When I was little I thought that when you went into an elevator that it was like a magic time machine. I didn't realize they went up and down. I thought that they magically turned the floor outside into another place.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon