My grandmother would take me on walks on warm, summer evenings. I would
hear these noises (which I found out later were crickets) and asked my
grandmother what they were. She told me "That's the sound the stars
make when they twinkle." To this day I think of her every time I hear
the summer crickets.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli
- I used to believe that stars chirped because they would twinkle simultaneously to crickets chirping— alex
- At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!— delana
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane
- When I was 4 I believe that the crickets "chirping" were the stars twinkling.— mel
- That crickets chirping were actually the stars twinkling.— Allysa