A childhood belief about toys

Like many kids, I thought my stuffed animals were alive and had feelings and moved around when I wasn't looking.
However, I took this a step further. I believed that stuffed animals in stores were inanimate, and when you bought them you had to bring them alive yourself. My friends and I had this "spell" that would bring our stuffed animals to life when we brought them home.
Also, I figured that the games I played with them formed their personalities. So if, in my game, two certain stuffies were sisters, or married, or if a certain one was an adventurer, or was snobby, or whatever, then that became reality. I remember being so afraid that these two stuffed dogs who were enemies in my games would tear each other apart at night.

I also thought that if you failed to love your stuffed animals or if you treated them badly, they would eventually return to their inanimate state. So I would make sure and include every stuffie I owned in my games, and give them all a kiss before bed, and tell them I loved them on a regular basis.