I couldn't understand why I couldn't just pick myself up (by the feet) and fly away. Thought I just wasn't strong enough.
Still not 100% sure...
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I used to think that boysenberry was poisonberry and couldn't understand whay anyone would want to eat it.Anon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(: