You know those warnings on the side mirrors that say "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"? Well as a child I didn't really understand how to tell the difference between "than" and "then" and I thought the word "closer" meant that something was invisible. So, in my mind, those signs were saying that the objects were invisible and then suddenly they appeared. I always tried to catch the mirror when everything was invisible. I never quite did.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- Yesterday I realised that invisible ink doesn`t make me invisible.— Jonathan Eleven years old
- When i was a child i used to believe that i became invisible when i covered my hands with my eyes.
— Owen - Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- When I was little *I thought that if I dressed in all white I would become invisible.Sadly,I wasn't.XP— Kiki
- I used to believe that when you closed you eyes you were invisible and no-one could see you!— Andrew
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes I would be invisible— invisible