kids

When I was young, I had a dream that all my Barbie's came alive and messed up my room when I was sleeping. And when I woke up my room was messier! So before I went to sleep I would say
'Goodnight, dollies, go to sleep because i sleep too"

Since I was 4 my mum spent most of the year in hospitals with my baby sister so I wa reased by my grandmother and I slept in a huge living room all by myslef. I used to think that my Teddy a blue bear has a tape insed him that my mum could take and listen from time to time(i still don't know where from I got the idea) so every night before I got to bed I used to talk with my teddy and explain him how was my day, sing songs tell poems.

When I was about 7, I was convinced I was going to grow up and become Barbie. I would lie in bed fantasizing about my long blonde hair, my curiously pointy feet, my blue eyeshadow and thinking it was only a matter of time.

For years I thought that a "ghetto blaster" was the gun they used on ghost busters (don't cross the beams! etc).

I distinctily remember one christmas when all my friends said they wanted a ghetto blaster and it confused the hell out of me, but sounded pretty cool!

I wasn't the coolest kid.

OK, bear with me on this one. You know how there's a step between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts called Webelos? As a former scout I know that the name signifies that you have completed your Wolf, Bear and Lion badges, hence, "WeBeLos".

When growing up in Boston, my wife had two older brothers and a father who were very involved in scouting. She just assumed Webelos meant you were (best read with an Irish accent) "just a wee below a Boy Scout".

when they first taught us about the solar system at school i had a strange belief that a evrything that was happening around me was happening in every other planet.i thought that a girl who looked just like me existed in every planet.

When I was little, I of course had my own version of the "I'm an adoptee and my real parents are rich and nice!" story, though my was a little odder. In my version, I was a plutonian princess whos UFO had crashed into a telephone pole when me and my sister were escaping from war. My sister sadly did not live and i was found wearing my synthetic human skin as a baby by my mom. I could speak plutonian, and my people were always contacting me (we communicated through woodchips) telling me to be ready, they were coming to get me becouse my mother was dying and I had to fill her place as the last remaining for the throne of queen of pluto. Also, pluto was seperated into two halves- the warm side and the cold (warm side facing the side, the cold not) and I lived on the warm side and that's why we can survive. Oh, and in our real forms we blended color like the lizard guy in Monsters Inc. And, we were at war with Mars and I think allied with Venus.

To this day I speak plutonian.

I used to belive that if I didn't cataloge and put away my lego everytime I played with it, little demons would steal the exact pieces I would need to complete a project I was working on.

Once, I was working on a spaceship and I couldn't find the lights I needed. I knew the little bastards had been there, so I left some out on a plate and hid behind the sofa with the biggest knife in the kitchen. I sat there for a good three and a half hours before my parents came home from work.

After laughing their asses off at me, the parents sat me down for one of the many "stern" talking too's that I would recieve in my lifetime.

I have a great mom, and I love her very much. But when I was little I guess I had those, 'really I'm a princess and my kind and queen parents are out there missing me' daydreams that a lot of kids have. I'm not sure what it was that convinced me it was true, but somewhere the line between make believe and reality blurred, and I became convinced it was true. I kept it a secret, though, because I figured I was supposed to. Until one day I got mad at my mom for making me go to my room or something. And as she turned to walk away I yelled, "I like my other mom a lot better than you!" Obviously she was a little confused by this and told me I did not have another mom. Which reminded me that she was right.

When I was little, I had a Baby Bop costume from Barney and went around thinking I was really her. As I got older and met my best friend, I found out that she used to believe that she was Bareny. LOL.

Ok, I hope this makes sense...

When I was five, I had one of those sticker books where each page had a black-and-white picture, and a few "dotted outlines." The book came with a page of stickers that you tore out, and stuck the appropriate ones on each page.

I had one from the Disney Peter Pan movie, and one page required two stickers on top of each other. The picture was of Wendy and the boys being captured and tied up to the mast on Captain Hook's ship. In one spot, first you stuck on one sticker of the three kids, and then the "tied rope" sticker on top of the first sticker so it looked like they had the rope around them.

So that the picture looked right, the outline of the "kids" sticker had the words "put this piece down first" written on it. But I didn't understand this. I thought you had to put that sticker on first; otherwise Captain Hook would come out of the picture and kill you. Seriously!

I worried for ages whether I wanted to risk it or not. My dad even asked if I was okay. Finally I decided I'd better not. I put the book away just in case I made a mistake and unleashed Captain Hook on the world.

I don't know why they didn't just make one sticker of the kids with the rope around them and leave it at that.....

When i was about 4 or 3, my dad, a carpenter, made me this hand made rocking horse. it was absolutely amazing now that i see pictures of it...but anyway...the only flaw was that the eyes on it were kind of like a large version of those googly eyes you buy at craft stores...those eyes scared me so badly. my parents thought that if we put it in my room i would get used to it. one night, i was trying to go to sleep..and my eyes MUST have been playing tricks on me, but i could have sworn that the horse started moving toward me....i thought i saw it getting closer, pawing..moving its tail and mane...everything...yet somehow it never got really close to me. so i ran out of my room, and i thought it chased after me. i woke my poor parents up, and my dad came into my room, turned on the light, and showed me that my horse hadn't moved a bit...boy did i feel stupid!!!

I used to think i was an alien spy sent to earth to get all the good things on earth. There are a bunch of other people sent to other planets in the universe to get all the good stuff from them. Then in the near future, 'The boss' would beam us up in his space ship, and we would all get together and put all the good things together to make the perfect planet.

Im still waiting for 'The boss'.

i used to believe that i was a vampire and if i went outside i would melt into a puddle and go down the gutter drain and be slurped up by a rabbit dog....... i thought that till i was 8

When I was a child, I used to belive that my toys were alive at night, when I was sleeping, so I took a stick and I say that if they attacked me, they would die, so I want to sleep.

When I was a child I used to believe that the toys in my bedroom were alive when I was sleeping. I started to believe in that when I saw "Toy Story". I was very scared when everytime I went to bed.