I used to believe that if you were standing on an object while you were falling and if you jumped off it before it hit the ground that you would be okay.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.— Knoot
- I used to believe that since guys peed while standing up, then they must poo while standing up too.— Stupid girl
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I use to believe that if a sharp object punctured your eye it would pop like a bubble— Dani
- When I was younger I used to believe that when I hit an object they would feel pain like they were living.— Alice
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie