You know when you give someone a piggy-back or shoulder ride and when they get off you get a weird feeling like your arms are lifting up, well I used to think that if I gave a really fat person a piggy-back, when I put them down I'd spring up off the floor and float off.
I always had to hold on to something after I put my friends down.

Jumping Jackass

We all used to think that heat dn cold were cyclical; that is something got cold enough it got hot. This was from playing with dry ice.

Gregg Robinson

I used to believe that, because you had to unwind electric cables and extension cords completely before plugging them in, electricity could only run in straight lines.

Sue

i used to belive if you looked around the world with your telescope youd see your back!
it seemed perfectly logical, because i knew the world was round!

Nahtiak

When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.

Lars

I used to think that when you squint your eyes and go a little crosseyed, and you see the little spots and bubbles floating around that I could see air molecules (this was shortly after learning about solids, liquids, and gases, and how gas molecules are loosely scattered). I told my dad this and he tried to explain the truth to me, but I believed the molecule theory for a long time.

Katie

When I was small and ran around a lot, I noticed I could hear wind rushing past my ears whenever I was running, and that rushing sound would stop whenever I stopped.

For a long time I couldn't figure out how the wind knew to blow only when I was running and stop blowing when I was standing still.

Stor

When I was three, I thought that cars stayed one place and the earth moved under us when we drove places. One day my mom asked how I would explain the cars that were moving toward us. I told her that the earth must be split in two so it could move in two directions at once. Then we went under an over pass and I could no longer understand how in the world we were still moving.

SRQRobert

While in the car, I remember asking my parents : "is it our car that's moving or is it the whole scenery that's somehow moving past us while the car stands still?"

Anon

An older girl in school once told me that electric fuses were actually the most super powered batteries in the world - and if you held them for too long you would float away. Still careful with them.

Anna

I used to believe that when people walked, the ground was like a treda-mill for each person. Essentially, I thought each person stayed still, and the earth moved! After some careful thought, I realised that not everyone could be achieving this at the same time...!!

Helen

my friend used to have this "technique" for jumping off stuff. until he was about 13 he thought if you jumped off a high building and stayed close to the wall on the way down, you could push off with your feet right before you hit the ground and roll and you would live. he never tried it so unfortunately he's still alive.

tomthebiznom

When i was 7 my brother told me that the earth turned at a very high speed so i thought that if i would dig a deep enough hole i could see the earth spinning. I got about 5 feet deep before i gave up.

kory

I was seven and just learned about the process of evaporation. Because of that, I used to believe that if I splashed enough water on the ground, I would be able to make it rain, and I would always do this on a really hot day so the sky would soak up the water faster.

Lynn

I used to believe that if you were in a lift and it failed and started to plummet to the ground, then all you had to do was just before it hit the ground floor was to jump and you would be okay, cos you'd only jumped a little off the floor of the lift.

Tominator

in second grade our teacher taught us that the earth spins. for the longest time i thought that if you jumped really high (like 5 feet) and landed you would land a mile from where you originally jumped.

M J Aaaaaaaaaaaasmith

After they thaught me which was the righthand side and which was the left, I was convinced that I could also always tell were the North is. I thought everyone had some sort of a mental GPS that kept track of every turn you made. Compasses were only usefull to point it out more exactly. I admit still thinking naïvely that I’m good at gessing where the North lays.

Bert

I believed when I was little that if you could hover right above the ground that the earth would spin underneath you.

Tony

I use to beleave that if a plane was crashing you could save yourself by jumping off just before it hit the ground.

Mr. Clinton

I used to think that if I were to stretch a rubber band too far, it would destroy the earth. And to this day I hate flinging rubber bands.

Shirley B.