I used to think the earth was a little ball and the only thing on it was my neighbourhood with the houses all sticking up instead of tiny land covered with clouds.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the earth was covered with shiny cloth at night by God.. — akz
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T
- At one point, i thought that "Where the Sun Don't Shine" and "The Land of The Rising Sun" where the same thing— A. Brone E.
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen