As a small child a thought the world was a large ball of water, with only a crust of land around it. I didn't understand why, if I stood near the edge of the sea or a river, the ground didn't cave in underneath me because it was too thin!
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that Catalonia was the unique part of land of the world.Anon
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- when i was small my brother always told me that if you picked your nose your head would cave in— Eric