toys

When I was in daycare, one of the forms of entertainment consisted of a toy catalog and a small adding machine (like a typewriter but with only numbers). We would look through the catalog, finding things we wanted, and put the number into the machine.

I believed the numbers it printed on the paper actually represented the things in the catalog, so I typed in the number for some "scary" plastic bugs hundreds of times. Then I would use the strips of paper to scare girls.

Weird thing is - it worked.

Brian

i swear my teddy bear is alive. i used tobe afraid of it and still am. because it said to not be afraid and it was my gaurdian.

Anon

i'm 11 and i still believe my toys come alive and protect me one time i had my doll angelina with me on the couch watching tuff puppy and when i came back with soda she was on the ground maybe my dog spike or my cat luna did that but they werent around so when my family all went out i used my mic to spy on my toys then when i came home to think they were having a party i thought i heard them talking

Anon

When I was 7 years old, I used to believe that when it was winter, my dolls feel cold, so I used to dress them with my clothes.

Rafaela

After watching the movie 'Toy Story', I used to believe that my toys would move whenever I wasn't in the room and would sometimes purposely leave and jump right back into the doorway after a couple of minutes if I thought I heard noise. LOL

Kenya

When I was younger (around 11-12 years old) I thought the Sea Monkeys were going to be exactly like the characters on the packaging & I wanted to live with them. I was disappointed when I put them in the water & they were tiny creatures :-(
lol

Anon

When I was a child, I used to believe that the toys in the night and when nobody is in the house, they came alive.

Kike

When swinging on the swing set in the playground, if there was another kid swinging in the adjacent swing and the timing of their swinging became synchronized with mine, it was understood that either of us were obligated to shout, "Get out of my bathtub!" When I looked up this quaint custom on the internet, it seemed to be an actual thing that kids did in the past. Apparently it's such an old custom that the original phrase used to be "Get off my party line!", which of course referred to multiple people having a conversation on the same telephone line. I suspect that this etiquette arose because a swing set can be destabilized, and may tip over when two or more people are swinging at the same frequency and height, and so shouting the phrase was a request for the other person to adjust their own swinging frequency.

DeeDub

I used to believe glue sticks could feel pain because I was trying to cut one and my mom said how would you feel if you were that glue stick.

Anon

Wheni was 5,I used to believe that my toys were spirits and if i wouldn’t play with them they would haunt me.

Anon

I use to believe that when I went to bed, all my toy dolls would play at night and would jump back in the toy box before I got up in the morning!
I was convinced of this because I had a clown doll that sat on a box, and every morning he was tilted a little or just not in the exact position as when I went to bed...and I always checked him before I went to bed!

Annie

I used to believe that all of my stuffed animals were alive and would move around and talk about me when I wasn't there.

Ari

When I was little, I believed that my stuffed animals came alive when I left the room. So I always made sure that there were two of them together so they wouldn't be lonely. Too much watching Raggedy Ann I guess! Imagine my surprise when Toy Story came out and the toys came to life when the kids left the room!!

Sarah

I used to believe that if I cut my dolls hair it would grow back just like mine did after a haircut.

diamond girl

I used to believe that my doll Kimberly was real and if I listened carefully, that I'd hear her speak!

Kristy

I used to take my toy cars to bed with me and would wake up in the morning only to find that they were gone. I used to believe that they drove down to the bottom of my bed and disappeared. It was a few years before I found out that my mother kept finding them when making the bed and would put them back in my toy cupboard.

Paul

That if i didnt put all my teddy bears in bed with me, and cover them with the quilt they would all get cold in the night, and would would get me the next night. Needless to say i woke up most nights very hot.

Tina

i really wanted a voltron of my own and my dad said he'd build me one. but I was talking about the "real thing"! I thought I would be flying over my city fighting evil by the afternoon! :-)

chris s.

As a little girl i was a huge barbie fan, and i used to believe that if i treated them well enough (especially my fav one) that they would come to life and i would have my very own barbie best friend.

Nys

When I was a kid, I used to believe that all my cuddly toys were really alive. I thought that when I was playing with them, they were just pretending to be toys and that as soon as I left the room they would all spring to life. I used to try and catch them out by leaving the room, and then sneaking back in, thinking I would catch them all having a party or something. Needless to say, it never worked...

rosie