I used to believe that at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve that all the animals on Earth could speak. (I could have swore I was taught this at Sunday school when I was little). I would stay up every Christmas Eve until midnight watching our cat and then start pestering it at the stroke of midnight to see if it would speak. Obviously, it never did.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to to believe that all adults went to bed at midnight.Anon
- I used to belive all grown ups went to bed at midnight.Anon
- I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.Anon
- when i was little i used to believe that all my barbies would come alive at midnight while i was asleep — stephanie
- I used to think "A.M." and "P.M." meant "After Midnight" and "Post Midday".Anon
- I thought there was no midnight in military time; instead, it’d be 24:00.— Enrico