In Russia we had a lot of training for 'incase a powerplant explodes and released toxic gases'. And I kept hearing these stories about it...
People were telling me things like "When the powerplant explodes we would all have to wear the gasmasks, even when we sleep, and even eat wearing them".
This eventually made me belive that there is only one powerplant on earth which one day WILL explode... like it is unavoidable and it will explode, people are just basically waiting for the unavoidable disaster to happen ( just like a meteor strike)
And I belived that when it explodes, the gases would ALMOST INSTANTLY fill the ENTIRE EARTH and we would have to live with gasmasks for the REST OF MANKND. xD
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- i thought that if you held in your fart you burp if you happen to hold both in you explode!— ahh!
- i use to belive that whenever i had a headache then my head would explode until i was 10— Eryn
- i used to belive that god was a giant police man flying around the earth— sam
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy