I believed that my real family were aliens, and they would come in the middle of the night to take me back home. However, they would only take me back if I was awake and waiting for them.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M
- After watching a crazy TV show, I believed that aliens were real. I still have a little fear of them. — Niki005
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- We used to turn our walkie talkies on high at night and believed were communicating with aliens!— Dreamy
- I used to believe that the hoverboards in Back to the Future 2 were real.— Negman
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner