I had a dream once that if you spoke while you were moving, you'd turn into an animal. For weeks afterwards, I'd make sure I was perfectly still before saying a word.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i eat fish it would turn my stomach into a fishtank and make me turn into glass.Anon
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane