When I was little I was terrified of fire. Fire drills. Candles. Fireplaces. You name it. I was terrified. To alleviate my fears my parents told me that the only way our house could catch on fire was if someone poured gasoline on our house and lit it. Well my little ears heard "vaseline," so for years I had nightmares of people smearing vaseline on our house and lighting it on fire.

Cami

I used to believe that when I was two or three I was only a couple of inches tall. I have a clear memory of being able to fit inside my dollshouse.

Anon

When I was younger my parents always used to tell me that they loved me with all "their heart and soul", I misheard this thinking they were saying with all there heart and salt. I had also being told that I was 70% water (dont know where from). So I put one and one together and decided that we were oceans because i had so much water in me and my parents obvisously loved me alot so they had to have lots of salt. Just like an Ocean.

It took me years before i figured out they used to say soul!

Jacquie

At the age of 4 I was absolutely certain I could make anything out of paper and sticky tape or glue. There was a series on television where the kids all wore jeans trousers and jackets. I loved those, but my mom wouldn't buy me jeans. So I took a a lot of paper, put them all together with sticky tape, drew trousers on it that looked exactly like a pair of jeans (I must have thought at the time...) and cut it out. So now I had the front. That had been a lot of work and I was getting tired of it, so for the back I had another solution. I cut out paper bands and taped them from one side of the trouser leg to the other, say 4 or 5 of those down both legs. Colouring them blue was too much work, I was contented with white jeans as well. I tried to put them on, but of course the paper teared and I was very disappointed. I didn't fall from my belief though... Some weeks later I very badly wanted a go-kart, and I started all over again, even making wheels out of paper or cartbox and being disappointed when the kart wasn't strong enough to carry me. The conviction still held, because somewhat later I tried to make a trapeze out of paper for my own room (I must have seen a circus show on the telly). I somehow convinced my dad to tape it to the ceiling with the sticky tape so I could swing the trapeze (piece of cake, I believed). I think my paper dream ended when this last work of art didn't stand a chance either....

Zoë

When I was 5 we moved for the first time, I was under the impression that when you moved you just switched houses and couldn't take anything with you. So I filled my pillowcase with toys and asked my mom "I know I can't take everything, but can I just please take these toys at least."

Kali

When I was a child I used to catch bumble bees with my bare hands. As long as my tongue was folded in my mouth so that it touched my top teeth I would be safe from the bees stings. It worked hundreds of bees into jars for a day then I would let them go. We wanted honey from the bees, we never did get any. I was never stung. No animals were hurt in this story at all.
Blessed Bee 2 you.

lokigui

My mother used to tell me I was like a bull in a china shop. Only, I heard "bowl" in a china shop. I imagined myself as a one-of-a-kind, delicate, beautiful, priceless heirloom... until I was in college when I heard the correct version.

Tracy

A mischievous friend convinced his younger brother that the test for whether or not you were a robot was to chew on aluminum foil. If it hurt to do it, that was a reaction from the electrical current which powered you. The younger brother tested positive of course, and broke in to tears, for he did not want to be a robot.

C. Holbrook

I used to believe everybody else disappeared when I wasn't there. When you'd visit relatives, I thought they were happy because I'd made them exist again. I also believed the entire world was dismantled and stored in warehouses for the night.

D

I used to believe I was Polish when I was five years old. I have no idea why. I convinced myself I could speak fluent Polish and proceeded, for two weeks or so, to chat away to random strangers in the street in something akin to complete gibberish.

Johnny

When I was little, I used to believe that everyone was in this huge movie that people bigger than us would watch. Since I thought this I would dress up and always act as if I were really on camera. My mom just thought that I was a total drama queen until I told her why I was doing it. She laughed and said that no one was watching us on some giant screen tv.

Megg* the movie star

I used to think my family was royalty who stayed in a normal neighborhood to show our subjects that we cared about them. I wondered how the other royals could live in castles and not even care what happened to everyone else.

Princesa

My sister told me that I was born as a gorilla but changed into a little girl through the miracle of modern plastic surgery. She also told me not to feel bad, as there were several other 'conversions' in our neighborhood which she pointed out to me.

Mary

I used to believe, when I found out I was adopted that I had been picked off a shop shelf with a price tag attached!

Anon

I used to think that we were all dolls living in a doll house and that real humans were controlling our lives. Kinda weird but i was only 5 at the time!

Katie

In pre-school I believed that pennies would come out of my cuticles if I cut them and I also believed that my nose was a sort of pouch that I could store small treasures in. Needless to say, my parents were called a few times after I had tried to store my treasures, i.e. seeds, small washers and the like, and had I had quite a time trying to retrieve them.

Mickie

When I was a young child like 7 or 8 years old, I learned that on one night in the whole year, whatever you wish for will come true.... so I wished for having wings and could fly! so, the next day, I started running all over my room and jumping from the top of my bunk bed flapping my hands to see if I could fly! LOL

Anon

I used to believe, that since I wished upon a wishing well, I really would grow up to be a dinosaur.

Azi

When i was 4 I believed that my tears came from my cheeks and when I drank water it filled my cheeks back up with tears

Tasha

when i was really little i used to believe that if i put on water wings and went outside when it was raining i would float around.

Eden