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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn't see colour up to the mid-60s.

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I believed this. You are the first person I've ever heard whose had this same belief.

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[-] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I thought those crosses or flowers on the side of the road were where they buried the person who died in an accident.

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

That there were little gnomes inside the doors of the cars and that they were in charge of raising and lowering the windows, especially in the automatic cars.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.

In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but...

[-] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I used to think a car direction indicator was a GPS guiding system, and not manually operated.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago
[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

I believed I was an adopted alien from outer space before I realised my face is like my father's but prettier.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Thats a sentence I never heard and believe noone has written it ever on the internet

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[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

That we would live in peace

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Can I'll cheat a little and use my teen years.
When let's plays where the new hot thing, I thought a blind let's play literally meant, eyes closed

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 4 days ago

rice turned water into soil

[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago

Cthulhu is a Hindu god

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Freddy Krueger was two people. I thought it was like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. I thought it was Dr. Krueger and Freddy was the monster he created. When I saw the movie I was like where's his creator, the one that brought him to life?

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn't were very rude.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

that you're supposed to show a middle finger as if you were showing it to yourself

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

When my daughter was about 1.5 she would wave like that, waving so she could see her hand correctly.

Not long after that she'd dismiss people she didn't want to deal with with a little blown kiss and a wave. So at the doctor's office they had two nurses come in to give her some shots and she kept doing the little kiss and wave and they went "aww she's blowing kisses" and my wife said "no she's actually trying to dismiss you"

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