Silly things we thought of/believed in as kids

[Bakuma1997]

my grandfather used to tell us growing up that they would pay actors millions of dollars to give to their families and then actually kill the actors in the movies. so yeah, first few deaths i saw in film hit hard as a kid.

 

[Tonberry]

I kept wondering why the moon was following me.

Did u ever find an answer to this

 

[trickybus]

I kept wondering why the moon was following me.

I got bad news for you; it still is.

 

[Yousef]

I got bad news for you; it still is.

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Yea, I still see it when I close my eyes.

Did u ever find an answer to this

Maybe I’m really good-looking.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I kept wondering why the moon was following me.

 

[Mopeybloke]

I personally remember thinking that history had happened in black and white because we hadn't invented color yet XD

That was just Kansas actually.

And how do you know there aren't?

Because over time, as TVs flattened, you realised having space for tiny people to live inside was never a concern.

When I was a kid I was told that when you’re eating watermelons and happened to swallow the seeds it will grow inside you

So many adults would tell us that, it's a wonder if any kid didn't believe it at least for a while.

 

[Theriise]

I used to believe my toys were 'watching' tv with me. Said tv was my gameboy colour. I used to apologise to them when it ran out of battery.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Mom would scare me into spitting out the watermelon seeds because I would grow one in my stomach if I did. Which is funny as this was real for for one man that got a pea stuck in a his lung.

 

[ThirdEidolon]

as a kid i used to believe there was no hope for the future. until i was like 10 or something.
as an adult i realized there is hope in the future

then you got older and realized you were wrong.

 

[Morgana Veil]

You know those shadow puppets you would make with your hands at night? Well, I used to think they were actually tiny evil spirits called Shadow People. I thought they would hide behind the walls and wait until you turned off the light, then come out when you were trying to sleep and start whispering in a creepy language, plans to kidnap you in the night.

I was a warped kid

 

[Adrastia]

My grandmother would tell me all kinds of things.

If you go outside with Vick's Vaporub on your body you will get pneumonia. My mom told me that she used to try it all the time to get out of going to school and it never worked.

If you wash your hair during your period you will get pneumonia and might even die. I braved the shampoo and I'm pretty sure I'm still alive.

If you go to bed with wet hair you will get pneumonia.

If you say "Bloody Mary Bloody Mary come to me" three times in the mirror she will come and kill you. I tried it and she never came. Yes I was that kind of kid. So I tried "I believe in Mary Worth" and whoever Mary Worth was she never came either.

 

[ThirdEidolon]

You know those shadow puppets you would make with your hands at night? Well, I used to think they were actually tiny evil spirits called Shadow People. I thought they would hide behind the walls and wait until you turned off the light, then come out when you were trying to sleep and start whispering in a creepy language, plans to kidnap you in the night.

I was a warped kid

Shadow People are real, though.

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What we don't know is if Shadow people are the spirits of people who existed—a gash in time or an engram, playing on repeat. Or are they actually malicious entities? Seems to be cases for both types. Maybe one is mimicking the other. Who knows?

 

[SherionVane]

I thought Red Alert 2 was the best game in the world and that nothing better would ever come along, but then they released Red Alert 3.

 

[Skellerick]

I swallowed gum once and was 100% convinced I was going to die.

And that garbage collectors exchanged trash from the truck for money every day after collection.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I swallowed gum once and was 100% convinced I was going to die.

And that garbage collectors exchanged trash from the truck for money every day after collection.

They do on a sense, if it is a recycle plant

 

[Skellerick]

That's where the association came from. But I believed that ALL garbage trucks was exchanged for money at the end of the day lmao

 

[Crashbandi]

We had this really crazy conspiracy nut family friend. He convinced me raisins were communist mind control chips and if you ate enough you'd turn into a Soviet spy. And also that pigeons specifically were flying Government drones spying on people.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I used to think that getting mail specifically addressed to me would be the coolest thing ever... Now I just wanna burn it all down the second it arrives.

 

[Burzuru]

i thought swapping RCA cables for my gaming consoles made me feel like i was doing tech stuff like i thought luke skywalker did.