I used to believe that the leaves that move across the road when the wind blows them really had ants under them that carried the leaves and were hiding from people so they wouldn't get stepped on.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- I used to think that leaves fell from the sky.— Chrono
- All flowers had exactly five petals and two leaves.— MD Caruso
- I believed that leaves on trees only became individual when you you close to them, and then I got glasses.— nola