On Christmas Eve all the animals are able to talk but only for that night!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I thought I had X-ray vision and could talk to animals and they could understand me.— Kitty Lover
- I used to belive that all animals could talk but just didn't want to aroung people!— Mallory
- I beliveve that i got abducted by aleiens and i got special powers and i could talk to animals— I found out
- I used to believe that all my stuffed animals would come to life at night.— Carrie
- I used to believe that when we went to bed at night, all the animals in our house talked to each other. Anon