I used to believe that we all lived in a yellow submarine

Jacob

When I was a kid I used to believe that the colorful spots you'd get behind your eyelids after looking at the sun were aliens trying to contact me. I would squint my eyes really tight on car trips and try and decipher what the aliens were obviously trying very hard to communicate to me. After much thought and courage, I eventually told my dad that I was being contacted by aliens. He told me that, unfortunately, I was not as special as I thought I was, but it's a good story now!

Anon

When I was about 5 or 6, I used to think that I was the reencarnation of Jesus Christ, ´cos I always thought I looked like him, my father´s name is José and mother is Maria (Joseph and Mary, in portuguese). I´m 20 now, and I swear, if nothing happens untill I am 33, I´ll start wearing shoes and I´ll finally cut my hair.

Antonio Delvecchio, Porto Alegre/ BRAZIL

i used to believe that only i could think and anybody else could'nt do anything unless i was there.

pinkcatf

When I was 6 or 7 I used to think that my index and middle finger were space travellers from another planet who had their own tv show on earth. They "space walked" everywhere, each time I went out that was a new episode. And I would announce it by saying "index and middle go to The store" Or wherever we were going.
The show eventually got cancelled.

Anon

When I was about six years old (1960's), I believed the laugh track on television was other tv viewers laughing along with the program. I thought I could hear them through the television. Then I would laugh at completely inappropriate times believing that other viewers would wonder what that crazy kid was laughing at.

Anon

While walking home from school with a fellow neighbor kid, around 8yrs old, he began telling me a story...He had said that he was at the local town track and his family was racing around it. Well, since he was losing, he told me that he snuck away and drank gasoline and it made him run faster to win the races. I believed for a few years that if you drank gas you would run faster. (Never tired it though, thank god!)

Ryan

When I was young, I used to believe that if I went into buildings with extremely tall ceilings I would float to the top. Not sure why I believed it, but I refused to go into big buildings until I was at least 8.

Anon

I remember once as a child thinking there was something wrong with me because my stomach would rise when I breathed in, and fall when I breathed out. I thought it was supposed to be the other way round, and used to spend time trying to "reverse" my faulty breathing.

I've just realised why I thought this - when squeezing into a tight place or clothing, people say "breathe in!"... surely it should be "breathe out"?

Anon

I believed I was magickal because I never caught poison ivy, but when my sister and I had played in it by accident she would get rashes and I wouldn't. Then "immunity" was a vocabulary word at school.

Allie

I used to believe the whole world was an illusion and that only I was real... The whole world was an illusion much as in matrix... but it was a physical illusion intended to study me by alien scientists.

I used to try and look around corners to areas they maybe forgot to 'texture' yet, or maybe to places where the 'actors' forgot to pull their suits on and looked like aliens.

Ale Nijamkin

I used to believe that people around me could read my thoughts. I then became insecure of what i thought, and if i had a thought that might offend someone else who didn't know what i meant by it, i would try to cover it up and make excuses for those reading my mind. It got to the point where i would send false information to others, and then snicker at what an evil thing i had done. I have no idea how i thought this, maybe i was just a really paranoid boy.

Im Me

when i was a kid, i used to believe i was actually a king who was in a coma dreaming about being a kid.

r

When I was a young teen, I was convinced I was a fairy. I thought I had control over ice. I could make it snow and everything.

Anon

My grandmother is a strong catholic and I was convinced I was going to be the "next" vigin mary. I thought I was pregnant all the time and would sit and cry. No one knew why. Until today! Haha!

alildevastation

When i was little i thought that i was a bird's baby, and my parents had stolen me out of a robin's nest, because my name was Robin

Robin

I used to think that my family were the only people who wore underwear. There was no reasoning behind this - I just assumed it was true.

Sylvia

I used to believe that if I wanted to, I could take a plane up to the sky, and sit on a cloud without going through. For hours Id be swinging on my swing in my backyard staring at the sky, day dreaming of sitting on a cloud.

Lauren

I used to belive that if i dug in a grassy slope in my playground i would find treasure.

By some bizzare coincidence, some kid from years ago had buried marbles and foreign coins and old coins there and my friend and i made a pact to bury it all again when we dug it up, because it belonged to someone else who thought it precious enough to keep it hidden.

I passed by the place last week, a wall has been built up over our trasure trove. And its safe forever now.

Me

when i was six or seven i used to believe that i was a beautiful horse that could run as fast as the wind. i had long hair that i flipped back and forth like a mane. i galloped everywhere i went.

star gazer