There was a pond we walked past every day on the way into (Primary) School in a small suburban part of the UK. One day on the way in I kept my usual date with it by leaping onto the bottom bar of the fence to look at it when I noticed a hippopotamus head. As I watched, intrigued, the head rose up as did the heads of several others of varying sizes (some very cute baby ones too) and they started performing all sorts of tricks. It was brilliant
Because we'd stopped people were curious as to why and so started gathering around us. The crowd increased and traffic started piling up and stopped for miles in either direction. And this Hippopotamus circus was named after me as I had discovered them. Our family called the pond the Hippopotamus pond as I insisted on it.
15 years later in a moment of extreme sanity I realised this had been an extremely vivid dream but it was so real to me.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a 'Flea Circus' really was a circus with performing feas!— Jo Lancashire
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- i used to believe that everyone was born as the opposite sex, and that you changed when you started school.— llama
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell