i'm different

When we were kids, my older brother and me had my younger brother believing he was hatched because he was the only one of us who didn't have a birthmark.

Rita

When i was little i used to tell stories of what my mom believed to be my past life... I would start stories with "When i was a big girl..." and tell my mom about things where we were, even if we had never been there before.

me

When i was little i used to believe my whole life was a movie.. that it wasn't actually real.
I also believed Tweety bird was my brother and that Tongs( food utinsil) was my best friend..

la

My friend Nora and I used to actually believe that we were "Cog People", which we thought up. They were a mix of cats and dogs and posessed powers of those animals. We also believe that we could change it from being cats and dogs to any two animals and we tried so hard to figure out what combination we were.

We also believed that once a year on June 4th our skin would begin to peel off because, as well as being Cog people, we were reptillian aliens and our parents were just there to diguise our REAL ALIEN parents. We also thought that our REAL ALIEN parents had been the same parents (thus we were sisters) and the photographs we had of our births were fake.

We also thought there was this invisible purple goo that would hunt us down during recess becasuse we knew our secret. We believed that if we stodd on a certain sqare of the rubber mat of our play structure, it couldn't hurt us. We also thought that we attracted animals from our real planet. Once we found a wasp on the wall of the school and we were certain that we had discovered a new species of alien ants.

5th graders do the dumbest things, eh?

Raisa & Nora

I use to think that I was the only persen that can see, and uther peple just faked it

I also use to think that I had invented X/Y cordinite system

zzo38

My parents were always big fans of Lord of the Rings and other books by Tolkien. One day, I stubled across a copy of "The Return of the King" complete with appendicies. I found the hobbit family trees, and was surprised to see my name on on of them (Diamond). We lived on Long Island, and I thought Cleave was another word for Island. All of these things clued me in; I was a hobbit born to human parents, and one day I would marry Pippin. I even told my classmates; so proud was I of my fate. Oddly enough, I ended up married to someone very much like Pippin.

Diamond

I actually believed at one point we are all living in the Matrix because at one point I saw every thing all greenish like the back round when they were in the matrix ( Iwas trying to sleep and my room was white and it wasn't painted yet) and three other times when wind made a wind tunnel and kept me 4 feet high for 10 seconds and another time when my gaurdian angel saved me from falling down the stairs and another time when I ran 30 feet in like 3 seconds.

Kid Neo

When I was little I used to believe that my life was a TV show. I honestly thought that SOMEHOW there were cameras that watched my everymove.

I also believed that TV shows were other people's lives that I was allowed to watch. I just hoped MY show was as funny as some of theirs... and I also always wanted to go live with the Star Trek people b/c their life was cool! haha

Heather

I beleived that i was a elf fairy princess, because my ears are pointed and because when i was at a magic show i voluntered and the magicain lifted me into the air.And because I lived near the woods that was always clean and sparkling day & night and whenever i used to got into the woods i never wanted to get out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The little elf fairy princess from the forest

for some reason, when i was around pre-school age, i was convinced that i could change into some kind of wolf someday because i could make this really weird sound in the back of my throat. i thought that i couldnt tell anyone, but one time i my mom was talking to my teacher and i let out this weird "growl". i think they ignored me because kids are weird, but i remember being afraid that they were going to find out my "secret"... i hope i never have kids as strange as i was!!

Kate

When I was young I vaguely believed the entire world, practically everything I experienced, was a crafted charade produced by adults. I envisioned a conspiracy governed through meetings and phone calls when I was asleep. It was all pre-planned that I would pass a red van and then a blue Mustang on the bus ride to school. When my first grade teacher dropped her chalk while writing at the board, I knew that had been carefully arranged before. I didn't think there was any evil intent to ths, just that the whole world was a make believe situation designed around me. It was more narcissism than paranoia. And I expected that when I was older I would be called into service to pretend for other young people.

Long after I ditched this belief I still would play around with the idea, imaging the logistics and consequences of such a thing.

Does free will exist?

When I was little I was convinced my parents and sister were spies. I thought they were planning to kill me, so every night, when they tucked me in bed, I always said some weird word like "bumbedoodiledi" or something like that and I thought that was my weapon and thats why they never actually attacked me.

Bumbedoodiledi

I used to be afraid that we lived in a giant's dream, and I was terrified that one day he would wake up, and the world would end. One day I shared this fear with my sister and was shocked to discover that she also believed that. I still have no idea what led us to think that.

Becky

When I was little I used to think that I had secretly come from outer space and my parents were not telling me the truth, and that they were watching me through the tv.

Amy

When I was younger I always thought that everyone in the world is a part of a big dream Im having. I thought that I was lying down in a bed that I couldnt wake up from, because the dream was so realistic. So I always thought that if I wished sometihng hard enough it would happen, or if Im sad there would be a hurricane going on or something.

Im special............

i used to think that there might be huge giants looming over us, and they might step on us sometimes, like how we step on ants. so you had to always look up, and make sure you weren't in the way of their foot.

rachael