At night, if you look up at tramlines, the light from car headlights etc reflects on them - my son used to think that this was the electricity flowing through to our homes!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M
- I used to believe that the sky is blue because it reflects the oceans.— sky-is-blue
- I used to believe that cars were alive and their headlights were eyes.— Wiley
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam