From when I was 9 years old my parents would send me to my grandparents home each summer. When I flew on the airplanes, I used to believe that there were miniature cities near airports with exact replicas of everything – houses, cars, people, stoplights, churches. I used to love to look out the window when I flew on planes so I could see the miniature cities. When I didn’t see them, I was so disappointed and thought some airports didn’t have them for some reason. It took several years until I realized that what I was seeing was actually the difference of perspective when you were up in the air far from the ground.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- i used to believe cars could fly, but only the rich had them in big cities. Thus, i never saw them.— kevin
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.— Dylan McDonald
- That Hamstere are, genetically speaking, miniature bears.— charlotte
- I used to believe that spiders were actualy miniature living versions of my brother.— ***PuNk