About the time I was in pre-school, the family was riding in the car as we were moving cross country from the east coast to the west coast. On one of those days, as it passed into the night, I asked my mom what happens to the Sun after it goes down for the night. She asked me what I thought happened and I told her that after the Sun goes down it seperates into a bunch of tiny specks and becomes the stars and that by morning they gather back together into the Sun.
She responded, "That's exactly what happens."
I believed it for the next several years.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- I once asked my dad why Pugs had flat faces. He responded "because they ran into a wall"...— Kristy
- I used to say " The ghost is clear!" Instead of "The coast is clear"— Jake
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger