When I was small, my mother would close my bedroom window to "keep out the draft". I thought she was saying "keep out the giraffe", and since we lived in an apartment block I imagined a giraffe trying to peer in through my window each night, which unnerved me greatly.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- i used to believe that a elf familly lived on my window, long after a new my parents were Santa Claus— anna
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to believe that everyone who lived in the city lived in an apartment.— Marideth
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon