Weird/Silly Things You Thought as a Little Kid

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Somewhere in the world, there's a race of people with yellow skin like The Simpsons' characters.

[crash1984]

Babies fell out of the sky and whatever couple got to the baby first it was theirs and at the moment there were no new babies since I had never saw one. How I got this idea I have no clue.

That houses frequently sink. I am not talking about a sudden fall like a sinkhole or where it may sink a little bit over a period of years, instead I am talking more like it taking several minutes to sink and when it does you can see the dirt go by on the windows. I was always afraid that our house would sinking.

I don't know if you would call this an idea or just too much imagination but I always imagined that there was a secret loading dock under the living room. This was not a one night occurrence but many nights I imagined people coming and going. When everyone is asleep the living room tilts up so people can come and go as they please. Anytime someone in the house got up the living room would tilt back into place so no one would know.

[jagilki]

I was convinced that somewhere out there, there was a book or something that the Smurfs were based on, that was much darker and realistic and interesting.

[ERON]

I thought that wrestling was not only real, but that they fought to the death. It wasn't until I was in my early teens that someone explained to me that it was scripted, and then I started watching it.

I knew from books that women got pregnant by having their egg cells fertilized by men's sperm cells, but I had no idea how the sperm actually got into the woman's body, so I imagined sperm being like an airborne virus that could be exhaled and inhaled.

I thought that all the rivers in North America were interconnected and that one could theoretically swim, say, from the Grand Canyon to the Mississippi.

I used to believe that the Devil was not only real, but that he was someone that adults encountered as often as, say, the mayor or the chief of police. I imagined that one could go to a fancy party where all the local dignitaries were and see the Devil just hanging out.

I was convinced that all metal bands and all street gangs worshiped the Devil.

I thought the Pro Bowl teams were made up of one random player from each NFC and AFC team.

I fell for an April Fool's joke in a kids' science magazine that said that dogs lick in Morse Code.

[Deleted]

That I could travel from state to state using the sewers. I remember a friend and I planning a little trip.

That i'd be sucked up into the sky if I stared up long enough.Now, I can look back and realize how silly it was, but back then, the thought terrified me.

[Adam Black]

You are awarded a baby during your wedding day.

[tigermaskxxxvii]

My cousin actually thought Pee Wee Herman was arrested and his show cancelled because he mooned people in a movie theatre (as in a legit cineplex and not the kind of theatre he actually got busted in). Since the only information I heard about the Pee Wee Herman arrestt/trial/cancellation from my cousin (Oddly enough, I don't remember any coverage of the trial, despite how huge of a scandal that was.) that's what I believed until I saw Paul Reubens' E! True Hollywood Story (my cousin believed it until she was 26!). I don't know if the "mooned people at a movie theatre" thing was my cousin's interpretation of the news (we were both born in 1983, so that will let you know how young and naive we were when this scandal broke) or if that's the sanitized version her parents gave her so they didn't have engage in a really awkward conversation with their daughter. If it's the latter, then that is a genius way to sanitize it. You still have the broad strokes of the scandal (Pee Wee exposing himself in a theatre) while keeping out the finer salacious details.

When I saw the scene in Robocop 2 when Caine has the plug pulled on the life support system that was keeping him alive, I thought we were all attached to life support systems that could be disconnected at any time. I was unaware that you had to be attached to a life support system if you were too injured or sick for your organs to work for themselves.

Oct 10, 2014 2:51:53 GMT -5 I'm Team Bayley and Indi said:

I used to think the past was black and white that's why old films where in black and white

I also remember not quite understanding why it would take more then a day to make a feature film

1. I remember reading an article years back about how baby boomers are more likely to dream in black and white because they grew up with black and white television.

2. I remember reading in Rodney Dangerfield's autobiography that when he was working on a movie, after the first day his housekeeper asked where he was and he said that he was filming a movie. When he was heading out for his second day of filming, his housekeeper asked where he was going and he old her he was going to work on the movie. To which she replied "But you filmed the movie yesterday."

[BigJerichool222]

Every single traffic light had a camera and a dude operating it, controlling the traffic. I MEAN, HOW ELSE WOULD THEY KNOW?

[adamclark52]

I thought there was a good change that Luke Skywalkers lightsaber from Empire Strikes Back could land in my backyard.

[adamclark52]

Oct 9, 2014 21:36:43 GMT -5 Main Eventer said:

Not sure what its called, but those things on the bottom left. I thought they were monsters from long ago, and humans put those wires on them and electrocuted them to death, then said: "Ah, screw it just leave the bones there."

Those are transformers, generators, powerlines and isolators. I'll show myself out.

[Beav]

That beer was a woman's drink. I only thought this because Mom occasionally had a beer after dinner and Dad never drank.

[Malcolm]

Oct 11, 2014 15:28:20 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

Every single traffic light had a camera and a dude operating it, controlling the traffic. I MEAN, HOW ELSE WOULD THEY KNOW?

And to add to this, I always thought that guy would turn red when my family's car got to the light to be a jerk.

I always imagined him grinning and laughing at us at the red light. I really wanted to punch that guy...