I used to believe that the phrase "outer space" was really "out of space"... as in a spaceship from "out of space". My reasoning was that space is the boundary of the place we know, and weird things come from beyond it. I still catch myself saying it to this day, and I'm in my forties.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon