I thought that desert islands, and indeed any island, just floated on the surface of the sea without moving. In other words it just bobbed there, rather than being connected to the sea bed in any way.

Katie

I used to think that volcanoes and geysers was the earth vomiting or taking a shit (especially because a lot of geysers i saw when i went to yellowstone for vacation smelled horrible. I didn't know it was because of sulfur)

Shawn

well when I was little, I thought we lived inside the earth, like in the core. one day I asked my mother how astronauts broke through the earth to get to outer-space. A also wondered how they could fix the holes that must be there. I was horrified when i found out we don't actually live inside...

Anon

We grew up around lots of canyons, and one in particular has small, shallow holes in the sides. When the family would drive through on a random Sunday drive, my father would tell us the holes were caused by "rock worms". He'd actually pull over so we could roll the window down and listen to them munching the rock - I couldn't ever hear anything, but I'd play along anyway. I didn't figure out they were actually caused by wind erosion until I was about 12.

Tessa Stephens

Up until when I was six or seven I used to think that the earth was flat! Funny how the Greeks thought the same.

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

Alrudds

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

When I was very young in Florida I believed there were still dinosaurs and that they ate the gray moss that was on all the trees in my neighborhood. The moss just looked ancient to me.

Holly Hilton

i used to believe that we all lived on the inside of the earth. in other words, the world is hollow, therefore we must live on the inside of the outer crust. also, the crust was made of aluminum. how we got into outer space, i do not know.

miles

When I was little, we lived a 1/4 mile out of town and the highway cut through blasted rock. Seeing all the differents sizes of rocks, I thought the little rocks would someday grow up to be mountains. Just like kids grew up to be adults. Know better now!

Lisa

I used to believe that Earth was covered by a dome, just like a planetarium, and that the stars were painted on the ceiling.

Susan

When I was younger, I used to believe that islands floated in the sea.

Marie

I live in West Virginia where a lot of our roads had to be cut out of mountains and there are signs all over the place that say "falling rock" to warn drivers that rocks sometimes slide off the sides of these mountains and hit cars. My grandpa told me told me Falling Rock was an Indian, so I believed that these signs meant an Indian reservation was nearby......There are no Indian reservations in WV that I know of......

Kayla

When I was younger, I thought I could run and fall off the edge of the earth.

Anon

that hills were giants buried underground...

tracy g

I used to believe that those tall chimneys you see that bellow out lots of steam/smoke and general pollution were entirely responsible for creation and maintenance of clouds in the sky

Martin

When I was little, I used to believe that instead of people moving when they walked, the earth moved in the direction they wanted to go, and the people were stationary. I never did figure out how so many people could walk in separate directions if the earth was moving. I never really though of it - I just knew that when I walked, the earth moved, and when I stopped, it stopped, and it must be the same for everybody else!

Ella Wonderwinkle

When I was 4 I believed the mountains where actually the skirts of giant ladies who were resting or lying down because they rested during daytime.

I also believed there were giants everywhere, as well as small people (less than one inch) who were always spying what we do, especially in the bathroom.

Hercy

I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.

James the Great

I worked as a camp counselor. One camper, age five, was kicking a large white rock sticking out of the ground for a while, so I asked him what was up with the rock. He said, "is this a dinosaur?"

Matt