Strange Childhood Delusions

[philosophicalbastard]

The only thing I really believed in as a kid were vampires and thanks to my father I slightly believed he and I were one of them.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

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?

I've always lived in a house without stairs. I always thought that Bigfoot was trying to break in. XD I found out that was just Santa. XD

 

[Knife 28]

I had a few...
1:The Basilisk from Harry Potter lived in my toilet.
2:That there where monsters living in wardrobe and under my bed.
3:That santa was real which i beleved until the age of 10.
4:When ever I was some place really high I would think that it would collapse at any second.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

I actually had some strange beliefs as a kid.
#1 That Nazis were actually controlling everything in the world. (Sort of like the Sims. I mean, EVERYTHING.)

#2 Love was real. XD

#3 I wasn't going to grow up to be a jaded bastard.

#4 Bigfoot wanted to kill me.

 

[Disaster Button]

That if I stayed inside the bathroom after I flushed the toilet monsters would EAT me!

also religion

 

[bob-2000]

For about 2 years until i turned six....

Spoiler

I thought JAR JAR was awesome /cry

Dear god!!!
I used to think that i could use the force.

 

[Drakmeire]

I believed that life was totally in black-and-white until color was invented in the 1960's, thus explaining old T.V. shows and photographs.

 

[wrecker77]

The existance of santa. I was actually really determined to prove that he existed when I was told he doesn't.

LIES!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tharwen]

I believed that if I ever went to bed with the door to my room shut (or if I didn't hold it open with something) my room would be transported into space and I would be cut off from all humanity until I starved to death.

I also had a fear that my bed would become encased in a bubble overnight, through which all light could pass, but nothing else, so I would, again, die of starvation, but this time, I would be able to communicate visually with the people who came into the room, despite being unable to make physical or verbal contact with them.

I can't decide which would be a worse fate.

 

[orangebandguy]

That everyone was innocent, and that the most important thing was what filling I had in my sandwich.

 

[Bleaghhh]

That my intelligence would get me somewhere in life..

Well right now i'm sixteen and can't stop being sarcastic for long enough to get a job in a shoe shop... bleh..

 

[Nemorov]

I also had dreams about Hitler chasing me around a desert with a giant remote-control spiky sphere.

I used to be terrified of Hitler when I was a little kid. Not because I knew about anything he did... I guess I just didn't like the look of him.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Until I was like seven years old I thought I was the only human on the planet. I really, REALLY believed that everyone else was an alien/scorpion creature that used human suits to make it seem like humans still ran the planet. Why didn't anyone else notice all this? They were all telepathic, communicating secretly to keep me and whatever few humans may be left in the dark.

Interesting note, I didn't have any friends.

 

[Asaito]

I believed that Santa Claus would bring these black creepy monsters with him because of some random movie I saw. I also went a few weeks sleeping with my hands under my covers because I watched a movie where a man got his fingers cut off with garden shears.

I thought my family was happy. I thought that drapes were called grapes and often wondered why they named curtains after a fruit.

I also thought there was nothing wrong with me having middle-aged male friends.

 

[Asaito]

curlycrouton:

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?

Also, the fact that the upstairs room was unbearably hot and dry didn't help - ascending the stairs felt like a death sentence...

For lack of stairs, I was terrified of a long hallway in my house at night.

On a more on topic note, I've known for as long as I can remember that babies come from a man and a woman. I just didn't know how pregnancy was initiated. Many long hours of my childhood were spent pondering this dilemma.

My creature at the top of the stairs for a while in elementary school was my school librarian. One year she dressed up as the bride of Frankenstein for Halloween and yeah that image scared the hell out of me: green face, crazy hair, ripped slightly bloodied wedding dress (yeah they allowed that at my elementary school for some odd reason...)

 

[timeladyinsane]

Ever seen that episode of Ghostwriter with the stupid bubblegum monster. I believed in that fucker. I was convinced he was going to get me, and get me good. also the alien from Alien Encounter in Disney World. GOD that ride was traumatizing. Sooooo traumatizing. Sometimes, I will still catch myself being like "I can't have my toes over the end of the bed. That's how the Slime Monster gets you." I hated Ghostwriter after that. Hated it with every fiber of my being.

 

[Baris345]

I used to think that the blue face thing in a tube from the first season of Power Rangers was God. Yes.

 

[Nemorov]

Until I was like seven years old I thought I was the only human on the planet. I really, REALLY believed that everyone else was an alien/scorpion creature that used human suits to make it seem like humans still ran the planet. Why didn't anyone else notice all this? They were all telepathic, communicating secretly to keep me and whatever few humans may be left in the dark.

Interesting note, I didn't have any friends.

I actually had a similar one, where I thought I was the only person with consciousness, and that all other people popped out of existence when they weren't interacting with me. In some ways, I have yet to prove this incorrect.

 

[Gadzooks]

Mummy said that her and daddy weren't going to split up.