It wasn’t that silly because it was actually a damn good analogy, but:
When I was 4? 6? IDR, my mum taught me that there were “little dragons” in our blood, chomping on everything not belonging to the body. It was her way to explain the immune system, based on a simplified version of how macrophages work.
I’m almost 40 and the picture of little dragons running in the blood still inhabits my mind.
From now on I’m referring to my wife’s malfunctioning immune cells as her Insane Blood Dragons
hold on i need to form a metal band rq
Imagine Blood Dragons!
God I wish that was true! I can see them now chomping away
Killer T cells be like: 🐲
That clowns always looked like a clown. I should spot them out and about, doing groceries and stuff. Like, just the Dad would be a clown. Or, where are the baby clowns; teen clowns, etc?
That the cooling towers from power plants were cloud factories.
I mean, they kinda are cloud factories.
Oh man, my uncle told me that!
I had this weird belief, assumption, whatever, that salt and pepper were anti-particles, and if you could mix them together in just the right way, they would cancel each other out and taste like nothing.
So, multiple times when we as a family went out to eat, I would finish my food and then while all the adults were talking, I would take out a napkin and put salt and pepper on it. And then, because they don’t blend together, I would use a little bit of water, like trying to get exactly the right ratio to make the pepper disappear the way the salt did.
I was a born alchemist.
That there was justice for all.
I mean, there definitely was. I had it on vinyl
That there is a physical barrier dividing the atmosphere and space in two and preventing air from escaping
Did you assume that rockets just bashed through it, and it re-formed like ice on a pond?
That other people thought the way I did and would make the effort to understand me.
that the government has my best interest at heart and that democracies act in the interest of the people
That the future portrayed in the 80s was the future I was heading to
I 'unno, I feel like films like Robocop, Total Recall, and the later Demolition Man got a lot of it right. Big indomitable corpos were frequent villains in pop culture of that era.
Trees were unable to grow to more than 10 feet tall. I clearly had no sense of what 10 feet actually looked like.
If I inhaled over a dead creature, I would steal its soul and it couldn’t go to its heaven. (Sounds like a psycho, grew up heavy southern Baptist)
That if I stayed up till 3am, I would see knights coming out of the fort on the hill. Thanks dad!
That men had one more rib than women. Im an atheist now.
Some kid in my highschool health class, “isn’t it true that men have 1 more rib than women?”
Teacher, “uhhh no.”
Fairness, justice, people, the future, the ability to reason, the ability to learn from experience, chance… I should stop.
That god was a real thing. I kinda got over that late, in my early teens, considering I found out that Santa isn’t real either when I was 7
