When I was a kid I would always complain to my mom that I was bored - she was pretty good at coming up with fun things to do but if she couldn't think of anything she used to tell me to use my imagination. I had no idea what an imagination was - I don't know why I didn't ask. For some reason I came to believe that my imagination was the colours and lights I saw if I closed my eyes and pressed on my eyeballs. Needless to say, I didn't have a very good opinion of imagination and couldn't understand why my mom was suggesting this to me as a form of entertainment.
A childhood belief about hobbies
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I closed my eyes, I saw my imagination.— BlueRea
- I used to believe that once you reached a certain age you lost your imagination— Kiwi
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.Anon
- I'm deaf in one ear. Until I was 7 I believed that if I didn't sleep on my good ear, dinosaurs would eat me.Anon
- I used to believe that if I closed one eye, the people on that side couldn't see me.— KM