In our old microwave, there was a square place where the light/heat came from (I guess it was the heat) that was really bright. Well I thought if I talked to it I could talk to people in Heaven. So whenever I heated something, I'd start talking to my deceased grandfather.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- 'I've got candy in my ears tonight, baby'.
~Canned Heat, Jimiroquai.— Nin - I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon