When i was about 4 years old, i was really afraid of thunder. Around that time, my aunt had a poster of Tom Cruise in her bedroom and in order to shut me up, whenever there was a thunderstorm she used to show me the poster and tell me that the thunder was just the sounds Tom Cruise's farts.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.— Myriam
- I used to think thunder sounds were called "Boombies" and I would say
"Boombies!" if I heard lightning.— James the Great - I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M
- I used to belive that god was bolwing and every time thunder hit god got a stike— Greyhound
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana