When I was a child I lived in the Caribbean and I loved looking at the stars. I was sure I could hear the stars twinkleing. I t was only 4 years ago when as a very grown adult my cousin Mandy took great delight in saying, " It is not the stars you idiot! It is the sounds that the frogs and the crickets are making" She was right.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!— delana
- I used to believe that the twinkling of the stars made the sounds that crickets made.Anon
- When I was 4 I believe that the crickets "chirping" were the stars twinkling.— mel
- That crickets chirping were actually the stars twinkling.— Allysa
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great