Until I was about 15 I honestly believed that the atmosphere was a tactile layer that held us inside the earth. I believed that if we walked on the outside of the earth that we would just float away. It took my step father telling me the truth to make me understand that I was very mistaken :-)
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy
- i believed that the only musical instrument on earth was the piano.hey i was only 6 then!!!— velvetryn
- When I was a child I believed that if I fell off the earth I would end up on the Plante of The Apes.— IslandGirlie
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine