When I was about 10 or 11, I was so obsessed with having a pet other than a fish that one day I went into the fridge and took an egg. I microwaved it for about 10 seconds in the microwave, and then I wrapped it in a few socks and put it in a drawer (Clearly I thought the "warmth" from the hen is what made an egg hatch). I would fantasize all day about the egg hatching into a baby chick!
After a few days, I finally told my mom and she said "the egg can't hatch because it's not fertilized."
Then for some reason, I got this crazy idea in my head that if I put sperm on the egg, it would hatch into a human/chicken. The image of that human/chicken hatching still freaks me out...
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could keep a chicken egg (that you bought) warm, and it would hatch!Anon
- I used to believe that I could make a chick hatch from egg carton as long as I kept it warm :)— Stephanie
- I used to believe that all animals hatch from eggs— Bryan Flores
- I used to believe that when being born, your mom would give birth to an egg, and later you would hatch— Becca
- I used to believe that Chicken Mc Nuggets were made from baby chicks— Sara
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen