When I was little, my brother used to tell me that during a thunderstorm lightning would come out of the powerpoints and 'get' me.
To this day, it's something I'm phobic about, even though common sense tells me otherwise!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- i thought the sky was white and the clouds were blue. Nobody actually tells you otherwise,do they?— fatcat
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- "The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" meant that there were loads of them...— Mike
- It was common "knowledge" where I lived that if you picked dandelions then you would wet the bed.— Holly
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn