I remember seeing the sun set and it didn't look all that far away, really. I also imagined it as being about the size of my wading pool. I was hoping for the day the sun would come down right in our yard. I wanted to go touch it.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- In childhood, I waited behind the theatre, after the Cinema, hoping to see the artists came out .
— mprnair. - Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette