When I was very young I was warned not to look at the sky during an upcoming solar eclipse. If I did, I would instantly go blind. I made a blindfold from an old tee shirt and gave it to my father to use while driving his car to work that day.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that— sparrow
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- When I was young I used to believe if you gave a seagull an alka seltzer it would explode— Tonya
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon