When I was young, my father sat with me and watched the movie 'Poltergeist'. The movie convinced me that my closet was a portal that would suck me in randomly, so i used to tie my ankles to my bedposts. When my mom asked me why i did it, i told her i didnt want to die in the abyss. To this day i have never seen a more puzzled look on her face.
A childhood belief about in my closet

others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- if you have freckles it is because you didnt wash your face well enoughAnon
- I used to believe that EVERYTHING we did was being filmed for someone somewhere to watch as a movie— KatBird_27
- "Dad, how come in every war movie there is always a man named Lieutenant?"— Chrisotpher