When I was little I was convinced that I was Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz". I live in the midwestern United States and we get tornados frequently, but I wasn't afraid of them at all. When we were put under tornado warnings I would run out side and sing "somewhere over the rainbow" hoping that the people of Oz would hear me (their beloved Dorothy) and bring me back to see them.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- "Somewhere over the rainbow
Weigh a pie."
Why did Dorothy weigh a pie somewhere over the rainbow?— John - I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon