When I was little, my mom was trying to get me to go to bed early (I must've been cranky). I protested, saying that it was still light out. She explained that the Earth had stopped rotating for a little bit, and it was actually very late. For years after that I thought that the Earth just periodically stopped turning, then started up again the next day.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the wind was from the earth turning.Anon
- i used to believe that humans started when some robots constructed us and then threw us down to earth— roy
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- i thought if you went to the bottom of the earth you would fall off.— Tiffany Amber Stefanko
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- When I was younger, I thought I could run and fall off the edge of the earth. Anon