Back in the day, I had a hypnagogic experience (actually I've had several that I can remember, but this is the most notable for me). I've spoken about it before so I won't go into it here - especially here. The point is that I wasn't convinced by it even while I was experiencing it, remarkable as it was at the time.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'