I used to think that people never died and that they kept growing so that they were as tall as giants and their fingernails grew to longer than buses. I also thought the sun was a giant lightbulb. (I was 5.)
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My mom used to believe that the San Francisco Giants baseball team were actual giants.Anon
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- I used to believe that the school rabbit liked the red berries that grew in the hedge. But then he died.— Charlotte