I thought tranquilizing animals put them to sleep instantly and didn’t realize it takes several minutes for an animal to fall asleep after being tranquilized. I also thought automatic tranquilizers existed and you could harmlessly put people to sleep by tranquilizing them multiple times in rapid succession, like in action movies and comedies.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- When i was little i used to think the meat didn’t come from the animals we saw — m.d
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to think that the automatic tolets were controled by people who were looking at you through a camara. — jack irons