I used to believe that space ended in a blue velvet curtain and if you looked through this curtain you would see God with a long white beard sitting on a golden throne.

Chrissie MacDougall

When I was in science class, they said the earth rotates on an imaginary line called the axis. I didn't know what imaginary is, so I thought at the north and south pole, there really was a big pole coming out of the ground. I wanted to go see it!

Axis

I saved a "lava-rock" for years because my dad convinced me after seeing a shooting star that he found it. It wasn't till I was like 20 something and telling the story that it hit me, I was duped... (he even waited for it to cool) lol

Brandon Tutor

I used to believe that the moon was a giant mirror and, if I had a powerful enough telescope, I could see myself waving at myself.

James

i believed that if you accidentally let a balloon go it would keep floating up so far that it would actually go into outer space.

mi-mi

i used to believe that the sun/moon would follow me because i could see it where ever i was.

Omar

When a celestial Comet streaked across the night sky sometime in the 1970's...my parents kept pointing up at the night sky for days saying "Look at the comet, right there, can you see it?" I spent the next several years looking for a "Comic Strip" like The Peanuts and Beetle Bailey somehow visable in the evening sky...always disappointed.

Mike F

when i was young, i refused to believe what my teacher said that you can't count the stars in the universe. i was so resolved that i can do it before i'm 20, so everynight for almost 3 weeks, i saw to it that i counted at least 20 stars... making a mental note where i "stopped" counting the previous night! I finally stopped when for 3 straight nights it rained heavily and since i saw no stars during that time - i thought the sky wiped away all the stars that i've already counted and no way, i'll start from 1 again!

Joy

I used to think that the moon wasn't the moon but was just a reflection of the earth. When people told me 'There's the moon' I would think to myself 'You're crazy'

spon000

I used to think that stars are made by God for children to stop crying, to enjoy and they are our toys to make us happy and they do not twinkle but wave to us.

Syed Arbab Ahmed

I used to believe that the earths rotation meant that we were rolling closer to the sun and someday we will be squished by the sun because we got too close.

I know better now!

I used to believe that the world was solid and that the stars were the little holes that the astronauts would use to get out to outer space.

Don

Not my belief, but I knew someone who truly believed the sun was only bright on one side, and someone turned it around at night so we could all get to sleep. This belief was shattered on one of those evenings when you can see the moon in the sky while the sun is setting - but she believed until she was over twenty years old.

Anon

I used to beleive that the moon was where the local fair was.

tah

That their was a man in the moon literly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon

I used to believe that we lived inside the earth instead of on it and that rockets headed for space had to break through the "top" of the earth first.

KJ

I used to believe that the reason there were nights I couldn't see the stars was because god hadn't paid his electricity bill.

Fiona

I used to beleive that Pirates lived on the moon because i never saw them anywhere else.

Anon

When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.

davesgrl2001

My brother believed up until the age of twelve that the "Big Bang" was the meteor crash that made the dinosaurs extinct.

Jackie F.