When I was in third grade, I read in a science book that someday the sun would become a nova. I must have figured "someday" was imminent because would I lay awake night after night wishing that the sun would not explode and incinerate the Earth. The sun seems to be holding together so far...
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if I picked my nose, my finger would stay there someday!!— baxter
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner
- I used to believe the earth was covered with shiny cloth at night by God.. — akz
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan