When I was a kid, a playmate told me once that "Insomnia" was a country somewhere in the world, and it seems I believed that for quite some time.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- My parents said that gnomes tied knots in my hair while I was sleeping. I had insomnia for years.— Daria
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- The whole world sleeps at the same time— Rebekah Senko