Strange Childhood Delusions

[iron codpiece]

Okay so far so good... this hasn't yet turned into a relgious debate.

I was under the impression that if you're good enough, smart enough, and work hard enough you can have anything you want.

 

[curlycrouton]

I was always terrified of getting out of bed at night when I was younger. I always imagined that a pair of scaly, clawed hands would shoot out and grab my ankles, pulling me under.
(This may have been partially fuelled by a certain Calvin and Hobbes strip).

I was also afraid of standing at the bottom of the stairs and looking up to the top. I always had this image of some black, hairy, grinning creature standing at the top. I'm not sure where this image would go after that. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant.

...Incidentally, I had both of these fears, though the creatures in them differed slightly.

I also had both of these fears. I think all kids must have them at some stage.

Although the creature at the top of the stairs I envisaged was in fact a zombie from House of the Dead, stemming from accidentally witnessing somebody playing it at a very young age.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I vaguely remember thinking that dogs pooped out of their tails, and that's about it.
Yeah. I was kind of a stupid kid.

 

[Berethond]

1) Anyone can grow up to be president.
2) You can be anything you want.
3) Winning doesn't matter.
4) If you work hard, you can achieve anything.
4) There is freedom of speech/religion/press in America
5) Politicians exist to serve us.


I could go on.

 

[Kabutos]

That there is a camera behind every single mirror. I still believe it a little today.

 

[Berethond]

Why is everyone here so jaded?

Because there is no such thing as Santa.
Because love fades.
Because justice is a farce.
Because being horrible is the only way to advance in the world.
Because people who deserve to live, die.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

That there is a camera behind every single mirror. I still believe it a little today.

Ever seen The Truman Show? That might have caused it. It did for me.

 

[Nickolai77]

In my old house my room was next to the airing cupboard, so in the night i would get weird sounds coming through the wall. I thought that there was a ghost inside the wall, which was trying to saw its way through all the planks of wood that up the wall between the airing cupboard and my room, i imagined this space was very much like my attic. However, there where so many planks of wood that the ghost could never saw his way through to me, and i slept soundly every night.

Thats pretty weird lol

 

[walls of cetepedes]

That I could grow up to become a Fire Engine.

Why can't I be a Fire Engine?!

 

[Yorath]

I always thought that the shadows on the ceiling in my room were going to suddenly come to life and snatch me away or kill me... >_> I think I was the one kid who didn't want a night-light lol

 

[Kabutos]

That there is a camera behind every single mirror. I still believe it a little today.

Ever seen The Truman Show? That might have caused it. It did for me.

Actually, I had managed to start getting rid of that fear when I saw The Truman Show. Thirteen years of work down the drain. Oh well, paranoia can be fun.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Magical elves turn on the streetlights at night, and morning dew is what happens when they explode from being hit by sunlight.

 

[cthulhu257]

Anything from My Neighbor Totoro is real. I watched that movie waaay too many times as a kid.

 

[Captain Spiral]

I thought that Heaven was located in the North Pole and that Santa and Jesus were the same person..... I don't even remember how I got that impression.

I also thought a Chupacabra lived in my microwave cause I thought I saw red eyes in there once.

Cracker Barrel? Yeah no. Me and my brother thought it was called Crotch Bakery. No Lie.

Oh and also the thought that if you swung high enough to go over the bar on the swing, you'd turn inside out.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

Magical elves turn on the streetlights at night, and morning dew is what happens when they explode from being hit by sunlight.

I think Stephanie Meyer is probably going to use that idea for her next Twilight book.

 

[Fniff]

I also had both of these fears. I think all kids must have them at some stage.

Although the creature at the top of the stairs I envisaged was in fact a zombie from House of the Dead, stemming from accidentally witnessing somebody playing it at a very young age.

That is entirely possible.
I wonder what kids without stairs have instead?

Probably thinking that something was up in the attic.

 

[Lynx]

That the world was a good place

Same here. I miss being naive sometimes.

OT: I believed there was a tiny little congress of men and women who controlled every part of fashion and industry. Adults in uptight suits who sat around a long table, like a group of jurors, saying things like "In two years, everybody shall have big fluffy hair and wear glittering shirts!", or "And in ten years, this will be the toy all children will play with" and so on.
I didn't just think they made the suggestions for it, I actually believed the whole concept of "what's the newest coolest thing" was corruptly decided in advance by a group of people. Therefore I did not like being fashionable, because I did not like people telling me what to do.