When I was little and someone would talk about Greenland, they would always say things like "up to Greenland" (because it's up North, naturally), but I always understood it as if it was in the sky. So I was always looking for a gigantic, floating country in the sky...
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think Greenland was called “Groenland”— Enrico
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon
- I used to think that we lived in a gigantic snow globe.Anon
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade