When I was little, my dad used to say that sometime we'd "sleep under the stars." I had this picture in my head of literally sleeping right up underneath a star, possibly in some kind of hammock-like-thing. In my head, the stars would be huge, bright and shiny, but perfectly cool. One day I asked my dad when we'd sleep under the stars, and he said something like, "We did, remember?" He was referring to a recent night when we'd all camped out in tents in the yard. I was a little disappointed, but I got over it.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great