Surprisingly late in elementary school (fifth or sixth grade, I think), I found myself greatly deluded after I saw a wheatgrass juicer in a catalog. I came to believe that you could get some sort of juice out of ordinary grass by grinding it with rocks. My friends and I tried it as part of our little back-to-nature-at-recess endeavor that we informally called "the Neanderthal Project". Of course, we got nothing...
On the other hand, we were quite prolific at cracking acorns and taking out and storing the insides...
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.I don't recall thinking that television was real, but I had no concept of special effects for some reason, so if a character had to die in a film, the producers would hire a suicidal person to play it.
I also thought the cats having nine lives thing was true, that if they were going to die, they would luck out and live, even if it was a certain death, a total of 8 times. I also thought this applied to every animal but with a different number of lives, humans had three lives because of the Rule of Three, and that this was the reason I had survived choking on food.
Also, I didn't believe, but seriously considered the idea that inside a TV there were ants holding signs to make the image show, and move blindingly fast and change signs a number of times per second in order to make it look like it's animated.
And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!At one point, I thought John Major was some important guy that everybody seemed to know. Which was true in a fashion, of course, but I didn't realise they didn't all know him personally because I didn't have any conception of politics or fame back then. That was when I was very young; one of the earliest things I can remember.
Not really a belief, but at one point I imagined that adults and children might be different species, and that when they fed us they were fattening us up so they could eat us, and that scared me so much that I was scared of going to sleep for a while. I knew it wasn't true, or I thought it wasn't, but the possibility was frightening.
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Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffI thought knowledge sucking aliens was the only logical reason as to why we went from the roman empire to the dark ages.
Read my stories!I thought that once you finished seventh grade, you were done with school forever. (keep in mind where I live)
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I thought that since from kindergarten to first grade, you stayed in school longer, that every year you would stay at school longer and longer and longer.
Read my stories!So, just out of curiosity, how many "lol jesus" responses have there been? Other than over 9000, I mean.
Personally, I'm more interested in the things humanity used to believe in on the whole. You know that in the early 19th century it was believed that wild animals didn't mate? That, for instance, frogs spontaneously emerged from mud? That just fascinated me in how ridiculous it is - and how ridiculously simple it would be to disprove (grab a bunch of frogs, isolate them until orgy happens).
Grr. Argh.^^What. You might be in the wrong thread.
Oh yeah, along with thinking urine was spoiled orange juice, for some reason, I thought scrambled eggs and orange juice were the same thing. I used to eat them both together for breakfast so one couldn't exist without the other.
We used to have these
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I used to think that you didn't poop food out, and it just filled up inside of you like putting money in a piggy bank. Eventually after eating so much you cant anymore and you die.
I also thought that December was when the world ended and you die.
I also thought that Judgment Day was real after watching Terminator 2 and tried to convince everyone in my kindergarten class to fight the machines and that if we didn't they were going to kill us all and step on our heads. Everyone freaked out and cried.
I also thought The Relic was real, and that the Kothoga would find me and guillotine my head.
I also thought that if you reach into the toilet far enough you could grab somebody's butt.
I also thought babies came from eggs.
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I thought that the man was in danger of urinating inside the woman during sex, which made the whole activity seem quite unpleasant.
Harkening back to the seven/several issue, I didn't equate the two words, but I did consider seven to be the cutoff point between "a few" (3-6) and "several" (7-12). I still do, kinda.
Not a belief, exactly, but the phrase "you can't have your cake and eat it, too" made no sense to me for a while because I automatically translated having cake as eating it.
I thought that if I ran quickly enough I could get a Wheel o' Feet.
I thought that every irregular shape around the pelvic area counted as a butt.