When I was about 7 or 8 I used to think that there were little people under the road at the traffic lights. They would choose whose turn it was to go and stop by pressing a switch, kind of like a light switch.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon