make-believe

i used to believe that every time a went into the toilet aliens would swoop down and take away my whole family and house and replace it with an exact replica of my family and house. but the people would be aliens. so i would always get out of the toilet as quickly as possible.so that if the aliens did come i could go with my family.

I used to believe that once my tooth fell out and I placed it under the pillow while I was sleeping, the tooth fairy would take it and pay me too. I later found out that my Mom who was the tooth fairy.....

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When I was 5 i used to believe that a monster lived in the staircase in our home. I called the Skeleton, because he was shaped like a skeleton. For a long time, i was afraid to climb the staircase at night. I used to run quick so the skeleton wouldn't get me, because then he caught me he would take me and emprison me in the attic.

I believed magic tricks are performed by hypnotising people and it works through eyes. i experimented closing my eyes during magic shows many times just so it will not work on me. Didnt really work you see and now I am even more confused.

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There was this very big tree in front of our school. Not only me but all the students (till 3rd grade) in our school used to believe that if we touch it we would turn into Ghosts! Now that was scary and we used to stay as far away from the tree as possible.
I went there after I was quite grown up and believe me I didnt touch the tree even then.

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By the time my little brother was 3 I started doing magic tricks for him. I told him my magic was real and he belived it. Until I finally told him the truth when he was 5 he beleived I hid my magic from him in my large intestants!

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When i was young i watched ghostbusters and was convinced that they actually existed. i was busy searching through the phone book looking for their number because i was convinced that there was a poltergeist in my attic. It was only my older sister who told me i wouldnt find it because bill murray had better things to do.

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During W W II we kids played out in the street until 8.30pm. Even on the dark winter nights.
When it was time to come in, mother would walk to the front gate and shout. If we were reluctant to go into the house, mum would shout "hurry up, the nine o'clock horses will get you". The mental image of a herd of giant horses gnashing and crashing down the street was enough to get every kid running for their lives into the safety of their beds!

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In my country there are no chimneys so I used to believe that Santa Clause use to enter my house through the keyhole, that was what my mother told me as a child.

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When i was little about 5 or 6 we used to stay at my nans and she told me that at midnight santa came to the house and left his sleigh on the roof, so i waited up all night and at midnight i started to climb out the window, my nan came in just in time to see what i was doing, when she got me back in i told her i was going to climb onto the roof to see santa that is when she told me he wasnt up there she had already checked.

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When I was about 4, my brother told me that each time you went to bed, monsters like werewolves, and vampires, would come into your bedroom, and if you had been a bad boy during the day, they would feast on you and make you one of them. What made this worse was that we had a shandalere in the hall way and my parents used to leave it on before i went to bed, so it made all these weird shadows that looked slightly like monsters shadows. So it would take me ages to start feeling sleepy because i was so frightened. I used to put all these things on my bedside table that i thought would protect me. Like a tourch, a wotch, a small cross, a back up tourch, a wotch that i thought was silver (but later i found out was just stain less steel) to defend myself from the werewolves, and some wooden tooth pics to protcet myself from the vampires (i couldnt get wooden stakes, but i tried askin my parents). I would stay up really late, and then my parents would go to bed and swithc the hall light off. At this point I was on the verge of falling asleep, but I could always just about manage to stay awake. I then would turn on the tourch and wait for amonster to come in. Hoping thta I would survive until the next night. I got threw so many batteries, and this made my Dad angry. And i could never understand why my family never looked scared when they went to bed....

I used to have an imaginary lame squirrel called norris who stayed on my shoulder. I carried him around with me and pointed out the sights of where ever we were.

I believed in Santa Claus with my whole heart as a little girl. Then my stepbrother told me that some man shot and killed him. This hurt me so badly that I never tried to make my own daughters believe in Santa Claus or any other of the make believe characters so many adults teach their own children. I determined my girls would not be hurt as I was. At the same time, I would instruct them to never tell the other children there was no Santa Claus.

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When I was a kid I had several vivid imaginary friends. One of my favorites was Star, a silver cat with a very long tail who lived in the stars where she would watch over me but would come down whenever I called her with this star necklace I had. I had her for about 2 years but then she had to return to the stars forever.....

i used to think there was some kind of monster under my bed so at night i would check before going to sleep and also check in the morning and jump away.

im not sure how old i was.

I don't know why but i thought that the evil things lived on the stairs.I would always open the door and reach my hand around to turn the light on without looking because that made them go away.I still reach round the door first from habit.

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The blue lady was a big topic among me and my friends the rumor was that she had been a cleaner at the school who had pushed a student into a peg and it had kill him.It was said she haunted the bathrooms that class 6-8 used and it was believed so much through the school that not even the oldest students liked going to the toilets down there which you had to at dinner.

People would go into the toilets turn the lights out and say "Blue lady,blue lady I've got your baby" three times.Me and my friends would do it all the time and my friend got so scared one time because she was sure she saw a pure white girl with blue lips behind her.