When I was about the age of 3, I was deathly afraid of leaves. Whenever my mom took me to the supermarket I'd start shrieking and be really freaked out, because I didn't understand the blowing wind was moving the leaves, I thought they were actually alive and wanted to get me.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- I used to think that leaves fell from the sky.— Chrono
- All flowers had exactly five petals and two leaves.— MD Caruso
- I believed that leaves on trees only became individual when you you close to them, and then I got glasses.— nola