A childhood belief about general

When I was young, I though animals could read your mind, so instead of talking to animals I would "think" to them. After my mom watched me watch one of our cats for just over an hour while it went about its business, she asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she said that even kitties and puppies had to hear to know what we were thinking.

Apparently, I'd been watching a nature show and they'd been talking about how some animals use scent to communicate. I interpreted that as telepathic abilities.
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Again, watching an animal show, they were talking about how the mountains in which Bighorn Sheep live would change between winter and summer. They showed a shot of two goats dying in the harsh weather and their bones in the spring and then in the summer goat kids playing on the slopes.

For months I stuck by the fact that goats would die and come back to life younger every seasonal cycle.