When I was 4 my brother and I used the garden hose for hours, spraying the sidewalk, trees, etc. My dad got mad at us for wasting water and since storm clouds were gathering, for some reason he told us that we had "made it rain." Until age 10 I firmly believed that spraying the water into the air had caused the clouds to form and caused the resultant rain, and I didn't completely let go of this belief until about age 15.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I believed that wind was caused because the trees moved. I was completely sure my conclusion was correct.— Glenr
- I used to think that rain was caused by the sun peeing on us.Anon
- When I was about three, I used to believe that the rain was caused by Jesus' peeing down on the earth!— Gretchen