I’m never very excited by lists like this —as I never seem to be able to relate to anything on them which makes me feel like a tremendously unique individual and a weirdo outsider all at once— but this one actually got me thinking about ridiculous things I seriously believed when I was younger.
And yes, some of them were on this list.
Stuffed Animals Came to Life When You Weren’t Looking
I don’t know that I actually believed in this but I did actively hope it might be true. And I won’t say how old I was but I was probably way too old to get excited about the possibility of conversing with stuffed animals. And that it was probably some sort of cry for help.
Before the 1950s, The World Was in Black and White
It’s hard to say if little kids actually believed the world existed sans color before the 1950s/1960s but I’m sure it seemed that way at some point. I remember reading that Lucille Ball’s hair color was actually red and thinking “Uh, no it’s not…wait a minute, what?” This is also similar to my loose belief that life began the year I was born. Not because I was any sort of narcissist, but I just couldn’t fathom how time had existed before I did because I was a little kid and that is not something you can easily wrap your brain around at the age of 5.
Blankets Served as an Impenetrable Barrier From Monsters
This one is just true.
I’m sure you can top these ridiculous beliefs so let me hear ’em. The more outlandish, the better.
