As a kid I once asked an adult how all the streetlights knew when to turn on and off. I was told that they were all linked to a clock.
I immediateley imagined each streetlight as having an alarm clock inside it (like the old style bell & hammer ticking ones). But I was told they were all linked to the same clock.
I therefore thought that every streetlight was physically coming out of a MASSIVE alarm clock underground inside the earth, big enough for every streetlight in the world to come out of.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- Once I told everyone that I saw a clock reach 1:60.— flojo
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- I used to believe that if you weed your pants, an alarm would go off and everyone would know you did it.— Mr Ice Creamie
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline