general

i used to believed tat human goes on forever. I got real panic when i realised that humans actually die. then a bright idea came to me and i felt calm. i thought to myself " when i grow to age of say 65 or so i shall annouce to the world that i can make us all revert to a younger age by reversing our watches and clocks synchronically!."

dimbo

When I first heard of the "fourth dimension" and knew it had some connection to time(I was maybe six or seven), I thought of it as an actual underground realm inhabited by dinosaurs and historical figures.

Emily

Up until I was ten I believed that Yesterday was a day of the week

Kirsty

I used to believe that my entire life was a dream and I would wake up as a baby in another, completely different life.
I still sometimes wonder when I'm going to wake up, this dream has being going on for a good few years!!!

Heavy Sleeper

When I was little I was amazed when I saw adverts for the 60 minutes program. I used to think to myself "Wow! They must have to read the news really fast to only fit it in 60 minutes"

Anon

I used to believe that, rather than time zones, the time just changed gradually. So if it was 5:00 where you were, it might be 5:15 50km away.

Anon

I've always pictured time as a circle, like a ferris wheel. the months go clockwise with january at the top, then on lines going from the middle of the circle out to the months there are little dots for the days of the month, and within these dots are pixel-like squares for the hours (hours have always been square) and all of time pictured in years is in the shape of an arch, not a line. i had no idea that this was not a normal view of time until i read a book where one of the characters saw time similarly to me and was told it wasn't normal! but, this view of time is completely normal for a synesthete (no this is not some sci-fi creature, google synesthesia) so i'm not a total weirdo!

Lilly

I used to beleive that when i left a family members house they froze until i came back to see them... I didn't think different until i was ten lol

Frozen in time

I used to think that the way to count time was to sound it out slowly. e.g. Once my Mum said to wait five minutes so i said f-i-v-e m-i-n-u-t-e-s out loud and really slowly and thought that meant five minutes was up.

Because of this I could never understand how one hour was longer than say twenty minutes because when you say it out loud twent minutes would be longer.

Anon

One night I was up late with a friend working on a college level biology project when we got into an arguement about the number of weeks in a year. I almost felt bad for the poor guy, he was SO sure that there were only 48..

jen

When a 24 hour clock shows 00:00 (midnight) the world stops for 1 whole minute, and at 00:01 it starts again.

I must say i thought this for some time, probably until i was 14 at least *blush*

Rowena

When I was in kindergarten and first grade my teachers would always write the date on the board. So whenever we came back from winter vacation, and I would see that the numbers on the year had changed, I would always wonder... "Woah, how did that happen?"

Emilie

When I was about seven, I got a little confused about time zones. I was under the impression, from my particularly strange imagination, that it was to do with how often you had to put the clocks forward or backward an hour.

I live in Birmingham, in the UK, just west of the Grenwich meridian. I thought that people living on the Grenwich meridian didn't have to put their clocks forward or backward an hour at all, people living where I did had to alter their clocks twice a year, and people living on the other side of the world had to change theirs several hours forward or backward every day.

I still don't know how this worked.

Katrina

I read in a magazine that germs and bacteria from the toilet could spray up to 20 feet. So after that, whenever I used the toilet, I would wash my hands before I flushed and I would hold my breath and run! Now I just close the toilet lid.

Anon

I used to think that if you drove backwards around the world fast enough, you could go back in time.

Anon

For some reason I never connected the months of the year with calendars, so when I was around 5 or 6 I thought that everyone could automatically tell when one month was up and another had begun. I would think to myself "wow this month passed quick" practically every week.

Thinking about it I probably heard this a lot from stressed adults (with bills to pay every month) and just figured whenever they said it, that was another month gone.

If I was incharge of time you would all be 104 years old by now!

Jessica

When I was about 3 or 4, I didn't know what "yesterday" meant. She when I asked my dad, he said "Tuesday." So, naturally, I thought yesterday was another term for Tuesday.
Later, when my mom told me we were going to the zoo on Tuesday, I got in a heated arguement with her if we were going to go on Tuesday or yesterday.

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