When I was a little girl I used to get very excited at dusk. The reason for this was that the stars started to come out and begin to "twinkle". It was only until I was older that I realised the "twinkling" sound I thought the stars were making was actually the sounds of crickets in our garden.
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 the twinkling of the stars made the sounds that crickets made.Anon
- When I was 4 I believe that the crickets "chirping" were the stars twinkling.— mel
- That crickets chirping were actually the stars twinkling.— Allysa
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great
- I used to believe that stars chirped because they would twinkle simultaneously to crickets chirping— alex