Childhood Innocence

[Alittleacorn]

Have you ever believed something as a child that you look on as an adult/teen and laugh at?

I was away on vacation once and this tourguide told us this tale about this hollow hole in the cliff side that'd been washed away by the sea. If you were to walk through it and had been up to no good then you either turned into a crab (for a boy) or a mermaid (for a girl).

Me, being the head-in-the-clouds girl that I was at 8 during the time, believed if I kept chanting 'I hate my brother' then I could turn into a mermaid going through this cliff. I actually come pretty close to walking through to the other side, until my Dad called me back...and I was sad for a long time. Though a good thing, cause there were crashing waves on the other side, and I don't think I could swim at the time

Oh yeah, and I also believed a cereal killer murdered people by making them eat cereal, and believed in Santa until I was....13. :d oh: WELL NO ONE TOLD ME!

Anybody got some stories to share? ;;;;;;;

[Fauna]

Oh, geez. I need a while to think about it, but I've got so many of these kinds of stories. I think I grew out of this thing when I was only ten,

When I was six to eight, I thought I had seen UFOs twice in my life...once at the lake with my cousin and friend, and once in a Burger King with my brother. I had bad eyesight as a kid, and I think those were just planes. Plus, I thought if you pulled the parking brake on a car that was still moving, it would melt the entire car.

The biggest one for me was when I was five, my father, younger brother and I were at a mall, when some guy with a leather jacket and pompadour walked across the mall. Dad told me it was Elvis, and I was so amazed I told everyone at school the next day. I told Dad I'd done this after school, and he was horrified and told me Elvis was actually dead, and I got really mad at him.

[plushietoon]

Boy, my memory's fuzzy on what superstitions I used to have in my younger days.

I do recall (sort of) of the times where I forced myself to play Banjo-Kazooie non-stop since Guntilda (the witch villain) would do her nasty laugh and turn the poor Tootie into a monster when you quit. My friends used to just quit the game for fun to scare me. X( (Truthfully I haven't finished the game yet due to sharks and the N64 being too old. ^^; )

I also believed that Pokemon was real but that's due to my early addiction to the series.

[Anime Girl]

I believed in fairies for a long time. I used to leave petals out in the yard so that they could come in play with them in the night time. Here's a funny story. One time I convinced my little sister when she was five that she was invisible. Mom saw her taking a cookie out of a jar, and Mom saw her, and Sis was like "How are you able to see me!?" LOL!

[Black Rabbit]

I've got bad memory, so I can't even tell what is real or isn't sometimes.
But here are a few things I remember:

When I was about 5 or 6 I used to think there were monsters in my closet, so I always left the light on in the closet. >______<

I was scared of the dark until I was ten (I still sleep with a lamp on. Not that I am scared, I just don't like the dark. :d oh

I always thought a car would crash into my house (But now there is a fence around the house. Not that I still think that... Now I think worse.)

(Hey, does this include dreams? and fears from dreams?)

I always seemed to have the same nightmare about a green monster scratching and cutting me. Once, in my dream, I was running away from the monster, and I ran into a room and locked the door, but when I turned around, the monster was right behind me.
So I was always afraid to go into dark rooms by myself (Heh, I had my little brother come with me!)

[jeffbert]

Uran&Astro1980, I too was scared that there might be a monster in the closet, but only if I had forgotten to close it. If so, then lights from passing cars would pass over the clothes hanging & make them seem to move.

I remember when we were in the car going anywhere out of town, we would usually see only the tallest things because we were too short to see out the windows. The water towers had many pillars that resembled legs, & as they were far away, they seemed to move with us; we thought they were following us.

[AprilSeven]

Okay -- here's one I almost can't believe -- but it's true, 'cause it's me!

From the time I was a small girl, l LOVED anything to do with space and flying. Our family had a small telescope, and we'd gather in the backyard to look at the moon, planets, solar eclipses (we had a special filter). We had space-themed children's records (7 miles a second! A rocket ship can make the trip at 7 miles a second!), but somehow, some way there was one factoid connection that just didn't happen as it should have.

I was riding in my parent's car, looking out at the full moon, and asked something that had been on my mind: "okay, I know that's the moon . . . but what I don't understand, is where is Earth's moon?"


Silence

"Do you know what I mean?" I asked my dumbfounded parents.

"Well, what do you think that big white thing is up in sky?"

I began to feel V E R Y embarrassed.

"No . . . but . . . I thought we just called it the moon..."

"Because it is our moon -- the Earth's moon!" exclaimed my father, and everyone - including my younger brother broke out in serious laughter.

I have no idea why that seemingly obvious fact had escaped me, but there you go -- I figured "The Moon" was a name we gave to the closest heavenly body, but that some other little unexplored orb was out there, circling Earth, further out, perhaps -- not as easy to see. Oy vey!

and you make fun of ME?

[dannavy85]

When I was a kid, lightening and really heavy rain terrified me. I wouldn't go to school.

[Alittleacorn]

@April

Aw I couldn't make fun of you...because whenever my mom said 'we're going to the moon' I always believed her XD

Oh yeah, and I got fussy when my teacher told me we lived on a tiny island, and I wouldn't believe her. Wanted to be on one of the huge one's like America lol

[fafner]

I have a similiar story with the moon. After I read Explorers on the Moon, I asked where exactly was the Earth that can be seen on the top-left corner of the book. I knew the the moon in the book was the same one we see in the sky, but similarly as AprilSeven, I had missed the obvious fact that the Earth was where we actually are