make-believe

I used to cut out and collect people's faces from magazines, I had literally thousands of them, it was my quite serious hobby when I was 7-9.
And one day for some reason I thought if gave one of them to a fairy, she'd make a real small person out of it (a few centimetres tall) and I'd have it to play with it and to dress it up and to show it off. So I picked one face I didn't really like (don't blame me, I'd miss any of them, so I tried to minimalize the loss) and put it into a box with a letter to the fairy. But the magic would only happen if I didn't look into the box for the whole day and the whole night and I never managed to do it, so the face was still there and I always hoped I'd have more willpower next day.
Until my friend saw the letter and wanted to read it and I felt so embarassed that I told her to do anything with it but read it, and she threw it into the rubbish bin. I don't know if she read it later or not, but I thought the fairy was probably offended by throwing the letter out and I took the face out of the box and stopped trying.

I used to believe…

something i used to always get really cross about was the fact that i could never beat my shaddow i used to race it and it obviously always was directly opposite me all the time. i used to think that my shaddow was a creature just like me but it just couldnt talk and only moved wen i moved and wld occassionly go away wen it rained ,i thought it just didnt like bad whether.

I used to believe that wen the doorbell rang it was the postman come to take my mum away to his space ship i only believed this because one day the post came my mum said here comes my alien, how was i supposed to know that she had sent of for an alien toy for me!!!

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WHEN I WAS A CHILD,I USED TO BELIEVE THAT WITCHES EXISTED BECAUSE ONE DAY,I FELT THAT A WITCH PULLED MY FEET

I'm from Hawai'i and theres this one windy road that if you drive there late and night there's going to be a white lady if you look back in your rear view mirror. I use to get scared of that story. But not anymore.

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My mum used to tell me that when the clouds were sitting low to the ground on frosty mornings it was because the fairies had been out late the night before and had not woken up to lift up the clouds yet. I believed this for quite a while.

I believed that I had a friend who lived in the phone called cally. I would play with the phone and hear the voice saying "Your number can't be connected please call again". I used to ring him up all the time. I would tell my parents of my friend and dad though 'cally' was a male my mother was having an affair with. I told my parents of this friend in my 20s and finally solved a rift between them.

i used to believe santa was real until i was 10!! becasuye when i was 8, i got a message from an elf (who coincidentally had the same name as my brother). i kept waving the message around when people told me santa wasn't real. untill my brother told me he was the elf. boy did i feel retarded.

i also thought whenever you sinned, the devil laughed and joked, and jesus hated your guts, untill i went to confession. I kept asking the priest if he was POSITIVE i was forgiven.

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When I was in junior high school (about 9 years ago) I believed that I could do magic. I thought that I could create my own sort of "witchcraft" using all kinds of weird things and mixing them together and putting together foolish rituals. I even believed that because of me the boy I liked broke up with his girlfriend because of my "spell". How foolish.

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When I was little I was convinced ET lived in our grage at night. So I would do anything possible to avoid going in there & when I did I would run in quick & ran back out before he came out. I still to this day don't like going in the grage at night because of that reason.

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We used to have this weird vegetable steamer that looked a tad bit like a mini UFO. I always thought that it actually was one.
I was playing with it a few weeks later and broke it. I started crying and screaming because i thought the aliens would come out and eat me.
o_o

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Not so long ago I believed that when I drove my car along a long portion of highway that a mean gnome lived in the hillside. (this gnome is about 6 feet tall in my mind and wears a robe much like Father TIme or a wizard) Anyway, I traveled this road daily from my boyfriends house to my house at roughly the same time each day. I was sure that the gnome would see my car coming and watch me until I was out of his sight and then before the next day he would move to that location on the hillside. I believed that this would go on until he found where I lived and...well, I'm not sure what I thought he would do...he just creeped me out. So, I would change up the time a little bit, I would take a different route, etc. Well, then I got married (yes, I was that old and NOT in a mental institution.) and I felt that I fooled the gnome because I wouldn't be traveling in that direction any more and by then he was surely closer to my parents house and would not find me again. Many of my friends know this story and are waiting for the day that they will create little blockades by all my doors so that I am held hostage by little ceramic men holding gardening tools and smiling that creepy smile. I will forever hate gnomes!

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One time, I lost my tooth, I used to always put then under my pilow. The next day I got a quarter! I was so excited I screamed and it woke everyone up. After several teeth my aunt told me the truth. I was disappointed.

I used to believe…

One time I was in Thailand (I used to live there). When my dad was a monk, I went to sleep in his place one night. Before that. I was lighting holy candles at the place where the big "statue" suppose to be. Also, i throw rocks around the temple. After that night I dreamed something so freaky and scary!!!! God, I was do scared. I went back to the temple and said sorry to the spirits. My dad told me spirits are real and they can come and scare you. It freakled me out and it had not ended. I'm 13!

I used to belive that at night a huge black pantha climbed through everones winow to check they were asleep. If they were asleep it would leave a slice of cake! If you wernt then bad things happened. I don't quite know how i came up with this notion as i have no older siblings who could have told me! Whenever branches tapped against the window i was convinced it was coming and I had to pretend to be asleep! Still, despite the lack of cakes the next day I belived this for several years!

I used to believe that Candy Cane Caninyos (pronounce: ca-NEEN-yos) lived on South Pearl Street. Me and my mom went down Pearl to see if there were any.
"Did you see any candy-cane caninyos?" Mom asked.
"It's night and they're sleeping." I replied.
Mom did one of those mother-exasperated sigh things and drove home