Regarding Daylight Saving Time, I thought big satellite dishes absorbed and stored sunlight all day and then were "turned on" at dusk for an hour.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- I used to believe pee was stored in your stomach and poo was stored in your back.— Rob
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- My young daughter thought that night came after the trees ate all the sunlight.— Bruce
- When I was little I thought that my urine was stored in my scrotum until I needed to wee.— Bryan
- I believed that Jesus was flying across the sky, it was actually sunlight reflecting off planes.— Patti