When I was around 5 or 6 years old, I used to think that if I didn't eat all the chinese food that was served to me, I would be followed and chased by samurai-type men. I guess I was told something by my brother abt "you better eat all your dinner..." because for the life of me, I was so scared, I would eat EVERYTHING on my plate. I imagined this sho-gun type man with a long black ponytail and carrying a sword appearing in my bedroom window one time. It freaked me out:eek:


Also, I used to believe in the tooth-fairy til I was abt 8 years old. I used to put my "old" teeth (baby teeth) under my pillow when I wanted some money for the next day to buy something from the ice-cream man. I would wonder why the tooth-fairy didn't leave me any money. :crazy:


In 1971, we had this huge earthquake. I was six years old. It was my first time experiencing an earthquake. It happened in the middle of the night. I woke up and felt the bed and house shaking. I was crying and so scared because I thought it was one of those giant monsters from those japanese movies that terrorizes the cities of Japan. I imagined this huge bigfoot type monster the size of King Kong stomping all over our neighborhood. I couldn't stop crying. My brother had an extra bed in his room and I stayed there the whole night because I kept imagining that monster. It took some time for me to realize what an earthquake was and that those huge monsters don't exist.

I also used to think when a house was sold, whoever would buy that house, would exchange their old house with the one they bought. In other words, the two owners would simply exchange houses. I was 7 years old then.

I always took song lyrics literally as a kid. The Jeffersons was still on the air (in first-run!) when I was little and I remember dancing to the theme song in the living room. I was so confused about the lyric "we finally got a piece of the pie". :lol: I thought they meant real pie. I thought "what's so special about that? Have a cherry pie, or a blueberry pie." I didn't understand it was all a figure of speech until several years later. :lol:

Hall & Oates' "Maneater" was a popular song around that time, and I could not understand why everyone liked it so much. I said, "That's a horrible song. She wants to eat him!" :rofl: I thought it was a song about a cannibal. When I saw H&O perform live in 2002, I had to laugh when they did "Maneater" because it took me back to when I was a little kid.

My grandmother gave me a beautiful children's dictionary with gorgeous photographs. I believed I could pop myself into the book so I could be in those beautiful pictures. :lol:

That's all I can remember now, but I'm sure I'll think of more later.

When I was around 5 or 6 years old, I used to think that if I didn't eat all the chinese food that was served to me, I would be followed and chased by samurai-type men.
That doesn't happen? lol. I used to think that we lived forever. I remember the moment I found that that we all die eventually. My uncle told me when I was about five or six. I used to think that there were no bills. Our parents had no worries. The house, cars, lights, phone, food, clothes...why that just appeared, lol.

I also foolishly thought that life was fair, but it really isn't, not from my perspective anyway.

That doesn't happen? lol. I used to think that we lived forever. I remember the moment I found that that we all die eventually. My uncle told me when I was about five or six. I used to think that there were no bills. Our parents had no worries. The house, cars, lights, phone, food, clothes...why that just appeared, lol.

I also foolishly thought that life was fair, but it really isn't, not from my perspective anyway.
Ahhhh the luxury of not having bills. Now wouldn't that be something? ;) :D

Up until like, a year ago, I thought unicorns were real

As a kid my dad had me convinced of a sock monster who would live in the dryer and randomly steal socks. I have never been able to prove his existence but I still to this day often find that random socks go missing...

the Sock Monster?!?!?

Up until like, a year ago, I thought unicorns were real


Till about 8 years old I always wanted Puff the Magic Dragon to take me off to Honalee

At xmas time my brother use to tell me that santa claus was watching me from this dark patch near my pull cord on the ceiling that turned my light on i was terrified all year thinking he was always watching me lol!!!! it was a tiny smudge geez!!! lol :lol:

Up until like, a year ago, I thought unicorns were real

My dear, they are. They are very real.

For a long time I believed wearing socks to bed would kill me.

Thanks, Mom! The thearapy is going really well!

;)

For a long time I believed wearing socks to bed would kill me.

Thanks, Mom! The thearapy is going really well!

;)


Of course it will you fool, the sock monster will chew them off your feet

that there was a midgit inside the ATM machience who sat there and gave out the money

My dear, they are. They are very real.

Now see Max, you're going to confuse me :lol:

I don't see why they can't be real... all it is is a horse with a horn. Goats have horns!

When I was little I used to think my great grandmothers house was haunted. The house was real old and none of the kids were allowed to go upstairs. You could hear noises coming from up there and everyone said it was spooks. I believed that for along time and would never spend the night at her house. Eventually my mom told me it was only mice up there.

I always took song lyrics literally as a kid. The Jeffersons was still on the air (in first-run!) when I was little and I remember dancing to the theme song in the living room. I was so confused about the lyric "we finally got a piece of the pie". :lol: I thought they meant real pie. I thought "what's so special about that? Have a cherry pie, or a blueberry pie." I didn't understand it was all a figure of speech until several years later. :lol:



That's so cute, Monika. :)

Of course it will you fool, the sock monster will chew them off your feet
:lol: :lol: :lol:

When I was really young I thought that all older people were grandpas and grandmas whether they actually had grandchildren or not. I remember in second grade we were learning about George Washington and I referred to him as a "grandpa", because all of the pictures I had seen of him were taken when he was older so in my mind that made him a grandpa. :lol: Of course, since Washington's only child (a son) was killed during the Revolution, he was never a grandfather. My teacher had to explain to me that in order for someone to be either a grandpa or a grandma that they had to have grandchildren. :lol:

At my old elementary school there was a door on the outside of the building. There was a sign on the door that said: "Hazard - Dangerous" or something like that. I think the door led to the boiler room or something. I thought as a kid that if anyone opened the door, you would immediately get shocked, zapped or blown up. Just by opening the door!! :lol:

I already told this story on a thread a couple years ago but, here goes again:
When i was little, my Mom told me that babies came from "A little door in the womans stomach".......For years, everytime id see a girl's belly, i'd look for the little door; and , I thought the navel ( called "belly button" ) was the button that opened the door! { Seriously, Im NOT joking here } ^_^'

Also, i remember thinking cows were about the size of a small dog ( Well, they LOOKED small from the car ).....the first time I went to a farm and saw cows in person, they seemed HUGE ( like 6 feet tall ), and me and my brother ran away screaming!!! :lol:

Well, for one when I was in preschool I didn't know teachers had lives and thought they lived at school.

Also, because I didn't know what sex was I thought that a woman just randomly got pregnant out of no where, and always thought to myself how pissed I'd be when that happened to me. :lol:

And I also used to think that the girl on the Wendy's sign was Pippy Longstocking.

I also used to think Santa Clause lived in the sky...because north pole, I always looked up because I figured up was north. I remember talking to the sky saying please be realll Santa. aww how sad now that I think about it...

And then I used to sleep with a blanket around my neck because I was afraid of vampires coming to suck my blood. That's Are You Afraid of the Dark's fault.

That you could rewind records like cassettes.

That you could rewind records like cassettes.
Don't tell me you actually tried to do it!! :lol:

Don't tell me you actually tried to do it!! :lol:
No, I don't think I did. :lol:

Also, because I didn't know what sex was I thought that a woman just randomly got pregnant out of no where, and always thought to myself how pissed I'd be when that happened to me. :lol:

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That reminds me of the episode of South Park where they teach sex education and the girls' teacher Ms. Choksondik scares them into thinking that theyll get STDs/pregnant just from being around the boys,so the boys get condoms for no reason :rotflmao:

when I was little; I used to think that if you died; the doctor could "make you alive again":lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

and when I was a little older; I thought that if you needed money you could just write a check, and it was "instant money":lol:


I also thought that everyone was born with a certain amount of; (let's see-how should I put this?) the stuff that comes out when you go to the bathroom (sorry if that disgusts anyone) and that, if I kept going whenever I felt the need to; I'd use all mine up!!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: (I'm totally serious about this!) So when ever I felt the urge "to go" I'd try holding it in!

I also thought that you could only ask Santa Claus for 3 things at Xmas-I don't remember why.
(my brother told me that and for years I beleived it)


I also thought that "The Beverly Hillbillies" were real people.

and when I was a little older; I thought that if you needed money you could just write a check, and it was "instant money":lol:
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There a lot of women who still hold firm to this belief :lol:

" I can't be out of money. I still have cheques left "

Well, for one when I was in preschool I didn't know teachers had lives and thought they lived at school.
I think almost everyone thought that.....I remember how shocked i was , seeing my Grade 1 teacher at the grocery store, actually shopping like a REAL person!!! :eek: :lol:

My grandma told me not to eat the white part(rind) of watermelon. She said that it would make me sick. I was terrified if I accidently bit into it.:lol:

When i was little, my Mom told me that babies came from "A little door in the womans stomach".......For years, everytime id see a girl's belly, i'd look for the little door; and , I thought the navel ( called "belly button" ) was the button that opened the door! { Seriously, Im NOT joking here } ^_^'

I used to think that when a woman was "having a baby" that underneath her maternity shirt, I would see a shell like an egg, rather than a large stomach. I guess chicken laying eggs and women being pregnant somehow got mixed together in my head and so I would see all these pregnant women and thought they had a hard shell underneath their maternity tops.

My grandma told me not to eat the white part(rind) of watermelon. She said that it would make me sick. I was terrified if I accidently bit into it.:lol:

I too was told that if I ate that part I would get sick. Man, for the longest time I never touch that white part. I still don't, but only because it doesn't taste good, but for the longest time I assumed I would get violently ill.

When I was little I use to think that Sesame Street was a real place to live and that Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was real also :lol:

Also for the longest I thought that my aunt was a news anchor because she was interviewed on the news once :lol:

There a lot of women who still hold firm to this belief :lol:

" I can't be out of money. I still have cheques left "
like my wife:lol:

I also remember that when i was a kid, i thought cows and horses were the same species...that a horse was a male cow (I thought bulls were still another species, that spent all their time fighting in rings). I'm pretty sure I got this idea from Clarabelle and Horace from the old Disney comics, a cow and horse that were engaged to be married!

VVV Horace Horsecollar riding a horse! :eek: & Clarabelle VVV

I also remember that when i was a kid, i thought cows and horses were the same species...that a horse was a male cow (I thought bulls were still another species, that spent all their time fighting in rings). I'm pretty sure I got this idea from Clarabelle and Horace from the old Disney comics, a cow and horse that were engaged to be married!

VVV Horace Horsecollar riding a horse! :eek: & Clarabelle VVV
I had a dream last night abt a cow and when I approached it I was telling myself, "Mikado is right, these cows are huge in person." :rofl: I guess your post regarding the cows on the other page really stuck with me.

Well, for one when I was in preschool I didn't know teachers had lives and thought they lived at school.


Ditto

when i was 3 i was scared of going in the snow. i thought i was going to fall through. i didnt realize the ground was still under it.

And I also used to think that the girl on the Wendy's sign was Pippy Longstocking.

ditto

Well, for one when I was in preschool I didn't know teachers had lives and thought they lived at school
well I didn't know Trekkie's had lives! lol j/k
like my wife:lol:

When I was little, I hated looking at pictures on the wall because I had a feeling they were staring down at me and looking at me directly. TO this day pictures that look like they are staring right at you SCARE ME TO FREAKING DEATH lol.

I thought all famous people, mainly celebrities lived in Hollywood, and nowhere else.

I used to think that a woman got preggars by being around children. :rofl:

I had a dream last night abt a cow and when I approached it I was telling myself, "Mikado is right, these cows are huge in person." :rofl: I guess your post regarding the cows on the other page really stuck with me.
Irene is dreaming about me.......:eek: .......BOOOYAAAAAAHHHH~~~!!! ;)

When I was little, I hated looking at pictures on the wall because I had a feeling they were staring down at me and looking at me directly. TO this day pictures that look like they are staring right at you SCARE ME TO FREAKING DEATH lol.
I had a similar problem with the famous statue of General Brock ( War of 1812 General creditied with saving Canada )....this statue is about 185 ft high and sits on the top of the escarpment, it can be seen from miles around in every direction when driving by the area. When I was small, I was terrified of this statue, he seemed to be following our car, I thought he was trying to "get" me!!! I finally managed to overcome my fear when i was about 8 and we walked up into the statue ( it has a circular staircase inside, a la "Statue of Liberty ) as part of a school trip.
HISTORICAL NOTE: This is the second statue dedicated to Brock on the site, the first one was blown up by an Irish terrorist ( see pic 3 ) in 1840, the present monument was dedicated in 1859

When I was little, I used to think that if you wanted to go wherever they were showing on the TV, you could just jump right through the TV. :lol: Glad I never tried it though. :lol:

I had a dream last night abt a cow and when I approached it I was telling myself, "Mikado is right, these cows are huge in person." :rofl: I guess your post regarding the cows on the other page really stuck with me.
:rotflmao: nice!

When I was younger I believed almost anything someone told me. When I was seven my friend told me not to swallow gum because if I did I was going to have to have surgery to remove it. The sad thing is believed that until I was about 10 and my teacher told me the truth. But the dumbest thing I believed was then when women had babies they came out of their belly buttons. I was only about 5 so at the time it semmed the only logical explanation to the the question of "where do babies come from?".

I used to think people were inside the radio. For instance, if a Kool & The Gang song was playing, I thought that the band was actually INSIDE the radio. :rofl:

I used to think people were inside the radio. For instance, if a Kool & The Gang song was playing, I thought that the band was actually INSIDE the radio. :rofl:
LOL

You know the Cher song, "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves"? The first line goes, "I was born in the wagon of a traveling show". I thought that Cher really WAS born in the wagon of a traveling show. :rofl:

I used to think people were inside the radio. For instance, if a Kool & The Gang song was playing, I thought that the band was actually INSIDE the radio. :rofl:
:rofl: I think I thought that too.

I believed that dragons were real, but I also thought that bats weren't real. Then I realized it's the other way around.

But the dumbest thing I believed was then when women had babies they came out of their belly buttons. I was only about 5 so at the time it semmed the only logical explanation to the the question of "where do babies come from?".
Well, you were close.....look at one of my former postings on this thread for the REAL story ;) :lol: ( Page 2 , post #19 )

:rofl: I think I thought that too.
used to think that too till I saw my first radio station and wanted to be a DJ:) :) :)

Quote from darlene conner-I believed if i stayed awake when santa was visiting that his elves would poke my eyes out with their pointy shoes!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I used to think people were inside the radio. For instance, if a Kool & The Gang song was playing, I thought that the band was actually INSIDE the radio. :rofl:
:lol:

I was about 9 when the first Harry Potter Book came out and me and my friends believd everyting in the books were true. We use to sit around waiting for letters from Hogwarts. And when they didn't come we were so dissapointed but we soon learned most things were fake.

When I was about 6 or 7, I thought that hot tubs actually contained boiling water! I had seen a story somewhere of how people could walk over hot coals and not get burned, so I thought the hot tub thing was the same concept. Our family stayed at a hotel with a hot tub and I was terrified that one of them would get in the thing, and get boiled alive! :lol:

I just remembered: I used to think that dragons and unicorns were real.

I was about 2 years old, and my FIRST and favorite daytime sitcom in reruns was I Love Lucy. I couldn't figure out where the audience laughter was coming from. I put my ear to the heating vent, because that made noise, sometimes, and thought THAT was the source. :lol:

I asked someone and they told me "That's the audience." Like I knew what that was!

I also thought all horses could talk like Mr Ed. On one ep, a little boy ran away, and told his troubles to Mr Ed, who helped him.

I thought all horses were wise and caring and could figure out things. So I ran away because I was tired of sleeping in a crib instead of a bed. I didn't like having to miss my favorite TV shows, because the grownups wanted me out of the way at night. I was BORED in my rotten cage of a crib 16 hours a day!
I ran away to a neighbor's house because he had a horse named Jody. I tried to talk to the horse, but the owner wouldn't let me, and called the cops to take me home. :(

They put a top over my crib --a bar-top, something that would be illegal today. It was in reality, a CAGE. I used to tip over the crib, so I could climb out, but when the top was on, how was I to get out? I actually took a knife from the kitchen drawer and tried to saw through the bars, like a cartoon prisoner on a Hanna Barbara show ( I think Ricochet Rabbit ). It didn't work. The bars were too tough. I did slice them a little.

Only when I kept climbing out of my rotten high-bar crib over and over did they relent and let me have a bed to share. :angryfire:

NOT as a child, though it seemed a childlike hope, ala Close Encounters:
And as recently as 1995 or so, I saw a thing in the sky, and thought it was a UFO. I was apprehensive --partially hoping it that the inhabitants of the UFO would please take me away into their spaceship, and partially afraid. I thought, what could be worse than what I am going through? Wouldn't this be an improvement?
Alas, it wasn't a UFO --it was only the Goodyear blimp, which I'd never before seen so close to the ground.
:ufo:

I was about 2 years old, and my FIRST and favorite daytime sitcom in reruns was I Love Lucy. I couldn't figure out where the audience laughter was coming from. I put my ear to the heating vent, because that made noise, sometimes, and thought THAT was the source. :lol:

I asked someone and they told me "That's the audience." Like I knew what that was!

I also thought all horses could talk like Mr Ed. On one ep, a little boy ran away, and told his troubles to Mr Ed, who helped him.

I thought all horses were wise and caring and could figure out things. So I ran away because I was tired of sleeping in a crib instead of a bed. I didn't like having to miss my favorite TV shows, because the grownups wanted me out of the way at night. I was BORED in my rotten cage of a crib 16 hours a day!
I ran away to a neighbor's house because he had a horse named Jody. I tried to talk to the horse, but the owner wouldn't let me, and called the cops to take me home. :(

They put a top over my crib --a bar-top, something that would be illegal today. It was in reality, a CAGE. I used to tip over the crib, so I could climb out, but when the top was on, how was I to get out? I actually took a knife from the kitchen drawer and tried to saw through the bars, like a cartoon prisoner on a Hanna Barbara show ( I think Ricochet Rabbit ). It didn't work. The bars were too tough. I did slice them a little.

Only when I kept climbing out of my rotten high-bar crib over and over did they relent and let me have a bed to share. :angryfire:

NOT as a child, though it seemed a childlike hope, ala Close Encounters:
And as recently as 1995 or so, I saw a thing in the sky, and thought it was a UFO. I was apprehensive --partially hoping it that the inhabitants of the UFO would please take me away into their spaceship, and partially afraid. I thought, what could be worse than what I am going through? Wouldn't this be an improvement?
Alas, it wasn't a UFO --it was only the Goodyear blimp, which I'd never before seen so close to the ground.
:ufo:
wat the eff? :lol:

I thought money was an endless supply, like no one had to work for it :lol: Wouldn't that be awesome if it was really true?

I also used to think little creatures lived in our garden. Little did I realize they were just potato bugs and not trolls.

When I was little, we had a VW beetle.....when you look in the trunk, the only part of the engine visible, is the fan belt; so, I used to think it was the fanbelt that moved the entire car! :lol:

I used to think people were inside the radio. For instance, if a Kool & The Gang song was playing, I thought that the band was actually INSIDE the radio. :rofl:
My sister used to think that artist(s), groups, such as the Beatles were actually at the radio station. :lol: