My grandma used to tell me that if you hold a seashell to your ear you can hear the ocean. I thought it made sense that the ocean sound could be there since I believed this up until I was 23 years old!
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- I believed that the yellowish foam by the ocean was dolphin pee because my dad told me Anon
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- i didnt knew it rained over the ocean...Anon