around the house

i used to believe that when you turned light switches off and the lights went out, that the switches themselves would try to make the lights go back on again. they did this cause i believed they had minds of their own and they liked when the lights were on. so every once and a while,at least a few times a day, i would push them down. i used to tell my mother that we couldn't go on vacation without someone to come and push the light switches down a few times a day. i'm still in therapy for stuff like that

nikki

My son looked at his Grandmother's video recorder and said, "Nan, I don't understand why the video didn't break when it fell off the back of a truck."

Anon

up until recently, i always thought a special brick was made for corners. until my kind friend explained that they just turned the brick around...

annin hughes

I used to think there was an amusement park ride in the walls of my house. Little people rode on the ride and could watch me sleep at night for entertainment. They would laugh at me because I sucked my thumb.

Just a girl

My beliefe was that the world was alot cooler upside down.when i was 6-8years old i used to lie upside down on the couch,envisioning the cieling was wear we really lived,It seemed so empty up there so... different.No furniture just lights to trip over and windows with very low sills.

Leah

When I was about 6 years old, my mom would tell me that if I wore my rubbers in the house, I would go blind. I would take them off on the porch because I was scared to death to step in the doorway. I realize now that she didn't want me to track mud in the house.

Sis

When I was really young, I used an "imaginary" string to trace my steps through a room. I always used the same path to get from points A to B. I was horrified in an adult broke the string by walking through it.
As a side note, I am very good with directions now and rarely get lost.

Mila

I was helping my parents wash their car one day, and must have not been doing a very good job because mom told me to use some elbow grease. I never found the can of that damn stuff.

patrick

The previous owner of the house I grew up in had been a photographer, and he had made a small darkroom downstairs. He removed his equipment when he moved out, and my parents used the room for storage while still referring to it as "the darkroom." I thought it was a common thing for houses to have small, windowless storage rooms, and that they were all called darkrooms.

Jim

When I was very young, I thought the woofers behind the fabric in our old stand-alone speakers of the 70's were pineapple rings.

Anon

When I was younger, I had a fascination with the light switch. I would flick the lights on and off as fast as I could until my mother got fed up and would tell me to stop. After a while of suffering through this pattern, my mom told me that if I continued, the electric company would get confused -- not knowing if we wanted our lights on or off. She claimed that they would then cut off our power. I immediately stopped my personal light show because I thought I would be the one responsible for our house not having any more electricity.

S

I thought that monsters lived in my bedroom walls and would come and kidnap me.

The only way I could escape them was by being very loud whenever I walked into my bedroom as they were scared by loud noises and only came out during the day as they slept at night

Maud Flanders UK

When I was about 5 years old (I think), our air conditioner had a loud rattle
when it ran. My family told me that it had a jar in it, I suppose meaning that it was
jolting in the window. The more they tried to tell me it was o.k, the less o.k. it was
with me, because all I could think of was, that with all that rattling, that jar is going to
break and the glass is going to come out and fly all over and hurt anyone near
by. Finally, Dad fixed the "jar in the air conditioner". Days or weeks later, I was playing in the
garage, I saw an old peanut butter jar with some dirty water in it. Knowing of course
that dirty water dripped out of the air conditioner, I figured it was the "jar" that was
in the air conditioner. All in one piece, no less.

Florence