When I was little I was taught that the planet Earth was round, like a ball. I mistakenly thought that we lived on the inside, like inside a balloon. Years later I was very disturbed to find out that we lived on the outside. . . Planetarium movies still upset me.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- I used to believe the people I saw on TV lived inside it and the could really see you.Anon
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline