Silly things you thought as a kid.

I used to believe I'd grow into a fully functioning adult and a productive member of society.

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I tried to hibernate like a bear once. It didn't go so well.

I also thought cars drove themselves. I thought you had the option to drive it yourself (manual) or it could just drive itself (automatic) :|.

I always thought there were vampires skulking around the house after the lights went out and that I'd see one slip past my doorway if my head wasn't under the covers. They all looked like Nosferatu in my brain because we had an old VHS copy and although I hadn't seen the movie, his face looked scary to me.

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All cartoons weren't on tape. The animators had to make the same exact cartoon every single time from scratch.

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i believed something similar about movies

at the beginning of a VHS you could sometimes hear what sounded like a telephone being dialed

i thought this was the VCR calling the actors in the movie and somehow getting them behind the TV so they could act out the movie for me

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Same here. I used to think that people were at my windows waiting to run off and tell the actors that I was about to watch them. Previews were a way to stall until they were ready.

I thought that when you go to jail that for punishment they force you to eat paint. I also thought that ever since playing Sonic 2 that there was a robot behind me and that he was going to attack me, because of the battle with Sliver Sonic. I was so paranoid for ages.:G

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I also thought that ever since playing Sonic 2 that there was a robot behind me and that he was going to attack me, because of the battle with Sliver Sonic. I was so paranoid for ages.:G

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for a time I thought that everyone but me was a robot. it made perfect sense! how could i prove it wasn't true

I thought that nearly everyone my age other than me was an idiot, and that I could only depend on myself if I wanted to survive.

Although not quite so "silly" because one of those was (and still is) true.

I thought the toilet could suck out my intestines so I'd get up quickly after flushing. Bastard toilet wasn't gonna get me!

I used to think god was real.

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I thought the toilet could suck out my intestines so I'd get up quickly after flushing. Bastard toilet wasn't gonna get me!

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Or that some creature was going to swim up the toilet and bite me on the ass.

I used to think that all of us were remote controlled by some sort of all powerful being with a giant remote control. That was the only way I could figure out how people moved.

I also used to think that the hour hand moving on the clock was magic, because I never actually saw it move.

You know how in pokemon gameboy games, while it looked like you were moving around, your character stayed in the middle of the screen the whole time?

I used to pretend I was walking in place all day and it was the buildings that were moving. This thought failed me once I thought about all the other people moving.

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And that eating the crusts on your sandwich makes your hair curl (and that I even wanted curly hair)

A kid in my 4th grade (maybe 5th) brought his two pet rabbits for show and tell one day. He went on to explain to the class how you could tell the male from the female because "she has two butt holes."

There were the kids on the bus who would snort pixie sticks and crushed up sugary candy, swearing it worked like drugs. I would watch while they screamed in agony, and then sneezed rainbow colored boogers the rest of the day. :|


I know I also had some stupid ideas, but I just can't remember them right now. :(

Oh also, you know those "chasing" Christmas lights? Where they blink in such a way that it looks like the light is moving?

Yeah I thought they were actually, physically moving until I was like 13 or 14 when I finally figured it out