When travelling in a car in the rain I used to hear the rain stop for about 1/2 a second and then start again. My mum told me that this was because there were holes in the clouds. I realised when I got older that it was just the car going under bridges!
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- When i was little i believed that clouds were cotton candy that angels lived in and rain was angel tears— Missy
- I used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon