science

I first saw Star Wars when I was seven. When the characters spoke about making the "jump to light speed" I instead heard them say "jungle light speed" and I assumed that light moved at a faster speed in jungles.

I used to firmly believe that there was an opposite to everything. The opposite of a carrot was a pea, just as the opposite of a boy was a girl. I got quite annoyed when my dad, who, after all, was a scientist, wouldn't help me classify some of the ground rules to this world of mine.

You know when you give someone a piggy-back or shoulder ride and when they get off you get a weird feeling like your arms are lifting up, well I used to think that if I gave a really fat person a piggy-back, when I put them down I'd spring up off the floor and float off.
I always had to hold on to something after I put my friends down.

Knowing that the same computer chip could perform different functions, and that computer chips were electrical circuits, I had this image of tiny assembly cranes inside the chip constantly rebuilding the internal circuitry to match demand. I won't tell you how old I was when I realized this to be untrue. ^_^

I used to believe that if I fell over a cliff in a telephone booth that I could safely step out at the last second like Wylie Coyote in Looney Tunes cartoons. Physics changes everything.

I was told by my grandma that there were things called wim-wams which were used for winding the sun up and down and which were kept on the side of the road just for that purpose. I've realised (only recently) that a wim-wam turned up every time Grandma saw a piece of farm machinery she didn't recognise. I expect there's a lot more of them now.

My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.

On one home video of christmas morning, it starts out with my dad walking past the camera that he just set up on the tripod, and as he goes by he bumps it and the camera moves.
I asked my mom how that happened and she said "Well he's a big guy."
I thought there was a version of my dad inside the tape and since he was a big guy, in that part of the video he accidentally shook the video tape inside the VCR, therefore shaking the picture on the screen.

I honestly thought that every time I used the vacuum cleaner, it was going to blow up and kill me. I loathed having to do that particular chore, and I'd always try to do it as quickly as possible so as to not get blown up by the exploding vacuum cleaner. I think I just hated the noise it made.

When I was three years old, my parents got me a Casio keyboard that had a variety of different instruments to choose from... leading me to believe that all music came from keyboards, and that violins, flutes, and the like didn't REALLY work (they didn't have any keys!)

We always used to think that you couldn`t get pregnant if you had sex in a telephone box. Let your fingers do the walking.....

When I was 3 or so, someone gave me a lava rock from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens (which 19 years later, I still have). I thought that if I put it in the microwave, it would become molten again.

i used to belive that early laserdiscs would play my vinyl records and show the movie - i wanted to put my star wars soundtrack record in the slot and watch the movie

When I was little, not understanding gravity so well I figured that if I wasn't very careful I would fall right off the planet on account of it's constant spinning.

You know how your voice sounds much different on a tape recorder? I used to believe that if I recorded my voice onto a tape, listened to the recording and mimicked the sound, when I recorded that it would end up sounding like I thought I sounded all the time.

I used to believe that "dead" batteries were once alive, and so when my parents would try to throw them away, I would cry and insist that they get a proper funeral.