When I was younger I used to think there were lights in my body because people would always say, "I'll punch your lights out." So one day I asked my mom, "Do we have lights in our body?"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- When I was little I thought that the street lights went out after everyone went to bed.— supercalifragilisticexpialidocious