I used to believe that the traffic lights were controlled by gnomes in air balloons, and that if you asked the gnomes to change the color of the light they would. I thought there was someone inside the refridgerator turning the light on and off and I thought soap operas were reality TV.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.