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Childhood beliefs
When I was a kid I sincerely believe there was a race of fairies that specifically ran all things in the world that were electrical. From the toaster, to the washing machine, to the tv, to flashlights. All of it. I would spend hours and hours trying my hardest to catch these fairies in the act of their duties. I especially liked to try and catch them in the toaster. Because in my mind, the fairies in the toaster likely had tiny flamethrowers and that was how the bread got toasted. I would grab a stool and angle myself above that appliance and look inside the slots trying and trying to see the toaster fairies. And naturally, I would jump and nearly fall off the stool when the bread popped up. I was sure the fairies did this intentionally and then were in there laughing at me.
When it came to the tv, well, again, I was sure that fairies ran it, but these ones you could actually see. But they were so good at their jobs they had everyone fooled they were "just pretend". I also thought that when you shut the tv off, whatever you were watching would automatically be paused. Much like I could do with the VCR, and of course, this was before the advent of the DVR. So, I would shut off a show I was watching to go do something else with every intention to come back and have it pick up right where I left off. But to my dismay it never was. I assumed that the reason for this was because those devious fairies didn't like me and they liked to upset me because I was one of the few people who figured them out.
In this vein, I felt there were all sorts of creatures that lived around us that we just couldn't see. Like the dryer gnome. This creature was responsible for every lost article of clothing--it's favorite item being one sock out of a set. I always kind of figured that there had to be a reason that this creature needed to steal our things so I spent many hours downstairs in the basement observing the dryer to try and come up with reasons why. The theory that seemed most popular in my mind was that one day the dryer gnome will have amassed enough items to overthrow the humans.
And the dryer gnome may do this by uniting with the troll who lives in the tub drain and the colonies of dust bunnies who sit under furniture and plan our demise.
Dust bunnies. Man those things scared me when I was a child. I know now what they are, but when I was younger I was pretty sure they were living breathing things and they terrified me. I would sit huddled on my bed swearing up and down that I could hear them breathing under my bed and dresser. Anytime I had to pull something out from under any kind of furniture I would dread it because I would feel like the things were crawling all over me for days afterwards. For a time I started to blame anything that went bad or wrong with me on those damn things. Anytime I lost a toy or something like that I was convinced the dust bunnies had stolen it from me.
As I got older and started to realize that these things were just the imagination of a child's mind, instead of forgetting about them I found myself starting to imagine them in more detail. I used to doodle sketches of them when I was in class. And now, as an adult I've started thinking maybe I should gather up all those ideas and work on making more sketches and turn them into children's stories. Though to be honest I wouldn't even know where to begin with that.




I thought the same thing about the TV! I thought there were tiny people living inside, and once I realized that wasn't true, I thought the TV just recorded things that were actually happening to people somewhere else. (I remember I specifically was jealous of the kids who got to go hang out with Barney the Dinosaur every morning, haha.)
Your imagination still sounds vibrant and playful! I hope you can figure out how to turn them into books. I'll bet they'd be delightful.
I had similar ideas as a child, but as a 30-year-old, I sometimes still imagine these things.
ME TOO! I especially always imagined fairies living in my tummy, and that's how I would digest food. If I ate something hot, I would imagine there was a fire in my stomach and they'd all be panicking and I would send down water to help them.
I'm 31yo....do you think there was a cartoon or something we all watched and forgot about as kids that made us all imagine in the same way?