When I was little, I used to believe we ran on batteries. I believed this until about 8 when I had asked when we needed to replace them and was told how the human body works.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- When ever we went to the gas station, it was to replace the blinker fluid.Anon
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to think that putting batteries in your ears could electrocute your brain. Hahahaha.Anon
- I used to suck on the ends of batteries intent on gaining super electric powers. Anon