Stuff you thought when you were a Kid
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Until the second movie came out, I thought Lockhart was a woman. No idea where I got that idea from.hulksmashley said:
I thought everything was self aware. So I'd try to catch those bastards out by turning away, and then looking back real quick.
I thought you could wreck a computer by turning a computer back on after shutting it off if you hadn't waited at least a half minute or so. To this day, I have no idea where that notion came from.
thought that too and I still think that video game characters do that. I guess you would call that an overactive imagination but its fun. I also means I'm unable to be an asshole in games.knight of some random number said:
OT: I thought that the light stayed on when you close the refrigator.
For whatever reason, I managed to convince myself that monsters were hiding in the shadows of my laundry room, and if I didn't make it back upstairs in time, the monsters would eat me.
I never really thought about everything back then being black and white for two reasons. 1, I read Calvin and Hobbes. 2, I never thought about the past that much.
Edit: I also was scared of swimming for the longest time because I had accidentally gone and gotten myself submerged completely underwater while at a pool.
Oh, and then there was the time where I had convinced myself that the Grand Keeler Theater was the Grand Killer Theater.
Don't ask.
I never really thought about everything back then being black and white for two reasons. 1, I read Calvin and Hobbes. 2, I never thought about the past that much.
Edit: I also was scared of swimming for the longest time because I had accidentally gone and gotten myself submerged completely underwater while at a pool.
Oh, and then there was the time where I had convinced myself that the Grand Keeler Theater was the Grand Killer Theater.
Don't ask.
I thought that the Burger King was real. Like, an actual Monarch with a palace and everything.
I used to think China was giant toy factory. This was because all i knew about China at that age was that it was a place and toys came from there.
I used to think that real-life noise affected videogames, when i was playing Hitman when i was nine (parenting!) i would hold my breath and tell anyone in the room to be quiet when i had to be stealthy.
It was my deeply-held belief that Dinosaurs aren't extinct, they're just hiding.
When i first heard of an Eyetoy, i thought that it would actually put me in the game, as in, i would be able to talk to in-game characters.
I used to think that clouds came from power station chimneys.
I was terrified of swimming until i was about 11 because when i was 4/5 i slipped and fell into the pool while absolutely convinced that there was a Great White Shark hiding in there somewhere.
EDIT: 1000th post! Now do i get to see the basement?
I used to think China was giant toy factory. This was because all i knew about China at that age was that it was a place and toys came from there.
I used to think that real-life noise affected videogames, when i was playing Hitman when i was nine (parenting!) i would hold my breath and tell anyone in the room to be quiet when i had to be stealthy.
It was my deeply-held belief that Dinosaurs aren't extinct, they're just hiding.
When i first heard of an Eyetoy, i thought that it would actually put me in the game, as in, i would be able to talk to in-game characters.
I used to think that clouds came from power station chimneys.
I was terrified of swimming until i was about 11 because when i was 4/5 i slipped and fell into the pool while absolutely convinced that there was a Great White Shark hiding in there somewhere.
EDIT: 1000th post! Now do i get to see the basement?
I thought of another one.
When I was younger I thought that at night there where vampires in the dark and I would subsequently sprint to the light switch and the only thing that would save me would by putting the light on. I dont think that anymore. I think the grudge is in the dark now, its way scarier
When I was younger I thought that at night there where vampires in the dark and I would subsequently sprint to the light switch and the only thing that would save me would by putting the light on. I dont think that anymore. I think the grudge is in the dark now, its way scarier
I was so sure that everytime I left the house, my dolls would throw a huge party and have fun only to stop when I came home. I think it was that one time I swore I left my doll in the kitchen and she ended up on my bed when I got home from school.
The Tails doll thing was real.
Black holes were everywhere and if I became an astronaut I would probably get sucked into one when I went into space.
The Tails doll thing was real.
Black holes were everywhere and if I became an astronaut I would probably get sucked into one when I went into space.
When I was about 6 or 7 I used to think that the world consisted of only 2 countries, Canada and the United States. It's funny 'cause I remember asking my Mom if Canada was the entire world and she told me that "No, there was the US too." So I then concluded that the half the world was Canada and the other half was the US. I even remember the mental image I got from that.
Wow, a lot of people believed some pretty weird crap it seems. I don't think I believed anything particularly stupid as a kid. I mean, I was afraid of the dark, but I didn't actually believe monsters existed. I knew I was being irrational so I would try to force myself to walk slowly upstairs after I'd turned the lights off, but I always ended up sprinting after a few steps.
Dude, calm down.scornedbythenine said:
OT: I was petrified of our basement. Like, scared shitless. It was the scariest place in the world. All sorts of evil monsters lived there, but the worst one was a judge(wtf!?). The judge one was from some nightmare I had where my sisters' friend (who I really liked since she was always very nice to me, making it all twice as bad, as I was "betrayed" by her) convincing me to go down in to the basement because it's not dangerous. I was really hesitant, when all of a sudden she got really long arms with claws and threw me down there. Then there's this judge with white wig, hammer and everything who sends me falling through a completely black, uh thing with lots of random colors (again wtf!).
Oh and also, I thought shelves were creatures from Siberia which we had enslaved to hold our stuff. AGAIN wtf.
I was very weird. Very, very weird.
Edit: Rewrote entire OT since it was very poorly phrased and was written as short as possible because auto-correct was doing it's best to make me fuck up.
I always thought that the underground railroad, a term used to describe a secret series of hiding places for american slaves to make it to the north, was a subway.
That, is adorable.Tazzy da Devil said:
I used to believe that when a car was driving along its front wheels were spinning forwards and its back wheels were spinning backwards. Sounds stupid I know but it was the result of an optical illusion, which are easy to fall for when you're 4.
I thought that babies were pooped out... I was close! kinda... Also, until 11/11/11 I never thought an arrow to the knee could be annoying in a way that didn't involve physical pain (Don't count that if 14 is too old for these misconceptions) (Also, god, how do I live with myself, I just made an arrow to the knee joke)