I used to believe, in fact I think I still do, that you can cut a pane of glass into any shape you want with a pair of kitchen scissors if you hold the glass underwater. I seem to remember trying this and it working but that may have been a dream
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- if you broke the glass on the tv, the cartoons could come out, or you could go in there with themAnon
- I used to believe that if I broke the glass on the tv screen, I could go into the tv show...— Karyne
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that everything involving the name Alice had to be Wonderland or Looking Glass related.Anon
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G