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I used to believe snakes lived in the walls. My dad told me when I was young if I put my finger near a socket one would come out and bite me.

Anon

There was a pond we walked past every day on the way into (Primary) School in a small suburban part of the UK. One day on the way in I kept my usual date with it by leaping onto the bottom bar of the fence to look at it when I noticed a hippopotamus head. As I watched, intrigued, the head rose up as did the heads of several others of varying sizes (some very cute baby ones too) and they started performing all sorts of tricks. It was brilliant

Because we'd stopped people were curious as to why and so started gathering around us. The crowd increased and traffic started piling up and stopped for miles in either direction. And this Hippopotamus circus was named after me as I had discovered them. Our family called the pond the Hippopotamus pond as I insisted on it.

15 years later in a moment of extreme sanity I realised this had been an extremely vivid dream but it was so real to me.

Lindsay Phillips

I lived with my grandparents on a farm. The day pasture was on the other side of the road. Every morning, after milking, we would drive the cows across the road to the day pasture, then drive them back across the road to the barn for afternoon milking.
I used to imagine a society of cattle, called "The American Cow-de-Dow", that all the cows belonged to. Some day, there would be a bridge arching over the road, so we wouln't have to stop cars when the cows crossed. I can still see it in my mind's eye.
At first, the pigs and chickens had their own orginizations, the Pig-de-Dow, (I forget what society the chickens belonged to), but eventually, they became members of the Cow-de-dow. Their were also international branches, the English Cow-de-Dow, etc.
Can you imagine the conventions?

BoB

when I was little we had alot of gerbils (kinda like hamsters with long tails) and one day I was walking byt them and I saw them rolling around in their nest . I thought they were killing eachother so I asked my mom to come and help .( I was 4 ) When my mom came she told me the hampsters were making babies ... I asked how they could do that and she said that I wouldnt understand . I told her I would get mad if she didnt tell me and that I would cry . So she said that if they kissed and snuggled they'd have a baby . Later that day forgetting this factor I picked up my gerbil whose name was ( i dont memba lets just say snowy) and i started snuggling with her she was so warm and her fur was so soft ...It was after I kissed her that I remembered what my mom said . I went screaming to her and told her that I was going to give birth to a baby gerbil . She then sat me down and explained the " gerbils and the bees"

confused lil girl

I thought unicorns existed until I was six, I just never saw one yet in a zoo

Orevet

I used to believe that all cows were girls and all horses were boys

Anon

I thought until I was about 8 that if I barked at a dog, meowed a cat, quacked a duck, etc., and thought reeeaaally hard about what I wanted to tell it, it would telepathically understand. I also thought that they could reply if I concentrated and was all quiet, but I was a rowdy kid so I never tried it. I got very frustrated when I thought, staring all bug-eyed at one of the cats,'meow back if you understand me' and it stayed quiet. I wasn't deterred at all, I simply thought they were being lazy.
Then after watching 'Cats and Dogs' I was convinced they could even talk out loud if they wanted to, and they were just keeping it a secret from me. I was such a weird little kid.

Crazy Elli

i used to believe that guerilla warfare was actually huge killer gorillas in the jungles of Viet Nam, leaping out of the trees with huge fangs and murderous intent on our troops. Still have problems seeing them at zoos.....

Dan L.

I used to believe that ponies were actually baby horses

Nana

I was very converned about animals as a child. I couldn't bear to see scenes in movies or on tv in which people used whips on horses. My other assured me that they were either whipping the ground next to the horses or whipping the saddles. I believed her because the alternative was just too monsterous to believe.

Artamnesia

i wus told by a mad man on the side of the street mooses would rape. i had no idea what it ment but stayed away from them at the zoo

bob highcliff

i always used to call ants 'lumps' and that slugs were homeless snails. also one time,me and my mum were walking in the park when a bee flew up her skirt,she yelled 'b*****d' at it so i copied-it was so funny.

becci cooper

I used to believe that if an animal bit you seven time you would catch rabies from it.

Gwilym

I used to believe that if we eat Pork, we will become Pork like.

mprnair

My mum was reading this book once about praying mantases, and i asked it about them and she said that they were dangeours and would kill u if u went near them, so i was always scared to touch them cause i thought i would get killed, didn't relise she was joking

Anon

I used to think that dragons really still excisted,

Stephanie Cortes

I used to believe that when people were saying there was a "draft" in the house, that they were saying there's a "giraffe" in the house. I didn't realize they were talking about cold air, but instead somehow figured there was a small, but long-necked animal in our house.

dave

I believed that cow and horse are wife and a husband.

Marius

When I was little, I thought that the baboon from the Lion King was roughly the size of a human. So, because all the lions were so much bigger than him, I thought that lions were HUGE! To this day I still I get a little disappointed when I see lions real lions and they aren't as huge as I thought they were.

Anon

I used to think that birds were the only type of animal to lay eggs and that people, cows, and goats were the only animals that made milk. I didn't know much as a little kid.

Anon