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

for a while I had a theory that we are all just toys in a giant dollhouse and the cars were some kids remote control cars and those people made different locations so us (the dolls) could go places. I thought that might be true but I wasn’t sure.

TOYS!

When I was yonger i think all the pupil are bot and me i was the only man on the earth

Yanissah Akha du sah tahia Maghreb

when I was a kid I used to believe I was
invisible.
One day my friends told me I was invisible and, I think my friends because I was a kid I cried during one day same after i know yhe reality it was a very bad joke
Now i continue to think i sometimes invisible and maybe im invisble during all my life

uroktan

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