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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I believed I was an adopted alien from outer space before I realised my face is like my father’s but prettier.
Thats a sentence I never heard and believe noone has written it ever on the internet
That’s my way to prove I’m not a bot (:
My parents didn’t specifically tell me if Santa Clause was real or make-believe. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion, I guess. My dad is a rationalist person, and my mom’s from a culture that doesn’t traditionally celebrate Christmas.
So what I believed was that the appearance of presents on Christmas was an unsolved mystery, and Santa Clause was just a hypothesis to explain it.
I suspected the real explanation probably involved the tree working as an antenna for some kind of cosmic energy that triggered the appearance of presents. Perhaps in ancient and more superstitious times they discovered this phenomenon by accident and continued to put up the tree ever since.
Christmas tree as extraterrestrial cargo cult ritual. Holy shit that’s brilliant.
As a 53 year old man I’m going to START believing this. It’s awesome.
When I was a kid my dad would often pull up the NORAD Santa tracker on Christmas Eve, and that combined with seeing the film War Games at way too young of an age had me believing in Santa for much longer than I should have because “why else would the federal government devote so much money to tracking him?” I think it was specifically seeing the exact same animation of him being welcomed into a country by a pair of fighter jets for the third year in a row that finally killed that line of reasoning (because obviously the NORAD Santa tracker site is shot with television cameras or something)
Kid logic is wild
Santa Claus cargo cult
That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.
I grew up with a family that didn’t have a lot of luxuries when I was young. We had three channels on TV, so we didn’t spend a lot of time watching TV. So I didn’t get to watch a lot of pop culture content for about the first 7 or 8 years of my life.
So one of the first memories I have as a kid is in hearing music on the radio, record player, cassette player or any sound system … I understood that it was previously recorded and performed by other people somewhere else.
What I thought was that all the sounds were generated by human voices. Guitars? Pianos? Trumpets? Brass sounds? Violins? even Drums or percussion. I thought all of it was people just making sounds with their voices.
I’m Indigenous Canadian so my parents didn’t have musical instruments, a couple of uncles played the guitar and fiddle … but by the time I was young, they no longer played these instruments and had them. I never knew or understood musical instruments really until I was about 8, 9 or ten. Up until then, I just thought all music was just people with amazing and unusual human voices.
I remember thinking radio stations had bands constantly coming in and playing songs and leaving
This is always my answer to this question. I thought radio stations must have been the busiest places with all those bands coming and going!
I thought that you would get your grandparents by just going into a train station and picking some random (preferably older person) to be your grandparent.
I was convinced that my parents had done that for me, and that’s why I had grandparents.
In the 80s when i was a child there were billboards with PSAs saying don’t drink and drive. I’d promptly scold my parents if i caught them taking a sip from their soft drink after hitting the McDonald’s drive through.
“Drink” is such a weird word in how it has both a general and specific meaning, but no other word for the general meaning is commonly used.
“Drink your milk! No drinking until you’re 21!”
you’re milk
No; you are!
I fixed it lol
When I was little, I thought that “cash back” meant that the clerk literally just handed you money out of the register if you wanted it.
I assumed that most people were honest and only took the cash if they needed it. I didn’t know that it came out of your checking account lol.
That all television, even live action, was just made by someone who could draw really fast.
I actually had similar theories though in the end I concluded that a person definitely couldn’t be doing it, but I did used to rack my brains how the machine did it so fast. I had to do a project on how TV worked and was invented when I was in the 6th grade and it didn’t help at all, the whole electron gun thing didn’t explain it to me at all because I was imagining the gun like, drawing objects like trees and buildings and people and none of the boring confusing stuff I read helped me understand how this gun knew what to draw and could do it so quickly.
Very few cartoons are broadcast live, it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrists.
…i thought little people lived in my parents’ radio and television who put on shows for us…
There’s a highway that formed a loop around the city where I grew up and we used it pretty regularly, but mostly only the western half (since we lived on the west side of town). My parents explained the concept to me that it had “belt” in its name because it circled around the city like a belt goes around a person. This idea intrigued me and I eventually asked my parents if someday we could drive all the way around it. My dad seemed kind of surprised but said we could sometime. I got excited and started planning for things we would need, like a tent and food, since it would obviously take a long time.
The highway’s only about 25 miles/40 kilometers long.
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I remember my Dad teaching me about highway numbers back when I was a kid, so I know that the 4 means it’s part of a loop, being odd means it runs mostly N/S, and being a low number means it’s on the west side of the US.
The Dewey Decimal System is still a mystery to me, though…
‘4’ just means local.
I believe if the first digit is even in the 3 digit highway number, it connects, if it’s odd then it doesn’t. There’s a cool video about it by cgp grey and a whole Wikipedia on it
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I thought adults were smarter than me
They are if you think the exact opposite. Everyone has their niche, no one is a jack of all knowledge
The ‘H’ signs to indicate a hospital was indicating there was a helicopter pad.
That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.
When I was a young lad I thought milk was cow pee and was super confused by the world.
Wedding rings were there to show who was married and who was available. Once you wanted to get married, you just found a friendly person who didn’t have a ring, and then you asked if they’d marry you. I mean, that IS what happens I suppose, but my 8 year old brain played it out like someone asking a nice stranger for the time.
This is hilarious. “Hello random ringless person, want to spend the rest of our lives together?”.
That the world used to be black and white. I once asked how the people making The Wizard of Oz knew when the world was going to change, so they could film the movie correctly.
