i'm different

I used to believe that the head part of a shirt was a monster and that it would eat you.

Taliyah

Youtube videos would have comments like "if you don't do xyz a girl with no face will kill you tonight". These were supposed to be commented to other videos. I was ten years old but I believed these! Then I remembered reading a book where a child called his stuffed animals the "dream police" which would keep him from having bad dreams. I tried this and of course it worked. I stopped panicking when I remembered the dream police.

Some of these YouTube comments started with "Please don't read this." For a while I actually stopped reading at that point (to follow directions lol)

In later years, I low-key believed those "repost or something good/bad will happen to you" posts online.

Molly

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 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?

Up until I was 7 or so I believed that I was really a princess. I believed that my family was in exile or something. No one ever said anything to support this bizarre belief... I just have an over active imagination!

Rose

I used to believe that I had a grey cord attatched to the trunk of my body and that I was "plugged in" to a wall somehow and somewhere..and that I had limited space to move about...but, I think that I was also "just pretending" this as well...kind of for fun!

J

I used to believe that my parents were aliens although I was human and they stole me from another family. I was always waiting in fear from the inevitable day when the mothership would come for them because I knew they would force me to go with them back to their planet.

It would explain a lot

From the time I was about 6 to 11 I thought I was retarded and no one was telling me! I know it sounds horrible.

Dee

When I was younger I used to think when I went to bed everyone in the world met up and would talk about me behind my back. And they were all in this secret society I didn't know about. Weird I know.. They all lived around me..

Lauren

My sister and I shared a room and bed for most of my childhood. She was always scaring me by hiding under the bed. But, the worst was when she would tell me that a cow was looking in the window. I was absolutely terrified of this "cow" and would never look outside. I would make sure the curtains were tucked tightly around the window with no gaps. I would run outside in the morning to see if a cow had left any traces, but I, of course, never found any. I still don't like to look out of windows at night.

Charity :)

I used to believe that our life was one big dream, and that the moment we died, we would jolt upright, wake up and it would turn out that we were in fact aliens on another planet.

Dont worry, I've always been a warped kid!

Abby HG

I have two sisters. When we were little we believed that there were loads of children who lived in the cupboard under the stairs, and that we were the lucky ones....

Claire

I used to believe that everything I did was being watched by someone 24-7 with some sort of teeny-tiny cameras that I couldn't see. Man I was a wierd kid. ;)

Watched... 0.o

While I acknowledged others' existence, I used to think I was the only person to actually think and perceive the world around me.

Anon

I used to believe than the moon was in cheese... then I grew up... and watched a documentary too. This imagination... Astronomy hides many surprises !

Anon

When I was young, I used to believe life was mine and people around me were figurants like in a movie. Whe my mom was young, she used to believe that too. It can looks so self centered but I really thought that ...

One day, I went to a shop, I saw people and I thought they just played a role a they weren't natural, they felt no emotions like robots.

When I grew up, I became more matur and I realized it was wrong. Enveryone feel emotions and are unique. People aren't centered on my self. I was a little sad but it's like that !

instal_2809

I used to believe that i was a puppet and that i wasw controlled by a giant, and if he/she got mad at me i would be squished.

llama queen

I remember thinking if I can contorl what Barbies can do, that something was controling what humans cans to. ...from going the bathroom and eating. I even thought that some thing was moving our arm to brush my hair!

Buffay

heh, when i was 3/4, i had a (not-so-serious) hearing problem. I found it fairly muffled when anyone talked normally so i kept asking them to speak up.

I had Grommets put in because the tunnel of the ear had collapsed very slightly, deafening me a bit.

The night after having the grommets put in (i was 5 at the time) i had folded my ear just before i went to sleep. I swore that i could hear garden gnomes climbing up the stairs to turn me into a gnome.

I had this idea for a very long time (up until I was 7). In this time every P.E. lesson I had, I would practice standing as still as possible, acting like a garden gnome.

Anon

When I was about 4, I was coninced that I was part cat. I would walk around the house on my hands and knees and meow. If someone told me that I wasn't really part cat, I would throw a fit!

Anon