When I was a kid, I thought that the ocean was salty because little men dumped a giant saltshaker into it every night when everyone was asleep.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- At the ocean's horizon there was a giant waterfall.— Stephanie
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon