When I was a kid, I believed islands floated on the ocean like a boat. The first time my family ever drove to Statin Island in our car, I sat in the back seat terrified that we would sink at any moment or drift away from the mainland.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- That the District of Columbia was an island in the Carribean. I believed this until I was about 19 yrs old. Anon
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim
- I believed that the yellowish foam by the ocean was dolphin pee because my dad told me Anon
- I thought the Virgin Islands were owned by Richard Branson until I was 24. — LJ
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon