I used to think that traffic lights knew if you really wanted to go past them or not.
This is influenced by my older sister, who told me this when driving me to the mall when I was little. :]
A childhood belief about traffic lights

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 believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- I used to believe that if you spoke while driving past a graveyard that Frankenstein would come after you.— Sabrina R
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda