When I was little I used to believe that whenever you rode in a car, the car itself wasn't moving, but taht it was pushing the earth behind it, causing it to appear to be moving.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- 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 looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- I used to believe when it thundered that god was moving his furniture around.— Debra Mcewan
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon