When I was quite young I used to believe that stars really had five points, and that a falling star could fall out of the sky and stab me. I was terrified of going outside at night for fear of being impaled by such a star.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.Anon
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- I used to believe that when people die, they turn into a star.— Allan