When I was little, I was really paranoid about fires, and in the dark everything would look grainy and I'd think my room was filling up with smoke. Loads of times I'd get up and turn the light on cos I thought something in the house was on fire
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Fire Station was where all fires occurred.Anon
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- I used to think farts were air you had breathed in and out loads of times and was 'used'Anon
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to believe that house fires were caused by foolish people who put paper on the stove.— C.C.
- i used to believe that if you ate loads and loads of crust from bread it would make you have BIG boobies.— Israel Bliss