One night when I was about 7 I woke up around 3 in the morning. I couldn't get back to sleep so I decided to read a Richie Rich comic book, and the main story concerned a bunch of bad guys who stole the moon (of course they didn't; they just turned it invisible, and Richie figured it out). I remembered that there was a full moon that night so I went to look at it out my window, which faced East, and... IT WAS GONE! Not knowing that both the Earth and Moon would be spinning/revolving enough to get over on the other side of the house in the 5 hours since I had last seen it, I went into my parents' room and woke Mom up to let her know that someone had stolen the Moon or turned it invisible. She groggily assured me it hadn't and told me to go to bed.
Fortunately, I was wrong.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the moon would follow you in the car, also that it looked like a half moon.— natalie k
- I used to believe that Moon is the kid of Sun, because it has less light and Moon smiles with kids. — Syed Arbab Ahmed
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- I always saw a crocodile on the moon, none of this man-in-the-moon nonsenseAnon
- i used to think the moon followed me because i could always see it at nightAnon
- i used to believe the moon was following our car while driving at night.— pixie