Childhood Beliefs...
 

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?

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

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 :(

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

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/bust...myths_partner/

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

sounds like a fun childhood

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

****sake Girth :laugh:

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:

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

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


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

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/...7L._SY300_.jpg

:joker:

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

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.

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:

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:

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

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

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

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.

In Falkirk it still is

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