When i was a kid, i asked my grandfather how the heat in our house worked. He showed me the baseboard heater in the kitchen and said something that i heard as "the heating elephants inside". Eventually i found out he was saying "elements" but for a long time i had imagined little tiny elephants walking around inside the heater to make it warm. i spent about an hour that day sitting next to the heater trying to look inside it and see the elephants.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the sun was a big heater spining around— rasverone
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I used to think that heater was spelled "header"(which i didn't know was pronounced hedder)— Olivia
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants— lucien
- I thought that hippos were baby elephants— Gerna