Pee was not unique to me, but in fact a byproduct of sexual activity. boy did I feel silly for jerking it in the public pool!

 

[New World Order]

when I was 10 I masturbated for the first time and thought it was a superpower so I continued to do it covertly for years until one day I watched real porn and discovered that the gross-smelling White Pee was not unique to me, but in fact a byproduct of sexual activity. boy did I feel silly for jerking it in the public pool!

Hahahaha, omg I'm like dying of laughter right now. You sir have made my day.

 

[elDino]

That because I had lots of freckles I'd be able to run fast. They only told me that to help with competition etc. (It must have worked too because I won the running race every year at my school up until I was about eight lol).

 

[capefeather]

Like everyone else, I was indoctrinated into the belief that you could do absolutely anything you put your mind to, and if you didn't get what you want you just didn't work hard enough. It's weird to think that supposedly highly functioning adults still believe this.

I used to think that the whole earth was a pea (as in, the vegetable) in a much larger world, which got moved in and out of a freezer to change the seasons. This much larger world was also a pea inside a much much larger world, and so on and so on

do you realize how profound this actually is

I used to believe that Final Fantasy 8 was tolerable.

lol, well at least the battle system was vastly improved and incorporated into a different series

oh wait that's ff2

damn you ff8

 

[Keiran]

I used to think Germany was its own island somewhere around Iceland

I used to think girls urinated out of their bums

 

[Relados]

I used to believe a person lived in my wall and came out to steal my gameboy games.
And that's where my Metroid Fusion went.

I think I still believe this. My brother and I had a copy of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga that we lost several years ago and we could never find again.

 

[RODAN]

i used to think portugal was in south america

 

[Zacchaeus]

I used to think that when you ate, food just fell into this giant open cavity that took up most of the space between your shoulders and hips.

I used to think Hondas were cool.

I used to think Pluto was a planet.

 

[Dark Fallen Angel]

i used to think portugal was in south america

This is because of Brazil?

 

[Zebstrika]

When I was young my sister showed this way of saying gibberish I didn't understand and poof, the TV would turn on or off. I wondered how she did it for a few years, sometimes trying to replicate it, and now I assume she was probably just sitting on the remote.

 

[mkizzy]

Things I used to believe in:
-Gremlins
-Ogres
-Dragon balls
-Bigfoot (jk I still believe in this)
-Elfs
-Indian flying carpets
-Naruto
-G-spot
-Ryu from Street Fighter being better than Ken
-Electrivire being good
-Angry gnomes
-Lizard demons

 

[Lavos]

used to believe:

-everyone else could read my thoughts
-dragons lived in caves in antarctica
-girls were gross
-drugs were bad

 

[MapleDoom]

I used to think that Crocs looked cool.

 

[elcheeso]

I always believed that the Joker from Batman lived under my bed and was always planning to pull me under and eat me if I put my feet down too close to the side when I woke up. I usually jumped out of bed every morning until I was about 10 to prevent this.

 

[TrainerX493]

I thought Lions lived in my wall due to a recurring nightmare.

When I was a kid when I went to sleep I would see a big monster black cat of some sort in one of my 2 windows, fall through a deep tunnel with the walls made entirely out of them, enter my dream for that night, and then clime through/get suck in back in to the tunnel, falling upwards, and when I got to the end of the tunnel, I wake up. Almost all my dreams were like this.

 

[vonFiedler]

lol, well at least the battle system was vastly improved and incorporated into a different series

oh wait that's ff2

damn you ff8

Damn both of them. The Elder Scroll's system was taken from Quest For Glory, a game that came out before the first Final Fantasy was even released in the west.

 

[capefeather]

Eh I was referring to SaGa, not Elder Scrolls, but okay.

 

[Lanturn314]

-I used to think that sex just meant two naked people sitting next to each other, and that babies were made by the sperm cell (which looked like a glowing nuclear pea and was actually visible to the naked eye) ran down the guy's leg and then up the girl's body into her mouth and finally implanting itself in the stomach....

-When I was in first grade, my mom would always pack me cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, which would often get soggy. There was this really fat lady who worked in the cafeteria as a monitor, watching all of us kids and passing out plastic utensils. Somehow, my 6-year-old brain came up with the idea that her coming by and saying "You need a fork, hun?" directly caused my sandwich to get really soggy and gross, so I would always scarf it down before she would get to my table...

-That anyone who smoked was evil. I felt extremely betrayed whenever I found out that one of the adults I admired was actually a smoker!!

 

[Chieliee]

I used to think smoke stacks were how clouds were made

and then I realized they were actually killing the clouds

are.eye.pee

so did i

In fact, i used to believe everything was made in factories (this means also apples, other fruits/plants, animals) Everything except for humans.

I used to believe politicians are smart

I used to believe pokemon was childish. Really, when i was around 8 years old, everyone was playing RBY and i was like LOL u so immature.... I know, i made a huge mistake.

I used to believe that eating bread crusts would make me able to whistle. I still can't. (I don't know if this is a worldwide thing or just in the Netherlands)

When i was really young, when we went to the zoo, i told my family that i'd already been there. They said they went there last time when my mom was pregnant(of me). I didn't give in and insisted that there was a hole in my mom's stomach which i peeked through.

Whenever the sun was setting in this way that it looks really big due to refraction of light (i think) I used to think the sun was crashing into the earth.

I used to think pop music is cool (admittedly, back then it was better than it's now)

There's tons of more stuff, but i can't remember it now



I guess this fits in this thread too:

Stuff i used to get nightmares about

A wooden lion on wheels (from a children/baby TV show). I always envisioned it slowly riding down the hallway towards my room, with creaking wheels n stuff

Some weird kind of whiches, which looked almost like statues, completely black, which would steal my voice. They would be standing near our back door, which had a pretty big window in it. The route to the downstairs toilet passes near that door. Whenever i had to pee, and it was dark outside, i just went upstairs.

Grim Reaper (this was actually caused by playing The Sims, lol) This one actually stuck for a long time, i believe untill when i was around 12. One time i made him go away by giving candy. Still, he was scary as fuck to me.