I used to believe that story book characters would really come to life once the book was shut. I would open the books really fast hoping that I would suprise them and catch them in the midst of their daily activities.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends

others believed things like this
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I used to beleive that you could catch yourself sleeping if you woke up fast enough.— Amber
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy