general

I thought that the world would stop, and we would be faced with 365 day cycles of light and dark, and that then electricians would have half a year to take peoples money and half a year to relax in their yachts.

dcshifty

I used to think that if you stayed up until 12 o'clock then went to sleep you would sleep through the whole day and wake up the day after.

Yoyo7m

I used to believe that when an ambulance came by, we should touch red, because the person in the ambulance was someone we knew. I also used to believe that African Americans like me were never slaves, until roots came on TV.

Anon

I used to think that people who were born in a leap year only had a birthday each 4 years. So when I was 6 my baby cousin sure enough was born on Feb. 29 1996 and to this day he is only 3 years old to me.

Al Strickland

Around the age of 5, I believed that as the years progressed, that we would eventually find ourselves back in olden times (with horses and carriages, etc.).

Sillyme

My dad once told me that a button on his watch, when pushed, would "beam him up" to another time. I was afraid to hold his watch-hand for fear of touching it by accident.

Missy

In Kingdergarten everyday my teacher would ask one of the kids what day it was. In case she asked me, I asked my mom what day it was every morning. One day I asked my mom and she told me that it was tomorrow. That very day my teacher asked me what day it was, and my reply was "today is tomorrow". Everyone was laughing at me.

Aimee

When I was a baby (old enough to talk) whenever my mom asked me what time it was I would say 45 for some reason.

Kathryn

I believed that "suppertime" was a definite time at which everyone in the world simultaneously ate supper. When I was playing with some of my friends and some of them had to go home because it was suppertime, I ran home and scolded everyone: "Why aren't you having supper? It's suppertime!"

Matt

I used to think that fater time and mother earth were married

Anon

I used to believe that everyone lived until 100 years old, then dropped dead on the spot.

I was also told that every second, a baby is born. And every two seconds, someone dies (both are true i think).
I used to spend countless hours going:

Born.
Born. Dead.
Born.
born. Dead.
ect.

Born. Dead. born. dead....

My mother would used Sani'FLush granules which fizzed a lot to clean the toilet bowl - to keep us from using the toilet til it was clean she told me that if you sat down on the potty and granules were in it, if you urinated it would burn your bottom! Kept me from interfering....

Anon

i used to believe if you stared at a digital clock, you would never see the time change, because i had never seen it happen before. i got in trouble cos i was supposed to be finding a book to read in my room but i didn't like reading so i stared at the clock instead ... and tried to make time stop... my dad said WHAT is taking u so long?!?!? and i saw the clock change for the first time in my life i was like DADDI DADDI I SAW THE CLOCK CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reh

When I was a little kid, I loved watching "before-sleep show" on TVP1 channel (I was really cartoon addicted), which always ran at seven pm. Since I started watching it when I was three (?) and it was winter, I was sure it was aired when it was dark outside. Then when summer came and sun still was arise behind the window when I watched favourite characters on TV, I was very confused - back then, I imagined day as divided into two main parts: daytime and nightime, and I couldn't understand why they moved my show from early nightime into daytime!

Tryfid

I had a hard time with clockwise and counterclockwise because I thought you had to know what country you're from to know which one.

Ainion

when i was a little girl, i knew rainbow is wonderful thing. but i believed the rainbow came because there was mothers of fairy just took a bath at the river and used a rainbow as the slide as a way to go to river.

Tiara from Palembang, Indonesia

I used to believe that time could be calculated

dert bird

I used to believe time went by faster if you were asleep or had something you dreaded coming up and it went slower if you were expecting something good or were in a situtaion you waited to get out of (like work). I still believe that to this day.

Pamela

i thought that when the new year came around, it was the worlds birthday so we had to celebrate it otherwise the world wuold get a bad temper and destroy us so, a few days until New years eve i asked mum to make a big b-day cake and she always looked confused. this went on till i was 4

milesy23563

When I was little my mom picked up some KFC and I was very eager to eat it. So I was complaining that I wanted to eat right away. My mom then told me, "we'll be home in a second". I had never heard this phrase before, but I had heard of "in a minute" and knew that meant soon. So, not knowing how long a second would take, I complained and said, "not even a minute?" My mom then explained to me that a second is less than a minute.

Anon