I always believed the tide came in at night, and went out again in the morning so that there'd be room for people to lie on the beach during the day.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle
- The sun switches off at night and on again in the morning — Edward
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian