I used to believe that people turned off the plug sockets to stop the electricity escaping and electrocuting people.
I believed this until I experimented by waving my hand in front of a plug socket that was on end experienced none of the effects of electrocution.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)— Mike
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night — James Cameron
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy