I used to go around tapping on tree trunks when I was little because I believed that if I could just find the right one, I would knock on the door that led to fairyland. It amused my parents, but they never took away my belief. It faded away on its own.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - When I was little,I used to think the TV stopped when I went to bed. I figured it all faded to white.— Sharon
- I used to think that black and white TV and movies had originally been in color, but had faded with age.
— Beth - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica