When I was a kid, there was a playground near my place with a spaceship-shaped climbing frame. I was too young to play on it, but I thought that the reason why people weren't letting me play on it was because it was really an actual spaceship.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- When I was quite young, I believed that one's coffin was really a spaceship to take them to heaven.— Sunshine
- I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.— Sarah Jane
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- I used to believe that the reason ladies had big bouffant hairdos was that their heads were shaped that way.— Bea
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz