When I was seven, I seriously thought I could travel to Luke Skywalker's galaxy and be a Jedi with him when I grew up.

When I was little, I genuinely believed that villains in movies were actually bad people. I thought that when movies needed bad guys, they would go into the local jail and pick someone up. This led me to believing that Glenn Close was a terrible person after watching her in 102 Dalmatians. I know now that famous people (for the most part) are not evil and there is such a thing as "acting."

A quickie from the anonymous bin:

When I was five or six years old I believed that when someone grow up in a movie they waited five or ten years for the actor to grow.

Bruce had issues with Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Policy:

As a child growing up in the 80's there was a lot of talk during Ronald Reagan's presidency about the Star Wars project and whether it should continue or be canceled. Naturally, they were talking about the orbiting missile defense system and the possible implications of creating it, but I thought they were talking about the Star Wars MOVIES. I absolutely loved these movies (and still do) and every time they talked about "canceling the Star Wars Project" on the news I would get so angry that people were trying to stop my beloved series from being made and that if people didn't like it they should just not go see it.

Delby from Brooklyn watches one Jim Carrey movie, and ends up recreating a scenario out of a different Jim Carrey movie. How strange is that?

Growing up in New York sure wasn't easy. So many things and people to be afraid of. What made it worse for me was that I was an overly curious youth.

I would often listen to many adult conversations, which were mostly about suspicion of government, the media, and world politics. I was also an unusual child. I would watch National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, and a lot of movies.

One particular movie that stood out to me was The Truman Show. After watching this movie I combined what I heard from adults with what I saw on TV and my childish mind became convinced that I was being watched 24/7. I believed that everything was a device for surveillance. To me the smoke detector was a camera. The lights on the street, the exit signs at school, the mirrors in the bathroom all had a spy on the other side of the wall. Everything and everyone was watching me.

The reasons for which I believed that I was being watched progressed over time. I first thought that I was just like Truman and I was in a reality show. Then I figured that I was a government experiment which they kept tabs on. Later I would come to believe that I somehow was a future hero of civilization. That a group of some sorts from the future was keeping me safe so that I could fulfill my duties as a the future savior of humanity; sort of like The Terminator.

The sad part is that I truly believed all these things. I wasn't imagining this world, I was stupidly believing it to be true. How stupid was I?