I grew up in a seaside town, and for several years I thought that everywhere had its own sea. The notion of 'inland' never really occured to me.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When i was about 6 years old, i thought God was washing his"LEGO" town, when it was raining here.— Meie
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- When I was a teenager, I used to believe that someone's name-day occured as half-birthday.— Marcas
- I used to believe that sonic booms were huge explosions that only occured at the very tops of mountains.— Jessica Tinch
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire