Every night, to explain the darkness, I thought someone put the world in a box.
All the stars were air holes.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the moon and stars were holes in the sky that you could see heaven through.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that stars were holes in the sky & we could see heaven shining through— June
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger