When I was about 6, I heard about how the Earth is eventually going to be swallowed up by the Sun. For some reason I became obsessed with this and even though I knew it wasn't going to happen for a billion years or so - I still spent about 6 months in a state of perpetual panic.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- I sed to think that thw only reason we stuck to the earth was because is spins around!— imgareth
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic