Whenever I watched a TV show, film or read a book, if it was about little talking animals, i'd pick 1-2 of my favourite characters and they'd follow me around for a few weeks. The most memorable is that once i was followed around for a month by Beatrix Potter's character, Samuel Whiskers, and his wife, Anna Maria.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends

others believed things like this
- I used to think MARIA is the WIFE of JESUS!— Chrono
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- My wife used to tell our kids that if you pick your nose your brains would fall out— grampy
- Based on that memorable scene from the "Wizard of Oz," I used to believe that people died from shrinking!— Julie
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy