Once when I was about seven, my older sister told me that people would come out at night and,color our leaves on our trees and then drop them all on the ground.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I believed that leaves on trees only became individual when you you close to them, and then I got glasses.— nola
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- When I was about seven, I was utterly convinced that chickens had leaves and trees had feathers.— Confused
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona