Weird ideas you had as a kid

[Chiboy]

I wanted to blow sh!t up.

 

[Bryophyte]

When I was really little (like preschool), I thought that men grew moustaches over their noses, not under. I have absolutely no idea why I thought that. I guess I didn't know anyone with a moustache.

 

[dullard]

When I was ~5 I wanted float. But first, I had to be stronger. I knew I could already barely pick up a friend. So, if I was stronger, I could put a step ladder on his back (with the ladder's feet not touching the ground), stand on the ladder, pick up my friend, and we'd all be floating.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: irishScott
When I was young, I was told that crap was called BM. So I accepted it as another word in the dictionary and went on with my life. Wasn't until a couple if months ago that I figured out the acronym

My grandmother used that too. "Beeam" was my presumed spelling of it. I was also in my late teens when I heard the term "bowel movement" and made the connection.

On the school bus, I saw the screws on the ceiling, used to hold the panels in place, and imagined (even then I knew it wasn't true though) some kind of stuff coming out that made people sit down and be quiet. Obviously, it didn't work on everybody.

Originally posted by: Chiboy
I wanted to blow sh!t up.

My parents said that when I was a baby, and I'd see stuff on TV, like old war footage, I'd laugh hysterically at explosions.

Later, when I was about 4 or 5, I watched Little Shop of Horrors. My parents were worried I'd freak out at the plant eating the chopped-up dentist. They told me that I was laughing so hard I was starting to cough.

 

[Linflas]

There was a "Hidden Entrance" sign along a road we used to drive down pretty frequently. I thought "Hidden Entrance" meant something like a camouflaged entrance like the one on the old Batman TV show or in spy movies so I was always trying to find it whenever we drove by. It never occured to me that it was the driveway to a house surrounded by a small stone wall.

 

[VitaminR]

When I was probably 5 or 6, my parents were driving me somewhere and my mom said "Watch out, there's a Trooper." All I could see out the window was a semi, so for a while I thought semis were Troopers.

 

[Tremulant]

When I was like 6 or 7 I was scared about dieing. Not because anything crazy happened, but I'd just realized that I'd die someday.

Kept me awake for a few nights.

 

[Henrythewound]

I thought dogs were the boys and cats were the girls of the same animal

 

[Nohr]

When I was around 8 or so I decided that I had been calling my parents "mom" and "dad" for quite some time and I was old enough to use their first names like everyone else. I don't think that lasted very long.

Apparently when I was little and was new to walking I kept hitting my head on furniture. I didn't understand that just because my eyes could clear the underside of the table didn't mean my forehead would to.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: Engraver

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
When I was a kid I looked at the world from a completely different prospective. I had some pretty odd thoughts on the way the world worked etc.

I'll start this out by saying until i was about 4 I was afraid of the toilet because I thought monsters would come up and get me.

Post your weird ideas as a kid

You obviously watched the movie adaptation of Stephen King's "It" as a kid (I did too, omg bathroom monsters).

So THATS where I got it from, I couldnt remember

 

[bsobel]

When I was 5 or so I used to see signs that would say that the speed limit was radar enforced. I thought there was a room with people sitting around radar screens (like air traffic control) and they'd call and send a cop when you where speeding. It confused me since I figured the cops would never make it there in time since they might be across town...

 

[MrWizzard]

I thought if I could just pull up hard enough up on my legs, with my arms, that I would float.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
I thought if I could just pull up hard enough up on my legs, with my arms, that I would float.

You clearly had worked out a much more simple form of flotation than I did. All my plans required contraptions. I guess as a young child I failed at Occam's razor.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
I thought if I could just pull up hard enough up on my legs, with my arms, that I would float.

You clearly had worked out a much more simple form of flotation than I did. All my plans required contraptions. I guess as a young child I failed at Occam's razor.

my idea for defying gravity was if you got on something like a stool, and sort of jumped off kicking your legs up over your head (so your body pivoted around your head) then if you were quick enough/strong enough you could flip your body the other way so that you pivoted around your feet, and if you continued this cycle of flipping your legs up over your head then your head above your legs you could float. but i knew gravity would still be pulling you down all the time, so it would be a slow process to get up a few feet, that's why you started on a stool.

I remember thinking about that staring off into space during lunch when i was in 6th grade. I guess that puts me at 12, thinking this would be possible.