When I was really little, I was like 2 and I thought tthat if you snuck out of bed to go to the bathroom than the numbers in the digital clocks (I had one in the bathroom) woud pop out and "take you away" An I called it "the systen" (not a typo) I don't know where that thught came from
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to believe there were numbers called "onety" and 'twoty." I thought "twoty-nine" came before twenty.— CC
- When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers
- i used to think before clocks were invented, there was no such thing as time— nathan t