When I was little, I used to believe that instead of people moving when they walked, the earth moved in the direction they wanted to go, and the people were stationary. I never did figure out how so many people could walk in separate directions if the earth was moving. I never really though of it - I just knew that when I walked, the earth moved, and when I stopped, it stopped, and it must be the same for everybody else!
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon