I used to believe that the smoke stacks on factory buildings were actually cloud machines. I believed that until I was about 8 and asked my uncle (who had recently gotten a job at one of the factories) how they decided which shapes to make them into.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to think the clouds were made of the steam that comes out of the factory smoke stacks.— TJ
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- when i was younger i believed that clouds were made from the smoke stacks — lisa
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky