When I was young and my father brushed my hair before school in front of our huge bathroom mirror, he used to say "look at the monkey in the mirror." I looked for the monkey until I was 6 or 7. When I figured it out, I told him there was a big hairy gorrilla behind the monkey.
A childhood belief about mirrors

others believed things like this
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- when i was a kid i used to believe the monkey could speak— killian
- i used to think that kiwis were monkey eggs— alyssa
- I used to think monk was short for monkey.Anon
- When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.— jade-isabelle
- when ever i ate broccoli i thaught the monkey from Lion King was in there— Simon