i asked my dad who turned on the street lights at night and he told me it was the man at parramatta. all through my childhood i believed that a man sitting in a room at parramatta would turn on all the light switches every night.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- The sun switches off at night and on again in the morning — Edward
- I used to believe that there where little mice the the street lights that turned them on and off.Anon
- We used to turn our walkie talkies on high at night and believed were communicating with aliens!— Dreamy
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- I used to believe that moths circled lights at night trying to find a way out of the world!— Diane D.