I used to believe that the yellow sky during a sunset meant that people were peeing a lot.

Anon

When I was a very young child I believed that islands were thin flat discs of land floating on the ocean's surface with some unknown tether anchoring them to the seabed.

Jeni

When I was little and my parents would take me along for a ride in the car..I believed that when my mother pointed out a bare spot on a mountain....I thought that was where all the bears hung out. I never questioned her, so I believed this for a very long time. Until I was old enough to know better! One day it dawned on me........That is NOT where the bears hang out. Just a bare spot.

Sharon

When i used to see the dried up dirt, with lines through it, all broken up, i thought that there had been an earthquake there.

Silly Girl

When I was little and I would ride in the car, I used to believe that the clouds would get caught in the branches, and that was why they looked different when you passed a big grove of trees.

Kendra

I thought for sure I was going to encounter quicksand at moment, so I always looked for a quicksand exit strategy wherever I was.

Peter Schneider

I used to think that the lines outlining each of the states found on a US map were really there.

Anna

I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.

Jena

When I was a kid, having seen on television that lava from volcanoes would harden into rocks, I decided that all rocks must have been created by a volcano spewing out lava. I figured that different types of rocks resulted from the lava drying differently. I asked my mom about this and she said "well, that's not far off." I later learned about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock in school -- so I wasn't *completely* wrong!

lesath

I used to believe the earth was covered with shiny cloth at night by God..

akz

I used to believe that the heaven was above the earth, like the next floor, only the floor/roof had holes in it. That's why at night when they switched on their lights too we'd see it through the holes (stars).
And it really made sense when God poured water on heaven's floor and it rained down here.

Thelma

i used to believe any country that ended in "land" was an island on it's own (i.e scotland, england, thailand etc,etc) i believed that til i was about 6 and we moved from scotland to england without taking a ferry.

island girl

I used to live in a valley, with mountains either side of us. When my mum told me that people would go driving up the mountain, I could never work out why I couldn't see them. I thought that the smooth looking outline of the mountain (the tree tops) was where the cars would drive.

Lily Fagioli

I used to believe that there really was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow- but it was always at the end furthest to where I was!

Anon

i used to believe that twin towns and cities look exactly the same as the ones they are twinned with. The houses, the streets, shops, even the people who live in 'em.
Then we drove though a twin town in Germany and everything looked different. What a downer.

Rudds
Newcastle upon tyne / UK

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