Weird things you believed as a kid.

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>>51443124
Never understood where it came from, but when I was a kid I kept having recurring nightmares about a monster that lived in corners. Basically, if you got too close to the corner of a room that was when it could get you. It'd just sorta phase through the wall and grab ya.

I used that and made a cool encounter out of it in a modern game. Party was investigating a couple of missing kids. Last thing every parent told them was that they had just sent their child to sit in the corner for misbehaving, then the next thing they knew their kid was gone. It was neat having the player go from "Oh, well obviously the kid just ran away because they were upset" to "What the fuck? How could ALL of these kids have run away?" Actual fight with it was super frustrating as it'd just nope away back into its corner if it ever felt too threatened.

>>51443199
corners are creepy
i was always half expecting to see some kind of a monster crouching in the corner when i walked into my room as a kid

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>>51443124
I thought spiders are born from snots.


Not really a belief but a really common recurring nightmare I had. People made dinosaurs from the bones of the old ones, and usually in November something happened and they got revived and roamed the streets.
It was actually kinda like they used to release bulls in the streets on Spain, except this time it didn't last a day, but till every dino was killed by the hunters
I remember there was some sort of competition between them but I have no idea how this worked.

I also remember a vivid image of entire brontosaurus skeleton waiting outside my window and me thinking how it's going to be alive soon.

It was fucking terryfing

Mirrors.
Everything about that evil Satan-glass has always freaked me out.

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In the fall, our family dumps our leaves in the woods adjacent to our yard. When I was young, I was playing in the woods when I came across one of the old leaf piles, half of which had already decomposed so it looked like a big dirt mound. There was a piece of newspaper in it or something because I remember seeing the paper with a person's face on it and my young mind made the logical leap that that person was buried there. I thought it was some sort of vampire and was horrified every night that it would break inside and hurt my family.
I had a big /x/ phase through childhood, undoubtedly fueled by the X-Files, so I had a lot of paranormal delusions like that. I am trying to incorporate them all into a Call of Cthulhu setting, but I don't think it will ever see the light of day considering my friends are adamant about sticking to DnD.

I believed in my mom's "magic needle" for removing splinters for an embarrassingly long time.

Magic is just a natural part of the world when you are a kid, even when you are old enough that if someone asked you about magic you would say it was fake, you have unexamined/unarticulated beliefs in things like Santa.

Which is probably how the swarthy immigrant cultists in Lovecraft stories like the Horror at Red Hook feel. Point is, children are creepy cultists and we should build a wall to keep them out.

>>51443274
>>51443199
Are you people me?!!

Anyway, as a kid my dad trolled me hard. He said that ice cream trucks only played music when they were out of ice cream, and I believed that for years. Not only that, but because I believed him (dad would never lie to me, right?) whenever my mom would ask if I wanted ice cream I would give HER a dirty look. I thought she was being mean, getting my hopes up for ice cream and then dashing them.

I also misunderstood what a soul was, I thought is was some kind of creature that lived in your chest and fed on good behavior.

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>>51443320
And if you're bad, it pops out.

>>51443124
I heard what sounded like my mother call my name in a lilting, lyrical tone often as a child. It was never her.

When I was little, us kids believed that all the storm drains and sewer systems in my little rural town were connected and formed a gigantic labyrinth beneath my little rural town. In the hillside above the public baseball fields, right next to the town hall, there was a concrete wall into which a small, round service tunnel disappeared. We all believed that this tunnel was the entrance, and that an underground world of adventure awaited us inside if we were just brave enough to enter. To my knowledge, none of us ever did.

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>>51443317
My dad pulled that same shit with me.

For example, he told me that Santa sends your parents a bill in January, which is why he doesnt visit kids in Africa,

Whenever my mom was out and I'd ask where she was he'd say "the milkman, ran away with her". See we didnt have a milk man and I was too young to know exactly what he meant so I thought there was a serial killer going around kidnapping housewives known as "the milkman "

>>51443396
Asshole dads are just the worst, and the best somehow.

My dad also used to grab my hair and just hold it. I'd jerk away from him and say "Stop pulling my hair!" even though I was pulling it myself. He thought it was the funniest shit, and did it to my mom too.

Then there was the time at a Chinese restaurant. I love fried pork, and one day my dad said "You do know that's made of dolphin, right?" I was horrified. Still ate it, though, damn delicious. Believed that one for longer than I should've, too.

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>>51443199
>>51443274
>>51443317
Remember to plaster your corners, lest the hounds come for you.

>>51443124
>I thought that magic was more common in the Time of Jesus and began to fade when he died, which is why miracles dont happen anymore.

Some sects actually believe miracles stopped after the apostles died. Not Catholics, though.

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>>51443124
I remember watching an advertisment that showed a scene of some kids putting a fish drawing in a fridge. Later this drawing turned into a real living fish.
After that i believed that every drawing you put in a fridge will become a real thing.
Tried that myself with my own fish(decided to start simple), i wondered for a long time why picture didn't turn real and what did i do wrong.

>>51443124
I used to think peak oil and global warming were going to destroy the world by about this time last year.

>>51443486
Wait, these are a thing?

>Because of their relationship with the angles of time, they can materialize through any corner if it is fairly sharp—120° or less. When a Hound is about to appear, it materializes first as smoke pouring from the corner, and finally the head emerges followed by the body. It is said that once a human becomes known to one of these creatures, a Hound of Tindalos will pursue the victim through anything to reach its quarry. A person risks attracting their attention by travelling through time.

Oh that's awesome. Never knew there was a monster like this.

>>51443124
I used to think levitating was a thing. I spent countless hours looking for videos on youtube and didn't understand why people were so skeptic of something as simple as levitating. Same thing for telekinesis. A lot of telekinesis videos used the same kind of object with they called "psi-roller" or whatever and it made it look very legitimate to my young mind.

Also, my sister once described some movie about slaves switching bodies with children to my extremely religious and superstitious mom, who told her that could happen. So for a few months I also thought black magic and body-stealing was real.

Probably because of my mom, I also thought God heard every time you swore and that you needed to apologize when you did it. I was terrified of saying "bad words" until I was about 6.

>>51443644
I forgot the best one. My mom kept going on and on about how people "stole" children, so somehow I anthropomorphized the concept into a single guy in a black sweater and a ski mask who carried a huge sack full of children around

>>51443486
That's a cool design/interpretation. Also, is that that weird pelvic bone you see on some therapods, or a barb penis?

>>51443711
Modern day Krampus

>>51443711
I thought the same thing when I heard someone say that an old lady had been robbed.

>>51443497
Well, seems like it's a common to believe in magic as a kid.
I believed that only adults could use the full power of the magic wand, the only thing i could do is to force random passersby randomly change direction while looking behind the window.

If you were a good person and did good things. nothing bad will happen

My parents always told me never to go into the old factory near where we lived because it was a "deathtrap". Misunderstood and thought that meant that a thing called Deathtrap lived there and killed anyone who came in, only strengthened my belief when some teenager managed to set himself on fire when trying to arson the place, thought there was a fire demon or something hiding in there.

I had a brief period where I thought my dad was involved in illegal stuff. Now I was super young at the point, so I don't remember it well, but as far as I can remember it came from the fact that I confused the words "porno" and "polo". Basically I happened to catch a news report about how bad "porno" was (might have been about child porn, I dunno), but I had no idea what that word meant. However, I knew my dad owned polo shirts. So I laid 2 and 2 together and got 5, and ended up with the idea that my dad wore a shirt that connected him to some mysterious bad stuff.

Also I was deadly afraid of having my back against the dark. I wasn't afraid of the dark if I had my back against a wall, but if I didn't know what was behind me I would just imagine something grabbing after me.

But I can't really remember believing in magic, imaginary friends or specific monsters. Just general nasty stuff in the dark. I was probably just a very boring child.

>>51443885
Also thought that there was a dedicated section of the government that put the leaves back on the tree's and plants every spring, I wasn't the most intelligent child.

I don't remember how old I was, maybe... 6?
But I used to be geniunely terrified of Vampires, like I thought they were real and completely unstoppable.
I really wish somebody had brought up the concept of Vampire Hunters up.

>>51443124
My dad had a green card when I was a child, he showed me his green card and I read the word "Alien" on it and thought that meant I was half alien and my dad accidentally showed me something that was supposed to be a secret. This happened when Men in Black had just come out. I remember asking my dad if he was a cockroach alien or one of the good kind, with out missing a beat my dad said "hold on let me check" and reached for his neck as if to pull of his face mask. My sister (who was in on it) ran screaming from the room while I continually begged my dad not to. My mom would later explain what "alien" meant on the card.

>>51443895
I can see a cyberpunk campaign where the PCs overthrow the Polo Shirt Society controlling the world as a shadow government

I don't even know why but a nightmare from when I was maybe 3 or 4 years old about being chased by a skeleton holding a cup of sugar, it happened in like the upper floors of the apartment building we lived in back then, but on the outside of it like on the outside windowsills and shit, so I'm running away from a skeleton holding out a cup of sugar towards me along the outside windowsills of a yellow apartment building except that we're also so high up that you can't see the ground, it's a bright sunny day and all but it's like there's just me and the skeleton alone in this world. It was pretty weird

The people that live in the walls.
Usually seven or eight feet tall, sometimes headless, had long claw-like fingernails, and thin enough to move around inside the walls although if they got out and had room to grow they would quickly become morbidly obese. Like to eat people and wear the bones of their victims. Will sometimes disguise themselves as normal humans and live among the homeless during the day before returning to the walls at night.

>>51444003
Fucking hell that is one detailed nightmare for a kid to have!

Though, I also "believed" in this hand that lived in the bathtub drain. It was a real person's dead hand, and it would sneak up out of the drain and try to strangle me or grab me if I wasn't paying attention. Never took my eye off that drain until I was like 9.

>>51443895
I once thought I was going to prison because the computer said it had performed an illegal operation.

I used to believe that hair was the memories you couldn't hold onto anymore. At about the age of ten I... continued believing it but thought it was some kind of chemical thing, like maybe memories are stored in chemicals and those chemicals deteriorate into hair?

My dad denies ever telling me this bullshit, but I'm pretty sure it was him.

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>>51443861
HAHAHAHAahaha.. ah.. oh why

>>51443124

As a young kid I firmly believed that after you are born you are a baby, then you grow up a bit and become a kid, then you grow up some more and become a mom, and then grow up even more to become a daddy.

I had a neighbor to my summer house who had some "Venus de Milo" and other statues replicas on his garden that I could only see well at night. I thought they were some kind of ghost that liked to carefully watch humans but didn't mean any harm, didn't stop me form being afraid but I didn't mind much, and I used to be scared to shit of everything paranormal.

There was also a time my sister told me something about there being many "Anons"(not saiying my name, but it's not very common, specially in my country) in the world and I was like:
Oh shit! There are other MEs? Neat.

Misbehaving kids turn into gypsies. The one visit I had in juvenile detention center certainly didn't dispel the belief.

>>51445097

This is a thread for misconceptions, anon.

I believed the abuse would end. That people were better than this.

>>51444268
I don't remember much of my childhood beliefs... but I think I was afraid of clicking the "Start" button on the family computer, because I didn't know what it would start.

>>51443558
I like you

If a cat looks at your back while you are walking up a staircase, it will kill you.

>>51443374
does this look like /x/ to you, newfag?

>>51443199
>>51443274
Its actually primal fear of the hounds of tindalos
Just the same reason you don't let ypur feet and arms dangle from the bed

>>51445420
>>>/tumblr/

>>51445717
Well my rape joke certainly backfired

>>51443124
I believed black people pooped white/vanilla colored shit.

>>51444003
You got it all wrong. The people in the walls were midgets who turned their victims to stone and used them to make more walls.

>>51445097
But anon thats not wrong

>>51443124
My upstairs shower had one of those glass doors with space at the top, and the floor always creaked and I was terrified that if I showered in it, a pterodactyl would break in through the window, crawl through the space and then eat me.

>>51443124
>As for myself, I thought that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.
you did open this thread years ago. I remember you.

>>51443124
The Codex Astartes was a good thing

No fedorable answers?

>>51445881
Sincerely doubt it. I had the exact same belief as a child as OP. I'm sure it is common.

>>51443124
I thought that all ATMs were connected to a personal vault of cash and wondered if there were any that could hand out jewellery.

>>51446454
>I'm sure it is common.
Yup, especially if you're ESL and your primary language has one of those as a implicitly female word and the other as male. Or it could be the other way around ( кoт / coбaкa )

>>51446488
Also was worried about being sucked down the plughole for a long time. bathing was fine but as soon as someone mentioned it ending I sprang out screaming.

>>51443486
Oh, can I have a Whippet please?

>>51443374
>she calls you from the kitchen
>a closet door opens and she pulls you inside
>"shh, I heard it too"

>>51443124
My weirdest belief as a kid was a chronic fear that on my way to the bathroom school I would slip into a parallel universe where boys were called girls an girls would call boys and I would then get in trouble for walking into the wrong restroom.

>priests had the ability to remove your soul and give you a new one
This is now cannon for my setting.

>>51446661
* bathroom AT school

I connected the notion that the only things to survive a nuclear war or similar global disaster would be rats and other small hardy animals and early mammals being small ratlike things, and got the idea that time was essentially cyclical and at some point in the future mammals would go extinct and be replaced by dinosaurs again.

Also, upon learning that there are stars that are so far away from Earth that the light of them we see now left the star before dinosaurs went extinct, I got the idea that the the light of the star could somehow "reset" things to the way they were when it left the star. I didn't seriosuly believe that but thought it'd make for a cool premise of a story or something. Like all of the sudden there's a flash in the sky, and bam! Suddenly you've a mesozoic jungle just superimposed/teleported in the middle of the city, with dinosaurs walking around and shit. Tbh that still sounds like a cool idea even if it makes no sense.

>>51445740
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

you win.

I grew up in a stereotypical sitcom family, so I believed almost everything I saw on TV - the fact that I was kept pretty much isolated from other people until I started school didn't help. My school years were a nightmarish hellscape of shattered illusions.

According to my parents, there was apparently a period where I was absolutely adamant that 2000 was the largest number in existence. I'd deny all suggestions to the contrary.
>"But Anon, what about 3000? 3 is more than 2".
>"No! 2000 is THE BIGGEST number!"
They thought it was hilarious. In fact, they still do.

>>51446575
>Or it could be the other way around ( кoт / coбaкa )
Russian doesn't apply, we have the word кoшкa which is feminine (and is the official name of the animal) and пёc which is masculine. The words кoшкa and coбaкa don't necessarily refer to the female animals and are used as generic terms, while кoт and пёc are specifically male.

>>51446661
If that's canon, what happens to the extracted souls?
Can they pass on? Or do they continue to exist?

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>>51443199
Hound of Tindalos?
also these captchas are getting a little out of hand

This thread is a goldmine

>>51446992
Imagine a bottle universe where that was true, I can imagine it being a treasure on a Wizards shelf.

>Behold. In this jar is a compressed space, within it are 2000, stars made of 2000 atoms, each made of 2000 immeasurably small units of energy.

The jar appears empty because that is not much matter at all really.

>>51446992
What did you think would happen after 1999 ends?

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>>51447075
I mean 2000.

>>51447075
Obviously, we'd go to year 2000.
What's more concerning is that I think I held this belief in the 2000/2001 period. I'll have to ask my parents if they remember circa when this was.

>>51443885
that sounds like it would make for a good story

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>Dad buys new electric razor
>Fast forward a few days
>He goes to shave, but someone has opened up his electric razor and smeared toothpaste into it
>It's ruined
>He blames me
>I protest, because it wasn't me
>Don't really get punished, because I basically never did anything like that before or after and they didn't have the habit of punishing me
>Still argue about it almost 20 years later
The "Razor Toothpaste Incident" is a defining moment of my early years, and one of the reasons I've always doubted my own memory.
On one hand, I for as far as I can remember I've always been 100% convinced of my own innocence, and I remember feeling really upset for getting yelled at for something I didn't do. Furthermore I was always a nice kid, and there weren't any other incidents where I willingly and maliciously destroyed something.

But on the other hand, there are no other suspects. The only ones in the house that day were me, my parents, and my baby sister. My sister wouldn't have been able to reach the cabinets or know where things were, and my parents wouldn't have any reason to destroy an electric razor and blame me for it. So, logically, I realise that it has to be me. But my entire life I've been earnestly convinced hat I didn't do it.
The only option is that I did it and managed to convince myself that I didn't. I brainwashed myself. Or some unknown entity broke into our house and smeared toothpaste into an electric razor.

It's enough to make a young boy question his sanity.

>>51447398
Could you possibly have mistaken it for an electric toothbrush?

>>51447398
I have the exact same feeling about a tub of house paint that was spilled over a newly carpeted floor.

Also read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_implantation


I have no memory of doing it, and I swore I didn't do it at the time, but I was the only person who could have been in the room at the time.

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>>51447456
Maybe, but as I said I have no recollection of the actual smearing itself. I also have very little memory of how the razor looked afterwards.

But it was one of those big three-headed Philips razors, I'm pretty sure of that. So it doesn't really look like a toothbrush. And if I thought it was a toothbrush, I don't see why I would open up all the laps and stuff and just smear toothpaste everywhere from batteries to the top.

What makes it even more incriminating is that it was done using my toothpaste.
I know that I must have did it, I just don't know why. Maybe I was just being a little shit of a change.

>>51447519
>Memory implantation
Yeah, it must be something like that. As I got older I sort of came to terms with the fact that I must have false memories regarding the event, but as a younger child it confused me to no end.
The concept that I could strongly "remember" something that wasn't really true hadn't really dawned on me back then.

>>51443922
Cool dad.

I thought that black people had brown blood. I assumed that my gums were pink because you could see the blood underneath, like a rat's eye. Therefore, since black people have brown gums, their blood is brown.

I also thought that women get pregnant from the wedding kiss, since of course only married women get pregnant.

>>51443124
it's incredibly /magicalrealm/ but
>boys get girls pregnant by peeing in their butt
>no 2nd hole
and
>monsters can't get you/see you if you're under a blanket
>stuffed animals have feelings

I also believed that if I really REALLY thought a monster was in my closet I could sit up in my bed and banish it from existence by willing it out of the universe. This usually involved straining every muscle in my body while sitting cross legged and making kung-fu arm movements at my closet and visualizing hitting it with a cannonball of directed holy force.
>tfw 8-year-old me was 200% more Deus Vult than I am now

I recall being totally convinced (around the age of 10) that I could reach out and touch the moon if only I could find something tall enough to stand on. I climbed on our house, trees, and all sorts of other stuff trying to get higher than I did last time. I even eventually convinced my parents to take me hiking "up a mountain" (a rather large rocky hill maybe 45 minutes north of where we lived) so that I could be even closer.

Both my parents attempted to make me understand the vast distances involved and how the moon orbited the planet, but I didn't care.

I used to think that banks gave you money just because you asked for it, and that adults paid to go to work because they had to.

Yeah, I was that dumb.

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>>51443124
God existed and is benevolent, people are good, bad things only happen to bad people.

For a time I was convinced I could control my own gravity. I had dreams where I could jump from the top stair down to the bottom and not get hurt, or glide around my house.

The weirdest thing in my dreams though are me dreaming of locations I've never been to, but when I did end up going there, it was totally accurate to my dream.

>>51448206
>The weirdest thing in my dreams though are me dreaming of locations I've never been to, but when I did end up going there, it was totally accurate to my dream.
That's called false memories.

>>51443124
>be me
>about 6
>standing out by the car ready to go to church
>about 8am on a sunday
>black pickup speeds by
>men in sunglasses and black suits standing at attention in the back
shit freaked me out hard. I still don't know if I really saw it or I just convinced myself that's what it was

>>51448219
Even if I would write or sketch out the location while it was still fresh in my mind, and then visit sometime later with a pretty accurate depiction?

>>51444819
Well you're not wrong, in a way

>>51443124
Some Jerk teenage kid told me that if I was bad the "hooligans" would get me at night.

I thought some kind of goblins lived in their house and would claw me to death if I fell asleep

>>51448253
No, because then you'd see that your sketch isn't accurate at all.

My little kid belief was that a rat lived in the toilet, and fed off my poop.

>>51448253
I used to have a lot of these instances as a kid but I also started to realize that it was more a matter of framing than location.

I'd remember certain features from a single view and when placed in a similar location they snap into place and take my head for a ride.

>>51448371
Most were.

>>51447718
Maybe you were sleepwalking? You could have walked to the bathroom and decided to brush you teeth in your sleep, and then you failed and went back to your bed.

when I was little an older kid told me that dwarfs/gnomes existed and they had shotguns that they would fire through peoples window at night, and told me that his grandma was killed by them.

for a long time I was terrified of standing next to windows. even after I didn't believe in the shotgun gnomes I was still terribly afraid of criminals or someone firing a gun through my window

(I also lived in suburbia and probably had not heard the sound of a gun in real life by that point so it's not like I was afraid of a bad neighborhood or something

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>>51448008

>>51448206
>>51448253
Either you'd seen those places before and didn't remember (saw a picture once, forgot about it) or your description/sketch was generic enough to be made to fit.

>>51448764
Or... astral projection.
In before dogpile of more skeptical athiests.

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>>51443124
I imagined the boogeyman (know as the coco in my country) as a brownish pic related made of cloth that ate you

I was really adverse to bring in a room with no open doors/windows.
If someone was about to close the last one, I'd rush to open another before they could.
Don't remember why. It REALLY spooked me though.

Sex was a rollie-pollie like creature floating in pink goo that was made by a man sleeping in the same bed as a girl. The girl then ate it in order to get pregnant.

Mirrors became portals to an alternate dimension but only at night during the full moon.

The pilot light was some kind of living thing like a cat but either was on fire or controllled fire. If the pilot light was out it meant it had left the water heater and my dad had to put it back in

>>51448384
You think so because your memory is inaccurate.

>>51443124
When I was a kid I did not know what sex was. I thought that just sleeping in the same bed with a girl would get her pregnant.

>>51443199
>>51443274
Hounds of Tindalos, as others have said. Frank Belknap Long and the following absorption of the idea into the broader Cthulhu Mythos has you covered. It seems like you could channel your childhood fear to run them REALLY well.


Me? I was fairly rational as a kid. Comes from watching science documentaries when most people are watching Transformers (Side effects may also include a lack of friends due to knowing more about Steven Hawking than Optimus Prime). So I never really believed in ghosts or faeries or monsters. But I was unshakable for years in my belief that there was a great, yawning void beneath my house, based on a vivid sense memory of exploring under it and finding a shaft where I could hold myself up on the edge and dangle feet down and not touch the dark and unseen bottom. Maybe a dream, maybe just an encounter with a place where my feet were inches from floor, but I wholly believed that there was some deep, deep empty space down there. When the house burned down there as nothing lower than the foundation, not even a trough by the meters like I suspected as a teen, somewhere that could have tricked me into thinking "bottomless pit". So going super-vivid dream.

>>51443124
After a botched explanation from a neighbor's dad, I thought fish, and shrimp especially, were suicidal and deliberately swam into nets to feed humans.

I also thought hurricanes and tropical storms were intelligent and actively malevolent, and naming them was an attempt to appease them.

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>>51449415
That wasnt a dream anon, someone or some thing filled in the pit after seeing you there

>>51448795
OK, I'll take the bait. I'm skeptical as hell of any claims of magic, powers, or psychic effects. I won't go so far as to say they don't exist -- I believe that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, but that looking for said proof is a worthwhile pursuit -- but when presented with an explanation grounded in fairly well-studied psychology (Namely that human memory is crap and tends towards revisionist history) and one grounded in the extraordinary (Astral Projection), I see no reason why the natural explanation should not be preferred. The sketch comment is intriguing, but without properly observed examples, >>51448764 seems like the logical response.

>>51449511
Heh, I'm not sure if Kid-Me would be calmed down or freaked out by that assertion. I came to thinking that the Deep Pit was bad even if totally natural. And avid non-believer or no, "Don't be Afriad of the Dark" freaked me the fuck out YEARS later.

ESP can only occur with incredible focus. The mind is the very opposite of focused during sleep.

>>51443124
Until I was about six or seven I thought bats were mythological creatures like fairies or unicorns because of their association with vampires.

In my head it was only logical that, since vampires didn't exist bats must not either. They seemed to fantastical to my child mind to be a real thing.

One night I was sitting in the truck with my uncle in the parking lot of the local grocery store waiting for my mom and grandma to come out and saw some "birds". I thought it was weird they were out flying at night but my uncle said, "Those are bats."

Blew my mind.

ITT: Pure autism.

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>>51450019
Boy you sure are lucky you were never a child, right?

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>>51450019
You can post that in practically every other thread on this board, yet you chose the one where it just doesn't fit.

>>51450074
>>51450089

When I was a kid the only dumb thing I ever did was mix up Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds.

And I constantly confused the words and animals associated with giraffe and gopher.

Not really something I believed but strange none the less.

I had a dream once I walked outside onto my front porch and as I looked to the left instead of my yard and neighborhood it was an endless flat desert. One of those ones where it's not sand but cracked looking.

In the distance I saw a cactus and a shadow under it. I walked and walked out to it and when I got there it looked like a moose corpse, all bloody with it's stomach gored and guts hanging out.

Suddenly it stood up on it's hind legs and there was this big, nine foot tall undead moose thing with dead eyes, guts hanging out, long arms that ended in claws. It chased me and I ran in sheer terror back to my house where I woke up.

A decade and a half later I was online and found a picture of a skinwalker that looked almost exactly like it.

>>51448371
Remote viewing is real and has been documented by the government. There are papers on it.

The CIA has it on the website I think.

>>51450387
If you've ever attempted remote viewing you'd know that it's impossible to do when you're tired. Why would it be able to happen during dreams then?

>>51450405
I dunno, it hasn't been fully studied and explored as far as I know. Maybe some people are different.

Ever since reading up on it though it's shaken my view of reality. I don't know what to believe anymore.

>>51443124
I always thought that wherever you were when you popped out of your mum, you would be the ethnicity of that region. So if an Asian woman with a White father gave birth in Africa, the baby would be Black.

>>51450429
Really? It causes some properties of the mind to make more sense.

>>51450498
You have to understand that for like fifteen years i've made it a point to only accept reality and the natural world from rational, purely scientific points of view.

I had written the idea of psychics out of my life among many other things. But, I dunno man. I started reading into quantum physics, chaos magic and this and I don't know what to think now. I really don't know.

I feel like i've reached the third biggest crossroad in my life.

>>51450542
There is nothing unscientific about ESP.
>chaos magic
That's a load of shit.

>>51450626
Chaos magic would explain the power of Kekism, Kekists and Kek itself.

>>51443124
When I was a little kid, I asked my parents why people's hair turned grey when they got older.

My mom told me that like how all of the angels in church windows had blonde or white hair, it meant that older people were getting ready to become angels.

I was grounded for a week after I went up to an old vietnam veteran and loudly yelled that he was going to become an angel soon.

>>51450668
Why did they ground you? They were the ones that lied to an impressionable child. Your parents are fucking assholes.

>>51450387
Source?

Are we playing Unknown Armies? I want powers based on cocaine

When I was a kid I thought the tv static/noise were humans before they were born

>>51450542
>purely scientific points of view.
Me too, Anon.

But holding a scientific point of view means adaptation to evidence. A scientific view of the world in the late 19th century could well include Aether. Now, thanks to a better understanding of physics as codified by relativity, it doesn't. The people who believed in Aether weren't wrong, though as best as we are now aware they weren't correct They simply worked with the best information they had, the best models for the universe.

Science isn't like religion because the main call of scientific thought is to question rationally, not believe or disbelieve blindly. Form a hypothesis, devise an experiment, observe the outcomes, and reflect on what you've learned. Or, if you don't do it personally, take a good look at the peer reviews of those who have. Heck, NASA's EM Drive seems to break Newton's Third Law -- one of the big, basic platforms of all modern physics. But if it works? That means the law was wrong, and we adjust what we understand to be probably true to account for it.

Believe whatever the evidence leads you to believe, and you'll be more in the spirit of science and reason than someone who disregards outrageous claims without investigation simply because they don't fit the current model.

>>51450752
Thanks for the advice anon. You are right.

It's just really heavy to think about.

I once found a ring that I was convinced was magic and gave me the ability to make it rain at will.You'd think it would be fairly easy to disprove but due to living in Ireland pretty much every time I wished for rain it happened

>>51450752
>simply because they don't fit the current model.
The thing about ESP is that the idea of "local consciousness" never made any sense in the first place and there are a couple well-known paradoxes that seemingly disprove it altogether(the problem of other minds and ship of theseus).

A nonlocal model of consciousness was always more logical.

All this talk about psychic powers and not a single source

>>51450542
Chaos magic?

>>51443711
>who carried a huge sack full of children around

That's a very common part of the boogy-man in many cultures

>>51443124
>What were some misconceptions or notions you had as a kid

I thought mermaids were real and the product of men's ejaculate fertilizing fish eggs in rivers/the ocean. They would hatch and be raised by dolphins, but the ones that weren't found by dolphins I figured would become evil due to not having any love- drowning people, eating people, etc.

I believed in the existence of the Cabbit; which was an animal with the front half of a cat and the back half of a rabbit.. like an unimpressive sort of terrestrial griffon, but given that platypuses were real I didn't see a reason why Cabbits weren't either.

For about a day I thought chocolate came out of the ground like oil.

I had urinary problems as a kid (it got better), so when it burned when I peed I thought your health could be indicated by the temperature of your urine: hot urine was a sign that something was wrong/you were sick or needed more fluids.

Although I didn't truly believe it: I had the uncomfortable notion that if you looked too long into the night sky and into the stars it would swallow you would drift off and drown in it like the ocean.

That's all I can remember- I don't remember believing in much bullshit as a kid.

As a kid, I liked flipping the lights on and off. My parents told me that it took a lot of electricity just to turn the lights on, so doing that would make their electricity bills really expensive. I asked them about it once I was a teenager, and they didn't remember telling me.

Once, my grandpa told me that he was in a war, and I asked him "How are you still alive?" I thought that anyone who was in a war died in combat. How would the war be over if there were still soldiers alive who could fight?

I thought that animated TV shows were for kids and live action was for adults. Whenever I watched Sesame Street, I assumed the sections with real people in them were commercials. And I didn't understand why mom wouldn't let me watch the Simpsons since it was clearly a cartoon, which made it a kid's show.

I wasn't afraid of monsters as a kid, just burglars. Since they are very sneaky, I thought they could perch on top of any door frame. I would always check all of the doors before I went to bed to make sure no one was hiding there.

>>51443124
I thought that China (the other side of the world in general) was just a mirror-world essentially. Somewhere on the other side of the world was Chinese me with Chinese my family and they would go to Chinese my school and have Chinese my friends.

>>51450971
>mermaids were the product of men's ejaculate fertilizing fish eggs in rivers/the ocean. They would hatch and be raised by dolphins, but the ones that weren't found by dolphins I figured would become evil due to not having any love- drowning people, eating people, etc.

>the Cabbit; which was an animal with the front half of a cat and the back half of a rabbit.. like an unimpressive sort of terrestrial griffon


Stolen

>>51443124
I can be anything I want to be when I grow up

>>51447398
>someone has opened up his electric razor and smeared toothpaste into it
This is the sort of thing a person might do while sleep walking.
Like getting up to pee and going in either the kitchen trash or the dryer.
Could have been any of you, but my bet is on Dad as he has more reason to grab the razor.

Also, (and here is where I sent to /x/) I have seen some things that make believe that spirits exist and can influence people's actions and perceptions. Objectively, it could be ascribed to bizarre and arbitrarily synchronized subconscious behavior, but that is honestly less likely than an outside force affecting people in a similar fashion.
The movie Oculus is a good example of what I'm talking about, although obviously a much more dramatic and sinister version.

>>51443382
More than you think did. But don't worry, we all float down here.

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>>51451180
>How would the war be over if there were still soldiers alive who could fight?

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>>51443124
I grew up around prairie dogs.
I assumed they were a breed of dogs that happened to be small and live underground.
Otherwise, why would adults call them dogs?
I got very mad as a wee tot when I fingerpainted a really good dog and my mom insisted it looked like a bear.

>>51450387
I've had something similar to remote viewing but it's more like actual premonitions. Every now and then I realize I'm in a situation I've seen exactly somewhere before, but not in a memory, and if it were a dream I'd forgotten. I just have moments of "I have seen this exact fucking scenario before." It's even occurred when I was watching TV while at my computer, and a new episode of South Park was on. A particular moment happened and it freaked the SHIT out of me because, how the fuck is a never before seen episode familiar? Not even that, the episode at that time from my perspective with my computer.

I can never remember what it was that happens until it's already occurring, and it's always just like one-two second moments.

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>>51451647
How is that not just deja vu?

>>51448175
that man has anime vagina

>>51445735
If you'd backfired onto their dick, maybe the abuse would have ended.

>>51446992
I used to think 1,000,000 was the biggest number possible when I was super little.

>>51450101

>Sellec and Reynolds

me too.

i'll bite.

after being introduced to religion, i became obsessed with the past and the concept of time. the time before was obviously a desert, and people worse simple robes. i didn't know how far away 2000 years was, but i did realize it was so far away the world had changed. here's the misconception part

they didn't speak english? mind blown.

i saw a modern map of israel and pictures of it now. mind blown.

desert storm meant mid-east people had tanks now....mind in orbit...

my mind accepted it when i learned Jesus was a brown guy, since i knew mexicans. but when i first heard a black guy say jesus was black, i had to laugh. dude, everyone knows Jesus is a mexican name.....

.....

i'm not gonna cover sex misconceptions, since my childhood was...odd.

>>51451687
>How is that not just deja vu?
It really kinda is, but deja vu usually is unexplained. If you actually remember why you remember an unfamiliar thing, it's something more.

>>51451647
I have the exact same thing.
Although I often remember the dream and I can tell when I'm having one because I dream the feeling of deja vu too.
I dreamed watching the news the day after the last great northeast US blackout 6 months before it happened. Didn't help because I didn't look at a calendar or anything.
Once, I accurately predicted a friend drawing a 3 and then a 5 of hearts, thereby going out and winning a hand of cards in five turns.

>>51450752
>>51450752
>But holding a scientific point of view means adaptation to evidence.
Thank you.

I recently got mad at my dad over poor scientific method.
He and I are both have a heavy but amateur interest in science and logic.
I get 100% of my autistic traits from him and as we've gotten older, once in a while I think he might actually be on the spectrum.

Then he asserted that it's a fact that ghosts don't exist.
I was disappointed in him as a scientist and told him so.

I used to think that the sun would expand and destroy the earth within my lifetime, because i had read it in a childcraft book.

I also thought i was a werewolf, because i read somewhere that if you were born on one of the solstices, you were a werewolf.

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Because I grew up in a fairly religious household, most of my childhood delusions related to spiritual warfare, demons, and Satan who I believed (and was told) was constantly constantly plotting ways to ruin the lives of good Christians. More over, angels who looked like linebackers but more metal were constantly looking out for you and fighting Satan's demons and there's this whole fucking war going on that humans can't even see. I also believed my night terrors were demons and I had more than one dream about casting a demon out of my house, which I would do by calling on the power of God to protect me (since I had no power on my own)

Protestantism is a hell of a drug.

>>51450660
Shadilay

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>>51451847
>dude, everyone knows Jesus is a mexican name.....

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>>51443124
When I was a kid I thought my parents told me close my eyes when I was praying because if I opened them I'd see god/an angel or something flitting around the room listening and I'd be struck dead.
I don't know why, my parents were never fire and brimstone kinda Christians, they were just chill baptists.

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>>51443124
I completely misunderstood how cheese was made, and came to think of it as a yellow mold that overtook milk and would grow to become an oozing wave of yellow doom if too much cheese was allowed to get together.
The nightmares made it look normal, somehow.

I dont recall having any weird beliefs, but I had this recurring dream that I can't really recall but always annoys me when I do have it.

I'm really small in this warehouse type building with large metal racks. The floors are somewhat icy and I end up just sliding around and eventually just rolling up into a ball sliding around the room for the rest of the dream.

>I thought that magic was more common in the Time of Jesus and began to fade when he died, which is why miracles dont happen anymore.

Adult christfags in America believe this though.

My grandma told me that the boogeyman wore a black and white prison jumpsuit and drove a garbage truck (she's Japanese so it might have gotten lost in translation)

There were aliens in my backyard, kept seeing these silver things hop the fence and run and jump over the other fence

Santa and Jesus were one and the same, were more or less interchangeable

Only old white people got white hair, asians didn't

that someday i would actually have friends and eventually a gf

>>51450626
>>51450929
Chaos magic is real, it's just the placebo effect turned up to 11 despite being self aware of everything. Taking control over your own body's power of belief. It sounds anime as fuck when you really think about it.

>>51452257
>that someday i would actually have friends and eventually a gf

Now who the fuck told you that, you useless piece of shit? You're here forever

>>51452257
Are you able to speak japanese? If not, then you bring dishonor to your family.

>>51451891
>>51451647
...when this happens to either of you, do you end up with a headache almost immediately after?

>>51443124
When I was a really young kid I was terrified of the noise water in my bath tup makes when it goes down the drain. I'd run out of the bathroom because I believed a monster was making the noise and about to come out.

I thought 'bate' was to beat, what ate is to eat. "I bate you in soccer yesterday" etc. I thought that for quite a while...

I thought teachers lived in schools and they were not allowed to leave. Whenever I recognized a teacher out and about I thought they had escaped.

>>51452383
>trapped with normalfags forever

What a wretched fate.

>>51452527
Guy who remembers the dreams here.
Not that I have ever noticed. Neither after the dream nor after the event.

The powerful feeling of deja vu is the only real feeling.
And the deja vu chains:
Trying to do something different than I remember, then having deja vu of trying to do something different than I remember, then having deja vu of having deja vu.
I started to feel fatalistic about the future until I realized it's just a matter of perspective.
The future has already been determined by decisions we have yet to make.

>>51451180
>I thought that animated TV shows were for kids and live action was for adults
You were right.

>>51452579
One more thing: because of a picture book about a rabbit that I enjoyed read to me, I always thought that if a rabbit was around then a fox would be nearby.

Little Cottontail was the name I think.

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8AV1ZsADE

Deja vu is a brain fuckup and happens more often in people with certain brain problems. Neurologists can trigger it artificially by zapping a part of your brain.

>>51452605
Ah. It's always 'fuck I remember this happening in a dream EXACTLY THIS WAY' for me, followed by a headache

>>51443289
That's damn rad

>>51452664
>Deja vu is a brain fuckup and happens more often in people with certain brain problems. Neurologists can trigger it artificially by zapping a part of your brain.
I don't doubt this is true.
But also I dream the future and have confirmed this by sharing my dreams with others before the events in them happened.
Brains are weird.

>>51443124
My grandmother was a fierce Catholic. She used to tell me that if I masturbated Jesus would straight up murder me. I was eight, I didn't even know what masturbating was. But I believed that the holy ghost would kill me if I ever did it.

My priest later told me that Jesus doesn't kill people.

>>51446657
Funnily enough, whenever I heard it, always near the stream behind our house, I would run back to the house and find my mother lying down in her bed, awake and perfectly fine. She always claimed to not have heard the voice.
I've since rationalized it as worry about her health, as she was hospitalized during most of my early childhood.
sometimes I want to hear the voice again, but other times I'm afraid I will.

>>51452847
Which brain problems specifically?

>>51452953
>near the stream
Fucking Selkies

i used to think men came over to my mother's house and brutalized her on a regular basis.

i was really afraid, being a small helpless child, yet my mother would scream in that locked room.

made worse by the fact she had such horrible things to say about men, how they were liars and how they just took from her.

i had lost all hope for my mother and her safety when i was very young.

do the math.

>>51453028
I'm bad at math

>>51443124
Then when you crossed your eyes while touching your fingers together, you were making a third finger in the middle.

I was a stupid fucking child.

>>51453028
Your mom was a slut? IDK

I used to think that everything that I did and happened to me as a child happened to my dad too and that I was going to grow up to be like him and have a son who would have the same exact experiences as me.
Earlier than that I thought I was just born and existed the age I am and everyone was the same age forever.

>>51443124
We have this paper mill in my hometown that always has pillars of smoke coming out of it. When I was a kid, I thought that I lived in the town that had the factory that made all the clouds in the world.

>>51450838
*writes down notes about rain-making ring*

>>51453028
Hot

I've repressed a lot of memories from that time, so I can't recall a lot, but I do remember thinking Christ was Jesus's last name.

Dreams are always pretty weird. Had a dream a long, long time ago about kids getting lost in the woods and then losing their faces. Just the skin. A few years ago there were small, purple, robot gnomes with tiny remotes that could make you freeze/be unable to move.

Nothing else really sticks out to be honest.

>>51452527
New anon. I get the exact same thing as first anon. No, there are no headaches. I just get a really creepy feeling and frustration that I can't remember it until it is happening.

My uncle told me that the siphons in a lazy river had sucked up an old man that was in a tube in front of us. No such man existed. The siphons were never strong enough to destroy me. I only realised this as I grew older. For a time, I absolutely refused to get near those openings in any body of water.

>>51452605
Man I have a really similar thing. It dosen't happen that much anymore but I use to have moments in my childhood where i would remember doing something that hadn't happened yet then, at some point in the future, I would do that and instantly remember remembering it. Weirded me out

>>51453602
> I do remember thinking Christ was Jesus's last name
Is... is it not?

>>51453926
Christ is a title, it means annointed one, it's the term for the saviour prophesized in Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus' name was Jesus, son of Joseph, of Nazareth

>>51454063
Joshua, not Jesus. And even then it would be more like Yeshua, son of Yosef.

As a child I used to run from the bathroom when I flushed, because I thought a skeleton would reach out during the flush and pull me in.

I have no idea where the idea came from.

>>51450729
His wild imagination is the source.

I believed burglars would break into your house when you were gone and literally steal your house. Like you would come back and they would have just be living there now and you couldn't do anything.

>>51443124
I used to believe that something about sheep's wool would cause the flesh of your hands to slough off to the bones.

I thought that all women's restrooms had attached sitting/tea rooms attached and had lovely interior decorating.

I thought that people with thick accents were actually speaking a different language and that extricating meaning from their 'garbled' speech indicated decoding the language itself.

As a kid, i ended up having a firm belief that when you're dreaming, you're living another person's life somewhere else in the multiverse. Certainly threw me for a loop when i started having dreams of my own future.

Also as a kid, had a fairly strong fear of the dark mainly because of wild imagination. As much of a curse as a blessing i guess. It's gone now, but there's a few things that bring it back, mainly because my mother is a very superstitious person.

One of the more common things i get is that if it's too dark to see your reflection in the mirror clearly, it's not you. Turn the lights on.

Doesn't help that someone in the family has successfully cursed a sawmill on her deathbed so that anyone in the family can't go in without feeling an overwhelming sense of dread.

>>51443124

I used to believe the sky was blue because it reflected the ocean and that if you traveled to the centre of Australia (Where I live) the sky would be red, because it would reflect the outback.

I thought 4chan was a hive of trolls. Literally. Just a website where all of the people who were trolls, and nothing else, came to discuss trolling and how/where to go about it.

>>51443922
legit ROFL'd
Nice dubs

>>51445562
cheap trick pls

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>>51445593
Stfu asshat.

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>>51451558
staaaaaaaaaaapht.
;=c

>>51454523
It's not?

>>51443124
I thought all of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all gay as fuck and had no idea they were related to each other. I spent so much time trying to figure out who was in a relationship with who.

I also drew a shit ton of pictures of them kissing each other. In the middle of elementary school class. Out in the open. Where the teacher and all the other students could see it.

Oddly enough, no one ever mentioned it, or at least not to my face.

I also thought craneflies were giant mosquitoes. And that dragonflies were just super skinny wasps.

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>>51454523
>Just a website where all of the people who were trolls, and nothing else, came to discuss trolling and how/where to go about it.
You're not alone. Many newfags are mistaken about what /tg/ is.
Also, wtf are you doing on 4chan as a kid?

>>51443124
>Weird things you believed as a kid

That mothers love their children, no matter what

>>51451180
>I thought that animated TV shows were for kids and live action was for adults.
is there anyone who didn't think that

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>>51443124
I believed if humans grew, then I could change from a boy to a girl.

I tried so hard every year to grow into a girl, because I thought I was one.

Took me twenty-seven years to realize it's impossible.

>>51453064
That brings memories... I liked doing this too

This is good thread.
I can't contribute anything because, weirdly enough, I barely remember anything...

For the longest time it was mirrors for me.

I was utterly convinced that if you looked your mirror image in the eye 'something' would happen. Didnt know what exactly, but I was terrified of them.

That and if you went to sleep without a light on your shadow would run away

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>>51450971
Cabbits ARE real. But they aren't hybrids. They are just a manx (born with a naturally short tail) that inherited some unusually strong manx genes (usually from too much inbreeding) so the traits that give the manx cat their short bunny tail also fucks up their lower spine and gives them huge goofy back legs.

Think of it as the opposite of those munchkin cats with the super short dwarf legs. Only it affects the hind legs of the manx, not all four.

This creates the optical illusion that the manx is a rabbit/cat hybrid.

>>51451647
This happens to me all the time. Your premonitions probably come to you in your dreams, and then you just forget them when you wake up. Because the exact same thing happens to me.that's where mine come from.

You should try keeping a dream journal.

>>51443644
>I also thought God heard every time you swore and that you needed to apologize when you did it.
>implying that's not true

>>51453692
For me, personally, it's frustrating because I never foresee anything important, like the deaths of either my Grandmother or my Aunt.

Like sure, I'll have a premonition about riding in a car on the way to a store, but not my mother sobbing her guts out at a funeral?

Fuck whoever/whatever is ultimately responsible for this shit. Most useless psychic/magic ability ever.

>>51451647
Oh I get this too.
Eventually they got longer to 10 seconds or so.
Also I tried to do something else when stuck in one, but that never succeeded.
Its like I am stuck in a meatpuppet for a few seconds, its scary.

>>51455075
Maybe all of us premonition fags should head over to /x/ and make a thread about it?

Nah, who am I kidding, /x/ is nothing but vampire roleplayers and sex slave tulpa autists.

>>51455127
It it at least paranormal stuff, or is the place still filled with conspiracy shit straight from /pol/?

>>51455162
>>51455162
Mix of both, it's not all bad though, the skinwalker/wendigo/goatman threads are 10/10 top notch tier. Too bad the only time I usually browse 4chan is past midnight though. I end up NOPING the fuck out of all sleep until sunrise.

But god damn, that is some spooky stuff. I honestly don't know why more anons on this board don't at least lurk /x/. Whether you believe in it or not should be irrelevant for a fa/tg/uy. Just look at it from the perspective of a potential goldmine for awesome ideas. Like the gnome thread /x/ had the other night.

Whoever thought gnomes could be fucking terrifying? But the anons on /x/ know how to find the good stuff that makes them terrifying.

>>51455162
>>51455239
PS: If you do post in /x/ ask the anons for the Australian Skinwalker screen cap, the one with the crazy young man face/old man body and the mangy dog.

If that doesn't make you shit yourself and heavily inspire some damn scary alien/magic monsters then nothing will.

>>51454246
Could work in a Kafka style story.

>>51455035
Mostly mine are completely mundane too.
Also, being dropped in a scene without context makes it hard to interpret the few moments I get.
I once thought a dream showed me my future girlfriend breaking up with me and it ended up being some girl I had a crush on going to a different Halloween party than me.

I have had a number of important revelations and premonitions.
But until you get them, you don't realize how useless a little bit of info is.
The northeast of the United States will be blacked out, at some point, for some reason.
You will meet your "true love", somewhere, sometime, someone.
Your sister will die a virgin.

>mfw I take disadvantages to get the Premonition advantage and That GM keeps giving premonition info I can't do anything with.

Can anybody post links to the last thread?, I cant find it in the archive.

>>51455276
I'm just curious, but is this planets GM one of the Archangels, like Micheal, and God just peaks in to make sure everyone is playing by the rulebook. Or does God GM directly?

Lawn Goblins.
You know when you were a kid throwing shit around? And how occasionally the shit would just completely disappear? Couldn't find it? Even if it was a fist sized ball so there's no way it could just be hidden in the grass, especially when you actually saw where it landed?
That was them. Fucking cunts.

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>>51455381
>mfw there are goblins that are constantly raiding your dryer and steal all your left socks.

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>>51455348
Hard to say.
He only GMs online.
But his screen name is Iam, like the dog food.

>>51451647
I have those too.
But I don't believe they're true. I think it's mostly my brain retconning the premonition into making sense, the same way it retcons dreams into making sense when you wake up.

>>51455426
I think anon's asking, "if we're all players in a cosmic tabletop RPG, is the GM God? or does one of the Archangels GM while God checks in every now and then??"

>>51455447
No, I want to know what kind of dick ass omnipotent entity would give someone premonition, but then nerf the fuck out of it so it's completely useless.

>>51455447
I know.
I was making a joke and a reference.

To answer the question, I doubt we would ever have the capacity to tell the difference.
There was a relevant episode of Brimstone, a show about a cop released from hell by the devil to hunt down souls that had escaped from hell.
The cop is visited by the devil who is dressed and acts completely different from before.
He says he is actually another angel, but sometimes when a mortal meets one angel, they all look the same and is a bit dismayed to see himself through the cops eyes as Lucifer.
The cop is convinced through most of the episode that he's just being fucked with.

>>51455466
1. Figuring out the rules is part of the game.

2. Being given a useless gift is still being a gift.

3. It's really funny once you remove youself from the timestream.

4. Any true fa/tg/uy knows that even the weakest ability can be exploited: What does it mean if you:
>a. Have certain mundane dreams that come true
>b. These dreams always happen the way you saw them
>c. You remember having these dreams when the events happen
>d. You know when you've had such a dream, even if you don't remember/understand it (not everyone posting itt has this experience)
?
In short, if you dream your future, what does that mean?

>>51455582
Being given a useless gift is still being given a gift.

>>51452605
For me I get deja vu about 4chan threads.
Then I started posting "I've seen this exact thread before"
Now it's even more meta "I've seen this exact thread before and my own reply"
I still will swear up and down it's either some eerily insane and dedicated samefag or some secret AI/Bot making the threads because they are the same down to the comment chains.
What's worse is the while there are the same comment chains, there is also "new" posts too so I lean more towards the Bot theory.

>>51443124

I believed that every time you opened a door, there was a chance it would open to Hell, or just to darkness. It seems silly now, but it scared me like you wouldn't believe.

Like, 999,999 times out of 1,000,000 you'd be okay. But there was always a chance you'd just die and be damned forever.

>>51455636
This has setting potential:
Portal magic gone amok.

>Night hounds
>the flat man
>weird ass dreams about corners throwing me infinity up
>My absurd phobia about moths

>>51455690
>>weird ass dreams about corners throwing me infinity up
You were born to speedrun. Get on it.

I used to think about what was outside the universe.The first thought that popped into my head was that the universe was in some kind of snowglobe type thing owned by a family of giants.I never really believed it wholeheartedly but the idea that it might be true terrified me so much that I'd immediately stop myself thinking about it

>>51455824
How did the end of Men in Black sit with you?

>>51452953
>near a stream

They say paranormal occurrences happen a lot around water or something.

>>51455824
>the universe is fraggle rock.

>>51443124
I thought the world before colour tv was actually black and white, since there weren't any colours in old foootage

>>51455855
I actually didn't mind it but I was a bit older when I saw it. I think the difference was that the universe marble looked pretty sturdy in that but what frightened me about the snowglobe idea was that at any moment someone might knock the universe off the coffee table and that'd be the end of everything ever and the giants wouldn't be anything more than mildly annoyed

>>51443124
For some time I thought there is some sort of empty void under roads.

This wasn't a childhood thing but it seems to be relevant enough to the thread.Appareny when TVs were still very new my great aunt used to get dressed up in her best clothes to watch television because she thought that the TV screen was 2 way so everyone on TV could see her

>>51455990
>>51455855
What really fucked me up was the hitchhikers guide movie.My dad had to turn it off because seeing the earth blownup upset me that much.I think its the idea of everyone I know dying not because of malice but because of apathy. Weirdly I listened to the radio play just fine intact my dad showed me the movie because I liked the audio version so mich

>>51443124

I used to believe in God.

No, I'm just kidding... I've never believed in God.

Anyway, I used to think that the Earth was just an infinite flat plane and that if you travelled out far enough you'd end up in a place where you existed again, so you could meet yourself. I think it was because they brought in this outside teacher to give us all a science lesson and he said something about infinity and probability but I got the wrong end of the stick.

I also thought that the brain was actually another organism that lived in all of our heads and controlled us (well, it was us, but it controlled our bodies). I know that was because I saw a baby with microcephaly and started to wonder why it was like it. My conclusion was that it hadn't been claimed by a brain yet.

You know how if you look in a shitty mirror (like a window) that doesnt show much detail, your face will sometimes look real wierd, like your eyes are just black dots and it just doesnt look quite right?
i used to believe that it was an some kind of monster that would kill you if it could, but it only existed if you looked at it.

I remained scared of windows in badly lit rooms for way too long.

When I was a kid I thought my maternal grandmother was an hag. She was senile to the point she tried to scratch my face or hit me with her walking stick for no reason and my parents often let me alone with her when they were out buying groceries.
Then found out that she was an irresponsible woman who during the 30s and 40s had 11 children from which only 5 survived to adulthood thanks to my grandfather's alcoholism and her violence

>>51455466
>>51455506
Ah, alright. I didn't read it that way.

>>51455636
I'm using this.

>>51450436
That's actually what tumblr believe.

>>51452228
>american christians
oh god no

>>51443124
i was told reading in a moving car would make your eyes fall out.
also i'm sure its already been mentioned but the whole bubblegum stays in your stomach for years bullshit too.

>>51443320
>>51443363
thats what the taoist belief in immortals is about

>>51455582
>In short, if you dream your future, what does that mean?
The upside to uselessly dreaming the future is that I know, I am certain, I have a future.
I am temporarily immortal.
I can die, I just won't yet.
It really helped me when my depression dipped into the suicidal range.
No point in considering suicide when you know it won't happen.

Of course, like the parrot said, you'd be surprised what you can live through.
So, I'm far from a daredevil.
But I don't fear death.
Time is on my side.
For now.

>>51456459
So, in short, you were basically right?

>>51448206
>>51448219
>>51448764
nope, the fucker was astral projecting in his sleep.

I believed that all food you had ever eaten for your entire life remained indefinitely inside of your body. Squished really really small, but all there, for your entire life.

No I did not have an explanation for what poop was but it was just not a thought that ever occured to me that the two were one and the same.

i believed erections meant you really, really had to pee.
explained that to my dad once when he walked in on me naked with a tiny chub.

>>51457435
>i believed erections meant you really, really had to pee.
Sometimes they do happen due to a very full bladder.

>>51449518
Mentioning "astral projection" seems like an extraordinary claim (because it is), though I also believe that science should be considered first before anything else. And while >>51448764 had a good possible explanation, people do claim astral projection exists, and it does match what the person was originally describing. I think beliefs and (some) religions have a place in the world, namely to fill in the gaps that science leaves behind. I do consider myself a skeptic of plenty of things, but there are also plenty of things that I've seen, heard, or felt that appear to have no rational or scientific explanation that I know of. I figured it couldn't hurt to suggest it.

>>51449663
ESP is not a thing, this coming from a real fucking psychic. You idiots piss me off.

>>51457561
Is it just that term you don't approve of?
Like how "supernatural" is a stupid term?
Define "real psychic"

>>51457616
>spoiler
"Actively scams people"

>>51450387
>>51450405
>>51450429
>>51450542
>>51450626

>Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s upon the declassification of certain documents related to the Stargate Project, a $20 million research program that had started in 1975 and was sponsored by the U.S. government, in an attempt to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena. The program was terminated in 1995 after it failed to produce any actionable intelligence information.

ESP and remote viewing have both been proven false. "Psychic powers" are sort of real, but this type of nonsense isn't.

>>51450101
you mixed up giraffes and gophers?? HAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING MORON

>>51454447
Look up the "18 hurtz" noise. It's a frequency of sound that makes people have an overwhelming sense of dread and possibly see things, caused by heavy vibration. Don't listen to it on YouTube, though, you need VERY heavy duty subwoofers to preduce the effect.

>>51457904
If anything, psychics are just people who are very, very aware of the butterfly effect, by skill or inherent talent.

>>51443124
I was a very nerdy child and believed that a black hole was going to come and use its gravity to suck me into it while I was on the toilet.

I also believed that you had to hold your breath whenever you passed a graveyard or a spirit of a dead person would enter you. I still reflexively do it on occasion.

My mother once told me that people who fell asleep right after eating could become cows. They were relocated to farms for the rest of their lives, so their moos were actually cries of despair and pleas to return home.
And this was right after we finished eating at a restaurant. For the entire trip home I made sure to shake my brothers awake whenever they started to doze off.

>>51443124
"The olden days", a period of time (that presumably ended sometime between my grandparents and parents being born) that contained: steam trains, cannons, those cars gangsters have, black and white TV, sailing ships and anything else that didn't fit neatly into "the present" or "really old, like castles and Romans and stuff". Basically the whole period from 1700 to about 1950, but all happening at once.

I blame growing up in London, I was exposed to a lot of museums full of old photographs and things made of rope or cast iron. It all sort of blurred together.

>>51443124
When I was 7 i got lost in a mall, i got very frightened and stayed were i got lost so they could find me. It took them a bit to find me and i was starting to lose all hopes to se them again, so i thought that they weren't actually my parents. Even as a kid I had this trend to overthink everything

>>51457970

It's not that, it's an outright abandoned sawmill. Mom was there when that curse was placed, and she was young back then. Like, teenager young. To this day, she hasn't been able to go in or anywhere near the damn thing.

There was a reason for it to be cursed though, according to the woman who cursed it, the plot of land it was built on was bought with blood money by mom's cousin or someone like that.

>>51450626
"Chaos magic" is just a way to name the effect beliefs and willpower have

>>51459329
The first litmus test in a situation like this is whether or not anyone who does not know about the curse also feels the dread, and initiates the feeling on their own, does not echo it.
If only people who know about the curse feel the dread, then it is impossible to differentiate it from imagination or subconscious.

>>51459491

Mmh, my uncle managed to get all the way inside the door before having to turn back. He said he felt really unwelcome. Think the feeling you get when some big burly landowner gives you the bad eye while loading a shotgun in the house foyer. He only heard of the curse after he'd tried to go in.

>>51443124
I thought that sperm was passed through saliva, which is why you always saw people getting embarrassed when couple were making out in public.

>>51459549

God, me too. Makes sense too, when you don't know about sex.

>>51459545
There you go.
Outside of the unlikely chance of live, exposed power lines in an abandoned sawmill, I'd say that's fairly credible.

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>>51444228
I had a very similar fear!

>>51455035
>>51455276
Yep, I know stupid stuff before it happens, too. There's only one time where it actually came in handy. Long story short, my dad got a top-tier graphics card and two free games for the price of a middle-tier card on sale. I felt awesome about it.

>>51457312
I absolutely get the immortality thing! But for a different reason, as my own premonitions usually aren't very far off timewise. I know I'll have three children, so until those three are born I can't die! Or get super seriously fucked up, either. Still not Daredeviling, though, I like all my limbs thank you.

>>51446661
I was afraid zombies would eat me if i went to the bathroom at school, my brother fucked my head up with resident evil when i was 5

>>51446830
Thats great

>>51458055
You still should hold your breath.
If only out of respect

>>51448008
Badassery

>>51457649
For the most part, yeah. That pisses me off to no end also. I wish there was another word for "psychic" that doesn't immediately make people think that.

>>51457616
>>51457997
Even after about a hundred years of scientific study, there is no evidence at ALL that ESP works, and that's partly coming from the government itself trying to utilize it. More than that, just telling you personally, my family and I have never, ever felt that ESP had any grounding in reality. It just doesn't work.

What's a psychic? Well, I hate the term... SHIT I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING AWESOME!

We are not "psychics" anymore. Psychics are shills.
We are PSYKERS!
Yesss....

Anyway, nerdgasm over.

Psykers (that is, actual psychics and not liars - hard to find honestly) are people who are sensitive to "it". The underworld, veil, void, afterlife, netherworld, whatever you want to call it. As horribly stupid and fake as this sounds, the most accurate name I've ever heard for it is also from 40k - "The Great Ocean". Fuck, this just sounds cringey and fake as hell, doesn't it? Ugh. If you want me to go into more detail then just ask. I don't want to make this any worse unless I have to.

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>>51443199
I believed something similar about closed doors. I had nightmares as a kid where everything was fine but as soon as the door to the room closed everything would go dark and the room would fill with laughing demons. Closing the door cut you off from our dimension, and if you re-opened it you'd find nothing but void on the other side.

Until I was 12 or so I would never feel safe alone in a room with all the doors closed, and would always have to leave a small crack, which led to some awkward bathroom walk-ins.

>>51450971
>I believed in the existence of the Cabbit; which was an animal with the front half of a cat and the back half of a rabbit.. like an unimpressive sort of terrestrial griffon, but given that platypuses were real I didn't see a reason why Cabbits weren't either.
Actually, you were more right than you thought, just in a different way

>>51448547
Shotgun gnomes

>>51460127
I do. It's hard when you get to long graveyards, even driving past them.
I just remembered I also was convinced my mother was replaced with an android at one point and that my original mother was stolen and taken by some other force. My mother nearly offered to cut her hand to prove it before I said that as an android she's know where to cut herself. Later, she cut herself doing something or other and I still didn't believe she was real. I don't remember why I stopped believing it, but it's unimportant.

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>>51446830
>I believed almost everything I saw on TV
>They're not ALL "historical documents." Surely, you don't think Gilligan's Island is a...
>*moan* Those poor people.

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>>51460203
IT MOST CERTAINLY IS IMPORTANT!

>>51460149
>I wish there was another word for "psychic" that doesn't immediately make people think that.
There likely is.
Depending on the psyker activity being done.
I know mediums generally don't like being called "psychics".

I still don't know you mean by "ESP".
At least how you mean it.
The term basically means perceiving something beyond the five senses.
That would include that ocean and dreaming the future.

>>51460294
It was either realizing that the engineering required to produce something that sophisticated including aging and such would be ridiculously difficult if not impossible.
Also I was at one point convinced my mother had been transformed into a wasp that was flying in front of my house so you can kind of see a theme. I had some weird childhood fears.

>>51460500
>>51460294
>>51460203
The truth is that you stopped believing it when you replaced the original and that counterproductive belief of his was deleted from your program.

>>51443956
He was just asking if you needed sugar with your coffee anon

>>51460348
Hmm... I guess my issue is really with parapsychology and not necessarily ESP. Parapsychology as a whole doesn't have any credibility, but it's commonly linked with ESP, so they're sometimes interchangeable.

While I've never met a medium in real life to be able to "study" one, I don't really believe in their abilities either. Wanting to not be called "psychics" could either be a branding thing or they're mostly legit and also want to separate themselves from the stigma. It's hard to tell.

Really, I can only "confirm" (such as it is, being a 4chan anon) what I've personally been through. Considering my experiences, and my father's (whom I trust very much on these things, he's more sensitive than me), I can tell you the following with reasonable confidence:

Pychic power is not something you can call on or control, it is something that happens TO you.
I have had visions and premonitions.
My father has had premonitions and dreams.
Divining exists in some form, and my family has used it.
These things come through some sort of "dimension" that is very much like 40k's "Warp". (I suspect the person who wrote about it was also a psyker, as it's shockingly close to what I thought before I even knew what 40k was; my dad agrees with me. Or the writer collected psykers' descriptions of it and compiled them, whichever.)
Psychic powers cannot be recovered, created, given, taught, or lost. You are either born a psyker or you aren't.
Psychic powers wax and wane; sometimes I will get three or four premonitions a week, sometimes nothing for a solid year. It is random.
Souls or spirits exist in some form, as do "ghosts" or "demons".
Most of what we consider to be "supernatural" is not "super" at all, but merely "natural" - we just don't have the scientific tools available to quanitfy it yet. (Much like bacteria before microscopes were invented.)

>>51449415
As a pre teen and teenager there was a church i went to. It had a giant basement we would play hide and seek in, there were several nooks a crannies inside mooks that you could hide in. The pastor at the time said that the church wad once cursed and parts still are. Anyway, i still get this reocurring dream whete about 10 or so and my freinds are exploring the church as usual, but we keep finding werid stair wells that are dark and really steep. These took us down really deep. To the point it was cold and things got darker, the lights went from single pullstring incandescent lights to sparse candles. Everything gradually became older and covered with cobwebs as we descended. Eventually we would come to a point where a familar person would warn us not to go down further, because everything was so old it might break and we would be stuck down there. We kept goin despite the fear. Coming across a room that was very dark and had a hole busted through the wood flooring. There was a compelling force or alluring being that tempted us to go down the mysterious void. It was like the urge to jump of high places. It was an overwhelming dread, but we kept going down until the void wad to steep to traverse. We were almost always stuck panicked and trying to get back up, but it was so dark and steep. The stairs were so old they would break if too much force was used.

That shit still freaks me out!

>>51460675
I'll have to be leaving very soon, but if I come back and the thread's still up I can elaborate if anyone wants.

>>51457315
Yes.
I model my D&D/Pathfinder hags and evil witches after her ever since.

>>51443124

I used to think that in the seventies and before, they didn't have any colours and everything was black and white.

>>51459435
Yeah, projecting your beliefs onto outside forces so that you feel validated, and your flaws onto outside forces so that you can shift blame, is just a basic part of human psychology. It can be a god, a nation, a celebrity, whatever - everyone does it.

These are rituals I had to complete whenever I went anywhere or else something bad would happen.

If I didn't count all ceiling tiles at least once in every room I went into which had them

I could not step over a horizontal line, I had to cross it at an angle

I had to lock and unlock all doors at least three times or they would spring open.

I had to step on every stair in a staircase the first time I went up it, only odd stairs the next time, and only even stairs the time after this. I kept a mental log of all the staircases in the school I went to and which ones were even, odd, or every step and which ones I had to do next.

I must fully step on certain tiles every time I pass them and go back and do it again if I forgot.

There's tons of other stuff I had to do to prevent nebulous bad things from happening, and if I didn't do it this sense of dread would come over me and I would get really upset till I managed to complete one or the other. I never told anybody I did this stuff till I was an adult and thought that everybody did this kind of thing. When bad things happened to people it was because they didn't do their rituals correctly.

If you can't tell already:
I have fairly severe OCD. It wasn't a thing when I was a little kid and it kind of fucked up my entire life.

>>51460675
>Pychic power is not something you can call on or control
I've seen it both ways, but the most convincing abilities were not controlled

>visions, premonitions, and dreams exist
Yep

>Divining exists
Never seen it, but I can believe it exists in some form

>These things come through some sort of "dimension" that is very much like 40k's "Warp".
Citation needed.
Reading a book about it just begs the question of where the author got there info.
Not denying it.
Just skeptical of elaborate theories based on beliefs rather than evidence.

>Psychic powers cannot be recovered, created, given, taught, or lost. You are either born a psyker or you aren't.
>Psychic powers wax and wane;
Again, that's been my experience.
Other experience may be possible.
.
>Souls or spirits exist in some form, as do "ghosts" or "demons".
Strong anecdotal evidence to that effect with alternative explanations including telepathy and telekinesis

>Most of what we consider to be "supernatural" is not "super" at all
Dumb word. No such thing. I like the show.

>>51460745
>I'll have to be leaving very soon, but if I come back and the thread's still up I can elaborate if anyone wants.
I got one would like to hear more.

Also this thread has been great and some good source of inspiration.
If nobody posts another, I will in about 4 hours.
Now I sleep.