You know how you somethimes see those long little germy thingies floating across your eye when you're staring into nothing? Well, I used to think that I could magically see microscopic organisms and that I had some kind of super power. Anyway, I learned later that those thinga are just bacteria or sumthing floating across your eye, professionally nicknamed, "floaters" and that everybody sees them. o well...
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around— Nick aged 8
- I used to believed that the clouds in the sky were floating piles of mash potatoes .— Funny Guy
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - I thought if someone hadn't passed the Law of Gravity, we would all be floating around in space.— Trudee
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- when i was young i thought god was a cloud, big white fluffy cloud floating around with 2 eyes and a smile. — kerrie