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

I used to believe that the moon was actually America. My mum told me it was a long way away and you had to get a plane there, which went stright up!

McKenna

I used to believe that the moon was a street light that had come off its stalk and was floating around like a balloon in the sky. This explained why the moon shifted around so much in the sky.

Bindy Bonnette

My brothers told me that the moon would become a crescent because the army was shooting at it. (we were army-brats)

Rebecca

When I was a little girl, going outside at night was always something that filled me with awe because I believed that the sound of crickets was the sound of the stars twinkling

Mercy

For the longest time, I thought that when I saw the moon in the daytime, that what I was really seeing was the other side of the world. I assumed that was where the Chinese and Africans lived. Never occurred to me how to get there, though...

Cindi

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 believe that my parents once took me to the moon on vacation. We piloted our own spacecraft, and I was very proud over this accomplishment. A great dissapointment when the teachers and kids in kindergarden didn't believe me....

Little Ben Luna

I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.

G

i used to believe that each country was its own "world" or "planet". but, i never thought about how one really got around between countries; i think i had a vague notion that aeroplanes were like spaceships.

david chin

when I was young, I thought that the shadows on the moon were the faces of people that had died, and that that was where you went when you died.

labant

I used to believe that we lived inside the world, not on it. I thought there was the outer layer of the earth behind the sky, and once asked my dad how could space shuttles pierce through the thick layer of soil surrounding (!) the sky!

OveRMinD

I believed that if you shone a flashlight at the sun for eight minutes, that the sun would blow up and all life on earth would be extinguished.

John

I had a friend when I ( and she ) were 14, argued vociferously over the fact that she believed the Earth had four suns. Her argument hinged on the fact that 'How else could the sun in Spain be so much hotter than England?' No amount of reasoning would convince her otherwise. I wonder if she has changed her mind yet?

Anon

I used to believe that crescent moons were the bits of fingernail I bit off my thumb that had inexplicably floated into the sky, and glowed there to remind me not to bite my nails.

Anon

I used to believe that if I threw hard enough, I could get a penny to land on the moon, after watching something about some fake story on a wedding ring being found on the moon. So I'd throw money up to the sky. The coins i couldn't find anymore I assumed made it.

Daniel Jessome

I believed that the sun and the moon were two different sides of the same thing, with the sun side showing during the day, and the moon side during the night.

Daniel J

I used to believe that the moon was nothing more than the sun that God put a 'moon pocket' on. The reason why we could only see one side of it was because the zipper was on the other side.

Lindsay Phillips

When my mother was little she believed that night was the result of the world being put inside a paper bag so everyone could go to sleep. The stars and the moon was the outside light shining through the air holes.

A.G.