Using an elevator as a kid (with my Mom) I was convinced that the elevator itself was not moving, but very fast-working people actually changed the scenery around the elevator; so when the door opened again we'd be in the same place only it had been quickly rearranged.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I believed I could tap dance by moving my feet real fast. — Aussie
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that the people on tv were really in the tv and if you opened the back they would be there!— Kathleen