when I was little I asked my mother howcome streetlamps turned themselves on at night. She told me there was a little man inside each lamp, that could tell when it got dark and cold, so he turned the light on himself to keep him warm.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- i used to think that at night all of my teachers turned into my soft toys so they could keep and eye on me.— paranoid
- i used to think that my dad turned into the boogie monster at night if i picked my nose before i went to bed— hollie