I used to believe the traffic lights could be changed if you concentrated hard enough. I used to practice on the bus every day and my sister always complained how I made weird faces.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to believe if I concentrated hard enough I could move stuff.
*sigh*
— Zog - 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 ~