This is my co-worker's sister-in-law and niece. He said that for the longest time, and sadly well into their adulthoods, they believed that the sun and the moon were actually the same object, but that it was just darker at night.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel
- When i was about 4 or 5, for the longest time, i believed that the preist of our church was god.— hunnybee
- For the longest time I believed New Hampshire was New Hamster and that was where all the hamsters came from. — Giny
- i used to think the moon followed me because i could always see it at nightAnon
- i used to believe the moon was following our car while driving at night.— pixie
- I used to think when I was traveling at night the moon followed me!— Joan Escobar