When I was about 5 yrs old my mum told me that thunder was the clouds bashing together.Every time there was a thunderstorm i would try and see which clouds were about to collide.I dont consider myself particularly stupid but i believed this until there had been some very bad storms in England around 1988,and in the newspapers they explained that thunder was the sonic boom caused by lightning.I was 17 years of age,and as i read this i could feel my face going beetroot red,i even looked over my shoulder to see if anyone was laughing.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- I think thunder is the clouds fighting and bashing eachother and lightning is fire balls from the sun.— Crazy Cowgirl MADI
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim