Things you used to believe as a kid

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I used to believe my grandfather fought ghosts with a bamboo stick. Turns out he was senile.

[Traditional_Ale]

- That the Calgary Flames win the cup every year.
- Lanny McDonald owned MacDonalds.
- That if you knew how to use a computer it meant you were smarter than the grown-ups.
- If you pull your belly button your bum falls off.
- Beer is gross!
- That the Stampeders are going to play in the Superbowl!
- Michael Jackson wasn't male and lived at the house at the end of the block.
- The Simpsons is that show none of the teachers let us write about in school.
- Black people are evil.
- Gay people are evil.
- Chinese people are good luck.
- Its important to grow up to work in an office and wear a suit.
- People who are different are stupid.

(...., I could go on and on...)

[MJK]

I use to believe that the characters on sesame street were real...i guess that was probably a common thing. But I do remember the moment where I realized that they were in fact just puppets and not real. I was really disappointed and will never forget that feeling.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

- Its important to grow up to work in an office and wear a suit.

Ohhh good one, I also believed this one for the longest time, into my 20s i would say.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Dan02

Ohhh good one, I also believed this one for the longest time, into my 20s i would say.

By default I enjoy not wearing a suit ever. Because when I am so inclined I have a couple nice getups that always make Ms. Traddy a very excited lady...

[edn88]

That the cast of Gilligan's Island was 12" tall and lived in my TV set and at night would come out and hangout behind our couch. I kept looking to see if Ginger was there...

[STeeLy]

I used to believe speed bumps were accidentally made because extra paint was spilled on the road.

[Kipru]

Originally Posted by chid

I thought I could hover, not fly but hover around. I think I must have had a really vivid dream about it because I would argue constantly with my parents about it but never be able to show them. I can still remember where I 'felt' the hovering -- in my grandma's backyard

Good old sleep paralysis. Some horrible nights after drinking has been spent imagining all horrible while being paralyzed. That actually made me think I was insane until my friend told me about this, so this post was
remotely on topic.

[icarus]

I used to believe Benny the Bear on the Buckshot show was a real bear.

I should have clued in based on the following observations:
- he could speak
- he never mauled anyone
- he was roughly the size of a human hand
- his coat closely approximated some sort of clothlike fabric

Nevertheless even after I appeared on the Buckshot show and saw Benny the Bear in person I still couldn't say for certain that he was not actually a bear.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

I used to think that if I laid very still in the grass on a windless day, staring at the clouds, holding my breath, that I could probably hear molecules colliding.

Cowperson

that has never stopped being one of my favorite things to do. I don't have many chances anymore, but I always remember believing that lying on my back in the grass with my eyes closed I could feel the rotation of the Earth.

I also always used to think that when I saw a jet trail in the sky it was actually a rocket taking off in Florida and bound for space, and I could see it just because it was so high up in the air that the curve of the earth didn't matter.

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Kipru

Good old sleep paralysis. Some horrible nights after drinking has been spent imagining all horrible while being paralyzed. That actually made me think I was insane until my friend told me about this, so this post war remotely on topic.

I used to get this all the time and thought I was getting possessed cause I would actually see ghosts. When I'd "awake", I'd turn on the lights to double check my room. I'd force myself to stay awake for a bit and leave the lights on when I went to bed.

I still experience this occasonally

[ResAlien]

Other thread reminded me of this. When I was younger, when I heard kids say they "smoked a bowl" i truly thought they had a big cereal bowl full of tweeds that they light on fire and sat around like a campfire.

[Rathji]

I used to think cartoons were people dressed in costumes

[underGRADFlame]

I used to have delusion of grander when I was young. I used to think that it was possible that the world revolved around me, I was scared that my life was being watched (Truman Show style) or that everyone one around me might be a robot and I was the last person on earth and they were putting on a big facade strictly for my benefit. I must have been pretty paranoid LOL.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by MJK

I use to believe that the characters on sesame street were real...i guess that was probably a common thing. But I do remember the moment where I realized that they were in fact just puppets and not real. I was really disappointed and will never forget that feeling.

Get used to it--that feeling is called "adulthood." One disappointment after another.

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by underGRADFlame

I used to have delusion of grander when I was young. I used to think that it was possible that the world revolved around me, I was scared that my life was being watched (Truman Show style) or that everyone one around me might be a robot and I was the last person on earth and they were putting on a big facade strictly for my benefit. I must have been pretty paranoid LOL.

Ha, I remember another one now. I used to think that I might be a robot, and that I was some kind of scietific experiment or something.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

Ha, I remember another one now. I used to think that I might be a robot, and that I was some kind of scietific experiment or something.

I used to think that everybody else was a robot. I was also some kind of scientific experiment.
I also thought my dog was a spy. More specifically, it was my stepmom's dog. He was a spy so I had to be good around him. Looking back, I was a bit paranoid as a kid. I used to sneak downstairs and watch Unsolved Mysteries as well. F'n creeped me out. I was deathly afraid of aliens and bigfoot until I was 10 or something.

[HotHotHeat]

I had an extremely well thought out theory about how your pooper system worked.

Actually, to be honest I had two theories, both of which seemed to explain the questions I was too embarrassed to ask.

1. Your poop was pushed out by little tiny men (Umpa Lumpas seem to fit the discription) using a series of wooden gears and belts, and hand powered pumps. There was a storage tank, and when it got full a bell would ring (think fire station alarm) and they'd all run to their stations to perform their tasks.

2. Your pooper system was run by a big spring system, similar to what you would see in a pin ball game at an arcade. Your body would pull back some kind of a leaver and launch the poop capsules through a tube and out your anus.

I struggled with these two ideas up until when I was probably 8 or 9, never really convincing myself of one over the other.

I also believed in Santa so strongly that I saw his bag of toys in our living room on Chrsitmas night when I was sneaking around. To this day I swear the bag was real.

[burn_this_city]

That dead people came back and roamed the streets at night like on Thriller..

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

You know that big spherical speaker that hangs high above the 55-yard line at McMahon, and is supported by wires which runs diagonally along all four corners of the stadium? I used to think the PA guy actually sat in there. I remember staring at it, perplexed about how he'd get in and out of there.

Ha! My dad fed me the same thing too. He said they lowered it before the game and he crawled in. I always wanted to get there early to see them lower it, but we always missed it. I guess that's why I thought Beasley (sp?) sat in the jumbo-tron too.