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People Reveal The Funniest Things They Believed As Kids

February 17, 2025

As kids, our imaginations run wild, and sometimes, that leads to some pretty hilarious misunderstandings about the world. Whether it was believing the moon followed us home, thinking that swallowing a seed would make something grow in our stomachs, or assuming that TV characters lived inside the screen, childhood logic was truly something special.

In this post, people are sharing the silliest, most ridiculous things they wholeheartedly believed as kids—and trust us, these are guaranteed to make you laugh.

What's the dumbest belief you had as a child?

#1

When I was 4 or 5, I swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. When my parents asked me to prove it to them, I planted a pile of bird seeds. The next day there were loads of birds where I planted the seeds, showing I was right.

#2

That I would understand everything as an adult. I actually think I understand less.

#3

Sound attracted lightning. I was TERRIFIED of lightning and thunder as a child. I would cry and my brother felt that if he told me my crying attracted lightning, I'd shut up or stop crying. I was quiet but I'd get under my blankets and cry as quietly as I could, terrified every time I heard thunder.

#4

I thought clouds were the ghosts of dinosaurs.

#5

I was born into a color world, parents grew up in black in white.

#6

Eating seeds of fruits will cause the plant to grow in your stomach. Swallowing gum will result in them sticking to stomach walls.

#7

I believed that if you buried Sesame Seeds off of Big Mac's from McDonald's, that Sesame Seed Buns would grow.

#8

I thought the sun and moon were the same thing. I thought the sun turned into the moon when it got dark.

#9

I got a big splinter in my foot when I was 4 and I kept pulling away when my dad tried to pull it out with tweezers, because it hurt. My older sister leaned over and whispered to me me that if I didn’t let my dad pull it out, the splinter would sink into my skin and go straight to my heart, pierce it, and then I would die. I immediately believed her and let my dad pull the splinter out – and that was how I thought splinters worked for ages.

#10

I could not understand how sperm whales figured into human mating. I knew that sperm went into the egg and made a baby but why it was always needing a whale mystified me at the time.