For quite a while, I believed that space shuttles could only go to the moon at night, because you can't see the moon during the day and therefore wouldn't be able to navigate your way to it.

Nathan

During an Eclipse (while I was at primary school) our head teachertold us that one day the Sun would run out and it would always be this dark. This led to a great deal of crying, believing it was likely to happen very shortly, if not now.

Anon

When I was about 4 some one told me the moon was made of cheese and I believed it until my teenage years. Because I never really questiond it too much. I also never understood how the space men brought back moon rocks if it were made of cheese. So I conviced my self that part of the moon was made of rocks and part is made of cheese. I figured out the truth Around High school.

Inchy

i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.

Anon

When I was a child, riding in a car at nighttime, I would occasionally see a full moon. I believed it was a bathroom ceiling light fixture. I still feel that way.

Cathy

I was playing with a friend when I first saw a quarter moon. I went inside and nervously informed my mother, "Mom...Sorry but, I broke the moon."

Scott

This is not my belief but one that a young girl in my colege astonomy class held. Despite a lot of ribbing and scientific evidence to the contrary, this poor girl still believes what her Mother told her when she was a child.

Her belief was that the sun and the moon are the same. In other words, the sun turns into the moon when night falls.

Dewey

I used to believe that the Moon sometimes came out in the day because it was jealous that the Sun was getting seen by all the awake people all day.

RTF

I used to believe that all the stars in the sky were little living things called diggits. I gave them this name because whenever they appeared I would always hear this diggit noise. This was of course only the crickets, but at 6 years old I could know no better. Anyway, I made up a whole history about the digits and how they followed their leader, the king diggit, the moon.

T

I remember when I was very young, I used to beleive the moon would make you crazy, probably an influence from certain old werewolf movies...
I remember having terrible nightmares of me being outside at night, and the moon coming down to get me!

Scott

As a child, I thought that the sun was a 'big ball of fire'.
I wondered why the 'fire' wouldn't go out permanently when the sun 'fell' into the sea every evening.
And if the sun DID fall into the sea, why was the sea not the source of fried fish ?
This belief came from living on the sea front :)

Saranya

When I was about 6, I heard about how the Earth is eventually going to be swallowed up by the Sun. For some reason I became obsessed with this and even though I knew it wasn't going to happen for a billion years or so - I still spent about 6 months in a state of perpetual panic.

Alla

A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.

Anon

When I was younger, my dad told me that when the moon was yellow it meant that it didn't drink enough milk and it was sick. He said that when it was white, the moon drank a lot of milk and it was healthy.

Anon

I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun, because whenever I looked at it, I would sneeze.

John 117

i used to belive the moon could hear my life, and she enjoyed listemning to it, so sometimes I would say "said Kate" after speakeng, for Ex

"Hello said Kate"

Kate

As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.

Jenn

I used to belive that if you travelled up the outer space, you would in the end come up from the water at a beach in annother universe

Sølvi Liasjø

Shortly after I got my first pair of glasses (I was 7), I woke up at night and looked out the window to see the night sky FILLED with big luminous globes of light. I was convinced it was an alien invasion until I put my glasses on to see better and realized they were stars.

Andy

i used to believe that the moon was the sun at night, and still have some trouble coming to terms with the fact that it isnt.

andrea