My mom used to always tell me not to stay out in the sun too long or I'd get dark, so I made the genuis asumption that if the sun made you darker the moon made you lighter. For a whole summer I would play in the sun all day then wait until my parents fell asleep and sit outside for a few hours determined to "undo" the darker tone i gained from playing all day.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- When I was little I used to belive that girrafes were made to play baseball because they had long necks— Matt
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- i used to believe that the moon really WAS made out of cheese. i really did.— krazy taco
- The moon was made of cheese.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that the moon was made of cheese
Anon