Ridiculous: Remembering our Past

When I was a very young child, preschool or earlier I had some seriously weird beliefs. The ringing in my ears was a call from my alien parents, telling me they would come soon. My heart and my bladder and my lungs all operated independently of each other and had little workers within toiling to keep my body going. They might even argue with each other, like my bladder insisting I needed to go right now and my brain saying that I needed to sleep, just wait bladder! Luckily my brain usually ceded and woke me up before, well before my bladder ... well luckily as I said my brain woke me up. (Yeah I know, shades of Inside, Out here).

Then we learn, and we learn more, and realize what we thought was silly and how could we have ever thought that?

But when you have limited knowledge, and a curious mind our ridiculous thoughts aren't so ridiculous are they? What else could a ringing in the ears be aside from a messed up phone call? And how else would the body work if there weren't little creatures inside, pushing and pulling and whatever else they were doing?

Did you any "foolish" beliefs as a child? What were they? What questions that you had were they answering? And is there any truths at all to these mistaken beliefs? (Because how far from the truth is the idea of little creatures from chemical reactions that are telling the brain what is going on?) Can you see anyway these mistaken beliefs can benefit you now?