When I was little I had a hard time holding on to my balloons, so they would always fly away. After a while I came to believe that there must be a planet full of my balloons that had gotten carried off into space, since i had lost so many.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- i use to believe....that cement trucks carried balloons to the Bozo circus....lol— Laura
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.Anon
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon