I used to believe that wars were spectator events, held in front of audiences sitting in bleachers. When it was time for someone to die, they'd randomly choose a seat number and then you'd walk out to the field and be shot or decapitated or something. Weird.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- I used to think that dreams were events that really happened, I just couldn't remember them when I was awake.— Warren
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon