Things you believed in as a Kid

LilacFray

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We've all had certain things which we believed in as children and looking back, you realise how daft it was. As wrestling fans, at some point we did hang on to every word we heard on the show and took the storylines and gimmicks very seriously. Go ahead and share those innocent things that you believed in as a kid.

1. Mum, the moon keeps following us!
True, the moon was everywhere at night but this excitement was there whenever I used to be in the backseat of a car that was speeding past buildings and trees. The moon kept following me. :)

2. You can make your own real Butterfly.
This was all around my 1st Grade. There was a girl who bragged that she sharpened her pencil, used the pieces she cut off and placed it in her notebook in the shape of a butterfly.. A few months later she had opened it and a real butterfly had come out. I believed her. :suspic:

3. I just have a stomach and a heart.
I used to think I just had a heart and a stomach inside my body, other than blood and bones. I have to mention that I also imagined my blood freely gushed past my bones under the skin, resulting the immediate bleeding from the tiniest scratch. :p

4. Santa Claus!
I never celebrated Christmas, but I believed in him. I understood that he visited Christian Kids so all was well. :D
 
Not sure if this kinda thing is for this post, as it is, in fact true. But when i was a kid, my parents etc. use to say

Good night, don't let the bedbugs bite. I use to check under the bed just to make sure that there wasnt any bugs of any sort under there lol.

Also, as usual you always use to get daft rumors around school.
People use to say, if you cut your finger, and you turn the light off, and place your cut finger on the mirror in your bathroom and say '' bloody Mary '' 3 times she would come out of the mirror and get you lol. We all tried it, being very scared at the same time but we was all safe lol.

Lol i liked your number 2 one though.
 
When I was really little my grandmother had told me a story about growling frogs, a creature she made up. Basically they were frogs that growled like a dog each time they jumped. She told stories about how she had dozens of those growling frogs at her house back in Sweden and she kept them in her basement bar closet after catching them in the woods. I believed it, granted I was in PreK at the time. When we had a family reunion during Christmas of 1993 we went to her house in Sweden and I went down into the basement. She found me looking around in the bar closet and asked what I was doing. I told her I was looking for the growling frogs. My grandmother responded by telling me they don't exist and she made it up. I was really disappointed because I had believed in that story for 5 years. I was honestly far more upset about that revelation than I ever was about typical stuff like Santa or the Easter Bunny.
 
I believed in Santa, the tooth fairy and all that. I also believed the moon followed me where ever I went, I remember when I used to be in the car at night I would watch outside the window and I loved it how I thought the moon was so fast as it kept up with the car. I used to love car rides at night because of that. :)
 
Horror Movie Characters Were Real

My eyes are mind were abused when I was little as I'd see these Horror movies on T.V - Halloween being a big benefactor. Michael Myers would be on TV & he'd be up to his usual killing, but I thought that he was real. I know it sounds stupid, but when you're a kid, anything is possible in your mind. I'd always check around my house to make sure that Mike wasn't hiding anywhere. I'd be very cautious going around the house and never liked to go upstairs if it was dark.

And to this day, I still realise how stupid I am.
 
4. Santa Claus!
I never celebrated Christmas, but I believed in him. I understood that he visited Christian Kids so all was well. :D
You mean he's not real?! :(

As a child, I was told that if I swallowed a watermelon seed it would sprout and watermelons would grow in my belly. I took that concept and applied it not only to watermelons but all fruits with seeds in them. I thought apples would grow in my belly if I accidentally swallowed the seeds for instance and when I did, I would freak out and panic like you wouldn't believe. I felt really stupid when I learned that wasn't the case but while I did, it was awful eating apples, oranges, pears, etc.
 
Notorious - I've believed in something similar..
My parents have told me that if I swallowed guava seeds, it would grow out of my head. :shrug:

And there's another one I remembered while I was chewing gum a few days back. Mother used to tell me that if I swallowed the chewing gum, it would stick all my insides together. (Which was just my stomach.)

Reading all this made me think - Gee I can't wait till I become a Mom and fool my child at some point! ;)
 
Wow, this topic brought up some memories!When I was around 4 I heard the story of bloody mary and somehow convinced myself that she might come out of the mirror if I even thought the word bloody mary three times. This resulted in me covering my eyes and ears with my fingers and reciting the alphabet over and over every time I was in a bathroom or any small space that had a mirror in it. I grew out of that in about a month though. I also thought eating too soon before swimming would make me sink to the bottom of the pool and drown....

I was a strange child.:weird:
 
When I was a kid in church, I used to always wonder why we took offerings. I'd ask my mom but she always gave me a vague response like "The money is going towards God" which I didn't get. Why would God need money? He's GOD. Couldn't he, like, make his own or something? And how the hell did they get the money to him? Since I was always dreadfully bored in church, I used that time to ponder how that could possibly work. And here is what I deduced:

I noticed that they always took the offering money to some dark looking room in the back. The way I imagined it, all of the church dudes would sit in this dark room with the only light coming from a hole in the ceiling. They'd place the plate of money under the light and start praying. Soon enough, the money would start floating up towards the hole and into the sky like some sort of divine tractor beam. If God thought the amount was adequate, he'd bless the church. If he thought it wasn't enough, a fireball would come through the hole and incinerate everyone in the room. Since a fire had never happened, I assumed we were doing all right.

I literally believed that until I was like six or seven. To me, that was the only logical explanation and refused to believe otherwise. I wanted to see it happen so badly. After church ended, I always looked for a way to sneak into the room to see it happen. I even tried it once, but the door was locked. You couldn't imagine how disappointed I was when my mom told me the money went towards the church itself, not to God.
 
Well obviously Santa Claus is on that list for me, what made things worse for me was I believed in him alot longer than most, I think I did till I was about 12 and when my parents told me the whole thing was a sham I wouldn't talk to them for a week because I felt so betrayed/upset that he wasn't real. But when I did believe I was one of the most outspoken Chirstmas lover on the block and the kid who stood up for Santa nay sayers, I still love Christmas more than any other time of the year but I lost some of it when that was broken to me. On top of that you have Leprechans, Easter Bunny, Cupid and all that shit, I had very animated family members who made it all very believable and I was pretty gullible.

Another that upset me for a long time which I learned around the same time was that Wrestling was scripted. I couldn't even comprehend the idea at the time, at first I felt like it was a big lie and stopped watching for about 2 weeks(I couldnt stay away) and then I embraced it for what it was.
 

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