When I was young I used to think that the twin lights I'd see way up in the sky were car lights on a faraway mountain road. My dad told me they were.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I used to believe that every person in the world had a twin, and that I had a long-lost twin in France.— Ashley