I use to believe that being brainwashed meant that someone actually took out your brain, washed it with a sponge and soap and water, then put it back in and sewed you up.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to think when I peed in the shower as a kid, the water coming back through the showerhead was my pee.— gregg
- Washable markers could actually be washed off of paperAnon
- I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.Anon