When I was younger my older brother told me that I was a vulcan(from star trek). I believed him too because my ears were slightly pointed. He told me that one day they would come and take me back to their planet. It was a couple of years before I learned the truth, that star trek wasn't real.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- I used to believe that the visible rays of the sun were beaming people up to heaven. like in star trek.Anon
- I believed a star that I later found out was the planet Venus was the Tooth Fairy— Jillybean
- When i was younger i believed i was the star of the entire worldAnon
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow