You know bruises on bananas, hen a somehat circular region turns a darker colour within the flesh? I thought those were spiders that had somehow gotten inside the banana. it was only many years after I'd outgrown this that I made the connection between spiders stowing away in bunches of bananas.

D.B.
Rain_Kid
Geeze! That's scary
I've remembered one more like this - I used to think holes in achy teeth are made by some kind of worms Ewww...

As for dark matter in bananas - I though dark things about that too, but finally calmed herself down considering it's just seeds

When I was about five I rmember I used to reckon that there was a massive spider in my attic (I don't mean taranutla sized, I mean dog sized) Probably because spiders have always made me shiver a little.

i have one of those "the last to know" type personalities.

So i used to believe an awful lot of things when I was a kid, i was the gullible one too.

One for instance my dad used to own a 97 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi... was a nice car...... anyway the front headlights had little windscreen wipers, I was told and believed these prevented people and animals being hit when driving along, they would sweep the thing being hit to the side of the car. I know mad... but i was about 7 then. Anyway we had the car for a long time and it was fantastic http://www.carairo.com/catalog/images/VA09802.jpg <--- corgi model of it in same colours too

My dad was also an amateur radio buff and we have loads of masts on our roof for different types of radio signals ect. I used to believe my dad was part of the secret service and all the antenna's picked up all the secret conversations around the world. again around 7-8yo then. Incidently my dad did speak to a lot of people round the world, on a good night he could bounce the signals and chat to people in America. He also spoke to King Hussein of Jordon on his rig too.

Just a couple of wacky things from my life.

Casper
Wow. It's weird, indeed. I wish I could see such an interesting thing.
Speaking of other childish things except beliefs - when I was 4 years old, once I locked my grandma at the bathroom, when no one else was at home. I stood outside the door, eating candy and then I've suddenly realised I'm alone, and started crying. She told me, how to unlock the door, but I couldn't. Fortunately, grandma was able to climb out through the window

Empethree
Nice one. It protects from thinking about death. I remember "The crash" movie, where one guy gave his daughter "magic invisible clocks" to protect her from bullets and she really believed that.

It's great that you've never hit anyone.

ametur_poet
Heh, such things always made me sad, when I discovered, that the stories grownup people tell or their poems or their songs weren't made by themselves. It made them liars, even if they're never pretended to be the authors

These are all quite interesting and funny to read, some of which I already know about
(yes, you cashew boy!, and I know more!...mwhahaha)

It's funny cos I know, I was definitely an odd kid, still kind of am , but I did have crazy beliefs and things I did, yet I can't quite remember them when it comes to recalling them, most of which I've been told I did, but I don't really remember them till its brought up again!

However I can think of one right now which is pretty amusing to hear about, its kind of a belief but not
I was about 4 and was at a christening of my Godmother's son and I they're pretty religious, so the ceremony was quite serious and quite, and as the priest lit up these big candles, I started singing very loudly, burst into "Happy Birthday to you!" (etc) and, apparently wouldn't stop!
Guess I thought of the big candle was being lit like one on a birthday cake
mmm....now I'm wanting cake!
*disappears off to the kitchen!*

ALM

Come to think of it, thats happened to me before. When I watched 'Apollo 13' for the first time when I was a wee' lad, I thought when it announced Jack Swigert died later, I thought Kevin Bacon (the actor) died too.