When I was 8 I've read about black holes. Black hole sucks everything... I thought it's inside my toilet.

Anon

when i was about 7, i thought the moon was made of cheese, my dad told me it was true

fireman lover

My little brother once was in the car with the sun in his eyes. He told me to shut it off.
Another time, he was lying on the couch, and the sun was in his eyes again. He told me to close the window, and I told him that it wouldn't matter if the window was closed; it's made of glass. He then demanded that I pick him up and reposition him so that he wasn't facing the window. Are all kids that lazy when they're five?

RJ

The moon was made from cheese

Lucy

i used to think that the earth would be sucked into a black hole and all the planets and sun would come to and it would be a whole new universe

also i used to be really scared that an asteroid would hit my house and only my house

chris

I used to think that the northern star that led the wise men to baby Jesus was still around and came out in December around Christmas time. I kept asking my aunt once if it still was out there, and pointed to a particularly bright star asking if it was that star.

Stephanie

I used to believe that universe is very much part of our world. Stars are twinkling because there are many matter between the star and me which is obstructing the view, like when we travel in the train in night and see a distant light flickering through many obstruction which cannot be seen in the dark. I used to also believe that since earth is rotating at the surface nearly 5 miles per second. so, why not the aeroplane merely stand in the sky and drop down when the earth moves below and come to the destination.
I am sure you enjoyed my childhood beliefs.

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Asesh Datta

I used to look at the big dipper question mark and think why everything in space looks still, yet moving somehow...where are they going..or what holds all the things in space? I was most awed when I learned our planet earth like is moving across space and we are not falling off of it somehow? Also I believed the shooting stars are actually bodies moving off to another space-time dimension!

Mita

that there really was a man on the moon at all times

Anon

my friend had a teacher who was convinced that the world really was flat, and for a while he had her convinced too! until she figured out that, logically, that can't really be true what with the orbits around the sun, and such

caroline

When you point at the moon, you will get a cut in your ear

Serene

When I was 3 or 4, my dad told me that it was cold on Mars. Being an impressionable child, I assumed that Mars was the outermost planet in the solar system. Fortunately, an early obsession with outer space fixed that when I was 6 or 7.

Mike

In Thailand, I used to (probably still do) believe that if you point your finger at the Moon, it will come down at midnight and cut the bottom part of your ear.

Funny how I remember I also got cut once. Huh?

Yang

one day an old lady told me that the man on the moons legs were in his mouth , cause you can only see the mouth and the eyes how stupid

harmony

that all planets were stars

KK

I used to believe that all planets have the same:

1. gravitational force
2. air pressure
3. temparature range
4. air composition
5. period of rotation
6. period of revolution around its star

as earth.

Anon

i believed that the moon was made of cheese and i tried to go up there but couldn't

jack

There was an old Earthworm Jim episode that said that the universe was contained within a giant snowglobe. I believed it and refused to shake any snowglobes for a few years because I thought it would be killing a bunch of innocent aliens.

Optional

I used to belive that the moon was full of candy.

Anon

I used to believe there were more than just one moon, in fact a good amount that were stored somewhere in the sky (such as a bin) when they weren't being used. THEY ONLY COME OUT WHEN IT IS THEIR TURN!

austin