The Chronicles of Narnia has got to pull the biggest mindfuck on the children.

[charlie and algernon]

Four kids stumble into a closet and find magical world with fanciful creatures. They embark on a great adventure and become literally royalty and rule ove an entire world for years well into adulthood.

Then they go back through the closet and suddenly they're back to children as if all those awesome years never happened?! How do they not jump off tower bridge after that? How do they possibly restart their lives knowing that they ALREADY grew up once before?

[Angry Dragon]

1. the mind is a wonderous playground??

How many times have you said to yourself 'I wish I could go back in time and know then what I know now??'

[charlie and algernon]

4. Well yeah, I've said that, but then I'm not an actual king

It's not like they could've become royalty again. Sure they could use those lessons they learned while royalty, but as far as they knew, they were never going back to Narnia. They went from a beautiful, open world back to dark pre-WWII London.

[hunter]

2. It's preperation for real life.

One day you are working, ruler of your own little financial empire, next day you are unemployed, and it's worse then being a kid 'cause nobody's gonna pay your bills.

[Bucky]

3. Four kids

[charlie and algernon]

5. Oops, thanks!

[dimbear]

6. C S Lewis gave a simple explanation. Narnia is what earth would have been like

if there really was a god. How could kids not like that scheme?

[applegrove]

7. Never read Narnia. But yeah - kids books are quite manipulative. The heroes

are inevitably orphans or their parents get killed in the story... or in the case of Dumbo have mom put in jail.

[alphafemale]

8. You mean you never raised up, lost and regained vast kingdoms...and still made it home before dark?

I did. Lots.

Though I sometimes stretched the definition of dark every now and then.

[LiberalEsto]

9. And then they all die in a train wreck.

major bummer.