Hey Pandas, What Silly Thing Did You Use To Believe As A Kid?

I was a gullible toddler. Here are two thing I used to believe until the age of 8 or 9.

1. Crossing your eyes for too long would make them stay that way.

2. Swallowing a watermelon seed would cause a watermelon to grow in your stomach.

Seafood. Im german and we call it Meeresfrüchte (Sea Fruit). Because of that I believed there we're actual bananas, oranges, apples etc but under the sea.
We never had seafood at home because my mom hates that stuff so I believed that for an embarassing long while.
And yes Im enjoying it as an adult.

I believed that when something died, it had its own heaven, like if a horse died, it would go to horse heaven, and if a monkey died it would go to monkey heaven. But I believed that if you had a pet, you could go visit them in whatever heaven they were in, let's say you had a pet fish, I believed you would be in human heaven and the fish would be in fish heaven but you could go and visit the fish in fish heaven

1. All jungles had quicksand
2. There were actual lines making up the Bermuda Triangle and if you crossed them, you were "disappeared" to somewhere else.

I thought money laundering was literally cleaning money, so I was terrified to rinse off dirty coins for fear I'd go to jail. Also thought until embarrassingly recently that a tap room was a dance studio that also served alcohol. Felt like an idiot when I realized the tap refers to a beer tap, not the dance.

I swore Post offices had top secret underground tunnels that would connect with other post offices throughout the world and considered mailmen to be top secret federal agents.

That before colour TV the whole world was black and white. I wondered what happened in the 70's to make everything so much brighter.

I thought that plants and animals spoke Spanish. My best friend was a boy named Jorge, and his mom used to babysit me. They had this giant garden with chickens and geese and she would talk to the plants etc in Spanish then speak English to me. I didn’t really know it was just a different language, I thought it was a special one for talking to the earth. I was really surprised when I said, “leche” and my teacher at school understood me.

I use to also believe that we (my family) owned the only tv remote (I guess in the world). So as my dad was packing for a work trip i sneaked our remote in his suitcase so he could watch tv, as the rest of my family had each other for entertainment. My brother was not verry happy with me

If I stuck out my lower lip, a bee would land in it and sting it

Music from the radio was a live band performing in the studio

The toilet would suck me down it when I flushed it. (Thanks sis)

Quicksand would be a bigger problem than it is

While on a road trip, we drove past a wind farm (the great big turbines), and my father told me that those were fans that held California on to the rest of the United States. If the fans shut off, California would float away. I not only believed him, but went to school and told all my friends about California not being attached to the rest of the country.

my mom said she could tell if i was lying by looking in my eyes
so when telling a lie i just closed my eyes

When I was four or five, I believed that you had three options when you graduated high school: 1)Become a teacher. 2)Become a parent. 3) Die. I was terrified of starting kindergarten because I didn't want to be a parent or a teacher, and I certainly didn't want to die.

Swallow gum = gum tree

When I was really young, I was once lying on the grass trying to see he shapes in the clouds.
After a while, the wind speed at cloud level must have picked up a bit as they were moving faster. Staring straight up, I started feeling a false sense of motion, like I could feel the earth spinning.
That is the moment that my mind decided that the clouds do not move, they are perfectly still and the earth turns beneath them.
I believed that for about 10 years.

My father worked at Town Hall where also weddings took place. As a kid I thought that when you wanted to get married you went to Town Hall. Men who wanted to get married also went there and you picked a man and got married.
I have no idea where this "wisdom" came from.

When I was 4 I thought you could just go to the bank and get money. Did not realize that you had to first earn the money.

that every person the earth was born speaking english and if they lived in Italy, for example, the parents would have to teach the baby italian and they would forget about english

When I was very little, I thought that when I ate something, it went to the bottom of my body, that is, to my feet. The food was going up and when it reached my head, it made me grow a little more.

When we went to the grocery shop my mother would hand over some papery things and the shopkeeper would give her the groceries *and* some free money (change). (Because I just got coins for pocket money I didn't understand that the papery things were also money.) (And, yes, I was a child in the dinosaur days.)