When I was little, I used to believe, that when the moon was in crescent shape, that it was actually the Cheshire cat's smile(alice in wonderland) It kind of scared me a little as well....

Patrick O'Connor

When i was a little kid, i lived in Germany, and i always thought the moon as the other side of the Earth. Everyone would always talk about the US, and that's where i thought it was. Plus we learned about landing on the moon in school, and i really had no clear understanding of flying. Pretty stupid when i look back on it.

Anon

When i was little I truly believed that all things were alive.. the sun would go to bed in the evening and be tucked in by a big warm Sun mother. I then imagined the moon waking up, brushing its teeth and having breakfast before beginning the night. I was sure the moon was a nocturnal creature and was shocked when I first saw it in the daylight. From time to time I still look up and laugh out loud to myself.

Jessica

I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.

Daniel

I used to think that Skyscrapers were what made those white streaks in the sky. I never actually saw one launch, though (for OBVIOUS reasons.)

JRE1

When I was little i used to believe that shooting stars, could just come down to Earth and kill you, that's why i always refused to watch shooting stars when my family went up to the mountains.

Kelly Grace

I have no idea if I formed this meme myself or some unknown person gave it to me. I thought that the "man in the moon" face was "deciphered" (ie. the craters' pattern was called a face) after Neil Armstrong fell in one of the moon craters and couldn't get out, and the rest of the astronauts had to come back to Earth without him, and so they called it a face posthumously in his honour.

"Culex"

My friend believed that when she looked at the moon, she would see Australia, because the moon was just the mirror image of the earth.

Scorp

When I was very young, about 3 years old I thought the sun and the moon were different sides of the same object. I guess I never noticed that sometimes they were in the sky at the same time.

Laura

When I was about 8yrs old, my family and I were walking home one night when my mom noticed a shooting star.I was terrified to look up at the sky fearing that one would
fall on me!I was about 16 when I saw my first shooting star and now I search for them constantly.

Racheal

my sister told me that when the moon was waning that neant the air was eating the moon. i never could figure how the moon became whole again.

steve

when i was like 7 i used to be really energetic and played alot outside. i used to look at the sun alot. wherever i would go it would go, so i thought that the sun was following me...i even tried to run away from the sun but it wouldnt stop following me. i couldnt juke it. and whenever the sun would go down i thought it was tired of following me and the moon would come out to play.Even my friend believed this.

Wayne

I use to watch alot of specials on the discovery channel about asteroids hitting the earth.I was so frightened by this that a couple nights i thought every little sound was the sound of an asteroid hitting the earth and destroying the world.Good thing i grew out of that phobia-lots of little sounds occur in the night

Stas Babenko

I used to beleive that the moon was earth and I could never understand how we could be standing on earth and also be seeing the earth in the sky. I was just a little confused. =) age 3-6

fireflyest

When i was little,i thought at night, the moon was actually the other side of the earth, because that was the light side

Max

I used to think than when it got slightly darker because the sun was hidden by clouds it was actually because the sun was on the other side of the planet and that once it got bright again it had come back.

Joe Smith

I remember when I was little that Peter Pan was my faviorite story, and that I would spend almost every night looking up at the sky looking for the star that was Neverland. It occured to me latter that "second star to the right" wasn't very helpful, but I really thought I found it a few times.

kaivxn

i used to believe that the moon was the sun flipped over!!

lay lay

When I was in preschool, I believed in the man in the moon, which was on what would've been the first ever Wiggles CD, I think (it wasn't actually a song, it was a recording of one of the guys from the Wiggles talking about the man in the moon). I can still remember the bit where he says "The man in the moon has no hair!" which was the bit that my brother and I always laughed at. I believed that when it was night time, the man in the moon would have his light on, which was the reason why the moon glowed.

Tom

I used to believe that the sun and the moon were back to back and they turned around slowly at the appropriate time (thats why there was a sunrise and sunset)

sarah