As a young child my mother used to take me and my brothers to the movies a lot...to keep us quiet she told us that the lights in the middle of the aisles were motion / noise detectors, and if we moved or talked the lights would electrocute us. I was 11 years old untill I learned the truth.
A childhood belief about films
others believed things like this
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to believe that the more you talked, the sooner you would die. Needless to say, I was a quiet kid.— Lisa
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I used to think that putting batteries in your ears could electrocute your brain. Hahahaha.Anon