Most mind numbingly stupid thing you believed?

[Stephanos132]

My parents also played with my head at Christmas. They used to say that Father Christmas could see me through a camera in the smoke alarm, and when the little light was on, he was looking to see if I was being good. I walked around on tenterhooks for weeks.

That's pretty awesome.

I used to believe that vegans didn't anything that lived ever, subsisting only on rocks and water. I also thought that mirrors were viewpoints into another world.

Due to a rather culturally isolated catholic upbringing, I naturally assumed there were no other religions in the world, until secondary school enlightened me.

 

[Darwins_Folly]

I used to go to church

 

[Casual Shinji]

When I was five years old I believed my sister invented the word shit, because she was the first person I heard it from.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Believed that aliens looked like little green men.

Also, that the old days were black and white.

I also thought that Michael Jackson was a girl.

 

[A random person]

I once believed that Dora the Explorer actually responded to your voice. I also briefly thought the Blue Fairy was real, but that was in kindergarten.

 

[Silent Eagle]

I used to believe that bad people get what they deserve.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

When I was younger I thought you got pregnant by wanting to be pregnant. I was stupid, I know.

 

[EeveeElectro]

When I was a kid I used to believe that people in the old days actually were Black and White.

This. I used to ask, 'why are we in colour now, but they were in black and white?' My dad went along with it too... said they invented a colour machine. Mum told me it was just because they didn't have colour cameras back then.

Hahaha me too. I remember asking that very question and my dad lied to me like that.

Also, I thought that if you ate apple seeds, a hedgehog grew inside your belly.

And another thing, I thought there was quicksand everywhere. Does quicksand even exist in the UK?

Indeed it does. They did an experiment on Brainiac (science TV show) with it, you can get out of it as long as you don't struggle so if I bump into some, I know what to do! Thanks TV!

 

[Stoic raptor]

Apparently when I was little, when I watched my mom change my little sister, I would ask how old she had to be for her wiener to come out.

 

[DoctorWhat]

Perhaps I just dreamed this up now, but I THINK I believed that I could stand on my head for so long that my body would get used to being pushed towards the head, meaning that I could stand up again and start flying. I think it was related to the whole, "put your hands in your pockets and pull them outwards for 30 seconds, take them out of your pockets, then marvel as they magically float upwards!" thing...

 

[Iron Criterion]

That the large polo shaped containers that have miniature versions of the mint stored inside, were actually over-sized polos.

 

[Wolfiesden]

For the longest time I thought my name was Jesus Christ and my brother was named Dammit.

My dad would yell "Jesus Christ, get out of the mud.", "Dammit, leave that alone!"

Not really, just channeling Bill Cosby.

 

[TurkeyProphet]

Because people sometimes call germs 'bugs', I thought that there were tiny little bugs in things. Which isn't completely false but the way I pictured it was completely off.

For some reason I thought hot water was full of germs and consequently full of bugs.

I thought limbs would grow back if they were cut off.

 

[Wolfiesden]

When I was younger I thought you got pregnant by wanting to be pregnant. I was stupid, I know.

Not so stupid as you might think. Not anymore anyway.

 

[Otterpoet]

That Pluto was a planet.

 

[Srkkl]

For a little while I believed the JFK assassination was a conspiracy until I watched some documentary on the History Channel explaining how everything happend.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I used to believe that my respect was given, not earned.

 

[Maltyz]

That fatass that puts presents under the tree!