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...
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon
- When I was little, I thought Santa lived on the moon— Nikki
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- I used to believe that a rabbit lived on the moon— van
- I used to beleive that Pirates lived on the moon because i never saw them anywhere else.Anon