Whenever there was a storm I was terrified that lightning would jump through the windows and kill me. I believed drawing the curtains was the only thing to stop this, and i made my mum close all the curtains in the house.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the actors in movies were all acting live behind those big curtains in the cinema.— Courtney
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- i believed there were little men in my etch a sketch that did the drawing— now a mom
- I used to believe that serial killers would jump out of cereal boxes and kill me...— Amanda