I used to believe that the fluorescent light in the kitchen couldn't just be turned on with a switch. You also had to blow on it. You had to blow pretty hard (by then of course the light would finally come on). I was about 3 and had to jump pretty high to make it work.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- i used to believe that if you were a kid and u turned the radio on in your car then the car would blow up— steph
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light — Kelly bulanek