make-believe

I used to believe…

Ok, I used to believe that the pine-needle pile in my backyard was a monster! My brother thought his leg was getting eaten when his leg sunk in. He lost his shoe and it was never found...

I used to believe…

Well me, I didn't just have one friend, oh no! I had an entire world! I used to pretend to visit it all the time. It was kinda sad.

I used to believe the boogyman lived downstairs and you couldn't enter the attic or he would eat you alive!

I used to believe…

When I was little, I was TERRIFIED of Santa. Once, when I put out the cookies, I put some pictures of me so Santa could see how big I was. I also put out a marker and paper for him to leave me a note. When I woke up i found the marker and all the pictures in my room and I starterd to cry. I thought Santa walked into my room!! My mom told me that he used his powers to make the stuff float back in there!

i used to have an imaginary friend named Jack...and everytime i went for a ride in a car i would pretend he was chasing behind the car so noone sat on him or something..he was a big brown monster..then one day i decided he was boring so i said he moved away. He was mean cause he started looking like me and mocking me. Wow as i type this i realize he was the big monster from Muppets Meet Manhatten. Hehe

I used to believe…

the first time i watched the ghost busters movies i was just a kid. and i believed everything i saw. i totally believed that a pink ghost made of goo could come out of the tap. i made my dad run my bath and watch the water for a long time after that.

I used to believe…

When I was little someone told me that if you spun around 3 times in the bathroom when the lights were out and said ''Bloody Mary,Bloody Mary,Bloody Mary'' she would appear in the mirror. And would haunt you when ever you went into the bathroom to go #1 or #2. So I would never go into the bathroom when the lights were off in fear of my brother coming in and saying ''BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY!''

I used to believe…

These are two that John D. MacDonald wrote about. One was the child that overheard his father talking about an obviously fearsome monster: the twi-night double-header.

The other was a child frightened of the Green Ripper. Her parents finally figured out that she'd mis-understood "grim reaper."

And me, I brought all my childhood beliefs into adulthood.

I used to believe…

whan i was younger i was waiting for the easter bunny to come so i could see him and i saw a shadow in the dark corner of my room so i went to see what it was and i saw wheres waldo i was freaked out

I used to believe…

Ok now in school in 2nd grade we used to have literacy centers and one of them was a games center that you were supposed to play with your group at least twice.my teacher saw my friend William playing by himself(he was in 1st grade i was in a multi-age class) and then she asked him "William who are you playing the game with ?" and he sad "My imaginary friend Fred!and everyone in the class started laughing at him and my teacher said "You're too old to have an imaginary friend!"and to this day i asked him "Hows Fred?" and I pretend to punch and kick Fred.

I half-believed in the tooth fairy until I was 12 or 13 and caught my dad making the switch in the middle of the night. I felt really sad about it afterwards, like it wasn't my choice to stop believing, like Santa or the Easter Bunny, but that it was taken from me.

I used to believe…

When I was little,I used to believe if you didn't brush your teeth every night,a little alien named Alf would kidnap you and take you to a little planet where people never cleaned anything! Boy,was I stupid!

I used to believe…

when i was little i used to beleive that i was some kind of animal or another. for the longest time i was a half-sheepdog half-dalmation, with rainbow heart shaped spots and my name was heartlove-rose. i was convinced that this was my true form and that i turned into a girl whenever anyone was around. before that i beleived that i was a blue and yellow macaw parrot named cricket, after i had seen such a bird on vacation. i had a huge basket that was my nest and i would sit in it with my stuffed parrot.
i also had an imanginary siamese cat named thermos who liked to catch hummingbirds but didn't hurt them, and a puppy named Otto who was my best friend when i was the sheepdog-dalmation thing. otto and i had all kinds of lovely adventures like the time we busted a guy for making a u-turn at the no u-turn intersection. My parents also tell me that i had an imaginary friend named lambert, but i don't remember much about him. whenever i hear the name i do think of a boy with a sheep's head, with like a white curly fro-thing for hair.
i was a pretty imaginative kid.

I wanted an imanginary friend. But not a person, I wanted a dog. I got my imanginary dog,Wolf, from the "Imanginary Dog Pound" and I loved Wolf so much that I made him a leash out of tinfoil. Then when I got sick of taking care of Wolf, I let him in the street and he got hit by a car.

I used to believe…

When I was younger I loved Pokemon (haha)! I had the gameboy game, the posters and the cute pikachu gameboy carrier - its true. My friend and I used to think Pokemon were invisible and they were in our world! I had a pikachu and a togapi she had a ninetales. One day I went to my music lesson (with pikachu and togapi) and on my way back I realised that I had left Togapi in my classroom. I cried for ages cos I thought my teacher would have stolen her!!!

I used to believe…

When I first started school I had a recurring nightmare that everyone else in the school -- both teachers and kids -- had all been taken over by aliens masquerading as people and were intent on "assimilating" me next. I would run and hide under the coats hanging on racks, or lock myself in a toilet cubicle for as long as possible. This went on for some months before I (reluctantly) adjusted to school life. Only many years later when I saw the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" did I realise that my paranoid fantasy was not unique to me but was apparently shared by enough other people to warrant making a successful movie about it!