Silly/Stupid things we believed as children.

[GnomeThief]

Well, Santa is always an obvious one. I remember staying up until 1:00 in the morning one night waiting for him and had completely convinced myself that I had seen Rudolph's red nose.

Other than that, I was also one of those kids who thought eating seeds would make a plant grow inside you.

 

[Pokenator]

I used to love Peter Pan and used to jump between my and my sisters beds like a trampoline thinking that I was really flying. I also believed my pet cockatiel was capable of flying off and carrying me different places (for example, to my grandparents house, I always used to beg her (the bird) to take me there but she never did....)

 

[rabidmidget]

After watching casper, I was afraid of ghosts coming out of the toilets at night

EDIT: GASP! someone is stealing my avatar!

 

[The Kraken]

hey remember that peekaboo thing parents used to do with their kinds, and the kids believed their parents were gone until they opened their hands again? Yeah it doesn't get more silly than that.

Actually it's been proven that until a child is about 2 years old it has no concept of object permanence, in other words if it can't see it the baby doesn't understand that it still exists. So when you play peek-a-boo with a baby they honestly think you just disappeared and then popped back into existence.

 

[ImMajination]

I believed that if you were a good person, you had a happy ever after.

 

[reinersailer]

I thought, we live on something, that is round and is called Planet - i grew up in the deepest stupidity - Level Deutschland.
If you want to know more, have a look at http://www.reinersailer.de

 

[fanklok]

I thought cars would always use up the same amount of gas no matter how fast you went, and I also believed that when I was in the back seat of a car if I pulled real hard on one of the front seats it would make the car slow down.

Then basic kid stuff like dark places and sheets (fuck sometimes I still do the whole sheets thing, not because of monsters those aren't real, except when they are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kszbf5n3F9U], I just freak myself out thinking about stuff) don't judge me.

 

[ultrachicken]

I thought there was a giant poop monster in the ocean that would get stronger every time a toilet was flushed, and eventually rise from the deep to destroy us all...

I also believed that a monster could fit under my bed that was less than half a foot off the ground

 

[MissGinaKid]

I thought Chuckie Chesse was gonna kill me. >_>
Thank god for thouse tube things so I could hide from that rat mother fooker."

 

[Pegghead]

Let's see now.

I used to believe that cartoon characters were just actors that they flattened and then got to act on equally flat backdrops.

I used to think that Australia encompassed the whole earth, naturally I was surprised whenever The Simpsons travelled to Australia.

 

[Hobonicus]

When my mom told me that "It's called a World War because everyone fights" I seriously was afraid that when WWIII happened I'd have to do battle with my next door neighbors and even my dogs would attack me.

 

[soilent]

I used to think that there was a monster that lived in the toilets, and the sound it made whenever you flushed it was him coming up to eat me because I had pissed him off. So I would either flush the toilet and run out of the bathroom or, if it was nighttime, not flush at all. My parents were pretty glad when I aged out of this phase.

Bullshit, he's there in that toilet, watching....
waiting....

 

[ignosco]

I used to think old black-and-white movies looked like that because there was no color back then. I also thought differently colored people were born randomly, with the majority being white. When I would see a whole family of blacks I'd think "Man, what are the chances!?".

 

[Quaxar]

Uh... there was this time when I thought some sci-fi films were real. "Daddy, where does our car have its flux capacitor?"

 

[Erja_Perttu]

When I was little I used to believe my duvet was the equivalent of a nuclear bunker. You know, so the monsters couldn't get me.

 

[blankedboy]

I used to think that the old Toshiba 'in touch with tomorrow' spash on my old computer implied that I had to use it again tomorrow.
I also used to know HEAPS about games, and bugger all about the companies that made them. Who would've thought that Left 4 Dead, Half-life, and Team Fortress were all made by the same company?

 

[Arkzism]

i believed flushing the toilet made you pee faster

 

[Stoic raptor]

I once saw my mom changing my sisters diaper. I asked "How old does she have to be before she gets a wiener?"

Apparently I thought everyone had a wiener unless they were little.

 

[Iconoclasm]

I believed that tenses represented an objectively real phenomenon about the nature of time, as opposed to being merely transcendental features of minds and their experiences (want some ice for that burn, A-theorists?)