When I was little, like many kids, I was told to stay in our yard, and not wander too far. I thought this was to make sure I wouldn't go too far and fall off the edge of the world. But I thought I was really smart and thought, what about the kids in the yard next door? And the house next door to that, etc? Obviously they had the same rule and the edge of the world wasn't in their yard, since they hadn't fallen off. So it would be perfectly safe for me to go past our yard, and into theirs. I wondered when our parents would be smart enough to realize that, and let us go farther.
I also thought that once you DID get to the edge of the world, instead of a drop off, it was a wall with a door, and if you opened the door you'd find a dark space filled with wolves. I wanted to go exploring so I could find that door at the edge of the world, but I was too scared of the wolves.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to believe you could walk on clouds. And you would be able to walk in space on the edge of the world.— Alex
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe there was a secret door to the gremlin world hidden under my bed— Mel
- When I was younger, I thought I could run and fall off the edge of the earth. Anon
- i thought there was a door in the back of the tv and if you wanted to be on tv you just walk in— fred
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM