science

when i was little my mum told me that our neighbours had an answering machine, and I thought this was a human like robot that came out of the closet next to the phone and tell the people who called that there was no one homo

I used to believe that the thing the doctor looked in your ear through was actually a camera, kind of like a digital camera, that could store pictures of the inside of your ear on its "screen". I used to get really mad because he'd let my parents see the "pictures" but not me.

when i was little we had one of those incredibly ancient computers. being three, i thought that the computer mouse was a real mouse. i used to make the mouse "squeak" by pounding the keyboard, making the computer emit a loud beep.

when i was very young i asked my dad how a radio works. he explained the principle of radio waves to me, and how they were invisible. he said that you couldn't hear them or see them or even taste them, but i never fully beleived that you couldn't taste them for some reason. i remember getting his transistor radio and putting my mouth on the antenna in hopes of tasting radio waves.
weird kid.

When I was about six, I had a friend visiting from Miami that really liked a certain purple bracelet I had. On the day she was leaving, she asked me for it, and I wanted to give it to her, but I only had one of them. I thought I would be clever, keep mine, and make a duplicate for her...in my grandparent's copy machine. Much to my dismay that this huge machine only gave me a black and white picture of the purple bracelet. My friend wasn't impressed. Sadly, Xerox machines are not omnipotent. But I really thought it would work.

I used to believe that if I picked up a chair while sitting in it, I could levitate and float around. After several failed attempts, I assumed I needed a jump start. It was only when I hit the floor that I realized I was a bit off =)

As a child, I always wondered why the moon changed color as it rose higher in the sky. So in my mind I formulated a solution: it got hotter as it went up, so that (like metal, I thought) it was RED hot when it first appeared on the horizon, then rose higher and heated up to YELLOW, then when it was up the highest it was WHITE hot.

When I was about seven, my best friend and I were completely convinced that the world was held together with Elmer's White Glue in the small bottle. Not the large bottle, we were very clear about that. The small bottle.

i used to think that people's phone numbers were 1-800 and then their name. i'd always be trying to call 1-800-bigbird or something like that. because, yeah, i thought big bird was real too.

I used to believe…

someone once managed to convince me that there was such as thing as a sand magnet. i had been to the beach one day and was complaining about the sand in my shoes. he said "what you need, is a sand magnet"
"what?" i replied. so he told me
"you know that sand makes silicone, and silicone makes glass? well how d'u think men carry those big panes of glass across roads? they use a glass/sand magnet"
he almost managed to convince me that i could pick one up from a D.I.Y store.
thank god i didnt attempt to buy one...i might have looked a little silly. sad thing is...the person who told me this was a boyfriend, and it was only about 2 yrs ago....i'm 20 now!

I used 2 believe that because our computer was soo slow and from what my dad told me that the internet asked every site ru .(insert url here)! i still kinda think that 2 this day

When i was little i saw my mom typing on the computer really fast. I thought she was just hitting letters. So one day i decided to do it and i broke the key board!

I believed that any time my family did anything requiring electricity or fuel - turn on the stove, answer the telephone, drive the car - it was processed and governed by a giant central computer somewhere with technicians running around and big flashing lights. I was never quite clear on whether they controlled things, or just monitored them, but I knew surely they were required to turn on the oven and the telephone and the car in the first place.

I used to believe that thunder was made by the clouds bumping together - lightning was the sparks as they hit. I used to watch the clouds when it was just raining, and wonder why only some clouds made a noise when they collided...

I used to believe that if I was quick enough, I could beat my shadow. I often used to try to hit my table faster than the shadow, sometimes pretending that I wasn't watching it, just to trick it. I never did beat it though...

I remember being swung across the backseat of a car when my dad made a sharp turn. I asked my dad why it happened, and he told me, "It's something called enersha". So I believed that there was an invisible girl named "Enersha" who would occaisonally push me from time to time. I apparently got in trouble at school many times for blaming Enersha when I dropped something.

When you call someone on the phone, the ring you hear on the receiver is exactly how that someone's phone sounds like as they hear it ring before they pick it up.

as a child i used to believe that inside a radio tower, there were many people in futuristic clothing dancing inside rooms that were covered with silver wallpaper. I guess that's why i am a designer.