When I was 9, we moved to California from back east. The house we lived in had a view of the valley with the ocean at the end. Every night when the sun would go down there would be fog soon after. My dad told me that the fog was actually the steam from the sun going into the ocean! No, I don't believe that now!!
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- I used to believe that if someone lived "overseas", it just meant that they lived by the ocean.Anon
- I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents— Karina