Childhood Beliefs...

[Josy]

I think we had a thread similar to this before but can't find it soo...

What is the strangest thing you believed as a child?

[Drew.]

My nose was getting longer when i told a lie :think: probably the most common one

[ChristmasNeeve]

I believed that if I made a train and closed my eyes and sang the care Bear countdown when i opened them that I'd end up in Care Bear world. I was devastated when it didn't work :(

I also believed my uncle (who at the time was a missionary priest in Kenya) when he told me that I could go to Africa with him after I had an argument with my mom, I packed my suitcase and all but he never took me :(

[rubymoo]

I believed all my toys came to life when i went to sleep (and i'd still like to believe that is true:laugh:)

[GiRTh]

Not so much a strange belief but I bought into the lie that Crack Cocaine is in some way a hard drug but powder cocaine is glamorous. As this article and countless others prove that is bullsh*t. They are essentially the same thing the only difference is the removal of hydrochloride in crack cocaine so it can be smoked, everything else is the same. Yet the sentencing for crack is so much harsher than powder. It is IMO one of the biggest lies ever sold to us.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/busting_the_crack_propaganda_myths_partner/

[In the Drunk Tank]

Girth there as a six year old tutting at the crack cocaine kids while he sticks with the much safer powder

[Ninastar]

Not so much a strange belief but I bought into the lie that Crack Cocaine is in some way a hard drug but powder cocaine is glamorous. As this article and countless others prove that is bullsh*t. They are essentially the same thing the only difference is the removal of hydrochloride in crack cocaine. Yet the sentencing for crack is so much harsher than powder. It is IMO one of the biggest lies ever sold to us.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/busting_the_crack_propaganda_myths_partner/

sounds like a fun childhood

[ChristmasNeeve]

Girth there as a six year old tutting at the crack cocaine kids while he sticks with the much safer powder

:laugh3:

[Liam-]

My parents always lead me to believe that my tongue would turn black if i told a lie

[Josy]

****sake Girth :laugh:

[Ninastar]

I used to believe there was a mouse in traffic lights and that's how they changed colour... Hmm, I can't think about what else I used to believe. I'll post more when I remember.

[ChristmasNeeve]

I used to believe there was a mouse in traffic lights and that's how they changed colour... Hmm, I can't think about what else I used to believe. I'll post more when I remember.

How would a mouse being in there change the colour? :think:

[Drew.]

Never mind changing the colour, how would a mouse get into a set of traffic lights :think:

[Christmas Dynasnow]

I bought a Mighty Moose bar and I really thought that I would get super powers if I eat it. Sadly i did not


:fist:


I also fell for the crack story, but I blame my Grandmother as her nose always looked like Mount Fuji

[Ninastar]

The mouse controlled them of course! He can see all the traffic from up there, you see.

I blame this film for making me think so

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EAE7QQT7L._SY300_.jpg

[GiRTh]

Girth there as a six year old tutting at the crack cocaine kids while he sticks with the much safer powder
:joker:

I really believed it. I was horrified when I found out the truth.

[Jay.]

I was always told that if I told a lie, then a spot would appear on my tongue. I believed it right up until I was 13 too... But I found it, it was just because I was slightly allergic to tomatoes. When my mum thought I was lieing she would somehow add a tomato in my dinner. Very strange.

[RichardG]

There was a pattern on my curtains in my bedroom that I believed looked vaguely like witches if they were viewed at a certain angle, and so every night I saw it and was convinced that witches were going to fly into my room and kill me. :laugh:

[Josy]

Our house was burgled and for months after (maybe even years IDK) I thought there was a burgler hiding under the bed so I used to run and jump onto my bed so that they couldn't grab my legs :eek:

[kirklancaster]

I believed that if I made a train and closed my eyes and sang the care Bear countdown when i opened them that I'd end up in Care Bear world. I was devastated when it didn't work :(

I also believed my uncle (who at the time was a missionary priest in Kenya) when he told me that I could go to Africa with him after I had an argument with my mom, I packed my suitcase and all but he never took me :(

:joker: How on earth did you ever trust an adult again?

[Christmas Dynasnow]

There was a church thing in EK when i was little (I think it was a pillar with a light in it and it had notices on) My mum told me baby jesus was in it at the bottom and she used to hold me up and I would look down inside and see him, or at least i saw a light and imagined the rest.

true dat

[James]

I thought everything was actually in black and white years ago because of black and white photos.

[kirklancaster]

Two main things:

I was told that if I swallowed chewing gum it would stick to my heart and stop it and I'd die. (thank God for anatomy and phsysiology lessons:laugh:)

And the other: my dad was very muscular and he used to pretend that he'd got a mouse in his closed hand, pretend to swallow it, then would make his biceps 'dance' and tell us it was the mouse. I played the same trick on my kids when they were small.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

I thought everything was actually in black and white years ago because of black and white photos.

In Falkirk it still is

[Kazanne]

I was told that if I ate the crusts off bread that my hair would be curly,and I belived that for ages,also that Jack Frost was real

[rubymoo]

I was told that if I ate the crusts off bread that my hair would be curly,and I belived that for ages,also that Jack Frost was real

I believed those too:laugh:

I also believed that in my great grandmas day they all lived in black and white, because of the photo's:laugh:

I actually asked my grandma when the earth turned to colour:hehe:

[ChristmasNeeve]

My stepson thought that all photos turned Black and White when they got really old

[Kazanne]

I believed those too:laugh:

I also believed that in my great grandmas day they all lived in black and white, because of the photo's:laugh:

I actually asked my grandma when the earth turned to colour:hehe:

:laugh: I also remember my great granddad telling me to put horse muck in my boots to make me grow:joker:

[rubymoo]

:laugh: I also remember my great granddad telling me to put horse muck in my boots to make me grow:joker:

:joker:

[rubymoo]

My stepson thought that all photos turned Black and White when they got really old

That's cute:laugh:

I remember over hearing a conversation between my daughters when they were about 8, it was about death and one daughter said...."when your times up, its up, god will come and get you..."

My other daughter replied...."he won't get me, i'm going to hide in a dustbin!":joker:

[ChristmasNeeve]

That's cute:laugh:

I remember over hearing a conversation between my daughters when they were about 8, it was about death and one daughter said...."when your times up, its up, god will come and get you..."

My other daughter replied...."he won't get me, i'm going to hide in a dustbin!":joker:

aww :laugh:

[Shaun]

I used to think that the coast across the sea view from my balcony was France (it was Brixham).

[Jamesy]

When our first house got burgled after we came back from a holiday I believed evil/nasty cats destroyed the house and stole stuff, I would go on as a kid to see a cat in the street and be careful approaching it just incase it was an evil cat that destroys houses and steals belongings.

When we moved into our new house there were no chimneys and I wondered how Santa got in the house, my dad jokingly said he comes in through the window or the back door. For the 3/4 years after that I believed in Santa every Christmas I would make sure a window or door was left unlocked for Santa to get in :laugh:

[joeysteele]

I was told that if I ate the crusts off bread that my hair would be curly,and I belived that for ages,also that Jack Frost was real

:joker:Jack Frost for me too Kazanne,when very young,I would never go out in the really cold without my ears covered and I was looking for him all the time I was out too.:joker:

[Marsh.]

I used to think there was a monster living in the boiler cupboard upstairs.

[Kazanne]

:joker:Jack Frost for me too Kazanne,when very young,I would never go out in the really cold without my ears covered and I was looking for him all the time I was out too.:joker:

I always thought he was a scarey character too Joey with pointed icy fingers:laugh:

[smudgie]

I used to believe there was a man in the moon..even used to talk to him when walking home in the dark to stop me worrying about snakes.

Always thought a snake was going to jump out of the loo when I was sat in it..to this day if I am stressed I think there could be a snake in the bed and check it out before getting in.


On yeah, I have this thing abou snakes:hehe:

[Lostie!]

Prior to starting school, I thought the classroom was called a "glassroom", so I pictured a room inside a giant drinking glass. :umm2:

I also thought the rag and bone men were coming to abduct me for some reason, I was terrified of them. :shocked:

Also, I was told that the angel on top of the Christmas tree was alive, and on Christmas Eve she'd grow big and help Santa when he brought the presents. I think this was meant to be a nice idea, but I'd look at the angel's eyes and be convinced they followed me when I moved. :umm2:

[the truth]

I believe all the same things

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Prior to starting school, I thought the classroom was called a "glassroom", so I pictured a room inside a giant drinking glass. :umm2:

I also thought the rag and bone men were coming to abduct me for some reason, I was terrified of them. :shocked:

Also, I was told that the angel on top of the Christmas tree was alive, and on Christmas Eve she'd grow big and help Santa when he brought the presents. I think this was meant to be a nice idea, but I'd look at the angel's eyes and be convinced they followed me when I moved. :umm2:

:joker:

[Marsh.]

I also thought the rag and bone men were coming to abduct me for some reason, I was terrified of them. :shocked:

I used to think the rag and bone man was shouting his dog called "ragpole!!!!".

Until one day I said "Fgs, that man's lost his dog again!" and my sister burst out laughing.

[Mokka]

I believed Sesame Street was real.

(Kermit was my best friend)

[Jamesy]

Also, I was told that the angel on top of the Christmas tree was alive, and on Christmas Eve she'd grow big and help Santa when he brought the presents. I think this was meant to be a nice idea, but I'd look at the angel's eyes and be convinced they followed me when I moved. :umm2:

That sounds terrifying :laugh:

[DemolitionRed]

I went to convent school and one of the nuns told us kids that if we were naughty she would throw holy water over us and it would burn us. Needless to say, I was a naughty child that was terrified of holy water.

[user104658]

In the loft of my house, the roof was sort of "foil lined". It had metallic, shiny stuff on it anyway. My dad also had a habit of going into the loft for things and leaving the hatch open. Just above the hatch on the roof, some of the foil stuff had come away in a sort of jagged pattern. For years (and I mean, years) I was terrified to walk under the open loft hatch, because I 100% believed that it was claw marks, that some sort of beast lived up there, and that it might reach down and snatch me. I used to run / dive / crawl / skid along the floor under that hatch (it was right in front of my bedroom!) in absolute terror.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Can remember my old man used to keep his boat at a sailing club just beyond this massive power station, he always told me it was where a bunch of giants lived and that they would all come out at night. One night we were meant to be staying the night on the boat and I was scared sh*tless that the giants were gonna come out in the middle of the night and take me, threw such a big tantrum over it refusing to go that eventually he relented and told me it wasn't true. Very cruel father really :idc:

[ChristmasNeeve]

Can remember my old man used to keep his boat at a sailing club just beyond this massive power station, he always told me it was where a bunch of giants lived and that they would all come out at night. One night we were meant to be staying the night on the boat and I was scared sh*tless that the giants were gonna come out in the middle of the night and take me, threw such a big tantrum over it refusing to go that eventually he relented and told me it wasn't true. Very cruel father really :idc:

:hehe:

[kirklancaster]

In the loft of my house, the roof was sort of "foil lined". It had metallic, shiny stuff on it anyway. My dad also had a habit of going into the loft for things and leaving the hatch open. Just above the hatch on the roof, some of the foil stuff had come away in a sort of jagged pattern. For years (and I mean, years) I was terrified to walk under the open loft hatch, because I 100% believed that it was claw marks, that some sort of beast lived up there, and that it might reach down and snatch me. I used to run / dive / crawl / skid along the floor under that hatch (it was right in front of my bedroom!) in absolute terror.

:joker: The beast in the attic.

[kirklancaster]

Can remember my old man used to keep his boat at a sailing club just beyond this massive power station, he always told me it was where a bunch of giants lived and that they would all come out at night. One night we were meant to be staying the night on the boat and I was scared sh*tless that the giants were gonna come out in the middle of the night and take me, threw such a big tantrum over it refusing to go that eventually he relented and told me it wasn't true. Very cruel father really :idc:

:laugh: No - a very imaginative father.

[kirklancaster]

I went to convent school and one of the nuns told us kids that if we were naughty she would throw holy water over us and it would burn us. Needless to say, I was a naughty child that was terrified of holy water.

:shrug: No wonder you don't have faith. Sister sounds like a psycho. :joker:

[armand.kay]

If you turn you eyelids inside out and the wind blew in your direction the you face would be stuck forever.

[kirklancaster]

I used to think that the coast across the sea view from my balcony was France (it was Brixham).

:joker::joker::joker: Bonjour mi old china.

[JoshBB]

I used to believe that if I didn't pray God would make my next few days horrible (this was when I was like 6-8, and my parents are/were both atheists which was odd..)

[Black Dagger]

That the magic bus that went around could fly. I always expected to take off when we got on