One night when I was young, I believed that if I went into my mom's room it would stop the thunder from the storm outside. I went into her room and got in her bed, but to my surprise the thunder didn't stop. I never tried that again.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon