When I was young (really young) my mother and father would always say things like 'Quick shut the door there's a draft coming in' or 'There's a draft in here I'll close the window'. Now I didn't know what the word 'draft' meant, but I knew what a dragon was and the two words had a similar beginning. So I thought that a smallish invisible(but not to my parents) dragon type crawling thing would come into our house when it was cold or dark out. A few years in school sorted that belief out. Thankfully
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- i used to believe dragon ball z was real
and namek was in another dimension
and every show on tv was realAnon - I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin