childhood strangeties.

i have a friend who, as a child, used to imagine that his life was being narrated by a parrot reading to a classroom of smaller parrots from a book. if the smaller parrots got too bored, the teacher would stop reading the book and he would cease to exist.

personally, as a young child, i imagined that my life, as i experienced it, was a video recording being played out at my funeral/in a police station. the idea was that i was already dead, but that all my experiences were the playing back of a recording of my entire life. moreover, i had in fact been murdered, and the policemen were sifting through the recording trying to find clues to my murderer's identity.

i imagined that the reason i could barely ever remember any of my dreams was evidence that they were fast-forwarding through periods in which i was unconscious, as these were of no investigative value.

the fact that i was aware that my experiences were a play-through of a recording was the result of a bug in the machine (the ability to record life experiences of the recently deceased being a technology in its infancy as it would have to have been invented towards the end of my life....which had already happened in real-time.)

just thought i'd share, kids think some weird things, man.

 

THAT would make one helluva a good screenplay.

 

As a child I thought I was being recorded and my life was being played out to everyone on tv, and everyone in my life was acting and playing some big joke on me.

Then years later I saw the Truman Show and thought to myself, "Hey! I came up with this script when I was 4!"

 

I never had anything like that i was a normal kid i guess

 

aye,i guess i was a pretty strange little 'un lol doesn't seem that uncommon for kids to have weirdly paranoid ideas tho, there are some good ones out there

 

I remember studying this in psychology. Children are egocentric so they frequently have paranoid fantasies.

 

I WANT YOUR IMAGINATION

 

when i was a child i was normal in every way and understood that i was growing up on earth and that no one in particular would ever be watching me or recording my every move

 

I thought the entire world was some massive joke being played on me, and everybody was in on it, and knew I was some sort of freak, but was pretending I wasn't.

 

i vaguely remember reading something similar, although i never studied psychology directly, something to do with living in the "eigenwelt"?

 

man, i guess i did talk to an imaginary home audience. I'm still kind of a self absorbed peice of shit.

 

I imagined my life being narrated by me froa grown up perspective, like in Wonder Years. That was odd because I did or imagined saying things that Kevin, in WY, would not have done like "It was a very good shit." Or "The porn kind of lacked the action I hoped it would have. That sounds just wrong. Close your ears if your under 18 and don't do what you see." or "I did not do my homework again. I have no way of explaining it to this day guys. It just sucks. Maybe I was a crack baby."

 

When i was little i always use to fantasies and daydream about a different parallel world and universe, i created an entirely new way of transportation, currency, rules and laws, how people lived/what the places looked like, pretty much everything you can think of.

And i would imagine and think of this place every single night as i laid in bed trying to sleep for years and years, it changed from time to time but the concept stayed the same.

 

ah, would that we all had the imagination of children and the anger and passion of teenagers, we'd set the world to rights in days.

 

Exactly.

I remember when i was little i always used to create little civilizations in my mind, i would construct an entire city in our sand box making houses, businesses, roads to drive all my toy cars on which all lived in certain houses and worked in certain places, there would be crime/police, poor/rich, pretty much everything, and it's weird when i think back to it because it seems as if i knew so much about the real world yet i was only in the 1st or 2nd grade at the time...

I also used to play similar games in my backyard, each tree was either a house or another building, and i used to spend hours making a currency by pretending certain leaves were either 5, 10, or 20 dollar bills, and i would flatten out metal bottle caps turning them into coins, and i would pretend my bike was a car, i pretty much created a whole other world in which i would go to every chance i got, i had my own house, had a job, earned money, and this entire thing was all in my imagination pretty much because i would interact with all the other imaginary people in this little 'city' of mine lol

I was really weird.... lol

 

I remember wondering if everyone else saw colors the same as I did. I even asked my mom HOW she saw green. I was such a trippy kid. I also asked my mom what the meaning of toys was. I was probably 5 or 6. hah!

 

so did I and I guess it had a point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I"]BBC Horizon: Do you see what I see? "The Himba tribe" - YouTube

 

Omg that kids bright as hell....

 

That was very interesting! I've never heard that before.

Interesting, seems a lot of kids think the world is different to how they are. The thought used to pass my mind that everyone else was a robot pretending to be human and that I was the only human. It was hard for me to imagine everyone else thought and saw and had a whole different set of priorities than I did.

Sometimes I would imagine scenery running past me and not us running past it when we were driving.

I guess kids ARE egocentric!

 

That parrot story is both cute and hilarious

lol I used to think there was only French tv (which is what i saw in my home) and that it was broadcasted simultaneously in other countries, with subtitles or interprets translating it live for foreigners.