When I was very young, I was convinced that the pictures of people on book and magazine covers could see me as well as I could see them. All books had to be face down at night, or when I was getting dressed so they couldn't see me.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(:
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- I used to believe that teachers lived in ufos at night and tha's why they dressed so weird.— llama queen
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho